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 SPRING VALLEY - A village meeting devolved into chaos on Tuesday night after a Monsey man accused Mayor Demeza Delhomme of breaking up his marriage. 
 
 Reginald Alfred, 48, a maintenance worker, offered no proof of his claim, made minutes into an already vocal public comment period that saw dozens of firefighters and taxi drivers crowd into Village Hall. 
 
 "Mr. Delhomme is trying to use his power to get into my house," he said. 
 
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 Alfred, dressed in a gray suit and a heavy black overcoat, rambled for three more minutes. "He destroyed my house. He destroyed my family. I have two daughters." 
 
 A ripple of murmurs of astonishment went through the crowd as Delhomme bluntly denied the claim. 
 
 "I don't know this man," he said, raising his voice. "I've never met this man." 
 
 Trustee Vilair Fonvil stood up and shouted as others called for calm. 
 
 Fonvil pointed his finger at the mayor, used a crude term for sex and said, "And you say you don't know him?" 
 
 Tuesday's outburst was the latest in a series of disputes — personal and political — that have all but paralyzed the day-to-day business of government. In a tumultuous two years, Delhomme and other trustees have been accused of a litany of profane outbursts and insensitive comments. 
 
 Spring Valley is split between Delhomme and at least three Trustees: Vilair Fonvil, Asher Grossman and Sherry McGill, all Democrats. The Fonvil-led majority has stopped or stalled nearly every function of village government from hiring a village attorney to enforcing building and fire safety. 
 
 On Tuesday night, for example, dozens of Spring Valley firefighters gathered to push for a $6.4 million bond to replace their aging equipment. 
 
 Still, the 15-minute meltdown represented a new kind of fireworks for the two-and-a-half-square-mile village of 32,500. 
 
 Fonvil and Grossman appeared to have been tipped off ahead of time to Alfred's speech, encouraging him to speak up and recount his tale of alleged marital woes. 
 
 "Do you know his wife?" Fonvil asked. 
 
 Delhomme replied, "I know everybody in this community. I don't know the person." 
 
 The crowd broke into boos. 
 
 Toward the end of the shouting match, Trustee Emilia White, looking disgusted, called for calm. 
 
 "This is not the proper channel for that," she said, speaking to Alfred. "You need to file a police report." 
 
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 A Rockland County village meeting devolved into a scene out of Maury Povich on Tuesday night when a resident accused the mayor of using his “power” to have sex with his wife. 
 
 Reginald Alfred, a 48-year-old maintenance man, took the microphone at the meeting and began sharing details of how Spring Valley Mayor Demeza Delhomme was a homewrecker who ruined his 12-year marriage, according to video recorded by The Journal News. 
 
 “He destroyed my house. He destroyed my family. I have two daughters,” he said during a 15-minute shouting fest that riled up city officials and other residents in the audience. 
 
 When another resident in the audience asked Delhomme if he knew Alfred’s wife, the controversial mayor yelled, “I know everybody in this community. I don’t know the person.” 
 
 He vehemently denied the claims while holding his phone that was recording the confrontation, yelling, “I don’t know this man. I’ve never met this man.” 
 
 Alfred went back up to the mic at least one more time, calling the mayor a “liar.” 
 
 “I saw him in my house for Thanksgiving with the food inside,” he said, although he failed to provide any physical evidence of the salacious affair. 
 
 The riled-up crowd cheered their support for Alfred. 
 
 “If you really did this, you should be ashamed of yourself,” one resident said when he was up at the podium. “You are supposed to be a counselor, man, to take care of families, not destroy them.” 
 
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 Delhomme denied the allegations again to The Post on Wednesday afternoon, adding that he filed a police report after Tuesday night’s drama. 
 
 “I wish that man would get some kind of psychiatric help. I feel so bad for these kids involved,” he said of Alfred’s two daughters, who are 4 and 10. 
 
 He said he learned Wednesday that Alfred’s wife worked at the bank he goes to, but wouldn’t say whether he knew her personally. 
 
 “I don’t owe anyone that information,” Delhomme said. 
 
 He believes this is part of what he said is an ongoing smear campaign by two of the city’s trustees, Asher Grossman and Vilair Fonvil, who were also at the meeting. 
 
 “They’ve been battling me since I got elected,” he said. “They put him up to this.” 
 
 Fonvil lambasted Delhomme repeatedly Tuesday night, saying, “What I’m hearing here is public corruption.” 
 
 Alfred’s allegations are a new low for the mayor, who presides over the 2.5-square-mile village of 32,000 residents and has been embroiled in numerous scandals. 
 
 Last November, he pledged to nix any Jewish developer projects in secretly recorded conversations, saying it was payback for their lack of support in the 2013 election. 
 
 And during a massive snowstorm last January, he ordered the Department of Public Works to install a generator at his girlfriend’s house.
– The mayor of a village in New York was accused of sleeping with a village worker's wife during a raucous public meeting on Tuesday, the Journal News reports. "Mr. Delhomme is trying to use his power to get into my house," 48-year-old maintenance worker Reginald Alfred said during the meeting's public comment period. "He destroyed my house. He destroyed my family. I have two daughters." Spring Valley Mayor Demeza Delhomme denied the allegations, but that wasn't the end of it. “You screwed his wife and you say you don’t know him?” Gawker quotes one angry village trustee. “I saw him in my house for Thanksgiving with the food inside,” the New York Post quotes further accusations from Alfred. Alfred appeared to have public approval—if not proof—on his side. The crowd cheered his accusations while booing Delhomme's denials. “If you really did this, you should be ashamed of yourself,” the Post quotes one Spring Valley resident. The meeting, while extreme, was not out of place in the village of 32,500. Gawker notes Delhomme has been a "bad mayor, in general." He was secretly recorded saying he wouldn't approve any projects from Jewish developers, and he once declared himself "king of the village." He even forced a city employee to install a generator for his girlfriend in the middle of a snowstorm. Delhomme admits Alfred's wife works at his bank, but he wouldn't say whether or not he knows her. He says he filed a police report against Alfred following the meeting.