There were no job postings.
There was no procurement process.
The Luna administration only considered and accepted
one proposal in 2012. Luna only received one proposal because he only sought one proposal- from his close personal friend and mentor of his daughter. The one proposal came from Charles
Cuccia’s Treasury Services LLC which was just formed for the sole purpose of
cashing in on Lodi. It was a way to pay
Tony Luna’s daughter as Treasurer through an LLC because she was not qualified
to be Treasurer at the time. It was a way
to pay Charles Cuccia’s wife to do his job because he was too busy in Saddle River
and everywhere else at the time.
It's amazing to see the revisionist history 11 year
later.
I attended every council meeting in 2012. Tony Luna was the lead on the matter. The Lodi mayor and council argued that they
did not have to post hirings (Charles Cuccia and Sherri Luna) and other public
information provided by other towns because in Lodi’s form of government the
Manager, Tony Luna, was responsible. Never
once did Tony Luna state that he was recusing himself when the subject came up. In 2012, he wouldn’t even disclose that his
daughter was being paid by Lodi.
For current paid Lodi employees/contractors Marc Schrieks,
Alan Spiniello and Frank DiMaria, if Tony Luna was not involved in the awarding
of the contract and the hiring of his daughter, the matter can easily be
settled right now. All you have to do is
produce one audio tape from any meeting where Tony Luna recused himself in any manner
in which either of you testified under oath.
I attended every regular meeting at the time and many work
sessions. It never happened. If it happened during at any closed session,
that is not confidential and should be made public.
