How Can Gary Paparozzi Have a Pending Lawsuit Against Marcello Petruzella for $300,000 When He Never Disclosed that Partnership on Any Financial Disclosure Statement? How Can Gary Paparozzi Get Paid Twice by the Lodi Taxpayers and Not Disclose Two Separate Positions? Can Mark DelMonaco Explain?

Link to Gary Paparozzi’s 2025 Financial Disclosure Statement:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B4Yxafq29-KJi4WY_dA6LGeZJJLmNrAk/view?usp=sharing

Gary Paparozzi Never Disclosed His Partnership with Marcello Petruzella or any other partnerships with those going before the Boards:

Lodi By The Numbers: Crooked Gary Paparozzi Was in a Partnership With Marcello Petruzzella- the Same Person that He Was Getting Every Variance with Lodi Projects.

Gary Paparozzi Never Disclosed His Salaried Position in Lodi as “Senior Planning Aid”.  This is a completely different position and separate pay schedule from “Lodi Planner”.

Lodi By The Numbers: OPRA Response Confirms that Gary Pararozzi is Being Paid as a Full-Time Employee (“Senior Planning Aid”), While Simultaneously Being Paid by Lodi as “Borough Planner”. Nobody Can Provide any Records Showing any Accounting for His Work Schedule or What Time is Given to Each Position. Gary Paparozzi is Also Being Paid by Other Towns and Working in Other Towns During the Hours of the Lodi Zoning Office.

Like a 3^rd base coach, Gary Paparozzi is signaling at the Planning Board meetings and Zoning Board meetings on how members should vote. He is taking care of wealthy developers without disclosing his partnership agreements.  He is being paid twice by the Lodi taxpayers- one as “Planner” and one as “No Show Employee”.  He is getting involved in eminent domain again after he went full force against private property owners while he was mayor and making big money from his own townhouse projects in town.  This is what the Luna organization said about Paparozzi while Paparozzi was mayor:

Gary Paprozzi is funding Mark DelMonaco’s campaign. Mark DelMonaco and “Woobsie” should be forced to answer for this corrupt arrangement.

The "Besties" Mark DelMonaco and Donald Scorzetti Partying With Your Tax Dollars in Their "Gangster Paradise". A True Halloween Horror.

Vincent Martin (Lodi's Deputy Mayor and Controversial Planning Board Member Responsible for Overdevelopment Monstrosities, Developer Funded Campaigns, Excessive Variances in Return for Payment, etc) Was a "50% Owner" and "Managing Member" of "AJ's" When it Was Repeatedly Busted for Prostitution and Illegal Drugs. Vinny Martin Settled Before the Hearing to Revoke His License and Bar Him from Holding a License for Two Years.

The State's Division of Alcohol Beverage Control filed to revoke Vinny Martin's license and bar him from holding a license for two years.

Vinny Martin and his partner settled before the hearing. 

How can the State list pages of crimes committed without charging the owner? 

How can the State not allow Vinny Martin to continue running his business but still allow him to run Lodi?

Why hasn't one news reporter confronted Matthew Platkin about this blatant abuse and political favoritism?

Mark DelMonaco Does Not Represent Lodi's Interests. His ELEC Report Shows Horrible Pay-to-Play Abuses (Schrieks/Paparozzi/Spiniello/DiMaria, etc.). It Also Shows that Mark DelMonaco Solicited and Took Money from the Builders that are Overdeveloping the Town...

Link to the only ELEC report submitted by Mark DelMonaco/Lodi Pride:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_rSwdb622BfhnZJMF9r5DBfVo0Mnmb_v/view?usp=sharing

Lori Cintron, an NJEA Activist, Posted Nasty Things About this Blog When I Was on the Lodi BOE. She Appears Very Unprofessional Always Commenting on Others and Blaming Others for the Terrible Job She Does as Board President.

Link to story:

https://www.tapinto.net/towns/hasbrouck-heights-slash-wood-ridge-slash-teterboro/sections/education/articles/hasbrouck-heights-boe-issues-statement-about-the-superintendent-s-resignation

Having an NJEA activist as your Board President, you are only inviting chaos, disfunction, and irresponsible spending.

