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N.J. Legislative panel urged to look into other allegations of corruption
N.J. Legislative panel urged to look into other allegations of corruption
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The subpoena power bestowed on the Legislature’s joint investigative committee, which is currently focused on the George Washington Bridge scandal, has prompted requests that the panel look into unrelated allegations of corruption.
On Thursday, two state senators, Republican Samuel Thompson from Middlesex and Democrat Ron Rice of Essex, asked the joint investigative committee to look into a comptroller’s findings that some public officials in Newark had used taxpayer money for personal expenditures.
The comptroller investigation found that between 2008 and 2011 the Newark Watershed Conservation and Development Corporation, a non-profit charged with administering Newark’s water assets “improperly spent millions of dollars of public funds with little to no oversight by either its Board of Trustees or the City.”
Specifically the report said the non-profit’s executive director, Linda Watkins-Brashear, wrote $200,000 worth of checks from public accounts to herself, awarded no-bid contracts to friends, used petty cash recklessly and was involved in conflicts of interest. The agency as a whole was also severely mismanaged, the report said. (Phillis/The Record)
