From Newsgroup: alt.obituaries

This is not an obituary for more than a career,
but...

in years past I was active in trying to establish an
entity that would federate the chambers of commerce of
the towns in my county,which eventually resulted in a
"business council" that wasn't what I was hoping for.
In this endeavor I had some regular contact with Peter
Bardunias,the head of the small paid staff of the
Chamber of Commerce of the Mahopacs,which got rebranded
as the Greater Mahopac-Carmel Chamber of Commerce,while
my Lake Carmel-Kent Chamber of Commerce got rebranded
as "Carmel-Kent Chamber of Commerce" as part of the
turf wars we were trying to avoid (both laying claim
to the hamlet of Carmel,where the county government
is headquartered but which couldn't sustain its own
chamber).Pete got his title upgraded from Executive
Director to President,the elected President being
redesignated Chairman,though the Mahopac Chamber
eventually reversed the ED/President change years later.

Pete then left the area to become the president of
the Southern Saratoga Chamber of Commerce upstate,
before that apparently did get into a federated
entity,the Capital Area Chamber,with him as a
senior vice president.

Now comes front page news in the local papers in my
own area AND his new area of his arrest by the FBI.
An undercover agent alerted to a particular account
on some online entity having illicit contact with
minors set up an account posing as a 15-year-old girl
and sent that suspicious account a friend request
that was accepted.Dialogue that ensued between the
two accounts involved graphic descriptions of intent
to "strangle" and "torture" the putative girl "before
I kill you".The FBI managed to link the account under
investigation to Pete Bardunias,and a meeting was set
up,where he drove to the ostensible girl's high school
in another county,circled the site slowly,and left,
but was pulled over and confronted.He initially
denied but then admitted being the author of the
violent sexual threats,and a search warrant for his
house turned up a knife and restraints consistent
with the asserted intentions.

The Capital Area Chamber has fired and disowned him,
I have seen mugshots of him but no public comment
from his wife.

The charges against him have a mandatory
ten-year minimum prison term and a potential
maximum life term.

He struck me as a geeky type I would not have
suspected of violent intentions.
I certainly feel shaken by this.

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