Sunday, February 8, 2026

Just Months After the Mayor and Council Showed that Donald Scorzetti Has NO ATTENDANCE RECORDS or Anyone from the Borough Reviewing or Signing off on His Additional Payments, Scorzetti Received Additional Payments of $32,630.40 for "VACATION" and $20,916.80 for "SICK PAY" on January 30, 2026...

How much is Donald Scorzetti going to steal in plain sight as municipal taxes increase 16%?

Reminder that the Lodi Mayor and Council pay their chiefs hundreds of thousands at retirement for "unused days".


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OPRA Response Shows that Donald Scorzetti is Being Paid Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars for "Sick Days" and "Vacation Days" with No Attendance Records, No Defined Workday or Workweek, No Vouchers, No Signatures, No Boss, No Audit, etc. This Calls for An Immediate Investigation. Those Involved Must be Held Accountable. Public Funds Must Be Recouped. (Post Date: June 12, 2025)

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.

 

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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:

Department

Response

Payroll

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`

 

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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Donald Scorzetti Should Publicly Disclose All of His Personal Conflicts of Interest With Those He Hired to Work in the Lodi Police Department Under His Supervision Within the Last Year…

Lodi residents were told that Donald Scorzetti did away with the entry level police exam so he can give preference to Lodi residents.

Lodi residents learned that the Lodi Mayor and Council never adopted the required anti-nepotism and conflict of interest policies once they eliminated the entry level police exam requirement.

Lodi residents are being told that Donald Scorzetti hired his nephew and his daughter’s boyfriend within the last year (Things that should have been addressed by anti-nepotism and conflict of interest policies.  Also, by residency preference policies.).

Lodi residents are being told that many qualified Lodi applicants have been denied employment opportunity within the Lodi police department during the same time period that Donald Scorzdetti was hiring his family.

Donald Scorzetti’s unfair hiring practices and nepotism abuses are openly inviting a lawsuit by applicants denied fair employment opportunities.

Donald Scorzetti should explain what his defense would be if a lawsuit were brought against the Borough for his unfair hiring practices. 

How much more is the Lodi Mayor and Council willing to confiscate from the Lodi taxpayers to defend Donald Scorzetti's unfair hiring practices?



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January 2026 Payroll for Lodi Borough Hall...

 

Link to January 15th Payroll:

Link to January 30th Payroll:



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January 2026 Bills for the Lodi Mayor and Council...


Link to January Bills:





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January 2026 Resolutions Approved by the Lodi Mayor and Council...

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The Municipal Budget Was Off by Millions and the Public Clearly Sees All the Illegal Payments and Bad Practices. What is Frank DiMaria Actually Auditing or Doing for this Big Payment on the January Bills?

 


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