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56 Comments
wow…Is anyone surprised!!!!
The mayor probably drove her there for the interview
Ahhh….I’m sure the Mayor had the Interview set up. He has to figure out a way to complete this project so he doesn’t look bad. Or should I say so he doesn’t look worse than he is already looking now.
I cannot tell you how many times Doherty was at the house on 8th Ave.
I don’t know what this interview is about. Please explain . thank you
Here’s the original video below.
https://youtu.be/aMueunCXFjw?t=2m35s
Perhaps we could do a where’s Waldo type tracker for the mayor.
His jeep is easy to spot.
Or just leave a comment here is he is spotted anywhere interesting
FYI. I also drive a black 4 door jeep. I will do any interview to raise awareness for insurance fraud (yes, we were fully insured but they only paid 10%) and the troubles in the RREM program affecting my family and the 10,000 other families that are still not home from Sandy. We are eternally grateful for Matt’s support. If not for his kindness and generosity my family would not be moving home any time soon. Feel free to direct any speculation to me directly and I will be happy to answer you.
Thanks for clearing that up Krista. Actually Matt’s next door neighbor also has a black Jeep Wrangler.
#8 If fully insured why did they only pay 10%? Flood Ins. pays replacement value. I don’t understand why most people got back ok and some didn’t.
This piece on 60 Minutes explains why both Teresa’s family and mine are not back home. Widespread fraud: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fema-evidence-of-fraud-in-hurricane-sandy-reports/
I am currently in litigation with my insurance company. I filed suit in January 2014.
With all do respect Krista,I think Teresa/ Isabelle Roberts home being rebuilt is a whole different situation than what you’ve got going on.After seeing what the Keefe/Roberts family had and the property worth and than looking at what was paid out to them.They were paid out enough to rebuild original home.Of course they can’t finish building whats there now.And looking at you and looking at her,You are out there fighting for not only yourself but for every family affected by Sandy.we see your face and your work.This woman who is not even the property owner cares about nothing but herself and what everyone is going to give her.where is her hard work or support for other Sandy victims.I hope you do get home soon.You have worked very hard to get there.I wish we could say the same for Teresa!!
Thanks, anon. But not everyone has the energy to keep fighting publicly. There is so much more to Teresa’s situation than meets the eye. Did you know that she cares for her ailing mother? Since the flood her mother has had breast cancer, a stroke and is now on dialysis. In addition she has to make room for her paraplegic brother. So add that onto 3 kids, and I have no issue with what she is doing. She is very kind and gives endlessly to her family.
Her brother is not paraplegic. He just bought a Cadillac. He is in pre foreclosure cause he didnt pay his mortage because he knew that he was moving in with his mother. Isabella had medical issues but she is absolutely fine. I see her driving down main street in belmar all the time. I see that teresa keefe has you fooled too.
I didnt know that cadillac made vehicles for paraplegics.
So sad to see she has fooled as well, Her brother has had this condition for some time yet he lived on his own with no problem and took them in in her time of need. The same brother who just went out and bought a new car.He functions just fine and lives a normal life as everyone else. He is not parapalegic,Some people would be suprised why he has the condition he does.And though very sad about her mom,but she has been riding her mothers coat tail for years she should take care of her as most of us do for our parents,so what makes her more worthy.And all that Teresa gives endlessly to her family she takes from others so sorry to see such an educated woman fooled by her. Many people around town know a very different woman rhan who you are talking about.
The definition of a paraplegic is not being able to move from the waist down. That is not the case for david roberts
Yes, my apologies for overstating. He was paralyzed for about 5 months or so but is walking now. Sorry.
It’s a shame that all you can do is hide behind a computer and speak of things that you know nothing or only half about. Apparently you all know where we live and I’m sure know how to contact us so instead of being a “computer busy body” just come to us and ask your questions. There is so much that you people don’t know but yet you continue to listen to the hear say. We will gladly clarify any and all questions you may have. I didn’t realize that some of your lives were so boring that you feel the need to rely on gossip and incorrect information to get you through the day.
