August 14, 2018- Many saw the Joe Licata commercial on cable television with
a clear focus on Joe Licata rather than the club itself.
Joe Licata also recently appeared with Steve Adubato to discuss the opending of the Teaneck Boys & Girls Club (shut down shortly after the costly commercials).
This
is an orchestrated effort by Joe Licata to self-promote and rehabilitate his
image after he has come under fire from watchdogs and community activists from
multiple communities.
Joe Licata left the Lodi Board of Ed in complete
disgrace. He resigned just months after
the School Ethics Commission found probable cause for serious violations (the
complaint centered on Licata and Ciofalo).
Licata resigned just months after he was caught intentionally lying
about the engineer’s reports pertaining to Lincoln School. Licata tried to rush the demolition of the
administration building and saddle Lodi taxpayers with an $8M bill on his way
out the door.
Joe Licata, Mike Nardino, and Jamie Ciofalo were
exposed years ago for using Lodi Drug Alliance money as their own slush
fund. Licata paid himself thousands of
dollars with drug alliance funds (“consulting fees”) for work he couldn’t
produce. Jamie Ciofalo used drug alliance
funds to purchase software in which he had a financial interest. Mike Nardino couldn’t
produce any minutes of Drug Alliance meetings or even name the members of the
Drug Alliance when these abuses were occurring.
All three are now off the Lodi
Municipal Alliance.
The Boys and Girls Club receives a lot of public
funding. As of a few years ago, the Lodi
Mayor and Council was turning over $60,000 (Lodi tax dollars) annually to the
Club. Joe Licata’s mother sits on the Lodi council. The money was supposedly for “rentals” but Borough
Hall could not produce a list of rental dates or causes. While the Club was receiving that substantial
amount of public funding, the Licatas and Mike Nardino refused to open the Club’s
financials to the public. They actually
stated their refusal at a council meeting.
If you can’t open up your books
to the public while receiving public funding, you must have something to hide.
The Boys and Girls Club should be free of self-serving politicians with long track records of corrupting local government.
Post Date: August 14, 2018
Post Date: August 14, 2018
