Tuesday, June 13, 2017

A street sweeper operator was killed after he became entangled while trying to clear something from the machine at a parking lot in the Mandarin neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida






Man dies in Florida after being sucked under street sweeper

Published June 12, 2017
 

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A man was killed when he was sucked underneath a street sweeper in Florida.

Local news outlets report that a street sweeper operator was killed early Saturday after officials say he became entangled while trying to clear something from the machine at a parking lot in the Mandarin neighborhood of Jacksonville.

Witnesses say the man was heard crying for help, but by the time rescuers had arrived he was already unresponsive.

Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Sgt. Mark Musser says police worked throughout the day to contact both the man's family and his employer. Investigators say they were trying to gather information about exactly how the incident happened.

Musser says no foul play is apparent and that it seems to be a terrible accident.

The man's identity wasn't immediately released.


==========




A street sweeper who apparently was trying to clear something from the machine became accidentally entangled in it and was killed on Saturday, CBS affiliate WJAX-TV in Jacksonville, Florida, reports.

WJAX said it happened in the parking lost of a fast food restaurant where witnesses reported hearing a man's cry for help but couldn't reach him in time before the accident turned fatal.

Police said the victim was in his late 40s or early 50s and hasn't been identified.

WJAX spoke with a father from the area who has an 18-year-old son who works for him. He described the incident as horrific.

"I own a roofing company and to see these kinds of things happen ... it's horrific ... it's awful," Jay Maust said. "The thing is to make sure he [Maust's son] understands how easy it is even for him to get hurt ... even just sweeping a parking lot you now see how dangerous it is."

An investigation has been launched by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

4 scumbag New Jersey officers suspended for beating innocent man on flames in Jersey City chase that led to fiery crash. Suspended were: Lieutenant Keith Ludwig and Officers M.D. Khan, Erik Kosinski and Francisco Rodriguez.





4 scumbag New Jersey officers suspended for beating innocent man on flames in Jersey City chase that led to fiery crash. 
Suspended were: Lieutenant Keith Ludwig and Officers M.D. Khan, Erik Kosinski and Francisco Rodriguez.


Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop has suspended four police officers, including a lieutenant with 24 years experience, for "acting outside of guidelines" in a pursuit that led to a fiery crash last week.

The officers were suspended without pay, the mayor announced at a press conference Tuesday. He deferred questions about a criminal probe into the incident to the Hudson County prosecutor's office, which is conducting the investigation.

"We have a strong track record here of supporting our police officers and acting swiftly with discipline when appropriate," Fulop said. "We're taking swift actions within our ability to do so, and residents should know we want to have a balance between resident concerns and policing concerns, and we feel have that balance here."

Suspended were: Lieutenant Keith Ludwig and Officers M.D. Khan, Erik Kosinski and Francisco Rodriguez.

Fulop had vowed to take action after cellphone video showed the aftermath of the chase and crash.

The incident happened as Jersey City officers tried to stop the driver of a car near Ocean Avenue and Cator Avenue.

During the pursuit, the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office said the fleeing driver was involved in two different crashes. In the first, officers fired shots at the driver as he tried to drive between two lanes of traffic, but they say the driver, 48-year-old Leo Pinkston, kept going.

Several blocks later, on Tonnelle Avenue, the fleeing driver crashed into a utility pole, causing a fire that somehow injured another driver in a different car.

The video showed police kicking and dragging bystander Miguel Feliz, who underwent surgery for burns last week and remains hospitalized.

Fulop and Jersey City Public Safety Director James Shea said they had concluded the officers violated several guidelines during the chase.

Shea said Ludwig, a 24-year veteran of the force, has an "excellent" record, and that the four officers, one of whom has been on the force for a year, "are average police officers." He didn't say if any had had previous disciplinary violations, and he wouldn't say if any of the suspended officers were the ones seen on video kicking Feliz.

"We repeat our call for a full and impartial investigation into this incident," Carmine Disbrow, president of the Jersey City Police Officers Benevolent Association, said in an email to the Associated Press. "Unfortunately Mayor Fulop continues to indicate that he has no intention of allowing this to be the case."

