COLONIE — Three officials with the state Division of Cemeteries summoned Albany Rural Cemetery board president Mark Bodnar and vice president Michael Barrett to an emergency meeting.
The regulators were livid.
It was late summer 2023, and general manager David Eslinger had just been fired for financial improprieties that included $42,229 in embezzled funds and other irregularities in the record-keeping of cremations and burials…