Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Delmonaco, Masopust, Carafa, and Luna Voted to Hire Vinny Martin's Son Without Ever Passing a Required Anti-Nepotism Resolution/Ordinance for the Lodi Police Department. Calling Him a "Transfer" is Not a Substitute for Their Noncompliance and Does Not Change Their Nepotism Violation. (Post Date: July 13, 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". (Post Date: July 7, 2025)
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.
Sunday, July 27, 2025
Scott Luna is Employed by Bergen County. ELEC Shows that He and "LODI PRIDE" Continue Making Campaign Contributions to the Bergen County Democrat Committee and James Tedesco Without Lodi Pride Filing any Reports and the Required Employer Information.
On-line public payroll sites are a year or two behind. Scott Luna is making more for 2025.Last month, the Democratic Committee of Bergen County
shows it received $1,050 from “LODI PRIDE”.
No employer information/occupation is listed. Scott Luna’s home address is listed.
Last month, James Tedesco shows he received $300 from “LODI PRIDE”. No employer information/occupation is listed. 600 Hamilton Ave is listed as the contributor’s address. The address doesn't exist.
Scott Luna and “LODI PRIDE” are required to file
reports for their active campaign account. They have not filed a report since
May 9, 2023 where they only show money they took from Alan Spiniello and two
others.
Scott Luna is employed by Bergen County. He should be transparent with the public and
follow the law when he contributes money to his boss and the political patronage
committee responsible for his employment.
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Being the Lodi Mayor & Council Pay their Political Police Chiefs HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of Lodi Tax Dollars at Retirement, These Special Payments to Donald Scorzetti on May 30th Must be Investigated (Post Date: June 6, 2021)
Just for one two week period in May, Donald Scorzetti was paid $41,018.17. Vacation pay: $16,883.20. Sick pay: $12,175.20. Retro pay: $3,165.84.
The Lodi mayor and council pay hundreds of thousands of Lodi tax dollars to their political chiefs at the time of their supposed retirements.
You can look at years of borough payroll on this blog. These types of payments to a chief prior to retirement are a new trend. Why? Vincent Caruso, Donald Scorzetti, the Lodi Mayor and Council need to explain themselves.
ProPublica has recently done reports on compensation for Lodi police chiefs. This likely is an attempt by Caruso and Scorzetti to hide their outrageous compensation from government watchdogs.
Also, how can Scorzetti be compensated for vacation and sick days? He has no defined workday or work week. He is usually at his home in Toms River with the Borough’s expensive Chevy Tahoe.
Lodi is Spotlighted in A State Commission of Investigation Report (Post Date: February 19, 2020)
Link to SCI report:
The Lodi Mayor and Council and its administrations
have ignored SCI recommendations for twenty years.
The Lodi Mayor and Council and its administrations
have disregarded the State’s recommended “Best Practices” for ten years.
Not only does Lodi ignore the recommendations, it
seeks innovative ways to circumvent laws.
Borough Manager Vincent Caruso was very disingenuous with
his comments to the reporters pertaining to the SCI report.
Words without actions amount to absolutely
nothing. The State issues reports and
pretends to be doing something. In
reality, the State has failed the taxpayers of Lodi miserably by allowing the Lodi
politicians to violate everything and never holding anyone accountable.
Sunday, July 20, 2025
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
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