Shea said at least 20 officers were involved in some aspect of the response to the high-speed chase, which lasted for several miles and began because the vehicle matched the description of a car that had been used in a shooting several nights earlier. Several protocols were violated, he said, including the length of the chase, the firing of shots at a moving vehicle and the placing of a car as a roadblock without approval from a supervisor.

Ludwig "was the supervisor of the officers who started the chase, he was involved from the beginning and he allowed it to go on long after the point where, under the attorney general's guidelines, he should have called it off," Shea said.

The investigation is ongoing.

FORMER PASSAIC COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICER RONALD A. LUCAS LIED DURING HIS GRAND JURY TESTIMONY WHEN HE CLAIMED THAT HE INJURED HIS LEFT SHOULDER DURING A FALL AT A WAYNE TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY PROPERTY. HE IN FACT HAD PRIOR INJURIES BY PLAYING FOOTBALL FOR MANY YEARS AND LIFTING WEIGHTS

The corrupt former sheriff officer Ronald A. Lucas has jersey #41

FORMER PASSAIC COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICER RONALD A. LUCAS LIED DURING HIS GRAND JURY TESTIMONY WHEN HE CLAIMED THAT HE INJURED HIS LEFT SHOULDER DURING A FALL AT A WAYNE TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY PROPERTY. HE IN FACT HAD PRIOR INJURIES BY PLAYING FOOTBALL FOR MANY YEARS AND LIFTING WEIGHTS


As part of an investigation we have been performing, we discovered that Ronald A. Lucas, a former Passaic County sheriff officer with the Civil Division lied about his on-the-job shoulder injury. Lucas claimed that he fell on the job on June 28, 2011 at 687 Indian Road, Wayne, NJ and that he injured his left shoulder requiring several pins. He then filed a disability claim with the New Jersey Division of Pensions and Benefits (Police and Firemen Retirement System). He was granted disability for one year with subsequent review. After he retired with claimed disability, he obtained a job as part-time security guard at the Pequannock High School.

We discovered that Mr. Lucas suffered shoulder injuries while playing football and lifting heavy weights over his lifetime. He was a linebacker with the Pompton Lakes Cardinals, using his shoulder to hit and tackle his opponents during practice and during football games. We are attaching a picture showing that he was #41 in the Cardinal’s Pompton Lake football team. Lucas has fallen on his shoulder probably thousand times during his athletic and training career.

Everybody knows that linebackers hit and tackle their opponents using their shoulders. These athletes also lift heavy weights and they end-up injuries their shoulders. He even made the All County Team in 1980, showing how hard he was working out. Based on our investigation, we found that weight lifting athletes do suffer shoulder injuries of the type claimed by Lucas.

He also trained his two sons (Dean Lucas and Ronnie Lucas) into playing TE and DE positions also with the Cardinals football team. In fact, linebackers suffer at least 13.5 percent of all football injuries and at least 65 percent of the linebackers end up undergoing surgery.

We have obtained photos showing Mr. Lucas lifting weights, after his alleged job-ending disability. See for example the attached image that is dated December 2013.

It is obvious to a reasonable and objective person that Lucas (in his mid-50s) took this incident on June 28, 2011 to claim on-the job-injury to be able to repair his previously injured shoulder at taxpayers’ expense and to retire and then blame Basilis Stephanatos for his injuries. After he retired, he started the double dipping. The finest of New Jersey at "work". But he was caught and he will face the consequences.

LINDEN COP COMMITS SUICIDE BY TRAIN. Daniel Kuczynski, a trespassing off-duty Linden, New Jersey police officer was struck and killed by a NJ Transit train on Monday morning






Linden police is one of the most corrupt police departments in the state.  Do you remember Former Linden officer Pedro Abad found guilty in wrong-way DWI Staten Island crash that killed 2 passengers?  This guy (Kuczynski ) most likely committed suicide by train because he was under investigation for some sex crime against kids or embezzlement or his was gay or something like that.   When you see men working with children, it should send alarm bells for potential pedophilia.


