DPW Overtime Records Tell the Truth

     The Union County Prosecutors Office assigned to the Westfield Department of Public Works theft of time investigation to Detective Colin McNamara.
     Under the supervision of Assistant Prosecutor Melissa Spagnoli, Det. McNamara conducted interviews with current and former DPW employees.
     When contacted by Detective McNamara for an interview, I met with him to answer what I thought would be questions regarding the theft of DPW time that I had exposed on this blog site.
Instead, Det. McNamara seemed more intent in trying to bait me into exposing my sources of information.  He was repeatedly told that I would not confirm or deny a source of information.  He would not be deterred.
     Det. McNamara refused to answer many of my questions, reminding me that he was conducting a criminal investigation and could not divulge investigative material he had in his possession.
When asked for evidence I had obtained, I provided him with payroll records including the payroll records of Westfield DPW supervisor Rob Kosciolek.
     Rob Kosciolek, as a supervisor, is required to clock in and clock out when working overtime only.  He is not required to clock in or out for his working shift of 7am. to 3pm.
     Posted below are Rob Kosciolek’s overtime records for 2018.  TFoTM received information from a source in late August, early September 2018 of DPW employees stealing overtime.
     Also included below are two statements from DPW employees interviewed by Attorney Stephanie Gironda from the Wilentz law firm hired by Westfield to conduct an independent investigation before ever calling the Union County Prosecutors Office.
     Note in both statements how each employee states the time of 6pm.  In fact, one stated it “emphatically” that all employees left at 6pm.  Then look at Rob Kosciolek’s overtime records.
It has been alleged that Rob Kosciolek was stealing overtime by having other employees, including subordinates, clock him out even though he had left, in some cases, hours earlier.  In some instances, an employee that lives locally, is alleged to have returned to work later in the evening to clock out a number of employees even though they left hours earlier.
Investigator Stephanie Gironda not only gets the name of a witness wrong (Elliot) but also states that Head mechanic Rich Eubanks ended his employment.  DPW records show that R. Eubanks is still employed.
The highlighted dates shown on Kosciolek’s timecard are dates and times where multiple employees all had the same time but had allegedly left work early including Frank Watkins, the employee seen in a previously posted photo holding a list of employees names and ID timecard numbers.
More to come........