Lori Cintron hired Robert Brown as an interim BA in Hasbrouck Heights few years ago. She clearly doesn't know what she is doing and should be thrown out of office.

Sheryl Luna (Lodi Mayor Scot Luna's Sister) Who Holds a $73,050.19 NO SHOW Position in Lodi Was Paid $175,321 in 2024 for Her Full-time Position in Paramus...

 
Lodi is a financial mess as illustrated by the recent 16% municipal tax increase. The Mayor and Council and their NO SHOW CFO created this mess.  The Lodi taxpayers should not be paying a $73,050.19 salary to Sheryl Luna just because she is the mayor's sister.  She makes enough money from her full-time position in Paramus, and she is also being paid by Maywood.

Sheryl Luna clearly is not fulfilling her duties because Borough payroll shows four employees for Financial Administration when the public was told years ago by Tony Luna that it would be two (when he hired his daughter and Charles Cuccia).

Sheryl Luna failed to do her job in addressing Donald Scorzetti's abuses:

https://lodioverhaul.blogspot.com/2025/06/opra-response-shows-that-donald.html

Sheryl Luna failed to her job in addressing Gary Paparozzi's illegal pay and benefits scheme:

https://lodioverhaul.blogspot.com/2021/02/gary-paparozzi-bills-hourly-as.html

CFOs in other towns blow the whistle on people illegally receiving benefits and payouts in which they are not entitled.

There needs to be a job audit in Lodi. This theft must end. These corrupt, nepotistic arrangements must end.

Lodi Pride,

As Your Municipal Taxes Went up 16%, the Wealth Developer that Was Paying Scott Luna's Father Is Getting Money Back and Paying Even Less. This Resolution Appeared on the October 21, 2025 Meeting Agenda...

Spend some time reading the history of Tony Luna, JMP (150-174 Essex Street), and all the tax refunds/credits approved for the properties by the Lodi Mayor and Council. Click on the link below:

https://lodioverhaul.blogspot.com/search?q=jmp&max-results=20&by-date=true

Mark DelMonaco Should Not Be Accepting $250 Worth of Alcohol from Someone Involved in Cocaine and Prostitution Businesses...

 

Both Mark DelMonaco and Donald Scorzetti (supposed former and current law enforcement) owe their promotions, protections etc. to Lodi Deputy Mayor Vinny Martin.  They owe the jobs for all their relatives to Lodi Deputy Mayor Vinny Martin. And that should tell you everything you need to know about both of them and why neither should hold any position in Lodi Borough Hall.

Both Gary Paparozzi ("Senior Planning Aid") and Sheryl Luna ("CFO/Treasurer) Have NO SHOW Positions in Lodi Borough Hall...

Paparozzi and Luna spend more time in limos at Atlantic City than they do rendering any service to the taxpayers of Lodi.

They lived it up on your hard earned tax dollars as they raised your municipal taxes 16%.

Who thought it was a good idea for them to post these photos on social media?

Pride Nepotism has Failed the Lodi Taxpayers. Lodi Taxpayers are Being Ripped Off and Robbed.

Link to post and video from a recent council meeting:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2936147843133245/posts/24457789573875761/

Marc Schrieks and Sheryl Luna (and according to Pride also Frank DiMaria) are responsible for Lodi's screwed up budget where they were off by millions. The Lodi Mayor and Council give big raises for failure. And for not showing up.

Borough Manager Marc Schrieks Was Soliciting Money from Lodi's Contractors and Builders for Delmonaco's Campaign. He is Very Experienced in this Area.

Marc Schrieks has become quite the shakedown artist.

I am sure none of his solicitations took place during Borough hours where he would conveniently have access to all the contact information from those cashing in on Lodi.

Why couldn't Mark DelMonaco or Woobsie solicit the cash? They wouldn't carry as much influence as the Borough Manager that deals with the contractors on a daily basis?

I am sure there is a complete split between Schrieks' professional life and his shakedown activities.

Neither Mark DelMonaco, "Woobsie", or their Puppet master and Role Model Vinny Martin Will Address How the Clear Examples of Waste, Abuse, and Fraud Listed Below Have Contributed to Their 15.64% Municipal Tax Increase...

