Mobbing, Bullying, Discrimination, and Secrecy in Duncanville-Monasterolo Sister City Program, Using $35,000 in Taxpayer and Donor Funds for Private Vacations

The Crisis of the Sister City Mission: Transparency, Accountability, and the Public Trust

DUNCANVILLE, TX, October 19, 2025 /24-7PressRelease/ --

Italian PDF: https://bit.ly/47bCffZ
English PDF: https://bit.ly/4744gG8

The Duncanville-Monasterolo di Savigliano relationship, which I founded in 1997 to foster peace through dialogue and mutual understanding (inspired by President Eisenhower), is facing an existential crisis.

The question: "Why do you use mobbing and bullying instead of taking responsibility to analyze facts and express what you consider civil or uncivil, honest or dishonest?"—I directly posed this question to the arriving Italian delegates from my hometown on 14 October 2025 at DFW airport and Duncanville's City Hall, along with a flyer (https://bit.ly/3KGy6t4).

This question is addressed to everyone. It is not an accusation but a call for civic responsibility, truthfulness, and respectful dialogue—values essential for any Sister-City partnership and for any democracy.

Why have public dialogue, facts, and accountability been replaced by secrecy, exclusion, and manipulation?

This document factually explains the situation, urging our community to uphold transparency and non-discrimination during the October 14–24, 2025, delegation visit.

I. The Immediate Crisis: A Complete Lack of Transparency

The current visit of the Italian delegation from Monasterolo di Savigliano is managed with unprecedented secrecy, violating public institution standards and the spirit of cultural exchange.

A. Secrecy in Program and Participants

• No Public Program: As of the delegation's arrival, the official program detailing event times and locations has not been disclosed to the public or interested citizens.

• Unknown and Unrepresentative Visitors: Of the 23 Italian participants, only Mayor Giorgio Alberione, Vice-Mayor Mirko Fissore, and former Mayor Marco Cavaglià were publicly identified. Even Monasterolo's own council members admitted they did not know who was representing their town.

• When I met the group at DFW Airport, I recognized only seven residents of Monasterolo—the previous three people and Bruno Parizia (former city manager and consultant), his wife Michela Mellano, Marisa Borlasta (head of the city office), and M. Astegiano—clearly a group of administrators rather than ordinary citizens.

• Recruitment from Other Towns: Having failed to recruit Monasterolo citizens for his "vacation trip," Mayor Alberione recruited 16 travelers from other towns (Racconigi, Rifreddo, Brossasco, San Damiano Macra, Fossano, Marene, Sampeyre, and others) who joined after seeing social media advertisements or solicitations. Do these out-of-town travelers know and care about resolving the local issues in Monasterolo, such as the neglect of children and seniors? (See Section IV).

• Violation of Public Norms in Italy: This secrecy is a pattern in Monasterolo. Planning meetings for the visit were never announced, and minutes were not made public, despite Italian legal requirements for transparency.

B. The 'Travel Agency' Model: Misusing Public Funds and Logos

Organizers have transformed the spirit of public diplomacy into a private fundraising operation:

• Misuse of $35,000 in Public Funds and Donations:

o $10,000 Public Funding: On 28 April 2025, Sandi Ciarochi presented a request (Resolution 2025-479) to the DCEDC (https://bit.ly/48uXnQI) for $10,000 in taxpayer money, which the Duncanville City Council approved on 20 May 2025 (https://bit.ly/46WlAhJ), claiming "to promote Duncanville globally through international education, cultural exchange, and commerce."

o $25,000 in Donations. Organizers also solicited an estimated additional $25,000 in sponsorships and donations, effectively creating a "partially paid vacation package" and exploiting public institutional prestige.

• Discriminatory Access: The solicitation, also published on the Duncanville Chamber of Commerce website at (https://bit.ly/4nQzece, or https://bit.ly/4q6rTqt), details the Sister City sponsorship opportunities at a glance, signed by S. Ciarochi, F. Ciarochi, D. Green, G. Sliger, S. Martin, S. Moten, G. Hertenstein Conley, A. Conley, Dr. M. Minor, M. Gordon, L. Balagna, S. Balagna, S. Lyons, G. Duhon, G. Repp, Mr. & Mrs. K. Cherry, K. Contreras, Dr. N. Evans, D. Young, L. Young, B. Sheppard, C. Sheppard, L. Greer, E. Rudico, J. Rudico, and D. Gulley.

