>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.
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