As the Lodi Mayor and Council were raising your taxes, they were giving Donald Scorzetti a 5.8% pay raise.

http://lodioverhaul.blogspot.com/2025/05/overlooked-last-week-lodi-mayor-and.html

They created an illegal pay scheme for Gary Paparozzi.

http://lodioverhaul.blogspot.com/2023/02/opra-response-confirms-that-gary.html

They paid Alan Spiniello hundreds of thousands of dollars without any invoices.

http://lodioverhaul.blogspot.com/2025/07/lodi-borough-attorney-alan-spinielllo.html

They spent hundreds of thousands of Lodi tax dollars unfairly targeting Captain Grillo.

http://lodioverhaul.blogspot.com/2023/01/247176-donald-scorzettis-personal.html

They gave the Mayor's sister a big pay raise. The CFO was rewarded for this financial mess.

http://lodioverhaul.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-sister-of-lodi-mayor-scott-luna-got.html

Lodi taxpayers are paying a very high corruption tax.

Scott Luna, Vinny Martin, Emil Carafa, Bruce Masopust, and Mark Delmonaco need to stop lying and start taking responsibility for their failures.

Get Over Yourselves, You Pompous Fools. You Just Raised Taxes 16% and You Have only Been on the Council for a Few Months.

Raising taxes 16% to fund a corrupt system in which you, your relatives, and closest friends are the beneficiaries, is nothing to take Pride. Mark DelMonaco has done nothing but spread lies. If the two of you weren't so in love with yourselves, you would be ashamed and embarrassed.

Assembly Members Should be Advocating for Safe Communities. Prostitution and Cocaine Businesses Do Not Make Our Communities Safe.

 

Swain and Tully Always Endorse High Taxes and Poor Character for Lodi. They Were All Partying as "Pride" Was Mailing You Its 16% Municipal Tax Increase.

Too much Pride. Too much corruption. Too much partying -always with your money, never with theirs.

Lodi Pride has yet to report it's campaign contributions and donors because it's all pay-to-play. Which means higher taxes.

The Lodi Mayor and Council are Holding Off the New Revaluation Assessments Until After November 4th Because They Are Going to Be Devastating to the Lodi Taxpayers...

The County taxes could double for Lodi Taxpayers because most of the County has already been reassessed multiple times in the last twenty years. The County has a set rate and says Lodi is very undervalued (not paying it's proper share). 

And County taxes could be the least of the Lodi taxpayers' worries.

The Lodi Mayor and Council are buying time to help Mark DelMonaco but also help the three incumbent County Commissioners who have been giving double digit percentage tax increases without the Revaluation.

The County employs Scott Luna and had employed Vinny Martin even as his business was busted multiple times for cocaine and prostitution. The phony Lodi Mayor and Council Members placed a letter in your tax bill showing how bad Mary Amoroso, Thomas Sullivan, and Germaine Ortiz have been with double digit percentage County tax increases yet they campaign for them because they care more about their own self-enrichment than Lodi's interests.

The County ordered Lodi's Revaluation because they said Lodi was paying less than the other Bergen County towns due to its outdated assessments. But then it allowed Lodi to delay for years. Past posts on the subject:

http://lodioverhaul.blogspot.com/2024/08/scott-luna-and-lodi-council-knew-about.html

Don't take my word for it. Ask Scott Luna or Marc Schrieks now so they are not given an opportunity to lie after the fact. Ask them about the Revaluation release date and how the new assessments will impact the Lodi taxpayers.

The Mayor and Council, Marc Schrieks, Gary Paparozzi, and others have been nothing but secretive and dishonest about their Revaluation process. Gary Paparozzi somehow managed to make a real lot of money during from the Revaluation (besides being paid as a fake full-time Borough employee and "Planner" with a noncompetitive professional service contract).

Nancy Pelosi is So Much Like Nancy Cardone...

 

September 2025 Payroll for Lodi Borough Hall...

Link to September 15^th Payroll:

• b0eedd09-00933_Labor_Cost_Detail_20251009154554.pdf

Link to September 15^th Payroll:

• b0eedd09-00933_Labor_Cost_Detail_20251009154627.pdf

September 2025 Bills for the Lodi Mayor and Council...