Off-duty Linden police officer killed by NJ Transit train


Linden police identified the officer as Daniel Kuczynski.


Monday, June 12, 2017 06:05PM
LINDEN, New Jersey (WABC) -- An off-duty Linden police officer was struck and killed by a NJ Transit train on Monday morning.

Linden police identified the officer as Daniel Kuczynski. The circumstances of what happened remain under investigation by the Amtrak Police Department, officials said.

Police say he was fatally struck by a train while on the tracks near Stiles Street at 7:40 Monday morning.

The accident forced New Jersey Transit's Northeast Corridor Line and North Jersey Coast Line eastbound train to suspect service for a short time.

Kuczynski served as the Director of the Linden Police Athletic League (PAL) for the past nine years.

"As Police Officers, we strive to make a difference, and through his work Danny had a profound impact on our city's children," Linden Police Chief Jonathan Parham said. "We ask that you keep Danny's family, friends, and coworkers in your thoughts and prayers as we deal with this painful loss. He will be missed."



A candlelight vigil for Officer Kuczynski will be held Tuesday in Dobson Park at 7:00 p.m.


Here are the facts:

Daniel Kuczynski committed suicide by train.  Typically, people with psychiatric disorders commit suicides in such manner.  He also liked to be with children.  Few people like to be with children.  This is what his brother said about him:

Kuczynski's brother, Adam, said he would always introduce himself to strangers, showing respect to those who likely received little of it. 
"If he was talking to the chief, and a child walked up, [he would say], 'Sorry, chief.' And he would start talking to the child," Adam Kuczynski said while choking up at a podium. 

To us, this is very disturbing behavior: an adult to pay so much attention to children that he does not even know.  People who like (“philos”) children (“pedi”) behave in such manner (PEDO-PHILE).   

In conclusion, he had a psychiatric disorder and he liked to be with children.  It is not a stretch to opine that he may have been sexually aroused by children.  Skeletons will eventually come out of this dead guy’s closet.
 


Linden police is one of the most corrupt police departments in the state.  Do you remember Former Linden officer Pedro Abad found guilty in wrong-way DWI Staten Island crash that killed 2 passengers?  This guy (Kuczynski ) most likely committed suicide by train because he was under investigation for some sex crime against kids or embezzlement or his was gay or something like that.   When you see men working with children, it should send alarm bells for potential pedophilia.

===========



SUICIDE BY TRAIN:  Linden officer, PAL director struck, killed by train.  What skeletons was he hiding in his closet? 

 
Updated on June 12, 2017 at 9:28 PM Posted on June 12, 2017 at 6:46 PM


By Tom Haydon

thaydon@njadvancemedia.com,

NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

LINDEN, nj -- A Linden police officer with 20 years on the force was identified by city officials as the man struck and killed by a train early Monday.

Officer Daniel Kucznyski, 45, was killed when he was struck by a train in Linden, police said

"It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Linden Police Officer Daniel Kuczynski, who was killed this morning when he was struck by a train just after 7:30 a.m." Linden police said in a statement.

Police said Kuczynski, who was off-duty at the time of the incident, served as the director of the Linden Police Athletic League for the past nine years.

"As police officers, we strive to make a difference, and through his work, Danny had a profound impact on our city's children," police Chief Jonathan Parham said.

"We ask that you keep Danny's family, friends, and co-workers in your thoughts and prayers as we deal with this painful loss. He will be missed," Parham said.

Mayor Derek Armstead praised Kucznyski for his work with children.

"He was a good guy, a good officer," said Mayor Derek Armstead. "He had a real rapport with with children," the mayor said, adding that his sons had played basketball in the PAL league.

NJ Transit reported a "trespasser fatality" near Stiles Street in Linden about 7:40 a.m. Service was stopped, but was resumed about 11 a.m. with delays on trains from Metuchen and Newark Penn Station on the Northeast Corridor line.

There were about 800 people on the train when Kuczynski was struck, officials said.

Armstead called it a sad day.