What has been posted is not hear say or gossip but facts that are out there for all to see. You have upset so many people over this “Home By Summer” and your story about the rough life you lead that you don’t know who to trust or who to believe. This is your mess to clean up, Good luck! And thank God for the “computer busy bodies” or people would only know the story you tell about you and your situation. Sorry you will get no sympathy here. For those of us who know you,the real you know your game and will be here when it ends!
A very ‘small TOWN’ INDEED. Right now, for the Sperber’s, the small hamlet of Belmar, may be experienced as being a little too small. But it is important to remind all, that the same small town that “giveth” ( Mayor had a cause to reflect well on his ambitions )also “taketh”.My Native-American friend, always told the joke about whenever anyone got too high, too much…the others were only too happy to pull them back down. I have said for many years now, that this town is too small for political spin. It is also too small for elected and appointed officials to pretend that their _______has no odor. That goes for political wannabes. I learned years ago you need a good memory in order to lie. In a small town, you need to be insane to even try.
Computer busy body…….I have no mess to clean up. It’s really sad, “posted” DOESN’T make it facts. Stone hearth fireplace…4k front door…mortgage paid off….brand new car…2-3 million dollar build…..Do you have any reciepts for these things? Have you seen any reciepts for these things? If it’s REALLY bothering “people” then they should just come to us for the clarifications. We have nothing to hide!!! Honestly people who KNOW me/us know the TRUTH and the REAL facts because they have asked/been there through it all and we have been more than happy to answer. Just remember we have proof of everything and are greatly appreciative of everyone, even the negative “people”.
Belmar Independent, please clarify why the town is “too small” for my family right now.
#22. The question is do you have any reciepts. I know people that were looking into the reciepts and couldnt find any
#22……we have every single receipt. With us trying to get home don’t you think we ask questions too??
A big issue on this blog was your front door for 4k. Well post the reciept for the front door.
Sorry Keefe and Sperber get over yourselves. You and your families are not the only ones with financial Sandy related home issues and extended family medical conditions.
#1 – FEMA is a GIFT from all Americans that pay so you can replace essential items to survive. You should be grateful there is even the opportunity to receive that money.
#2 – It is illegal to profit from insurance benefits.
#3 – The situations surrounding two families selected by the mayor to receive additional donated funds is in and of itself suspicious. Why you two and not my neighbor that lives behind me that took out a $90,000 second mortgage to repair their home where they are domiciled.
#4 – All the “donations” you received are “gifts” and should be declared on your taxes.
#5 – You should not receive any further funding either from FEMA or insurance if you have received funds to purchase the same items already from any other source. So if someone donated the siding on your home, don’t look for any insurance, FEMA or lawsuit settlement to reimburse siding. Get it.
#6 – There is a question that some insurance companies denied benefits based on modified inspection reports. But it is still a question.
#7 – Keefe your replacement house is ridiculously disproportionate to what you had. We all have medical issues and/or disabled family members, why are just you getting donations?
#8 – Sperber you are pushing the limits here, you only received 10% from your insurer, well typically FEMA makes up the difference for essential items, if not was it your fault? I am not saying it is or isn’t. I found no problem dealing with FEMA in fact twice they contacted me to give me additional funds, once to increase what they paid for my furnace, and again to tell me to apply for REM for which I was eligible.
#9 – Both Keefe and Sperber should be audited. Too much money from homeowners and flood insurance, FEMA, cash donations and free services have been exchanged. It all needs to be documented by the IRS. You should not have a better house after Sandy from FEMA or other insurance. It is your choice to accept donations BUT THEY ARE GIFTS. How much more do you guys think you are entitled to and why.
#10 – You two families absolutely are not the only families that have unable to return to their Belmar home due to Sandy losses.
