Score Card Required To Sort Out Cosmic Disfunctionalism As Thomas Rodgers, Who Was Named Party Chief Following Resignation Of Alleged Extortionist And $50,594 Payoff Recipient, Resigns In His Own Right; Gives Reins To “Doctor” Furey, Who Wouldn’t Resign As Mayoral Candidate Until “Doctor” Moriarty Was Paid Off

More Violations Of State Election Disclosure Laws, As Democrats Launder $50,000 “Contribution” From County Chairman Potter, And Pay Off Moriarty ($50,594) Without Making Timely 48 Hour Pre-Election Declarations

Toms River: The township committeeman who had the worst attendance record on the governing body and, as the Democrat mayoral hopeful, abandoned his fellow candidates ten days before the recent election to throw his support to an “independent”, is now the “Acting” President of the Dover Township Democratic Organization.

“Doctor” John Furey takes over as “Acting” President of the local Democrats from Thomas Rodgers, the election disclosure scofflaw who violated numerous election regulations in his two tries for local office, both of them with former township committeeman Richard Larsen as his running mate.

Glaring Election Law Violations

Rodgers and Larsen signed reports to the Election Law Enforcement Commission which, despite Larsen’s status as a pubic accountant, contained glaring violations of important election disclosure regulations.

The alleged violations are now under investigation.

Rodgers became “Acting” President of the Democrat organization when former party leader “Doctor” Jack Moriarty resigned all of his party offices back in August following his complicity in an alleged extortion and blackmail attempt involving bogus insurance fraud charges against mayoral candidate Paul Brush.

Moriarty Extortion Charges Under Investigation By Harvey

The charges against Moriarty and others are now under investigation by State Attorney General Peter Harvey.

Brush refused to be blackmailed into leaving the mayoral race but, eight weeks later, ten days before the November election, Furey bowed out of the race following an odiferous deal with Brush which featured a peripheral agreement, insisted on by Furey, where Moriarty was to receive a $50,000 “consultant’s fee” payoff to ice the deal.

The “consultant’s fee”, $50,594 to be majestically precise, was paid to Moriarty in check form by Furey’s defunct campaign organization, “The Furey Team”, on October 30th.

To effectuate the $50,594 Moriarty payoff transaction, the “Furey Team”, according to papers filed with ELEC and signed by both Rodgers and Larsen, used funds laundered through the “Ocean County Democratic Committee," a finance operation under the direct auspices and control of Democrat County Chairman Fred Potter.

$50,000 Moriarty Payoff Is Focus Of More ELEC Violations

The Moriarty payoff was the focus of further serious election law violations because the “contribution” of $50,000 in Moriarty payoff funds, received by the Furey Team treasury on October 29th, was not reported to the Election Law Enforcement Commission within 48 hours as required by law, so the transaction was not disclosed and available to the public until after the election.

Furthermore, the actual payoff itself, made to Moriarty on October 30th according to papers signed by Furey, Larsen and Rodgers, was also not reported to ELEC within the required 48 hours, so the law was flaunted in both directions, and the laundered funds from Potter, as well as the $50,000 Moriarty payoff itself, did not become public knowledge until after the election, a situation which involves gross violations of the election law.

More Reorganization In A Few Weeks

“Acting President” Furey will hold the local Democrat leadership post until the organization officially reorganizes in a few weeks.

OceanCountyPolitics correspondents, commentators and observers will be watching carefully and offering more coverage as Dover Democrats continue impulsively on the path of neurotic self destruction.

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