When Domenic Broccoli set out to expand his pancake empire to upstate New York, he didn’t expect to find a grave site — or start a war.
called on Broccoli to halt his development. “The Town of Fishkill is sitting on a gold mine,” Schumer said, arguing that preserving the site could be a boon for local tourism. “The sacrifices of the first Americans must not be forgotten nor should their graves be desecrated by commercial development.” He visited the site to promote legislation he was proposing to expand the American Battlefield Protection Program, which was then limited to acquiring land from the Civil War.
Broccoli found the sudden rancor distasteful. To his mind, he had tried to be reasonable; the Friends couldn’t come up with the cash, and now he was the bad guy? He decided to hit back. He had hired a PR consultant, and he put out a statement arguing that, in fact, no one knew how many graves were on his property or even who was buried there.
Crosby quickly became Ashworth’s right-hand man. In addition to Stop IHOP, the pair were working with a group of students at a local community college to make a short promotional film about the saga. Ashworth told the class that the Friends were “on a crash course” with Broccoli. “We’re gonna keep telling people about it. The land value’s gonna be down,” Ashworth said. “We’re gonna strangle him, basically. Bleed him out.
While it was a thrill to play spy games with an FBI agent, Bondi said that getting in with the Friends wasn’t especially difficult: The group was so desperate for volunteers that it was happy to have fresh blood. Bondi tried to be helpful, to stay in the Friends’ good graces, but he also found subtle ways to undermine their efforts. He had taken the community-college students to visit the property and told Broccoli they would be there.
A few years after Sandy’s initial dig and the radar study that detected hundreds of gravelike anomalies, Broccoli hired a new team to look at the site. Doria Kutrubes, a geophysicist, conducted another radar study that detected even more anomalies that looked like graves — bad news again for Broccoli, at least on the surface. But the archaeologists told Broccoli that “anomalies” weren’t necessarily graves. The only way to know for sure was to look underground.
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