When Tony Luna hired his daughter and good personal friend Charles Cuccia,
he claimed that $97,500 would cover their part-time jobs as CFO and Treasurer. The Borough would be
paying the $97,500 to Cuccia’s newly created business “Treasury Services” which is listed at
his home address. Employees of “Treasury
Services”, including Cuccia’s wife, would be doing the work normally done by the actual CFO and Treasurer (who were too preoccupied with their
full time political positions in other towns).
At some point, the State told Lodi
that it needed individuals listed as its CFO and Treasurer because those
positions could not be outsourced to “Treasury Services”. So Luna and his administration added Cuccia
and Luna-Biondi to its payroll for $10,000 and $25,000 respectively. That $35,000 should have been subtracted from the $97,500 going to
Cuccia’s Treasury Services. Instead, it
became a new added expense for the Lodi taxpayers. What was promised to cost $97,500 jumped to
$132,500 within months.
Last week, “Lodi Prima Facie” posted
Lodi’s 2016 Salary Ordinance:
Lodi is showing a 4.04% pay increase for Cuccia and Luna-Biondi in 2016. This
brings their price tag up to $133,914.
From $97,500 to $133,914 amounts to a
37.3% increase in 3.5 years. They are
averaging a 10.7% increase each year.
Cuccia is a full-time employee of
Little Falls. Luna-Biondi is a full-time
employee of Paramus. Both hold multiple
paid public positions in other towns and agencies that they secured through
Tony Luna’s political activity.
Their positions in Lodi can only be categorized as very limited
to NO SHOW.This is greed and political patronage at its worst.
