If there was an award for ZERO OVERSIGHT, New Jersey would need a bigger trophy case.
What we don’t have is anybody CHECKING until the audit comes, or we get caught by the newspapers or the feds with our heads in the sand or our hands in the cookie jar...or some shady combination of the two.
💊 Opioid settlement money: Millions awarded to fight addiction...spent on concerts, luxury VIP trailers, popcorn & cotton-candy machines, $34,000 in T-shirts, monogrammed jackets and other municipal "wishlist" items.
NOW we need a “review.”
🍎 SNAP: A bizarre 35.7% payment error rate in FY23, compared with 11.68% nationally. It dropped to 14.11% in FY24 and 13.25% in FY25, still well above the national rate in all three years.
🏫 Montclair schools: A $20M budget crisis, " lost" money, with auditors finding $13.6 million in overspending, duplicate expenses, missing invoices & conflicting records.
🦠 COVID money: Questioned costs, missing documentation, improper contracts & overpayments discovered...after the fact.
🏙️ Newark BOE: Where do I begin? Did someone say Honolulu? Millions in catering? Open bar? No-bid contracting? Patronage contracts to unrelated "experts"? Year after year, obscene amounts of taxpayer dollars are thrown at Newark schools while parents and taxpayers are still waiting for that money to actually reach the classroom & the kids.
BONUS: Pandemic money tied to a $17.5 million camera project?
🏥 Medicaid & nursing homes: $119M in improper Medicaid payments recovered in FY24, while investigations uncovered tens of millions going to related-party transactions before formal investigators blew the whistle.
PS: NJ is getting roughly $1 BILLION MORE from the federal government for Medicaid this year while cutting roughly a QUARTER-BILLION DOLLARS of our own state funding for the program. And before anyone comes swinging: not my numbers; the Sherrill Administration confirmed it during budget testimony.
💰 NJEDA: Billions in tax incentives under a system auditors found wasn’t even verifying whether taxpayers got what they were promised. SURPRISE!
🏫 Educational Services Commission: $69.6 MILLION accumulated without an official plan, $14.6 million in contracts improperly awarded without competition & major contracts never submitted for required Comptroller review.
And its longtime board president? None other than Dale Caldwell.
No worries! We promoted him. He’s now our Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State & New Jersey’s chief election officer.
🗳️ Which brings us to elections: thousands illegally registered through the MVC citizenship-check failure, hundreds voting from that group that we've been told about (so far- single year only),
@DHSgov flagging tens of thousands more potential noncitizen registrations & federal cases showing noncitizen voting going back YEARS.
Nice pattern. NJ has TONS of rules, forms, certifications, fees, departments, commissions, and 'oversight' boards. Where's the actual PROACTIVITY besides the words on paper???
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This money exists because people died. The State Comptroller found Irvington burned $632,000 of it on two awareness concerts, $368,500 of which went to businesses owned by a township employee. That was July 2025.
NJ.com just found towns across New Jersey doing versions of the same thing. The response out of Trenton is to announce a review. We have the review. What we need is the money back.