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:
Contractually, Donald Scorzetti can spend every day at
his shore house if he deems the department is run smoothly as a result. However,
he cannot receive additional payments for workdays not rendered.
Scorzetti just casually shoots Deborah
Kaiser an email requesting any amount he would like at any given time with no
questions asked:
Scorzetti is not submitting vouchers for additional
payments to be reviewed and signed from those that you would most expect.
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:
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Department
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Response
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Payroll
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1.) No record responsive
to request
2.) See attached `Calculation`
3.) No record responsive to request
4.) See attached `Request Email` and `Article 8 of Contract`
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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:
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