"I don't know what could have been happening, what was going on in his life," Armstead. "When people are having a hard time in their life, you just wish they would reach out to somebody," he said

Police, in their statement invited "all those who knew Officer Kuczynski and were touched by his generosity" to participate in a candlelight vigil to honor his memory at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, in Dobson Park.

NJ Transit said Amtrak is now investigating the incident. A call to an Amtrak spokesman was not immediately returned.



Here are the facts:

Daniel Kuczynski committed suicide by train.  Typically, people with psychiatric disorders commit suicides in such manner.  He also liked to be with children.  Few people like to be with children.  This is what his brother said about him:

Kuczynski's brother, Adam, said he would always introduce himself to strangers, showing respect to those who likely received little of it. 
"If he was talking to the chief, and a child walked up, [he would say], 'Sorry, chief.' And he would start talking to the child," Adam Kuczynski said while choking up at a podium. 

To us, this is very disturbing behavior: an adult to pay so much attention to children that he does not even know.  People who like (“philos”) children (“pedi”) behave in such manner (PEDO-PHILE).   

In conclusion, he had a psychiatric disorder and he liked to be with children.  It is not a stretch to opine that he may have been sexually aroused by children.  Skeletons will eventually come out of this dead guy’s closet.
 
 


Linden police is one of the most corrupt police departments in the state.  Do you remember Former Linden officer Pedro Abad found guilty in wrong-way DWI Staten Island crash that killed 2 passengers?  This guy (Kuczynski ) most likely committed suicide by train because he was under investigation for some sex crime against kids or embezzlement or his was gay or something like that.   When you see men working with children, it should send alarm bells for potential pedophilia.


========


Former Linden officer Pedro Abad found guilty by jury in just 3 hours in wrong-way DWI Staten Island crash that killed 2 passengers

Posted 5:18 PM, May 4, 2017, by Andrea Cavallier, Updated at 05:52PM, May 4, 2017






Staten Island prosecutor Daniel Master said that tests show Linden Officer Pedro Abad’s blood alcohol content was 0.24. The legal limit in New York is 0.08. (Photo/Linden Police Department)

STATEN ISLAND — A former New Jersey police officer has been found guilty Thursday in a 2015 drunk driving wrong-way crash that killed two of his passengers and seriously injured another.

Pedro Abad, 29, was found guilty on all counts against him, including four counts of aggravated vehicular homicide, as well as 18 additional counts, including reckless endangerment, aggravated vehicular assault, and other charges.

The crash happened back in 2015, on March 20, around 4:40 a.m.

Abad was driving while intoxicated as he entered the West Shore Expressway in the wrong direction.

He then continued driving north in the southbound lane at a high rate of speed, forcing four other vehicles to swerve out of the way to avoid striking his 2015 Honda Civic before he crashed head-on into a tractor trailer without braking.

Two of Abad’s passengers, Joseph Rodriguez and Frank Viggiano, both 28, were killed.

Abad and another passenger, Patrick Kudlac, 25, both suffered serious injuries. The driver of the truck was also injured.

Earlier that evening, Abad and Kudlac had gone to Central Park, a bar and restaurant in New Jersey, and drank whiskey before joining up with Rodriguez and Viggiano.

From there, the group drove to Curves gentleman’s club on Staten Island, arriving at around 2:21 a.m. Credit card receipts from that evening show that Abad had purchased numerous alcoholic beverages for himself and others throughout the night.

A blood sample revealed Abad had a blood-alcohol content of .24 after the crash. A paramedic who treated Abad on scene immediately following the crash also testified that he had a very strong odor of alcohol.

The verdict came following a 2-week jury trial in Richmond County State Supreme Court before Justice Mario F. Mattei.

Abad faces up to eight to 25 years in prison when he is sentenced on June 8.

“Mr. Abad’s fateful choice to get behind the wheel while he was heavily intoxicated ended in a horrific and deadly crash that cost two of his friends their lives and seriously injured a third passenger. He also put the lives of other drivers on the road at risk when he sped down the Expressway traveling in the wrong direction,” said District Attorney Michael E. McMahon.



 ==================
LINDEN, NJ - The sentencing of former Linden Police Officer Pedro Abad Jr., originally set for June 8, has been rescheduled for June 14, according to a spokesman for the Richmond County District Attorney Office in Staten Island, New York.

