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CORRUPTION TIP- PASSAIC COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICER RONALD A. LUCAS DEFRAUDED THE NEW JERSEY'S POLICE AND FIREMEN FUND BY CLAIMING ON THE JOB DISABILITY
PASSAIC COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICER RONALD A. LUCAS LIED WHEN HE CLAIMED THAT HE INJURED HIS LEFT SHOULDER ON THE JOB DURING A FALL ON JUNE 28, 2011
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 (he played at position #41), using his shoulder to hit and tackle his opponents during practice and during football games. He also lifted very heavy weights to do body building. 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 injuring their shoulders. He (Lucas) 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.
Further evidence of the fraud committed by Ronald A. Lucas:
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Lt. Nick Mango who was with Lucas and D'Agostino that day, wrote in his June 28,
2011 report that “nobody was hurt”. Also, Lucas never wrote in his June 28, 2018
report that he was injured. He
specifically wrote : “As I entered the woods I stumbled”. He never wrote that he was injured. However, during this grand jury testimony, he
provided a diametrically different picture:
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Lucas claimed that he fell on his
elbow and shoulder, but was able to regain his balance, and he ran into a
wooded area to seek cover behind a large boulder. (GJT11-18 to 21; Da7, Motion
to Change Venue). Lucas claimed that he
tore his biceps and had surgery on his shoulder, and “ended up having a pretty
severe injury” in his shoulder, requiring “five pins.” (GJT12-7 to 9; Da8,
Motion to Change Venue). Of course we
now know that this guy was a football player and body builder and suffered
these injuries over his many years of lifting heavy weights and hitting his
opponents with his shoulder (he was a linebacker with the Pompton Lakes
Cardinals at #41). This guy then
defrauded the Police and Firemen Retirement Fund by claiming disability and retired. He then started the double dipping.
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".
