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41 Comments
At this point I would almost wish they don’t settle and go to trial in stead. Force Matt, Colleen, council members and Does to testify. Hold them accountable for these costs.
Thanks again Matt
We “owe” 98 k to the hand picked politically connected law firm Gibbons – how about what was really spent and not covered or reimbursed by Insurance – try just shy of 500,000! The sad thing is the people who abused their authority and promoted their personal agenda with other bars won’t pay a nickel for this – we all will!
Good for the Harmon’s for not backing down and being intimidated! They deserve everything they are going to get! And the previous administration should be in jail. Unfortunately, the town has to pay the bill. How is this fair?
Doherty was a bigger Belmar disaster than Superstorm Sandy.
As part of any settlement, the borough should be forced to file and cooperate with an investigation by the Monmouth County Prosecuters Office.
Weren’t Matt, Jen and possibly Tom (he may have recused and got out of it) all personally named in the suit? If so does it mean they’d be financially liable in any way?
#5 – Our “Unnatural Disaster”.
Doherty is a Diaster
Regarding the “elderly” lifeguard suit. I know those guys and they can run circles around many half their age!
Harmon will get huge settlement. Things about to get “salty” round here.
The prosecutor’s office is probably still all tied up with the delusional trumpet matter.
On the other hand their handbook for investigation/procedures is probably located at borough hall in th he lower right hand drawer for his eyes only. Nothing electronic.
What precludes the present powers that be from settling with Harmons for a huge amount, in return say for a kick back. Heck, the prior admin. got away with it. And all these players are in bed with the MCPO. You need the feds or state to be involved. We had a former fire inspector here go to jail, only because the state was involved. If the town had notified the county on the issue, it would have been swept under the rug.
The rumble drums say its beyond our catbox.
Ref. “Doherty was a bigger Belmar disaster than Superstorm Sandy”
So I guess that means if you are against this new administration than you are against recovery 😉
Can someone explain to me why the accounts of Doherty’s administration’s “mishandling” of so many financial matters and disastrous decisions/inept personnel have been politely danced around by the Coast Star but have yet to go regional in the reporting? With all the media time our darling boy commanded in the past, I’m sure many people statewide and farther would be interested in what really happened in Belmar, and what a nightmare his administration left for our town!
Not only is this the dirty doing of the Doherty/Connolly administration but of our incompetent “acting” chief of police Hiseman. He was complicit in delaying the transfer of this liquor license and continues to harass the plaintiffs. Hiseman is incompetent and should be fired for a multitude reasons.
#17, Unfortunately, a civil service appointed Police Chief is extremely, extremely hard to fire, lest a criminal act. And there is no way in the world the MCPO would even touch this guy. He is well insulated with former MCPO employees. They could put the screws to him. De-mote and stick him in a closet in charge of pest building pest control. I would suggest they hire an outside Police director with a yearly contract, of which they would have more more control over.
Acting Police Chief still?
We all see and have heard about the problems and so far this new administration hasn’t done a thing to correct them. Hiring back Campbell is crazy ! When are the cuts coming ?
Let’s hire a Chief of Police already! What the heck is this new administration doing? All finger pointing and not even a start at cleaning up the mess or our much needed budget cuts. Let’s go guys, 3 months in and the honeymoon is now over.
The “Acting Chief” is still technically a Captain. So the Boro should either make him take the Chiefs Civil Service test and permanently promote him and save $100k+ in Overtime or strip him of his Acting title and bust him back to Captain and then make him do some real work for Overtime. Maybe he’ll retire then and Belmar can save $200k.
Agreed #21. Let’s get a new chief that knows how to manage a department without abusing overtime allowing several over $200,000 salaries including his own!! Not including the sketchy things hes been trying to cover up.
#21. He and the two captains are sitting for the chiefs test in May or June. It’s coming
#22- I seriously think Cone man would not be able to pass the test, FBI training or not.
Wouldn’t that be funny if Tina gets the highest rating on the Chief’s test? A first for Belmar if not Monmouth County! Watch your back 2020 is around the corner girls.
Aren’t they all able to retire? Why are we letting them stay and make so much money, I thought we were cutting back? 5 sergeants, 2 captains a lieutenant and chief.. that seems overly excessive for a small town. I never even see them around town what are they doing all day? And is it true one of them failed a drug test? And he’s still working without consequence?
Bingo #27! That’s one of the cover ups he should be fired alone for. There’s more to come out about our acting chief regarding certain “perks” he took for years. He should retire before hes indicted.
1 current Sergeant failed a drug test. The one Captain and Acting Chief drive around all day in the town owned pick up truck all day doing nothing??? At least when he’s not using the truck for his own personal use.
Claire ?? Anything ??
One Captain was charged with DUI and eluding police?
The thing is many/most people no matter what they do or don’t do for a living indulge in some form of illicit or legal (many doctors are complicit in prescribing high risk drugs)drug use. This entire situation concerning drug use has to be rethought completely. For the most part, before the 20th century, all drugs were legal in this Republic.
I wonder if it is the same sergeant that failed the drug test once before but was protected?
Does djais own ocean ave they block off a lot of parking spots.
#34, yes
This’ll give you an idea of this whole thing about drug laws being so malarkey.
Sears Once Sold Heroin
A very short book excerpt
March 2019 Issue
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By the time of the American Civil War, in the 1860s, morphine was a battlefield staple, shot into soldiers to ease the pain of wounds and to treat the dysentery and malaria that raged through military camps. Home gardens in both the North and the South were ablaze with poppies as citizens patriotically grew opium for their troops; the raw drug was then processed into morphine and rushed to the front. Millions of doses were given. Thousands of veterans with lifelong wounds were taught how to use syringes to self-administer the drug long after the war ended; morphine and syringes were sold by mail order and over the counter at drugstores.
As morphine’s medical uses increased—for surgery, for accidents, for pretty much any disease or injury—so did the number of patients dependent on the drug. Scientists called this new epidemic “morphinism” and tried with increasing concern to find ways to control it. Enter the German company Bayer and its new drug, Heroin. Bayer’s tests showed that Heroin was up to five times stronger than morphine and far less habit-forming. It also seemed to have the unusual ability to open up airways in the body, so the company started selling it, at home and overseas, to treat coughs and breathing disorders as well as morphine addiction. For $1.50, Americans around the turn of the century could place an order through a Sears, Roebuck catalog and receive a syringe, two needles, and two vials of Bayer Heroin, all in a handsome carrying case.
Later, the Germans also invented Methadone to fight heroin addiction.
There is a very interesting tv series called “The Knick”. Was on Cinemax.
Early 1900’s New York, beginning of “modern” medicine. Fantastic for its historical content. Clive Owen plays a brilliant cocaine shooting surgeon by day and an opium den smoker by night. All legal in US. Shows the intro to heroin toted as a new wonder drug. Scary stuff.
I highly recommend it. ( not the drugs, the tv series)
I hope the food taste better than the ugly ocean ave green and black colors they just painted at the old subway shop on 1600 block of ocean https://bubbakoos.com/
The American drug war.
The last white hope,available on Amazon prime was a good movie.
#39 – Now is the time I think to plan to supply drugs to people (I know-sounds crazy). With so many people not wanting to work and untaught how to work (not to mention jobs disappearing due to technological “advances”) and living the life of semi-zombies enslaved to technology, it’s not unrealistic. I’m very sure that somewhere on a campus[es] this concept is being quietly studied.
Tom, you never sound crazy. At least not to me which must make me crazy.
An addict is most dangerous when he is desperate for his drug of choice I would prefer him to have it than to hurt someone in order to get it.
That’s not ideal either. Tough dilemma.
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