No reason for the new date was provided.

On May 4, Abad was found guilty of all charges related to a 2015 Staten Island wrong-way drunk-driving crash in which two people were killed, including fellow Linden Police Officer Frank Viggiano.

Abad, 29, was convicted of all of the top counts against him, including four counts of aggravated vehicular homicide. The jury verdict followed a two-week trial in Richmond County State Supreme Court before Justice Mario F. Mattei. Abad faces 8½ to 25 years in prison.

Abad, a six-year veteran of the Linden Police Department, was driving home intoxicated from a Staten Island strip club around 4:40 a.m. March 20, 2015 when he entered the West Shore Expressway in the wrong direction.
He traveled north in the southbound lane at a high rate of speed, forcing other vehicles to swerve out of the way to avoid striking his 2015 Honda Civic before he crashed head-on into a tractor-trailer without braking.

Two of Abad's passengers — Linden Officer Frank Viggiano and Linden resident Joseph Rodriguez, both 28 — died in the crash. Abad and another passenger, former Linden Police Officer Patrik Kudlac, now 25, were seriously injured. The truck driver also was injured.

Abad's blood sample, obtained by search warrant, revealed he had a blood-alcohol content of .24, three times the legal limit, following the crash.

The fatal crash was not Abad first drunk driving accident. Since becoming a police officer in 2008 Abad has had two DUI arrests. Both arrests occurred in neighboring towns of Roselle and Rahway.

The charges were administratively dismissed in the 2011 Roselle case, while Abad pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated and refusing a Breathalyzer in the 2013 Rahway case and his driver's license was suspended for 210 days and he continued to work as a police officer while his license was suspended.

Abad did not testify in the trial and jurors did not learn of his prior drunk driving arrests.



=============







4 scumbag New Jersey officers suspended for beating innocent man on flames in Jersey City chase that led to fiery crash. 
Suspended were: Lieutenant Keith Ludwig and Officers M.D. Khan, Erik Kosinski and Francisco Rodriguez.





Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop has suspended four police officers, including a lieutenant with 24 years experience, for "acting outside of guidelines" in a pursuit that led to a fiery crash last week.

The officers were suspended without pay, the mayor announced at a press conference Tuesday. He deferred questions about a criminal probe into the incident to the Hudson County prosecutor's office, which is conducting the investigation.

"We have a strong track record here of supporting our police officers and acting swiftly with discipline when appropriate," Fulop said. "We're taking swift actions within our ability to do so, and residents should know we want to have a balance between resident concerns and policing concerns, and we feel have that balance here."

Suspended were: Lieutenant Keith Ludwig and Officers M.D. Khan, Erik Kosinski and Francisco Rodriguez.

Fulop had vowed to take action after cellphone video showed the aftermath of the chase and crash.

The incident happened as Jersey City officers tried to stop the driver of a car near Ocean Avenue and Cator Avenue.

During the pursuit, the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office said the fleeing driver was involved in two different crashes. In the first, officers fired shots at the driver as he tried to drive between two lanes of traffic, but they say the driver, 48-year-old Leo Pinkston, kept going.

Several blocks later, on Tonnelle Avenue, the fleeing driver crashed into a utility pole, causing a fire that somehow injured another driver in a different car.

The video showed police kicking and dragging bystander Miguel Feliz, who underwent surgery for burns last week and remains hospitalized.

Fulop and Jersey City Public Safety Director James Shea said they had concluded the officers violated several guidelines during the chase.

Shea said Ludwig, a 24-year veteran of the force, has an "excellent" record, and that the four officers, one of whom has been on the force for a year, "are average police officers." He didn't say if any had had previous disciplinary violations, and he wouldn't say if any of the suspended officers were the ones seen on video kicking Feliz.

"We repeat our call for a full and impartial investigation into this incident," Carmine Disbrow, president of the Jersey City Police Officers Benevolent Association, said in an email to the Associated Press. "Unfortunately Mayor Fulop continues to indicate that he has no intention of allowing this to be the case."

