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>Ridgewood resident and Deputy chief juggled two jobs

SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2011
BY JEAN RIMBACH
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD

For nearly three years, Fairview Police Chief Frank DelVecchio moonlighted as a top executive for a Morris County start-up, traveling around the country to tout the company’s new child-safety device and rising to become its $250,000-a-year CEO.

Today, the Rockaway Township offices of the business once known as AMBER Ready Inc. are shuttered and its founder is under state indictment on theft charges. Federal authorities have questioned former employees, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office has subpoenaed its investment bank for documents.

DelVecchio, who was Fairview’s deputy chief during his time with AMBER Ready, has little to say about the business — which sold a wireless technology designed to aid in the recovery of missing kids — or how he juggled his role as a high-ranking public servant with the demands of running a company that was trying to go public.

“I’m no longer affiliated with the company so I really don’t care to comment,” said DelVecchio, who said he resigned his position in November.

But when asked during a deposition last year if his job with AMBER Ready was full time, he responded: “It seems as full time as anything else.”

During his employment with AMBER Ready, the 42-year-old Ridgewood resident attended board meetings, pitched the product on both coasts, filmed a commercial and took part in a celebrity-studded Times Square promotional event that spanned three days and cost an estimated $2 million.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/125282388_Deputy_chief_juggled_two_jobs.html

>House asks: Did Obama’s auto bailout chief say, ‘I did this all for the unions’
By: Byron York | Chief Political Correspondent Follow Him @ByronYork | 07/08/11 11:05 AM

Investigators for the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform are asking the White House official who oversaw the government bailouts of General Motors and Chrysler whether he told the truth in recent testimony before the committee.  Ron Bloom, Assistant to the President for Manufacturing Policy, is quoted in a 2009 newspaper account and a 2010 book saying of the auto bailouts that he “did this all for the unions.”  But when Bloom appeared before the committee on June 22, he flatly denied ever saying those words.  Other White House officials have reportedly defended Bloom by suggesting that he did indeed say those words but was joking.  And that has led committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa to ask what is going on.

https://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/07/house-asks-did-obamas-auto-bailout-chief-say-i-did-all-unions

>NC creates new US history class focusing on ‘founding principles’
By Daniel Wiser | The Daily Tar Heel
Updated: 07/06/11 12:48pm

High school students across the state can look forward to spending more quality time with America’s Founding Fathers. In fact, they won’t be able to graduate without doing so.

A bill signed into law by Gov. Bev Perdue last week, known as “The Founding Principles Act,” requires local school boards to develop a semester course focused on the founding philosophy of the U.S. government by the 2014-2015 school year.

https://www.dailytarheel.com/index.php/article/2011/06/nc_creates_new_us_history_class_focusing_on_founding_principles

>New York Times Correction
Published: July 8, 2011

FRONT PAGE

A caption on Tuesday about the 101st Fourth of July parade in Ridgewood, N.J., misidentified the boy shown dressing up to play the role of President Obama and misspelled the given name of the boy’s father, shown helping him. The boy is Aaron Ly, 9 — not his brother Baba, 8, who is partially shown at the bottom right, and who shared the role. Their father is Mamadou Ly, not Amadou. And because of an editing error, a caption in some editions for additional pictures of Fourth of July celebrations referred incorrectly to the Franklin Band, which performed at the Ridgewood parade. The band is from Franklin, N.J., not Ridgewood, and it is not affiliated with Benjamin Franklin Middle School.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/09/pageoneplus/corrections.html?_r=1

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>Ridgewood Planning Board votes to rezone Route 17 property
Thursday, July 7, 2011
BY KELLY EBBELS
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News

Ridgewood may soon see a new stretch of land on Route 17 south with commercial properties on it, after the Planning Board voted on Tuesday to amend the village’s Master Plan to rezone the land from residential to commercial.

The 2-acre property near the intersection of Paramus Road and Linwood Avenue is owned by Malvern Burroughs, who, with his attorney, Thomas Wells, has come forward several times in the past year to attempt to convince the board to rezone the land.

Wells said he and his client were “very pleased” with the board’s decision.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/125142094_Ridgewood_Planning_Board_votes_to_rezone_Route_17_property_.html

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LINKER: AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS SUPPORTED BY BOB MENENDEZ WILL DESTROY MORE AMERICAN JOBS

(Ridgewood, NJ): Today, conservative Republican U.S. Senate candidate from New Jersey Ian Linker again blasted Sen. Robert Menendez’s (D-NJ) sponsorship of legislation that grants amnesty to illegal aliens.  If this new legislation passes, it would grant amnesty to 11 million illegal immigrants.

“New Jersey has a real illegal immigration problem. With 550,000 illegal aliens in New Jersey, we have the fifth highest illegal immigrant population among the states and the third largest number of illegal immigrants in the work force,” Linker said.

“Put simply, illegal aliens take jobs away from New Jerseyans who are here legally creating higher unemployment. Granting illegals amnesty as Bob Menendez proposes will cost hardworking Americans dearly. With 9.1% unemployment nationally and 9.4% unemployment in the Garden State, granting illegals amnesty will put more Americans and New Jerseyans out of work.”

“What we see from Menendez on illegal immigration is at least consistent with his views on other issues. Menendez and his Democratic colleagues will continue to bury their heads in the sand on jobs and kick our economic problems down the road just to further their progressive job-killing agenda,” Linker added.

“We need real leadership and courage on immigration reform. This is where Bob Menendez’s proposals fall short – way short. Real reform starts with enforcing the laws we currently have on the books. We then need to secure our borders. We need to hold employers to account for employing illegal immigrants and should encourage all the states to adopt E-verify. We need to make it easier to obtain citizenship for folks who come here legally so people have a greater incentive to obey the law. And we need to remove the incentives we have at all levels of government for people to come here illegally.” Linker explained.

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