Link to June Payroll:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NFyXKhqlfqw44at-t_xkuY4GORlZ65mO/view?usp=sharing
Sunday, July 20, 2025
June 2025 Payroll for the Lodi Board of Education...
It is a Misuse of Public Funds for any Board of Education to Use Local Tax Dollars on a Public Relations Firm to Promotes Themselves, Their Administration, Referendums or any Other Election Matters.
For years, good government advocates throughout New Jersey have been arguing that BOEs should not have the ability to use local tax dollars on Public Relation firms to sell referendum votes or any Election related matters.
Laura Bishop boasts about helping districts pass high-cost
referendums. She is using the taxpayer’s own money to work against their financial interests if they do not fall on one side of a ballot vote. Voting is a personal issue, and nobody should
have to pay taxes for only one side of an issue to be represented.
This week a high-cost mailer was sent to every Lodi
household from the Lodi Board of Education with a picture of Nancy Cardone on
the cover.
I didn’t comment on the issue until I began receiving
many emails and texts from Lodi taxpayers asking me how much the mailer cost. It was a nice mailer, but many taxpayers questioned
its cost and purpose for the following reasons:
Why couldn’t a Lodi High School Club produce a good news
publication for the district website and sent home in school?
What is the Lodi Board of Education selling with this Public
Relations mailer? In New Jersey,
government run schools are a monopoly. Families
without the financial means for private school are trapped in failing public
schools. Some Lodi families have the
option for Charter schools, but room is limited.
How much was the total cost for the PR mailer and what was it selling? Is it a precursor to a referendum campaign? There must be total transparency for any public body to use local tax dollars on any Public Relations.
It is in Nancy Cardone’s interest to use public tax
dollars on a PR firm to talk about only positives when there are many
negatives. Laura Bishop will never use
our tax dollars to publish spending charts, budgets, test scores or Nancy
Cardone’s outrageous nepotism abuses.
Sunday, July 13, 2025
June 2025 Payroll for Lodi Borough Hall...
Link to June 13th Payroll:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17LmoLUg4BAgYIwsM4wQqNRXiLnVtuFcj/view?usp=sharing
Link to June 30th Payroll:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ti1tWzuA1vXctq8QGQiqtArIn5gK7760/view?usp=sharing
Monday, July 7, 2025
OPRA Response from the Lodi Police Department Shows that the Lodi Mayor and Council Violated N.J.S.A. 11A: 4-1.3 by Not Passing an Anti-Nepotism Resolution or Ordinance for Police Hiring. Donald Scorzetti Had a Clear Conflict of Interest with His Weak "General Orders".
Below is the Anti-Nepotism document I received today. It does not meet the requirements set forth by Statute. With that said, Lodi Deputy Mayor Vincent Martin violated this order with his son being hired by Lodi during his term. Vinny Martin can say all he likes that his son is a transfer from Bergen County. The Lodi Mayor and Council hired his son during his term and that is not disputable. Vinny Martin should have resigned prior to the hiring.
Lodi Deputy Mayor Vincent Martin Has Not Been Honest with the Residents of Lodi About His Involvement with the Charges Listed Below. These Proceedings Were All Taking Place While He was Lodi Deputy Mayor. He Was Never Mentioned in One News Story and No State Agency Informed the Residents of Lodi. If the State Was Revoking His License, He Was Not Fit to Serve on Our Council.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dARLs_lIV8H5co1tX0hr9ILyKyzT8tq9/view?usp=sharing
During the years of violations and proceedings, Vinny Martin was listed as 50% owner and Managing Member of See Entertainment.
Friday, July 4, 2025
Why Did I Have to Submit an OPRA Request to Dominic Miller for the Lodi Police Department's Required Anti-Nepotism and Conflict of Interest Policies When that Information is Readily Available On-Line for Other Towns Hiring Without a Competitive Civil Service Exam? Just More Unchecked Power and Authority for Donald Scorzetti Who Has Violated All Public Trust.
Wood-Ridge: Ordinance-2025-2-Police-Hiring-Policy-Draft-Ord-2025-3-First-Read.pdf
Lincoln Park: 2-22-Ordinance-Amending-Chapter-99-Police-Department---Nepotism
Vinny Martin Should Explain Why His Employment with Bergen County Juvenile Detention Ended the Same Time that His Business Was All Over the News for Being Busted the Second Time.
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Below is Vinny Martin's Linkedin timeline of employment:
That November 2022 timing is really some coincidence.
Vinny Martin's LinkedIn also shows 11 months of "retirement" after he left his Bergen County employment. In that time period, Vinny Martin had a Secaucus attorney send me a letter about my blog, stating that it could cause "loss of business opportunities".
Vinny Martin is an elected public figure and is not exempt from public scrutiny. It is time that he begins answering for his record instead of resorting to childish insults.
Thursday, July 3, 2025
OPRA Response Shows that Donald Scorzetti is Being Paid Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars for "Sick Days" and "Vacation Days" with No Attendance Records, No Defined Workday or Workweek, No Vouchers, No Signatures, No Boss, No Audit, etc. This Calls for An Immediate Investigation. Those Involved Must be Held Accountable. Public Funds Must Be Recouped.
Lodi Police Thief Donald Scorzetti
Clear
Takeaways from Today’s OPRA Response
Donald Scorzetti is being paid hundreds of thousands of
dollars for “unused” sick days and vacation days without producing any
attendance records to support those payments.
Scorzetti is being paid hundreds of thousands of
dollars for sick days and vacation days when he has no defined workday or
workweek. The language in Scorzetti’s
contract would make him ineligible for additional payments for sick days and
vacation days. Article 4 invalidates payments listed in Article 5 and Article 8. The Lodi Mayor and Council
approved Scorzetti’s contract with this wording:
Scorzetti just casually shoots Deborah
Kaiser an email requesting any amount he would like at any given time with no
questions asked:
Lodi Borough Manager, Marc Schrieks, is not reviewing
any attendance records, vouchers etc. from Scorzetti before payments are
issued. He is not signing anything.