Shea said at least 20 officers were involved in some aspect of the response to the high-speed chase, which lasted for several miles and began because the vehicle matched the description of a car that had been used in a shooting several nights earlier. Several protocols were violated, he said, including the length of the chase, the firing of shots at a moving vehicle and the placing of a car as a roadblock without approval from a supervisor.

Ludwig "was the supervisor of the officers who started the chase, he was involved from the beginning and he allowed it to go on long after the point where, under the attorney general's guidelines, he should have called it off," Shea said.

The investigation is ongoing.



=============================




Dr. Basilis N. Stephanatos, Ph.D., P.E., J.D., Q.E.D.

 CORRUPTION IN NEW JERSEY'S JUDICIARY AND LEGAL SYSTEM: Passaic County prosecutor and Judge collude and throw innocent man in jail after he discovered conspiracy against him by Passaic County sheriffs





THE SERIOUSLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL CASE OF STATE V. BASILIS STEPHANATOS


Tax foreclosure companies in New Jersey (American Tax Funding, LLC, and others see for example this link: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-new-jersey-investors-plead-guilty-their-roles-bid-rigging-schemes-municipal-tax-lien) failed to follow the Anti-eviction laws and the Summary Dispossess Act and obtained a writ for removal without a hearing before a law-division judge - they basically used a self-certification and fooled the Office of Foreclosure in Trenton that had no jurisdiction over his real estate property as he had objected to the legal proceedings and no issues were ever adjudicated.


American Tax Funding, LLC, Robert Del Vecchio, Esq. and others also lied to the sheriff that he had threatened them with violence if they try to evict him from his home that he fully owned (no mortgage on the home). The sheriff then lied to the grand jurors that he displayed a gun at them and lied that they were injured.


In any event, five years ago, the grand jury indicts Dr. Stephanatos based on the fraudulent grand jury presentation and the willful failure to disclose to the Grand Jury clearly exculpatory evidence. In 2011, Dr. Stephanatos asked for speedy trial, but that never happened.


In early 2016, Dr. Stephanatos had been publishing in a blog the proceedings of the meritless criminal case against him. Based on the publishing, a good Samaritan came forward who provided evidence that Dr. Stephanatos was framed by Passaic County sheriff officers Lucas and d'Agostino. In his blog, Dr. Stephanatos has been complaining about the violation of hisspeedy trial rights: the delay of the case is now at 5.5 years and running!


In March 2016, and in order to prevent the spreading of the truth, the Passaic county prosecutor, Peter Roby, then claimed that Dr. Stephanatos was crazy and that he must be submitted for psychiatric evaluation. He also claimed that the State’s witnesses could be threatened by Dr. Stephanatos.



Dr. Stephanatos' lawyer, Mr. Miles Feinstein, Esq of Clifton, NJ vehemently opposed the incarceration as violative of his first amendment rights, etc. In any event, they locked him up at the Bergen county jail from March 21, 2016 through May 25, 2016. During the last two weeks of his jail time, a state physiologist came and evaluated him. He found him intelligent, sane and competent. When Dr. Stephanatos asked him why it took them two months to show-up at the jail to evaluate him, he said he only got the assignment during the last week of April 2016.



Dr. Stephanatos then filed a complaint against judge de la Carrera (the judge who ordered his incarceration) with the presiding judge Ernest Capossela. Judge Capossela immediately dismissed Judge de la Carrera from the case and started presiding over the case on his own. He said that what de la Carrera and Passaic county prosecutor, Peter Roby, did was illegal and unconstitutional, as no threats were ever made by Dr. Stephanatos against anyone. All this stuff is in on the record. He made these statements and much more in open court on May 26, 2016 when he ordered Dr. Stephanatos' release.







The corrupt former sheriff officer Ronald A. Lucas
After more than five years on bail, the accuser, Ronald A. Lucas (a sheriff employee) is convicted for insurance fraud for faking his injury. The judge in Dr. Stephanatos' case is fired by the assignment judge, who then proceeds to dismiss the case for a number of reasons: violation of speedy trial rights, perjured testimony, failure to provide discovery, misleading the grand jury, prosecutorial misconduct.


