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“Doctor” Moriarty - What A Phoney!! First He Violates His Own Rules; Then Lies About Other Democrats To Cover Up The $500,000 Ocean County Two Party Conspiracy On Health Insurance Double Dipping

Mayor Jason Varano, A Democrat, May Be Nearly Unique Among Ocean County Public Employees In Rejecting Second Paid Health Insurance Policy As Berkeley Mayor, But Dover Character Assassin Lies And Calls Him A Double Dipper Anyway

SmearSite Never Mentions Former Berkeley Mayor Leake, A Republican And World Class Double Dipper, Or Moriarty Stooge Richard Larsen, The Democrat Who Was Fired For Charging The Berkeley Sewer Authority Nearly Double, While He Calls For The Dissolution Of The Dover Sewer Authority To “Save Money”

Berkeley Township: Mayor Jason Varano receives a salary of $8500, the lowest of any elected township mayor in Ocean County. The Mayor, like numerous other American citizens who like to eat , also has a full time job.

He is employed by the state government in the Department Of Environmental Protection, also not particularly unique. The state government has thousands of employees.

Double Dip Insurance Scam Costs Ocean County
Taxpayers An Extra $500,000 Every Year

What is unique about Varano is that unlike many other public officials in Ocean County, Varano  isn’t double dipping on expensive health insurance policies, the scam that costs Ocean County taxpayers an extra $500,000 every year.

100,000 Ocean County Citizens Can’t Afford
Even One Health Insurance Policy

More than 100,000 Ocean County taxpayers, including thousands of seniors, can’t afford even one expensive health insurance policy, but dozens of public employees are scamming these very same taxpayers and making them pay for two, and sometimes three policies at a cost to taxpayers of up to $17,200 each.

Who’s Going To Protect Consumers From
The Consumer Protection Director??

For instance, Kenneth Leake, a former mayor of Berkeley Township and Ocean County’s Consumer Protection Director, has for the past four years been making consumers pay double for the Health Insurance benefits he gets from two government agencies for free.

Many Victims Of The Leake Scam Can’t Afford Health Insurance

As they pay twice for Leake’s two expensive duplicate medical coverages, many of these same consumers are unable to afford even minimum health insurance coverage for themselves.

What is worse, “Director” Leake, who runs the county’s program to expose consumer abuses and go public with them, has never once advised the public he has been committing one of the worst consumer scams himself.

OCUA Plunders Consumers Leake
Is Paid To “Protect”

As County Consumer Affairs Chief, Leake gets free health coverage which costs Ocean County taxpayers $5379 annually, a cost that will soon go up by more than 20%.

He gets another “free” policy from the Ocean County Utilities Authority, where he is a paid commissioner (the highest county sewer rate in New Jersey) and grabs off a second “free” health insurance policy at a cost to the taxpayers estimated to be about $7200 in 2003.

Leake, like too many other greedy bureaucrats, doesn’t need the second policy but, like the scam artists he is supposed to be protecting consumers from, he grabs it anyway.

Varano Rejected Second Insurance Coverage,
But Moriarty And Marshall Lied Anyway

The SmearSite of Dover Democratic boss “Doctor” Jack Moriarty and racist former South Toms River Councilman Stephen Marshall ignored Leake and many others who practice the extravagant double dip scam and took aim instead at Mayor Varano: “Double dipper Varano is living high on the hog while his senior constituents struggle to pay taxes and health care expenses”, they charged, without a germ of truth to back up the allegation.

Mayor Varano: “Why Should I Rip Off My Own
Community To Get Coverage I Don’t Even Need?”

Mayor Varano refused the township health policy (he has never been a double dipper), and the taxpayers of Berkeley Township are now saving about $9000 a year because of his honesty and good common sense. “I don’t need two policies; why should I rip off my own community to get coverage I don’t even need”, he asked?  Good question.

If Double Dip Scam Was Eliminated In Ocean County,
Taxpayers Would Save $500,000 Every Year

If everybody felt the same way, the taxpayers of Ocean County would be saving another $500,000 every year.

The charge against Varano, of course, is a blatant lie among many blatant lies circulated by Moriarty, who may be trying to give cover to another Berkeley situation involving one of his Dover Township political stooges, Township Committeeman Richard “The Accountant” Larsen.

Larsen Tossed Out As Berkeley Sewer Authority Auditor

Larsen was recently tossed out as auditor for the Berkeley Sewerage Authority when it was discovered that Larsen was charging the Berkeley authority nearly twice as much as the accountant for the Dover Municipal Utilities Authority charges the DMUA, the agency Larsen wants to dissolve “to save money.”  

More on Larsen and Leake and Moriarty and the double dippers soon on OCP.        (3/22/03)

For previous Leake Double Dip Article, Click Here, For Previous Larsen Berkeley Scam Article, Click Here

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