Sunday, July 26, 2026

Joseph Lagana, a Managing Partner in the Mattthew Giacobbe Firm, Continues to Use His Campaign Account to Purchase Public Contracts While Skirting Individual Pay-to-Play Laws…

Link to Lagana’s most recent ELEC report:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iNS0-hmW8aYn96A2SuvXkbBf_aLZC8EU/view?usp=sharing

Lagana’s most recent ELEC report shows him making large campaign contributions to candidates throughout New Jersey outside of his legislative district.  The contributions are not campaign related where they are not paying for a service- fundraising venue, mailers, commercials, other advertisements etc. 

The campaign contributions are directly used to for “Cleary Giacobbe” to purchase public contracts without adhering to reporting requirements and thresholds for individual contributors. 

Below, you can take any one of Lagana’s campaign contributions to an out of district candidate a then see how “Cleary Giacobbe” receives a noncompetitive public contract in return.

Newark

Paterson

Bayonne

Bloomfield