Upper Darby Treasurer Danny Sayduzzaman, whose first months in office were dogged by questions about incomplete financial disclosures and a six-figure federal tax lien, has resigned, according to a letter he sent to the township and the agenda
for Wednesday’s council meeting.
Sayduzzaman submitted his resignation letter on July 13, citing a desire to devote more time to his business, New Hope Home Care Inc. His letter lists the effective date as July 31, though the agenda for the August 5 council meeting includes a motion to formally accept the resignation as of that date. If the council votes Wednesday to accept the resignation, Sayduzzaman’s tenure will have lasted almost exactly seven months.
When asked for comment late Friday by Broad + Liberty, Sayduzzaman responded by forwarding the text of his resignation letter. He did not address the ethics questions raised in previous reporting.
The resignation follows a Broad + Liberty investigation that found Sayduzzaman had omitted numerous business interests — and a $230,347 IRS tax lien filed against him and his wife, Tanzina Hossain — from his required financial disclosure form. Pennsylvania ethics rules require public officials to report any income source exceeding $1,300 and any creditor owed more than $6,500.
Sayduzzaman’s original disclosure listed only New Hope Home Care as a business interest. After Broad + Liberty published its findings in May, he filed a corrected form listing eight businesses. But even the corrected form omitted the six-figure IRS lien, his annual salary as treasurer, nonprofit affiliations, and the addresses for each business.
A subsequent Broad + Liberty report in July found Upper Darby Township had filed nineteen tax liens totaling $43,933 against the Dhaka Club Party Center at 8919 West Chester Pike, a business connected to Hossain. About $12,000 of those liens had been satisfied at the time of publication; some had been filed as recently as June. Sayduzzaman’s resignation letter was written less than a week after that report.
In his resignation letter, Sayduzzaman made no reference to the reporting or the outstanding questions about his disclosures. He wrote that his decision was made “exclusively for the professional reasons set out above” and asked the municipality to issue a press release “recognizing both my resignation and my service.”
The council will vote Wednesday on whether to formally accept the resignation.
Sayduzzaman, a Democrat, was elected treasurer of Upper Darby in November 2025 and sworn in on January 5, 2026. Upper Darby’s annual budget tops $104.7 million; the treasurer’s position paid $7,500 annually, plus benefits. He had acknowledged the federal tax lien in conversations with Broad + Liberty, calling it a “personal issue,” and said he did not actually handle the township’s money directly.
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