Florida Senator Val Demings, a 24 year law enforcement officer, addresses the Senate during the Trump impeachment hearing. Demings states that no one is immune to prosecution for using the official powers of their office to cover up crimes and misdeeds.
Someone needs to tell Senator Demings that disgraced Westfield Police Chief David Wayman is immune to criminal charges thanks to the Union County Prosecutor and Westfield Town officials.
Watch the 35 second video, towards the end she mentions sheriffs and police chiefs.
Wayman orchestrated a coverup of his own hit and run accident with Leonard Lugo authoring the bogus report in 2018.
Wayman’s thefts from the Westfield Police Department property room weren’t prosecuted. One has to wonder why.
The coverup was exposed by The Fact of The Matter.
There is a 7 year statute of limitation for “official misconduct.”
See video: tap on link
https://youtu.be/3o6ZZ2BKwLw
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| Disgraced Police Chief David Wayman (left) & Demoted Sergeant Leonard Lugo (right) |
Why is it that the proponents of transparency and honesty in government are the first to require confidentiality in the severance of employees they want to fire. Why do these same proponents of the new Progressive politicians end up looking like the politicians from whom they took power.
ReplyDeleteIf the present administration would pass an ordinance barring all future "requests" for confidentiality and bind the Town to refuse any contract requiring silence and to reject all prior confidentiality clauses, it might meet the image of openness and transparency it painted prior to winning.
The confidentiality the Town demanded and got from Ms.Cronin and Mr.Wayman is disgraceful and should be an albatross around its neck.
It would have been nice if the Republicans had screamed about this at the last election but they are as, or more, guilty than their successors in secrecy.
Congratulations Mayor and Council, you may hang hearts on your fences to pander to the liberal chic, but you are devious politicians like your predecessors.
The mayor claims personnel matters are exempt from public discussion or reveal. She is complicit in the coverup.
ReplyDeletePersonal matters involving the Police are governed by the Attorney General's Guidelines.That involves the handling of internal affairs complaints and criminal charges against a policeman.
ReplyDeleteThe remainder of the employees of Westfield have some union protections about publicity.
The Town is completely free to pass an ordinance which waives, on behalf of the Town, all confidentiality in every contract. If the other(s) party wants to continue secrecy, there is nothing the Town can do.
Nothing stops the Town from passing an ordinance prohibiting the Town from seeking or accepting any confidentiality clauses in the future. That would go far in fulfilling the claims of openness and transparency each of the members of the Council, and the Mayor, espoused as candidates before they won and suffered amnesia.
Everyone should realize that the firing of Ms.Cronin was clothed in confidentiality because the Mayor and Council wanted it that way. They did not want the taxpayer to know how much it was costing to get rid of one employee while hiring another to replace her. The Town wanted to make it seem that the DWC fired her.
The confidentiality surrounding the Wayman "retirement", hides the fact that the administration would rather hide the facts of the corruption uncovered than face the truth about how that man got his job and how he kept it. Now the Town has saddled the PD with cops in positions of seniority who have a hard time taking the witness stand. Can you imagine one or two, under oath,being asked if ALL their police reports were true?
How does the Town expect them to discipline patrolman? Each can truthfully say "Well, you got away with it". What do you think goes through the mind of a new cop being instructed on police reports by one of Wayman's abbettors? How serious do you think the recruits will consider the security of the Evidence Locker.
So much for the Mayor's protests.
There were two coverups:
ReplyDelete1. Wayman’s orchestrated coverup of his own hit and run accident.
2. The towns coverup of Wayman’s departure and failure to seek criminal charges for his alleged crimes including, but not limited to, official misconduct, theft, filing a false police report, lying under oath.
Its amazing how Wayman has been renting space in some of your heads for free all these years...get over it and move on. Many of you, starting with this blog's Admin are in no position to cry about cover-ups and nepotism within the ranks of the law enforcement agency to which you were the source of a cover -up and "scandal" that cost the taxpayers dearly.
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteInteresting comment with no proof to back it up.
DeleteWayman belongs in jail for the thefts that he was involved with at police headquarters.
The only space Wayman should be renting on the dime of the taxpayers is in a 6x9 with 3 hots and a cot.
Want to talk about selective enforcement, start with the Union County cop indicted and found guilty of theft in the amount of $650. He got 3 years in prison.
That’s equivalent to the tip of Wayman’s proverbial iceberg of theft, cover ups, and official misconduct.
What seems to be overlooked by so many is not the obvious culprit, it is the people who compound the initial wrong by covering it up and leaving the residue for others.
ReplyDeleteThe Prosecutor was provided with documentation of a hit and run by a police chief. The Prosecutor was further shown that a patrolman was ordered to lie and two high ranking policemen wrote illegal reports. The Prosecutor did nothing.WHY?
After the Town reported the original matter to the Prosecutor, and after the Prosecutor returned the matter to the Town, the latter had full knowledge of the original charge and had been given further video evidence of thefts from the Evidence Locker. The Town did nothing but agree to Confidentiality between it and the original offender. The author of the phony report was demoted one rank without any further restrictions. The co-signing officer received no known reprimand.
Consider the requirements that no officer can file a false report, has a positive duty to come forward with his knowledge, and further must report any superior's order to forget what he saw.
Forget the original offender. What do you think should be done to the people in office who join in the cover-up?
Perhaps the same as the person who did nothing more than his obligated responsibility.
ReplyDeleteReward them with cushy jobs!!
Wayman the thief belongs behind bars. How can a police chief caught covering up his accident, coercing another cop to lie, and stealing from the departments property room be able to retire with a pension and not be in jail?
ReplyDeleteBecause no one else cares any more than you nimrods!
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