According to CyberKrank Richard Ciullo, it was "fraudulent" for his critics to point out in the school board election that architect Massimo Yezzi was paid nearly $2 million in taxpayers money from no-bid contracts with Berkeley schools.

Ciullo, who has helped to further politicize local schools since his election to the school board last year, is also Vice President of the local Republican Club.

Ciullo GOP WebSite Featuring Defecating Sheep

Ciullo is also the operator of an offensive Republican WebSite that recently featured a picture of a sheep defecating on the head of a former school board member who disagrees with Ciullo on the payola that is now endemic in Berkeley schools.

Amato Got Useless $85,000 Job He Wasn't
Qualified For In Any Event; Gave April
Yezzi $70,000 Central Regional Job

Ciullo says it's evidence of a "hate-filled campaign" for two young school board candidates not connected with him and other officers of the Republican Club to inform voters that Central Board President Carmen Amato, Republican Chairman in Berkeley, was recently handed a useless $85,000 job by GOP freeholders, possibly in return for Republican patronage dispensed by Amato at Central.

Bowens And Fredella, Campaigning
On A Shoestring, Came Real Close

Two young candidates, Douglas Bowens and Thomas Fredella, on a financial shoestring in their first try for public office, came within 120 votes of defeating entrenched Republican patronage junkies on the Berkeley elementary school board.

Moral Victory For Taxpayers As Political Budgets
Tank By Huge Margins

Votes for Bowens and Fredella represented a huge moral victory for taxpayers who defeated both politics-infested school budgets by the largest margins in NJ.

Ciullo, Amato, GOP Credibility Tanks, Too

Amato and Ciullo, who put their dwindling credibility on the line in demanding passage of the budgets, came up with barely 40% of the vote in favor of spending plans that featured several obvious political payoffs for their Republican cronies and campaign contributors.

Undisclosed Contributions - Unidentified Contributors

Bowens and Fredella also pointed out that Ciullo received $9745 last year in undisclosed contributions from unidentified contributors of $400 or less, and that Ciullo has refused to say who gave him the money despite public demands that he do so.

Some of the money may be from the Yezzi's. Earlier this year, Ciullo and Amato handed Yezzi's wife April, President of the Ocean County Women's Federation, a $70,000 job as Assistant Business Administrator at Central Regional.

Yezzi Gave To Five Different Slush Funds
Benefiting Berkeley GOP Causes

The Yezzi's have given money to five different political slush funds which funnel money to Berkeley Republicans.

Ciullo voted for Mrs. Yezzi's appointment even though he is the designer of the Women's Federation WebSite.

The school votes and resounding budget defeats held ominous possibilities for Amato who, despite his non-partisan camouflage as Central board president, is the Republican candidate for Council in Berkeley Township's Ward II.

Revelations of Yezzi payoffs and other political maneuvers connected with GOP domination of the Berkeley schools may not go unnoticed by general election voters who are beginning to realize how thoroughly they have been ripped off by Ciullo and Amato and DePaola and numerous other political stooges associated with the culture of greed that controls the Republican apparatus in Ocean County and Berkeley Township.

Many observers believe that crony payoffs and numerous other consequences of the repressive pay-to-play no-bid political Boss system run by Republican County Chairman George Gilmore and some Democratic leaders are components of a secret hidden tax that may cost the taxpayers of the county more than $100 million extra each year.

Will Amato reap the consequences of the political payoffs at Central Regional as he campaigns for the council seat in Berkeley Township in the 2005 election?

And will Ciullo, who just today accused Berkeley Democratic officials of "incest" after making a series of wild charges against OceanCountyPolitics, be punished through Amato by voters who are already becoming wary of their sick attacks on everybody who disagrees with them, even for a minute?

And what about the school board elections next year when five seats are up in Berkeley? Bowens and Fredella were delighted with the vote they got on Tuesday, and they may be available for another try. And this time, Amato's school board seat is up, so voters may give the overpaid and underworked one three well-deserved comeuppances in one 12 month period.

This article is prepared for publication Sunday, 4/24/05.