Bergen County executive’s suit against police merger dealt blow in court
APRIL 25, 2014, 2:28 PM LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2014, 9:36 PM
BY PETER J. SAMPSON
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
A state judge Friday dealt Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan a setback in her bid to bolster a lawsuit challenging the merger of the County Police into the Sheriff’s Office with claims that two Democratic freeholders violated ethics laws.
In a bench ruling in Hackensack, Superior Court Judge Menelaos W. Toskos denied Donovan permission to amend her suit to add a fifth count contending that the merger votes cast by the two freeholders were tainted by a conflict of interest because their children are Sheriff’s Office employees.
To press such a claim, the judge said, the county executive would have to provide more specifics in her pleadings about the alleged conflict, such as how the freeholders or their children might benefit from the proposed merger.
James J. DiGiulio, an attorney for Donovan, told the judge after his ruling that such information would be included in a further bid to amend the complaint.
In a suit filed last year, Donovan is seeking to overturn the freeholder board’s approval of the merger.
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Our taxes are being wasted on these silly lawsuits that are constantly being brought by the Bergen Republican County Executive.
And our taxes are wasted state wide by the DEMOCRATS in control in Trenton.