Flash! Extra! Extra! Surprise! Former “Mayor” Paul Wnek May Be Lying Again

Captain Renault Is “Shocked! Shocked!” As Credibility Of DMUA Chairman-Designate Is Further Weakened By The Appearance Of A Second, Doctored Version Of Controversial Memo Attacking Executive Director John Broome And Charging Him With A Possible “Violation Of Law”

Did Wnek And Lame Duck Chairman Hedinger Falsify Important Aspects Of Original Broome Memorandum To Conceal Use Of Facilities And Employees Of The Burlington County Highway Department To Launch Political Attacks On Dover MUA Employees?

After All Of This, Can Boss R. C. Clement Still Make Wnek, Once Again An Embarrassment To The Local GOP, The DMUA Chairman When Agency Reorganizes In February?

Dover Township - The former “mayor” who lied about his complicity in the 1992 fiscal crisis (he blamed a $30 million cumulative cash deficit on Governor Florio) is apparently at it again, this time with a memorandum doctored to conceal its source at the facilities of the Burlington County Highway Dept.

Wnek’s co-conspirator in the alleged falsification of the facsimile memorandum is lame duck DMUA chairman Leonard Hedinger, the DMUA commissioner who helped doctor DMUA records to accommodate the Aldrich-Haines job switch last Spring when Former “mayor” Clarence Aldrich resigned his township committee seat to become a superintendent at the DMUA, and DMUA Chairman Virginia Haines was appointed to fill Aldrich’s committee vacancy.

Original Wnek Attack Document Was Apparently Doctored By Wnek And Hedinger

Hedinger, to be replaced as DMUA Commissioner in February with former NJ Deputy Attorney General John Sheehy, started his last meeting Wednesday by reading segments of a document purporting to be the original memorandum from Wnek attacking Authority Executive Director John Broome.

The memorandum, which was prepared and launched from the facilities of the Burlington County Highway department where Wnek is employed, accused Broome of obtaining public information from town hall to be used in defending the DMUA against a dissolution proposal made by Democrat Committeeman Richard Larsen.

Haelig, At The Top Of Wnek-Hedinger Enemies List, Proposes $300,000 DMUA Savings Program

Wnek and Hedinger accused Broome of accessing the public data at the request of Commissioner Robert K. Haelig Jr., who is apparently at the top of their latest enemies list for proposing a $300,000 list of possible DMUA cost savings at Tuesday’s township committee meeting.

According to the Asbury Park Press, Haelig’s $300,000 savings program “seemed to anger several of the MUA employees and commissioners who attended the meeting, especially his contention that the two alternate commissioners’ jobs were unnecessary and were created for political reasons.” (APP 1/23/03)

Hedinger And Wnek Charge Broome With Abusing
His Office By Obtaining Public Information

Broome acknowledged that public records were obtained from a variety of public sources, but vigorously denied Wnek’s allegations that he “may have violated the law” or “used or abused” his office for his “personal agenda”. Wnek did not back up his charges with any supporting information.

In fact, Wnek would not even admit that he worked at the Burlington County Highway Department - and now we know why.

Wnek And Hedinger Helped Cause Major Fiscal Calamities In Township And School System

Wnek is the “mayor” who helped precipitate the massive 1992 fiscal crisis and then tried to blame his own culpability on former Governor Jim Florio.

Wnek also issued a press release early in November where he exchanged reciprocal lies with East Dover Little League President James Ansbach and misrepresented Broome’s involvement in a bogus charge by Ansbach in support of Democratic candidates.

Wnek was also implicated in the suppression of important DMUA financial documents in July of 2001, and was a principal in the Aldrich-Haines job switch scam last Spring.

Hedinger, former President of the Toms River School board, was a primary factor in excessive spending by the school board in the 1980's, policies which led to a change in the administration and the largest school tax increase in the history of Ocean County. Hedinger is also a health insurance double dipper. (See today's O. C. Observer Editorial 1/24/03)

Memo Distributed By Hedinger Is Different From The First One

The version of the memo originally faxed by Wnek phonied up important telephone numbers and other data to conceal his use of Highway Department facilities to launch the attacks on Broome and others.

After OceanCountyPolitics blew the whistle on the Burlington Highway Department connection, Hedinger and Wnek tidied up Wnek’s memo for public consumption by replacing the original falsified telephone numbers and adjusting the other doctored parts to tidy things up.

DMUA meeting of Jan 22nd now for 56K modems

That's What Got Nixon And Joe McCarthy In Trouble

That, of course, is the process that got former President Richard Nixon and former GOP Sen. Joseph McCarthy in trouble. After all of this, will GOP Boss R. C. Clement persist in his drive to make Wnek the Chairman of the DMUA when the Authority reconvenes in February?

OceanCountyPolitics was not able to obtain a comment from Burlington County Freeholder Vincent R. Farias, former Mayor of Edgewater Park and Director Of Public Works for the Freeholder Board, as to the Board's policy on the use of Highway Department facilities to launch political attacks on agencies in other counties.                   (1/24/03)

Click here for previous OceanCountyPolitics•Com article re:double dipper deficit wonk Wnek’s political career.

Click here for previous OceanCountyPolitics•Com article re:Wnek’s insurgency for the DMUA Chair.

Click here for previous OceanCountyPolitics•Com article: Wnek and Ansbach in Reciprocal Lies Re: East Dover Little League

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