Link to Bills Set 1:

• b0eedd09-0Resolution_No_25_210_September_2025_Bills__1_of_2__20251006125512.pdf

Link to Bills Set 2:

• b0eedd09-0Resolution_No_25_218_September_2025_Bills__2_of_2__20251006125913.pdf

Vinny Martin Voted to Raise Your Municipal Taxes 15.64% As He Continues to Receive a Very Special Tax Break Reserved for Lodi Politicians…

Tax records show that Vinny Martin purchased his home in 2006 for $500,000 yet George Reggo gave him a very special low assessment of $321,000. The assessment never changed over the years after many improvements were done to the property.

https://taxrecords-nj.com/pub/cgi/m4.cgi?district=0231&l02=023100174__0500019_________M

Zillow currently estimates the value at $674,000:

When Lodi’s Revaluation numbers come out, Vinny Martin’s taxes should increase at a higher amount than other Lodi homeowners.  If not, the process was corrupted like last time when family and friends of Lodi politicians had significant tax reductions without tax appeals being filed.

Instead of Vinny Martin explaining his extremely low assessment, he had an attorney send me a letter a few years ago demanding the information come down.

Vinny Martin should not be voting for 15.64% municipal taxes and lying about it when he has been saving thousands of dollars each year at your expense. 

September 2025 Payroll for the Lodi Board of Education...

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Link to September Payroll:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WkRrCqsaSgLEeCP89_7GhRl7MNYpqm8k/view?usp=sharing

The District appears to have changed its payroll format to something less detailed and more disorganized.

September 2025 Bills for the Lodi Board of Education...

 

Link to September Bills:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uNJFGand3khm8K94QGFz6MsAIkKgXGBl/view?usp=sharing

Who was staying at the Atlantic City Casinos?

September 2025 Resolutions from the Lodi Mayor and Council...

 Please download these attachments from the links below:

• b0eedd09-0Resolution_No_25_205_Adopting_2025_Budget_20251006124116.pdf
• b0eedd09-0Resolution_No_25_204_Amending_2025_Budget_20251006124116.pdf
• b0eedd09-0Resolution_No_25_206_South_Bergen_Joint_Insurance_Fund_20251006124134.pdf
• b0eedd09-0Resolution_No_25_207_Millennium_Strategies_20251006124459.pdf
• b0eedd09-0Resolution_No_25_208_Open_Space_Riverview_Park_150_000_20251006124501.pdf
• b0eedd09-0Resolution_No_25_209_PT_PD_Records_Clerk_R_Calabrese_20251006124527.pdf
• b0eedd09-0Resolution_No_25_211_Court_Administrator_Lascari_20251006125512.pdf
• b0eedd09-0Resolution_No_25_212_PT_SSO_J_Scimeca_R_McNally_20251006125512.pdf
• b0eedd09-0Resolution_No_25_213_disposal_of_FD_equipment_20251006125512.pdf
• b0eedd09-0Resolution_No_25_210_September_2025_Bills__1_of_2__20251006125512.pdf
• b0eedd09-0Resolution_No_25_215_ROK_Industries_Electronic_Tax_Sale_20251006125512.pdf
• b0eedd09-0Resolution_No_25_214_Approved_McNerney_20251006125512.pdf
• b0eedd09-0Resolution_No_25_217_Bonfire_E_Procurement_20251006125512.pdf
• b0eedd09-0Resolution_No_25_216_LEW_Lead_Inspection_Extension_20251006125512.pdf
• b0eedd09-0Resolution_No_25_218_September_2025_Bills__2_of_2__20251006125913.pdf
• b0eedd09-0Resolution_No_25_219_Recreation_Commissioners_20251006125913.pdf

In 1990, Scott Luna's Father, Bruce Masopust, and Emil Cara Raised Municipal Taxes 35% in Just One Year...

Why haven't any of our five council members learned anything from their past budget disasters?

