No employee is required to respond to a request for an interview unless the appearance is required by subpoena.
No employee is required to answer any question asked by any investigator, whether civilian or law enforcement, unless they are presented with a subpoena to appear before a duly constituted body recognized under the law.
Lawyer Stephanie Gironda submitted a report to Town Administrator Jim Gildea that found “no wrongdoing” regarding the allegation of theft of overtime at the DPW by multiple employees.
Town officials have stated that a thorough investigation was conducted despite the lack of sworn statements, the time period of when the alleged thefts occurred was never investigated, and the Gironda Report had multiple errors including misspelled names, and evidence reviewed.
The findings of the report aren’t worth the value of the paper on which it is written but yet town officials approved bills totaling over $4000 paid to Stephanie Gironda’s Wilentz law firm for investigative services.
The lack of sworn statements by DPW employees that were interviewed, invalidates the report findings.
When will a reputable law enforcement agency conduct a thorough investigation?
File a civil suit against the town for the theft since tax dollars were used to pay the employees.
ReplyDeleteThe DPW employee who filed the grievance if he/she REALLY wants the TRUTH to come out they need to contact the Courier News, Star Ledger and other News outlets like Channel 2,4 7 and 11 to tell their story. You want to see action, you would see action IMMEDIATELY. Why in this day and age people are NOT just speaking publicly i do not understand. You are not going to lose your job you have a Union contract by which to stand behind and protect you. These Supervisors and Department Heads and your own Union Rep's who were involved need to be held accountable, they were not just STEALING from the Town and the Tax payers but they were Stealing from YOU the employee who has filed the Grievance and the other DPW employee's who may/should have gotten that Overtime. This is what UNIONS were developed for, "to protect the workers" if wrong doing's were happening. It is very clear from reading all of the comments that not ONLY the DPW employee who filed the grievance knows what was going on but so do MANY other DPW employee's, you ALL need to stand UNITED and SPEAK UP!!!
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