Dr. Stephanatos suffered significant economic and non-economic losses. Many millions in damages.

In addition to the loss of his freedom and the loss of his dignity, he also lost income, family time, etc. You can understand.



The criminal case against Dr. Stephanatos is meritless, that is why it has been delayed for 5.5 years and counting. They have not even provided discovery!



Here are some links regarding Dr. Stephanatos' criminal case:

http://metroforensics.blogspot.com/2016/03/explosive-bombshell-ronald-lucas.html

https://metroforensics.blogspot.com/2016/03/proofs-that-ron-lucas-was-not-at-scene_17.html

http://metroforensics.blogspot.com/2015/12/perjured-employees-and-prosecutorial.html

http://metroforensics.blogspot.com/2016/03/is-passaic-county-sheriff-richard_13.html

http://metroforensics.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-corrupt-andor-incompetent-chancery.html

http://metroforensics.blogspot.com/2016/01/walter-dewey-jr-of-passaic-county_14.html

https://sites.google.com/site/metropolitanenvironmental/explosive-bombshell-ronald-a-lucas-defrauded-new-jersey-s-police-and-firemen-system-by-claiming-that-he-suffered-on-the-job-injury




=================

The corrupt former sheriff officer Ronald A. Lucas has jersey #41

FORMER PASSAIC COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICER RONALD A. LUCAS LIED DURING HIS GRAND JURY TESTIMONY WHEN HE CLAIMED THAT HE INJURED HIS LEFT SHOULDER DURING A FALL AT A WAYNE TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY PROPERTY. HE IN FACT HAD PRIOR INJURIES BY PLAYING FOOTBALL FOR MANY YEARS AND LIFTING WEIGHTS


As part of an investigation we have been performing, we discovered that Ronald A. Lucas, a former Passaic County sheriff officer with the Civil Division lied about his on-the-job shoulder injury. Lucas claimed that he fell on the job on June 28, 2011 at 687 Indian Road, Wayne, NJ and that he injured his left shoulder requiring several pins. He then filed a disability claim with the New Jersey Division of Pensions and Benefits (Police and Firemen Retirement System). He was granted disability for one year with subsequent review. After he retired with claimed disability, he obtained a job as part-time security guard at the Pequannock High School.

We discovered that Mr. Lucas suffered shoulder injuries while playing football and lifting heavy weights over his lifetime. He was a linebacker with the Pompton Lakes Cardinals, using his shoulder to hit and tackle his opponents during practice and during football games. We are attaching a picture showing that he was #41 in the Cardinal’s Pompton Lake football team. Lucas has fallen on his shoulder probably thousand times during his athletic and training career.

Everybody knows that linebackers hit and tackle their opponents using their shoulders. These athletes also lift heavy weights and they end-up injuries their shoulders. He even made the All County Team in 1980, showing how hard he was working out. Based on our investigation, we found that weight lifting athletes do suffer shoulder injuries of the type claimed by Lucas.

He also trained his two sons (Dean Lucas and Ronnie Lucas) into playing TE and DE positions also with the Cardinals football team. In fact, linebackers suffer at least 13.5 percent of all football injuries and at least 65 percent of the linebackers end up undergoing surgery.

We have obtained photos showing Mr. Lucas lifting weights, after his alleged job-ending disability. See for example the attached image that is dated December 2013.

It is obvious to a reasonable and objective person that Lucas (in his mid-50s) took this incident on June 28, 2011 to claim on-the job-injury to be able to repair his previously injured shoulder at taxpayers’ expense and to retire and then blame Basilis Stephanatos for his injuries. After he retired, he started the double dipping. The finest of New Jersey at "work". But he was caught and he will face the consequences.


=====================


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, September 30, 2013
Two New Jersey Investors Plead Guilty for Their Roles in Bid-rigging Schemes at Municipal Tax Lien Auctions
Investigation Has Yielded 14 Guilty Pleas


Two financial investors who purchased municipal tax liens pleaded guilty today for their roles in a conspiracy to rig bids at auctions conducted by New Jersey municipalities for the sale of those tax liens, the Department of Justice announced.