For different donation amounts, they offer different perks: for Diamond ($10,000), they offered the Logo and Names on all Printed material, full participation in all activity for two, reserved seating for eight at city-wide events, and eight tickets for Sunday pancake breakfast. These perks are gradually reduced for Platinum ($5,000), Sapphire ($2,500), Gold ($1,000), Silver ($500), Bronze ($250), and Amici ($100) for only the name on all printed material and two tickets for Sunday pancake breakfast. However, the program is still not publicly available, and there is discrimination against the person who requests it.

Charging citizens up to $10,000 for event participation, instead of publishing the program and making all events open, is counter to the Sister City mission of promoting dialogue.

• Secrecy and Deception: The City Secretary repeatedly promised the program but never delivered it (I requested it multiple times since 12 September, and again on 13 October). I was also deliberately misled about the delegation's arrival time. When I confronted City officials at the City Hall on 17 October 2025, they initially offered a schedule but then retracted it, providing nothing. My 3 October 2025 FOIA (https://bit.ly/4qikSCT) request for the program, although a 10-day response is indicated, on 16 October I received an email stating that the information requested would be provided on 17 November or later, and on 27 October or later a cost estimate for my approval would be provided.

• Unauthorized Logo Use: A public flyer soliciting donations carried the official Castle of Monasterolo logo (http://bit.ly/46TfygE) without any confirmed authorization—another breach of transparency.

This deliberate information suppression prevents citizen participation, denies public oversight, and undermines the core democratic principle of transparent, non-discriminatory public activities.

II. The Origin of Conflict: Legal and Personal Attacks

The program's lack of transparency is tied directly to a hostile environment created by Italian officials, which resulted in a formal Italian Criminal Proceeding (N. 1186/2023). (https://bit.ly/46EJpKS).

A. Institutional Misconduct and Criminal Charges in Italy

• I have formally requested the Public Prosecutor in Cuneo to reopen a criminal investigation into Mayor Giorgio Alberione's conduct, citing:

o Five Violations of the Italian Constitution (Arts. 3, 17, 21, 97, 98).

o A criminal charge of 'Refusal or Omission of Official Acts' (Art. 328 c.p.) for allegedly denying legal access to public documents and illegally excluding me from the Town Hall ("House of the People").

B. Violence and the Failure of Education

Institutional misconduct bred hostility toward anyone demanding accountability.

• The Easter Attack (2025): I was physically assaulted by eight teenagers and two adults in Monasterolo di Savigliano. This violence demonstrates that young people are imitating the deceitful and truth-suppressing models set by adults and public officials. This hostile campaign also includes death threats, insults, property damage (vandalism), and defamation detrimental to my professional work, in addition to still being exiled from the house where I spent my childhood for 12 years.

• This is because I was asking to analyze facts and behaviors, and to let everyone express, based on their own conscience and intellect, what they consider civil or uncivil, right or wrong, Christian or not, honest or dishonest to set as an example for young people.

• The True Goal: Refusing vengeance, I filed a non-punitive lawsuit, offering to withdraw it if the offenders repaid €64 in damages, apologized face-to-face, and pledged to stop. My aim is education, not punishment.

III. Undermining the Mission: A Decade of Deceit (2006–2017)

This manipulation is not new but the result of over a decade of effort to undermine the original, honest Sister City mission for personal gain.

A. Slander and Subversion from the U.S. Side (2006)

• The campaign to subvert the program began in 2006 when Sandi Ciarochi from Duncanville began spreading false information and slander, claiming I was not inviting Duncanville citizens to participate in the Monasterolo trip (https://bit.ly/4n4UjhM).

• The facts show I invited her and her family repeatedly. Despite her family members acknowledging that her statements contradicted reality, she refused dialogue and continued to work toward the program's isolation.

B. Partnership and Instructional Deceit (2016–2017)

• In 2016, former Monasterolo Mayor Marco Cavaglià partnered with Ms. Ciarochi, engaging in secret agreements that were hidden from Monasterolo Council members. They actively worked to undermine the Sister City Statute and Mission.

• Their alliance turned a public cultural exchange into a private club run in secrecy for personal advantage.

• The 2017 Email Exposing Intent: In 2017, Ms. Ciarochi sent an email to the Mayor of Duncanville that clearly revealed her objective: to undermine dialogue and fair process. In this email (https://bit.ly/4h00Dpx), she claimed others were "mentally ill" while instructing the Mayor with minute-by-minute directions on how to conduct a meeting with me—all to prevent me from speaking honestly about the facts. She even told the Mayor he must memorize a "silly" script and repeat it endlessly. This correspondence demonstrates a clear campaign of mobbing and deceit aimed at crushing transparency and respectful dialogue.

• Violation of Transparency: These actions further violated rules and laws mandating transparency, leading to the official charge of 'Refusal or Omission of Official Acts' (Art. 328 c.p.) mentioned above.

