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David Corrigan |
Did The Jeffrey Horn Gag Order
Represent Ethics Violation Related To The Tainted $5000 Unreported
“Pay For Play” Contribution Made By Township Attorney David Corrigan
To Larsen PAC Campaign Fund Five Days Prior To 2002 Election?
Corrigan Tells
Commissioner Haelig He Can’t Mention That Horn, Committeeman Larsen’s
Attorney, Is The Democratic Chairman And Treasurer Of Larsen’s PAC
Fund
Dover Township: It was the first time
anybody can remember that a citizen was ruled out of order for
speaking the absolute truth during the public portion of a Dover
Township Committee meeting.
And it wasn’t even the presiding officer who offered the ruling.
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Did Township Attorney Corrigan Have
Personal Interest In Haelig Ruling?
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Robert K. Haelig Jr. |
Lame duck appointed “Mayor” John Russo Jr., who should have made all
rulings as chairman of the committee, never said a word as township
attorney David Corrigan took it upon himself to interrupt DMUA
Commissioner Robert K. Haelig Jr. and rule Haelig out of order on a
matter where Corrigan may have a personal interest.
Corrigan’s gag order was delivered during the public portion of
Tuesday’s caucus meeting.
Haelig sat in the audience for more than two an a half hours waiting
for an opportunity to defend himself against unspecified charges
leveled by Democrat committee members John “Doctor” Furey and Richard
Larsen, while Russo and other orally flatulent committee members
endlessly preened and postured for the press, .
Larsen said in an article in Tuesday’s Ocean County Observer that it
was “clear” to him that DMUA Executive Director John Broome and “at
least one commissioner” (Haelig) had violated “those rules” in
connection with public records Broome said he obtained from the
township.
Larsen Never Bothered To Identify Rules That
Haelig And Broome Supposedly Violated
There was the usual Larsen-Furey problem, of course, because Larsen
never bothered to identify “those rules” that Haelig and Broome were
supposed to have violated.
Larsen and Furey were parroting similar vague charges made by
commissioners Paul Wnek and Leonard Hedinger at the January meeting of
the DMUA when Wnek and Hedinger accused Broome of accessing public
data at the request of Haelig, who is on their enemies list for
proposing a $300,000 list of possible DMUA cost savings at a recent
township committee meeting.
Haelig’s $300,000 Savings Program “Seemed
To
Anger” Several MUA Commissioners
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 are unnecessary and “created for political
reasons.” (APP 1/23/03)
Haelig noted that Larsen’s attorney, Jeffrey Horn, threatened in a
peculiar just-before-Christmas December 23rd letter to sue him and
other DMUA commissioners and employees if they didn’t stop criticizing
Larsen and Furey for their plan to dissolve the DMUA and seize DMUA
assets to paper over a big potential deficit in the bloated township
budget.
Haelig further noted that Horn is "not exactly a disinterested party"
since he is “the Democratic party chairman and campaign treasurer who
filed and certified as true some of Mr. Larsen’s campaign disclosure
reports in the last election.”
It was then that Corrigan, a normally reticent and mild mannered
individual, nearly came out of his chair, saying that Haelig couldn’t
identify Horn by name, and accused Haelig of suggesting that Horn was
a liar.
Record Shows Haelig Said No Such Thing
“Mr. Haelig, you were suggesting he was lying”, Corrigan postured, but
the record shows Haelig suggested no such thing.
Haelig correctly identified Horn as Larsen’s lawyer, and as Democratic
party chairman, and as the treasurer who signed and filed some of
Larsen’s campaign reports.
Haelig Never Mentioned Tainted $5000
Corrigan Campaign Contribution
Haelig never mentioned or even alluded to the eleventh hour October
30th $5000 campaign contribution made by Corrigan to the Democrat
“Chairman’s Fund”, one of the Larsen campaign’s election funds.
Corrigan was appointed township attorney in January, the only lawyer
appointment that was unanimously supported by the controlling Axis Of
Greed clique of Democrat Russo and Republicans Carmine Inteso and
Michael Fiure plus the support of Larsen and Furey, the two
Democrats jilted by Russo Jr. in the patronage payoff farce that
surfaced as the township government reorganized.
Haelig Never Even Mentioned Horn’s
Alleged Disclosure Law Violation
Haelig never mentioned that Horn may have violated the most important
disclosure law of all in connection with Corrigan’s $5000
contribution, namely the requirement that all such contributions must
be disclosed to the Election Law Enforcement Commission within 48
hours of receipt.
The Commission confirmed Friday that the required 48 hour disclosure
report for lawyer Corrigan’s $5000 contribution, due November 2nd,
four days before the election, was never filed by Horn as
required.
The $5000 “pay for play” contribution was finally reported by Horn in
the wake of Corrigan’s lucrative township committee appointment and
subsequent additional $25,000 supplementary appointment as police
“labor counsel” on January 15, 2003.
$5000 Corrigan Contribution Was Reported 1824 Hours Late
The 48 hour report on the $5000 Corrigan contribution was never filed,
and the contribution was reported 1824 hours late in a quarterly
report filed on January 15th, the type of violation regarded by
election law officials as a “serious violation of the law and the
law’s accountability standards.”
Although Corrigan may not have been directly involved in Horn’s
apparent decision to illegally conceal the $5000 contribution for more
than two months, his snap decision to rule Commissioner Haelig out of
order could be interpreted as a matter in which he now has a personal
interest from which he should disqualify himself immediately.
(3/07/03)
Click here for previous article on
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