When you think of all the people that are tortured by the IRS and what they have to go through and the liens and monthly payments this whole thing is a fiasco. They should be in on this the mortgage pay off it is great if you have a 130,000.00 laying around the car the gas back and forth to Lakewood not to mention tolls,general living expenses,utilities,cells and the best is the school system backing off on kids not living in the town when the school itself and the Borough passed alaw about this because of the winter rentals those kids were not allowed to stay in the school when for a month or so they had to get out of the rental and then legally the school because of what it was doing to the school budget. Maybe all of the people who didn’t qualify for gift cards according to the B.A. And then they went missing might be involved who knows? It’ a shame this is happening but what is worse no one is interested in doing anything about it. They want to hope they do not get welfare involved in this mess.That is another issue. It will go on and on and we who have not reaped any of these benefits will be paying off our bills and theirs too. At least we can make payments in our tax quarters somehow it will end up on the tax bills.
#27–Summed it up very nicely. Thanks.
#27. Dear Guest, I am not sure what we need to get over. Obviously we are not the only families with Sandy related financial, home and medical issues.
As I mentioned previously, there are at least 10, 000 families still displaced from Sandy. Many of them are now facing foreclosure after trying to pay rent, mortgage and storage fees for 3 years. I am fighting for all of them, including you. Do you think FEMA reopened all the flood claims out of the goodness of their hearts? No. It was a small but determined group that kept them accountable and exposed the fraud. We are also working on getting a bill passed to halt home foreclosures on Sandy damaged homes and pushing for extended rental assistance. It’s important that people not only get home, but can afford to stay there. Please visit newjerseyop.org to learn more about the work we are doing.
So let’s clear some things up.
1. FEMA is not a gift. It is a fund that we all pay via our taxes.
2. Duh. We are rebuilding on a shoestring and doing a great deal of the work ourselves. If you are able to know what kind of cars people drive and where they are, you would notice that we spend every moment not at work, working on rebuilding our home.
3. I don’t know how or why we were selected. But I did not have the means to take out a $250k note on top of my current mortgage to cover repairs.
4. None of the Home by Summer money has passed through my hands. Ever. The funds have been paid directly to contractors. I am certain that it will find it’s proper place on my taxes, as necessary.
5. I am completely aware of Duplication of Benefits and how it works. I have also been very vocal about not profiting from this in any way. Once my suit is settled, anyone that donated money can choose for me to pay it back or pay it forward.
6. Our insurance engineers report was blatantly fraudulent and I have said so and been fighting it since January of 2014 when we received it. I filed suit against my insurance company and NFIP only after hiring a Public Adjuster to help. FEMA has since admitted widespread fraud on the part of 2 major engineering firms, US Forensics that provided our report, being one of them.
7. Not my issue
8. What limits am I pushing? FEMA cannot pay me for anything besides relocation assistance for one year because I had flood insurance. It would be a Duplication of Benefits.
9. Audited? Yeah, I am pretty much counting on it which is why we are keeping detailed records. As to what do I think I am entitled to? I think I am entitled to a fair and timely insurance settlement that covers the cost of repairing my home. That’s it. I have been pleasantly overwhelmed by the support and generosity of others in helping us to get back home. If it were not for Home by Summer, we would not even be close.
10. Obviously. Please see my first paragraph. I am trying to help everyone, including you.
The fact that DAVE posted this and raised the speculation that Matt was at your home is typical DAVE style. He is insinuating in the fact he raises the question. You then had to say you have a black jeep and he says Matt’s neighbor has a black jeep. How about owning it Dave? You know what you were implying and you know exactly what you were doing. Your readers were happy to jump on your insane bandwagon. Thanks for clearing it up Krista but you should not have to defend these false allegations he and his readers continue to present. Dave should apologize to you for this entire post he authored. He won’t but he should.
Sperber, one response to you and I am done. I do not believe one word you are saying. You know exactly why you were picked for the Home by Summer donation fund. What, it was done behind your back and you were surprised? Did you check to make sure that there were no other families in Belmar still not home? Did you say wait, let’s share this? And you are wrong about your lawsuit settlement, if any, the funds will be held and not left up to those who donated to decide to take it back or pay it forward. And who exactly would be in charge of that checks and balance issue anyway. Finally who picked the contractors that got all those checks directly? And why are none of the donations, gifts, gift-givers, and services received made public. The entire brouhaha about the fundraising efforts were very well publicized. Now everything is a big secret. I do not know you at all and am not trying to insult you but none of this passes the smell test.