IV. The Mayor's Neglect Versus Community Spirit

I founded the Sister City initiative to promote peace through dialogue and cooperation. Instead, Mayor Alberione (and the previous Mayor Cavaglià) appear to have transformed it into a vehicle for personal glory, exploiting Texan generosity to subsidize a private vacation.

These Italian visitors are spending taxpayer and donor money in closed-door parties while Mayor Alberione neglects serious community problems:

• Neglect of Children (Kindergarten Crisis):

o The Mayor ignores local problems, including teenage aggressions and vandalism (flower beds, loud noise after midnight, the Easter 2025 attack against me).

o He is neglecting the €5 million donation made 14 years ago for a new kindergarten. A problem that has already made news in local newspapers several times, including when his Mayor Pro-Temp in the previous legislature resigned for alleged irregularities by Mayor Alberione on this issue. Now the former mayor Pro-Temp is a Council member in the opposition party.

o Instead of implementing the plan by Parish Priest Don Mauro Cagna to build an educational hub in a historic center with safe access, Mayor Alberione has repeatedly changed projects, seemingly halving the available funds.

o Families are forced to use the old, dangerous kindergarten. This situation is a stark contrast to the positive community spirit of Monasterolo's young volunteers who annually organize a pedestrian walk to raise a few thousands of euros to keep the old kindergarten operational—a painful contrast when €5 million lie unused.
Other families volunteer to supervise the teenagers at the Parish youth center.

• Neglect of Seniors:

o The Mayor has also neglected seniors. The previous Mayor Antonio Prochietto, who I Invited in 1997 in Texas with other six people from Monasterolo and this started the Sister City Relation with the Proclamation by Duncanville's Mayor Ed Purcell, spent decades maintaining a popular social gathering space in the basement of the Castle, providing coffee, tea, prosecco, and organizing winter trips to the seaside for health relief to seniors. Those humane traditions have diminish or vanished under Alberione's administration.

V. Restoring Responsibility and Dialogue

The acts described—concealing information, denying public access to documents, exploiting public prestige for private fundraising, and tolerating hostility and violence—represent the antithesis of the values the Sister-City program was meant to uphold.

Monasterolo's citizens deserve leaders who serve, not exploit.

If the Prefect does not intervene sooner, voters should do so at the next election to correct Mayor Alberione's misunderstanding of legality and public duty.

Citizens and Visitors: Three Simple Demands

1. Full Transparency — Immediately publish the complete program and list of the 23 Italian participants.

2. Public Accountability — Conduct every event openly, free of discrimination.

3. Dialogue, Not Mobbing — Protect every citizen's right to speak, analyze facts and behaviors that shape their community, and express what they consider civil or uncivil, honest or dishonest.

Duncanville and Monasterolo deserve a cultural exchange founded on honesty, not manipulation. Please help us restore integrity for a vital relationship.

• Given Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson (former Senator)'s instrumental role in allocating $6 billion public funds ($3.65 billion already spent), and her 28-year involvement in this cultural exchange, to achieve her/our goal (https://bit.ly/4owHRbX) of eradicating cancer, it is logical she would organize a public meeting between myself and CPRIT scientists to compare any funded project with a cancer deaths reduction table similar to mine (https://bit.ly/47eqiIh). I seek no favoritism, just transparency to fund projects most beneficial to humanity.

• Lifelong advocate of honesty, transparency, and accountability in science, government, and civic life.

Final Appeal

I share this information with all relevant authorities and citizens because errors can be corrected only through cooperation and disagreements must be solved through dialogue, not mobbing or bullying—for young people inevitably imitate the conduct of adults.

More information: https://bit.ly/4h7Gkqd
crosettodario@gmail.com

About the author: Dario Crosetto

• Italian-born scientist, inventor, and Texas resident for 34 years.

• Founder of the Sister City relationship (1997).

• President of the Crosetto Foundation for the Reduction of Cancer Deaths.

• Internationally recognized for developing two inventions—3D-Flow and 3D-CBS— which revolutionize data processing in high-energy physics and medical imaging, with potential to cut premature cancer deaths by half. He passed the scrutiny of CERN (14,000+ scientists) and IEEE (representing 480,000+ professionals), who granted a 2-hour presentation to the 2024 IEEE Conference attended by 1,300 scientists, followed by a scientific article (https://bit.ly/4oNUOyT) and executive summary (https://bit.ly/3UCW8XE), with PR published by 4,000+ media outlets, reaching over 600 million potential audience (https://bit.ly/3HtisQv). All claims remain unrefuted.

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