A big part of the problem is the entire Mayor and Council consists of 4 retired Lodi employees and one current County employee- where their jobs and promotions were based on dirty Lodi politics and not merit. They are out of touch and lacking real life experience with respect to budgeting and management. They want to manage other people's tax dollars because they wouldn't be able to manage their own. They can run political campaigns and nothing else. Their actions and votes on the Lodi council would have bankrupted any private business.  They increased taxes 15.64% as they borrowed ridiculous amounts of money for basic Borough expenses.

Vinny Martin announced that he would be a business owner in 2017. It turned out that it was a cocaine and prostitution business. It didn't turn out well. That is the only business experience brought to the council chambers. And that is why your municipal taxes just increased 15.64%.

The Mayor and Council Should Be Ashamed to Show Their Faces in Lodi After Raising Municipal Taxes 15.64%. They Do a Horrible Job and then Use Your Tax Dollars to Lie About it.

How is the Mayor and Council allowed to use public funds on a letter accompanying the 2025 tax bills that doesn't mention 2025 taxes? It  was clearly self-promotion and should be an ELEC violation for it's closeness to Election Day. Mark Delmonaco voted for the 15.64% municipal tax increase and then used your tax dollars to mislead. He has a long history of dishonesty and is unfit for public office.

The Lodi Mayor and Council Held a Special Meeting on September 5th to Amend Their 2025 Introduced Budget from June. They are Showing an "Anticipated Surplus" Decreased by $5,205,000 and the "Local Tax for Municipal Purposes" Increased by $2,352,857.86...

Link to Resolution from the Lodi Mayor and Council:

https://main.govpilot.com/uuploads/EmailAttachments/6881/28855fab-6Resolution_No_25_204_Amending_2025_Budget_20250915134325.pdf

A recent letter from "Pride"(for Mark Delmonaco) shows that all five council members are incapable of understanding their own budgets and incapable of telling the truth.

"Pride" created a financial mess and they delayed their Revaluation Order for years. They are just buying time.  

Post Date: September 2025

Sign of Hypocrisy. Good Thing for Donald Scorzetti that DelMonaco's Step-Son Won't Harass and Fine Him $1000 for Pride's Sign Ordinance...

Past post on the subject:

http://lodioverhaul.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-mafia-running-borough-hall-really.html

"Vote with Pride" for Donald Scorzetti's contracts:

http://lodioverhaul.blogspot.com/2025/05/donald-scorzettis-base-salary-is-lot.html

http://lodioverhaul.blogspot.com/2025/06/opra-response-shows-that-donald.html

http://lodioverhaul.blogspot.com/2025/05/overlooked-last-week-lodi-mayor-and.html

The NJEA Has Been Openly anti-Semitic for a Very Long Time. Gottheimer and Sherill are Only Speaking Out Now Because the NJEA Was So Weak in the Governor's Primary...

Link to story:

https://newjerseyglobe.com/education/gottheimer-calls-for-firing-of-njea-magazine-editor-after-alleged-anti-semitic-violent-posts/

How Come Lodi Deputy Mayor Vinny Martin Was Treated Differently than These Strip Club Owners?

Link to news article on NJ.com:

https://www.nj.com/middlesex/2025/10/nj-strip-club-owners-sentenced-to-probation-for-running-house-of-prostitution-report-says.html

Probation seems too lenient for running a "house of prostitution" and failure to pay income tax. With that said, those listed above were charged, plead guilty, and sentenced to probation. Vinny Martin's name never even appeared in one news article where his business was busted multiple times for prostitution and illegal drug sales. 

There is a two tiered justice system in New Jersey.

Mark DelMonaco Wants You to Vote With "Pride" for His "Pride" (Big Ego and Horrible Voting Record)...

If "Pride" Was Mark DelMonaco's First Choice for Slogans, What Was the Second Choice: Vinny Martin's "Pimps and Hoes"?

Lodi deserves a better quality of people for it's Mayor and Council.

Mark Delmonaco is only running to cover up Vinny Martin's and Donald Scorzetti's abuses while adding to Pride's nepotism and conflicts.

The Pope Should Care as Much About Human Life as He Does About His Block of Ice...

Link to story with video:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/woke-pope-leo-xiv-blesses-block-ice-as/