Lodi CFO, Sheryl Luna (the Mayor’s sister) is not reviewing
any attendance records, vouchers etc. from Scorzetti before payments are
issued. She is not signing anything.
Lodi Borough Auditor, Frank DiMaria, is not flagging this abuse and recommending a corrective action on any of his annual audits.
Lodi Borough Attorney, Alan Spiniello, is present with the Lodi Mayor and Council as they approve Scorzetti’s contract. He likely drew it up.
Scorzetti cannot claim ignorance, sloppiness, or incompetence with his request for additional payments without having any attendance records. He was running for the BOE with Dominic Miller when the whole controversy over Ciofalo’s attendance records was very public. Scorzetti knows that law requires public employee attendance records be made public upon request.
All members of the Lodi mayor and council are accomplices
to this theft of public funds. They approved Scorzetti’s contracts. They approve the retirement payouts. They clearly read this blog which posts the monthly
payroll.
The Lodi Mayor and Council put every member in place
that allows Scorzetti to be his own boss, make his own rules, decide his own
pay, and answer to no one ever.
For years, I told residents of Lodi that Donald
Scorzetti could not keep attendance reports because he was being paid for sick days and vacation days when the Lodi mayor and council never defined his workday or
workweek. Nobody believed me that attendance
records could not exist for a public employee or that additional payments can
be made with no supporting documentation.
The current situation going on with Scorzetti, Scott
Luna, Vincent Martin, Emil Carafa, Bruce Masopust and the aforementioned employees
is worse than you can ever imagine.
I am posting the entire OPRA response I received today
so everyone can see for themselves what Donald Scorzetti is doing and getting
away with. It speaks for itself. Click on the three blue links all the way at
the bottom to see the only public records provided in the OPRA response.
Borough of Lodi
Open Public Records Act Request
Reference # OPRA-2025-00279
Dear Ryan Curioni,
This email is to notify you that your
request has been fulfilled. Please find attached the records requested.
The request sought access to the
following:
On the May 30, 2025, Borough Payroll,
Donald Scorzetti received a second payment of $10,458.15 for `VACATION`. I am
requesting:
1) A copy Donald Scorzetti`s detailed attendance records for the
time period corresponding to that $10,458.15 payment.
2) A copy of the calculation form arriving at that $10,458.15
amount.
3) A copy of any vouchers submitted by Donald Scorzetti for that
$10,458.15 payment.
4) A copy of any memo, email, etc. from any Department Head
directing whoever is in charge of Payroll to make that $10,458.15 payment.
Address:
Block:
Lot:
Qual:
Your request was responded to by the
following:
|
Department |
Response |
|
Payroll |
1.) No record responsive
to request |
Please mail any payments or
correspondence to:
Borough of Lodi
1 Memorial Drive
Lodi, NJ 07644
This is an automated email, please do
not reply as this email is not monitored.
Sincerely,
Rebecca Paladino, RMC
Custodian of Records
Please download these attachments from
the links below:
- c6e511c6-d2025085139_Calculation.pdf
- c6e511c6-d2025085353_Request_Email.pdf
- c6e511c6-d2025085542_Article_8_of_Contract.pdf
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Lodi Borough Attorney Alan Spinielllo Has the Same Pay Arrangement as Lakewood's Board Attorney. How Does He Get Away With It? How Come it Never Made the News?
Link to post about Alan Spiniello's corrupt arrangement:
http://lodioverhaul.blogspot.com/2023/03/how-does-lodi-mayor-and-council-get.html
Monday, June 30, 2025
Vinny Martin is a Degenerate Involved with Prostitution and Cocaine Businesses. He Has Some Audacity Lecturing Others.
Prostitution destroys lives and families.
People that make money killing others are the lowest form of human life.
Vinny Martin has no respect for the law. Worse, he has no respect for human life.
Vinny Martin needs to look in the mirror before he lectures others.
Tomorrow, Scott Luna, Emil Carafa, Bruce Masopust, and Mark Delmonaco are going to vote someone involved in cocaine and prostitution to be Lodi's "Deputy Mayor". They are also going to violate civil service regulations by hiring Vinny Martin's son as Lodi Police Officer (they were required to pass an Anti-Nepotism policy for the Lodi Police Department).
Apparently, all members of the Lodi Mayor and Council are one and the same because they want Vinny Martin to represent them and speak for them.
There is the saying, "government should be run like a business". For the Lodi Mayor and Council, "government is run like Vinny Martin's business." Click on link below for more information:
http://lodioverhaul.blogspot.com/search?q=Martin+strip
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Sunday, June 29, 2025
More Vinny Martin Nepotism on the July 1st Agenda. Where is the Lodi Police Department's Anti-Nepotism Policy?
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Link to the July 1st agenda:
Other Police Departments have Anti-Nepotism policies prohibiting the hiring of immediate family members of the Mayor and Council. How is Lodi and Vinny Martin getting away with this?
Donald Scorzetti is being overpaid to serve and protect Nepotism.
Vinny Martin acknowledged in court that he voted with a conflict of interest to make Donald Scorzetti the Lodi Police Chief. Now everyone could clearly see Vinny Martin's self-serving motives (if there ever was any doubt).
Vinny Martin and Donald Scorzetti have no shame. They use public office for the sole purpose to enrich themselves and family members.
How have these unfair hiring practices by Vinny Martin and Donald Scorzetti not drawn lawsuits?
Is there any qualified police applicant that was denied employment in Lodi because of the Nepotism carried out Vinny Martin and Donald Scorzetti?
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