Yes, I was surprised when they told me. Not sure how I was supposed to check on which families are still not home. Do you have that list?
Who will be holding my settlement funds? Aside from paying back RREM, who will be holding money back?
The St Bernard Project chose my contractor for me when they started. Don’t know about confidentiality of the donor list, but I had planned on sending thank you notes and the aforementioned offer once settled. I really don’t think there are any secrets. I would be certain that the company donations are completely public info.
And yes, you are trying to insult me.
Sperber. I just think that you and Mrs. Keefe are two different people with two different things going on.
So Sperber you told us how you got your contractor. And it does seem random. Do you know how Teresa got her contractor. Her contractor is a local friend of the mayor. His name is David Keys. He has done work for matt before on a house on 12th ave. He is also a good friend and fishing buddy of Michael Campbell. Director of Public Works. Campbell is also on the Zoning and planning board for Belmar. David Keys is a sub contractor for the 1002 14th ave project which means when money comes in Mr. Keys takes 20% of every dollar that has been donated and all insurance checks and has never put one finger down of that job. So can anybody tell me how Teresa Keefe got her contractor.
It seems to me that while Ms. Sperber and Ms. Keefe can answer some questions regarding their situations, Mayor Doherty would probably be the one who should answer a lot of other ones. And it does not seem that he is doing any talking regarding the situation at all. This seems to be one situation that we will never know the whole truth about.
That maybe true. But as a tax payer I want answers.
Just add this to the list of “not knowing”.
36…I agree with you,He backed off this situation and has not said a word publicly in months regarding HBS. And Its probably because things are getting thick and people wants answers and they have none.Wait until all parties involved start turning on eachother ,each blaming the other and no one taking responsibilty.He doesn’t want to implicate himself in any wrong doing at this time im sure.They are quietly figuring out how to lie there way through this one.Look at Ms Keefe offering all this proof of receipts,yet when asked to post at least the pricey front door receipt which was a major issue due to the fact that there were tranfers of one Belmar organization to another as well as questionable purchase orders for HBS while talk of the door costing the same amount as both and all of this at the same time,she failed to provide.
The problem with the Home by Summer is the fault of the Mayor. I am not criticizing for the want to help. Where he went wrong was making it political. Belmar should not have been involved at all. That raises eyebrows of favoritism etc. When the two cops in NYC were killed eating lunch in their patrol car, it was a PRIVATE organization not the city that took care of the families financial situation. Matt should have either approached friends or an organization to get the 2 homes built. That would have avoided the comments.
#23 Krista here we go…I never said that the town was too small for your family. I said that you might be “experiencing” your point of view, after all the comments. I know things about my neighbors, and them about me. It not that they broadcast or I for that matter. It is because we live in a small town. It is not that we all snoop either, but we live here in close proximity. I would leave Belmar, if I could BUT no one has started a relocate by winter fund. When they do….I am soooooooo out of here.
I think that the mayor and council should be thrown out of Belmar and a whole new batch of people be brought in. I would to see Keefe, Roberts, Sperber, Mad Matt, Mike Campbell, and David Keyes in the same room at the same time with some FEMA and Insurance investigators. I would pay to see that
I would love to see Teresa keefe post copies of the insurance checks that were deposited into Teresa, Isabella, Or David’s bank account. Then post copies of the check from the bank to the builder to compare what the insurance paid verses what was paid out to the builder.