A felony charge was filed today in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey in Newark, against Robert U. Del Vecchio Sr., of Hawthorne, N.J. According to the charge, from in or about 2000 until approximately December 2008, Del Vecchio Sr. participated in a conspiracy to rig bids at auctions for the sale of municipal tax liens in New Jersey by agreeing to allocate among certain bidders which liens each would bid on. Additionally, a felony charge was filed today in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey in Newark, against Michael Mastellone, of Cedar Knolls, N.J. for participating in a similar conspiracy from in or about 2000 until approximately February 2009. The department said that Del Vecchio Sr. and Mastellone proceeded to submit bids in accordance with the agreements and purchased tax liens at collusive and non-competitive interest rates.

“By conspiring to rig the bids of municipal tax liens, the conspirators profited at the expense of those already struggling financially,” said Scott D. Hammond, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division’s criminal enforcement program. “Protecting Americans from these types of bid-rigging schemes remains a high priority for the division.”

The department said the primary purpose of the conspiracy was to suppress and restrain competition in order to obtain selected municipal tax liens offered at public auctions at non-competitive interest rates. When the owner of real property fails to pay taxes on that property, the municipality in which the property is located may attach a lien for the amount of the unpaid taxes. If the taxes remain unpaid after a waiting period, the lien may be sold at auction. State law requires that investors bid on the interest rate delinquent property owners will pay upon redemption. By law, the bid opens at 18 percent interest and, through a competitive bidding process, can be driven down to zero percent. If a lien remains unpaid after a certain period of time, the investor who purchased the lien may begin foreclosure proceedings against the property to which the lien is attached.

According to the court documents, Del Vecchio Sr. and Mastellone were involved in the conspiracy with others not to bid against one another at municipal tax lien auctions in New Jersey. Since the conspiracy permitted the conspirators to purchase tax liens with limited competition, each conspirator was able to obtain liens which earned a higher interest rate. Property owners were therefore made to pay higher interest on their tax debts than they would have paid had their liens been purchased in open and honest competition, the department said.

A violation of the Sherman Act carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $1 million fine for individuals. The maximum fine for a Sherman Act violation may be increased to twice the gain derived from the crime or twice the loss suffered by the victims if either amount is greater than the $1 million statutory maximum.

Today’s pleas are the 13th and 14th guilty pleas resulting from an ongoing investigation into bid rigging or fraud related to municipal tax lien auctions. Nine individuals – Isadore H. May, Richard J. Pisciotta Jr., William A. Collins, Robert W. Stein, David M. Farber, Robert E. Rothman, Stephen E. Hruby, David Butler and Norman T. Remick – and three companies – DSBD LLC, Crusader Servicing Corp. and Mercer S.M.E. Inc. – have previously pleaded guilty as part of this investigation.

Today’s charges were brought in connection with the President’s Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force. The task force was established to wage an aggressive, coordinated and proactive effort to investigate and prosecute financial crimes. With more than 20 federal agencies, 94 U.S. attorneys’ offices and state and local partners, it’s the broadest coalition of law enforcement, investigatory and regulatory agencies ever assembled to combat fraud. Since its formation, the task force has made great strides in facilitating increased investigation and prosecution of financial crimes; enhancing coordination and cooperation among federal, state and local authorities; addressing discrimination in the lending and financial markets and conducting outreach to the public, victims, financial institutions and other organizations. Over the past three fiscal years, the Justice Department has filed nearly 10,000 financial fraud cases against nearly 15,000 defendants including more than 2,900 mortgage fraud defendants. For more information on the task force, please visit www.StopFraud.gov.

This ongoing investigation is being conducted by the Antitrust Division’s New York Office and the FBI’s Atlantic City, N.J., office. Anyone with information concerning bid rigging or fraud related to municipal tax lien auctions should contact the Antitrust Division’s New York Office at 212-335-8000, visit www.justice.gov/atr/contact/newcase.htm or contact the Atlantic City Resident Agency of the FBI at 609-677-6400.