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From: vcaruso103@
To: rcurioni@
Sent: Wednesday, August 29th 2018, 08:28 AM
Subject: Blog Entry 08-28-2018
Ryan:
First, I
take personal offense to you stating on your blog that I “knowingly lied” on
the Best Practices Questionnaire. You should do your research a little better
before posting defamatory and non-factual information. The one thing I will not
tolerate is to be labeled unfairly by you or anyone else as a liar!
The question
pertaining to the personal use of vehicles in the best practices questionnaire
specifically cites “criteria specified by the IRS,” which in this case you are
questioning the use of Chief Scorzetti’s vehicle, check the IRS Code which they
are talking about, “Working Condition Fringes” 1.137-5 and 1.274.5. It clearly
states that law enforcement vehicles, marked or unmarked are "qualified
non-personal use” vehicles. Additionally, you have the contract where it
clearly spells out that the Chief of Police can use the vehicle for personal
use, thereby authorizing as per the code and questionnaire. So the answer to
the question is yes, it’s an exception and not a lie.
I’m sure you
won’t correct that on your blog. Second, your other comment concerning “taking
a shot at you” after the Record reporter quoted one word (that was not even
said, I might add) is ridiculous. She didn’t even write the context of a
sentence when making the quote or write what the question was surrounding my
miss-quoted response. The actual question was concerning back-pay and had
nothing to do with you or an “exploit” of anything.
The only
person taking “shots” is clearly you and I have been dealing with it for years
and letting it go. It’s okay for you to take shots at people on a daily basis,
but if someone takes a so-called shot at you…you attack them? As I once said to
you long ago, I have always demonstrated the utmost respect for your father and
family, yet you continue to take unfair shots at me. It’s funny how those who
are friendly with you, patronize your families business or are related to you,
never have a “shot” taken at them, especially those same persons that have more
than enough “shots” to be taken. Clearly, it seems to be a selective and
personal attack as well as a long pattern of harassment that you have enjoyed
for many years at the expense of many people.
This email
is the second time that I have told you to please stop. The email is a personal
communication directly to you, and I do not authorize you or anyone else to
post any of its direct content on your blog or Internet.
Enough
is enough already!
Vincent
Caruso
From: ryan curioni
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 10:32 AM
To: Vincent J Caruso
Subject: RE: Blog Entry 08-28-2018
Mr. Caruso,
The question
is straightforward. The reference to the IRS only applied to the part of
question pertaining to commuting to and from work. The Borough
clearly has not adopted a written policy prohibiting unlimited personal use of
municipal vehicles except for commuting.
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"Has
your municipality adopted a written vehicle use policy prohibiting personal
use of municipal vehicles (except for commuting), and providing that
employees authorized to use such vehicles for commuting to/from work
have a fringe benefit value added to the gross income reported on the
employee's W-2 (unless the vehicle meets the "qualified non-personal
vehicle" criteria specified by the IRS)? Only answer
"N/A" if your municipality does not have any municipally-owned
vehicles." |
Please refer
to the IRS link below, pages 60-61:
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p5137.pdf
From page
61:
"Personal use must be incident to use for law-enforcement purposes; i.e., no vacation or recreational use."
Although the
link I attached shows the year 2014, recent publications from the IRS
direct readers to that link.
Criteria has
to be met for law enforcement vehicles, marked and unmarked, to be designated
"qualified non personal use". That criteria has not been met if
Mr. Scorzetti is driving family and friends outside the jurisdiction of Lodi
for non-work related use.
The Best
Practices Questionnaire from October 2017 has at least three other questions that
were answered dishonestly besides the question about personal use of municipal
vehicles.
http://lodioverhaul.blogspot.com/2017/10/lodis-best-practices-inventory-is.html
I am only
trying to keep government honest. I believe the response by you and Vinny
Martin during the Scorzetti court case show that the two of you are making it
personal.
If you ever
want me to post any rebuttal or explanation from you or anyone else mentioned
on the blog, just email it to me and I will post it.
Ryan Curioni
