January 5, 2005 Acropolis Greed

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Acropolis Partner Rewarded For Ripping
Off Taxpayers In Dover Township

Joseph Bilotta

Steven Acropolis

Joseph Bilotta, Commissioner Who Rigged DMUA $$$ Bond Business For Greedy GOP Patronage Junkies; Key Player In Yezzi OCUA Conflict Cover-Up; Voted For $5.3 Million Operating Deficit, Is Handed New Five Year Term By GOP Bosses

Partner In Acropolis "Financial Services" Firm Rewarded

Gilmore Pushed Appointment

River City: One of the appointments approved at the Axis Of Greed strategy meetings headed by Ocean County Republican Chairman George Gilmore was the appointment of Joseph Bilotta to a new five year term on the Dover Municipal Utilities Authority.

Bilotta is a partner in a financial "consulting" business headed by Brick Council President Steven Acropolis.

Bilotta Attended December 3rd
Gilmore Smear Meeting - Possible
Sunshine Law Violations

Bilotta attended the meeting held December 3rd at Gilmore's Toms River offices to plan strategy for eliminating political competition and smearing critics of GOP patronage plans and policies.

The meeting allegedly violated sunshine laws because a majority of the commissioners on both the DMUA and the Ocean County Utilities Authority attended the meeting and discussed business.

Former Councilman Massimo Yezzi

Bilotta Set Up Cronies For
Lucrative DMUA Bond Business

Bilotta never bothered to comment on documented allegations he rigged DMUA bond business to provide political payoffs for neighbors of Dover Township GOP Boss Richard Clement and another financial services firm which are former associates of himself and Acropolis.

Bilotta was also active in the suppression and cover-up of serious conflict-of-interest charges involving former Point Pleasant Councilman Massimo Yezzi and Yezzi's wife, April, who was appointed an alternate DMUA commissioner in January of 2004.

Yezzi Never Disclosed $157,000 In OCUA Political Payoffs?

April In Conflict?

The Yezzi conflicts are associated with the Yezzi's alleged failure to disclose $157,000 in payments to Yezzi by the Ocean County Utilities Authority in 2002, 2003 and 2004 when April Yezzi was appointed to the DMUA by the Dover Township Council.

Yezzi Plays The Political Process For Big Bucks

Yezzi is one of the most prolific recipients of no-bid professional service contracts in Ocean County.

Commissioner Robert Haelig

Haelig Tried To Blow The
Whistle But Was Gagged

Authority Commissioner Robert K. Haelig Jr. tried to bring the Yezzi payments to the attention of the DMUA commissioners at the October meeting of the authority, but was gagged by Bilotta and other commissioners who owe their appointments to Gilmore and Clement.

The blatantly illegal gag motion, the first gag at the DMUA in fifty years, was imposed on Haelig by Bilotta and three other stooge commissioners, and approved by DMUA attorney James Gluck despite the fact that the DMUA pays the OCUA more than $10 million every year for sewerage treatment.

Bilotta Key Factor In $5.3 Million DMUA Operating Deficit

Bilotta was also instrumental in draining vital DMUA reserves on an accelerated basis so the DMUA now has a $5.3 million operating deficit projected and approved for the 2005 calendar year.

Bilotta was appointed to a five year term on the DMUA at the council's reorganization on Tuesday.

What Else Is New? Acropolis Pulled The Same Scam In Brick

Acropolis was responsible for jeopardizing reserves in the Brick Township municipal government in a similar fashion to show an artificially positive picture of Brick taxes and spending by the Republican council, a practice which threatens more tax increases in the near future in Brick.

This article prepared for publication January 6, 2005.

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