To Ms. Sperber and Ms. Keefe. It’s very hard to believe that anyone in this town or surrounding area has no idea that Mayor Doherty has ethical issues that border on criminal. Off the top of my head, the no bid contracts to his wife’s client Ashbritt, the missing $20,000 gift cards that came from donated money. (If case you forgot the Mayor swore up and down they weren’t missing until the county prosecutor got involved and then it was “bad accounting practices”. Still to this day nobody was held accountable for the missing cards\donations taken out of the boroughs safe). And let’s not forget the Buy-a-Board scheme which was sold as “buying the actual boards you will be walking on”. Belmar is now being sued (I’m a plaintiff) to force the Mayor to put the money raised where he advertised it would go. How is it, that now another fund raising scheme by the Mayor is starting to smell rotten and you two are the only ones SHOCKED that people would be suspicious? It’s a pattern of Behavior! Like Al Sharpen when there is a supposedly white on black crime, there is baggage laid at your doorstep when you take money or support from past violators. To find out one of you put $500 in Mayor Doherty campaign chest, just seals the suspicion. I can’t afford to give $500 donations, but then I can’t afford new cars or vacations either. Maybe that’s why you need charity? Bad decision making.
#41 Can I be the other relocate by winter family. Maybe I will let my house go into foreclosure then buy myself a Cadillac, then wait for the mayor to build me a new house.
#40; It matters not to a political machine. The machine wakes up every morning ( true, not usually IN A “SMALL TOWN” ) and the machine searches for ways to gain support. It never thinks, it only reacts, manufactures… It has no mind, no ethics, no conscience. It produces good press in order to validate itself. It has no soul, no scruples. It never apologizes. Perchance if it gets sued, it rarely flinches.
So can we start getting some form of proof that there is nothing shady going on
I didn’t realize I was asked to post reciepts. I will gladly gather my info and do so. But you really all need to gather correct info before speaking about things
1. Duplication of benefits. Ummmmm please read the full contract for RREM funds and then get back to us.
2. If you would walk up to the front door you will CLEARLY see it’s not 4k.
3. WE hired our contractor ourselves. Not that we need to explain a thing BUT. We had to have 3 estimates for the ins company to even start the “funds” process (or whatever the correct term is) the first contractor was a friend of a friend, the second was a random company, and the third was Dawkcorp. Whose sign we saw around and was confirmed to be good by a few “friends”
It’s really sickening to see all of this, do you think anyone in their right mind doing “wrong” would go public? Especially knowing that for every supporter that is out there, there is 3 or more that thrive on gossip and “failure”, and will not quit til they have a “good” story.
Instead of hiding behind a computer come straight out and get the answers head on
BTW……how do you attach a pic???
I have a copy the the building permit for 1002 14th ave. On the permit it states that the new construction of the house would be 458 thousand dollars. It must have made alot of money for The Home by Summer campaign
Teresa or anyone else, if you want an image attached to a comment email it to dave@commonsenseforbelmar.com and let me know what comment you want it attached to.
FYI
The NJ- Department of Community Affairs discouraged municipal charitable fund management on November 5, 2012 …. but, communicated the law and guidance to elected fools that do ….
My only interest is compliance with the law.
http://www.nj.gov/dca/divisions/dlgs/lfns/12/2012-25.pdf
Eugene and Jim I agree with both of you. There is a post of the ethics rules the board of Brookdale Commuity College and the State of NJ employees and elected officials, for some reason it does not pertain to municipal governments. I also heard the state investigators have their hands full, maybe they will look into Belmar soon.
What all the suspicion? I have been a dedicated member of the community for more than 16 years. Can I ask, specifically, what it is you think we are up to? I have to say, after fighting for nearly three years with the federal and state governments, state grant programs, my insurance company and a federal lawsuit in court, it’s been a legal/financial colonoscopy.
#53 I did not say you were not deserving of help. I am sure there are other people that also need help. The fundraising should have not been spearheaded by the boro.It just makes people think there may have been some favoritism. I am not saying there was or was not just was done wrong, look at #40.
Your problem is with your insurance company and many have the same or similar problems. No one is getting donated services and funds but you and Keefe. You cannot see the problem with that it is very clear to me.
Maybe not in Ms. Sperber’s case But in the Keefe case It seems that there is more than just the problem of Insurance. There is a number of questionable things happening here all around ,from Insurance and the Keefe/Roberts family, to the contractor, to the mayor and Boro officials and the entire fundraiser itself.
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