Exclusive | Long Island town hired self-described bigot to fight local mosque expansion in federal discrimination case: court docs

A Long Island town locked in a federal discrimination lawsuit hired a traffic expert accused of openly hating Muslims, beating coworkers, and submitting a “sham” traffic study around a local mosque, according to court documents.Jeffrey Buckholz admitted he could be viewed as a “bigot” in a pre-trial deposition on Oct.

3 in a long-standing lawsuit battle between the Town of Oyster Bay and the Muslims of Long Island group, which wants to expand a mosque in Bethpage.After discovering that Buckholz’s LinkedIn account was riddled with racist and anti-Muslim posts, attorneys for MOLI called him in for a deposition last week where he admitted to and doubled down on his views.Buckholz admitted under oath that his views on Muslims and immigrants could be considered bigoted, according to the official transcript from his sworn deposition.The posts included liking one that said “Muslims can f–k off.” He also commented that “they want to conquer us” under a post about Mayor Eric Adams declaring prophet Muahmmad’s birthday a holiday, and joked that “Gators gotta eat too” under a post about migrants in Alligator Alcatraz, according to court docs and screenshots of his social media obtained by The Post.But instead of walking back his posts, Buckholz defended them, according to the deposition transcript.He said on the record that he opposed “importing outside cultures into the United States,” which he referred to as a “Christian nation,” called the Islamic call to prayer “atrocious,” and believes New York City mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani poses “a bigger threat to New York than the 9/11 hijackers,” according to the deposition transcript. Buckholz also admitted that his scathing traffic analysis of the mosque was based mainly on Google Maps screenshots and just a five-minute site visit before submitting his report, according to the transcript.“I’ve been doing this for 40 years.

I know what I’m looking at — Google Maps and experie...