Keyser Soze
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23 minutes ago, L8RG8R said:
Exactly my point. The new council has stressed transparency and straightening the corruption out. A permit is required for situations like this. I would be more than willing to say the proper channels were not taken. This carries a fine of up to $1000. All established by a previous city council.
No fine at all as established by the previous council.
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11 minutes ago, L8RG8R said:
So you're saying it is legal for me to walk down the sidewalk during the Community Days Firemans Parade with a sixer and just drink away as I walk?
Yes.
You can also drive on the sidewalk too.
Any police charges will be dismissed!
I think there are sidewalks all the way to the Sandy Club.
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11 hours ago, L8RG8R said:
I guess councilwoman Jackson will have to find another reason to have a big beer party outside of her residence/business.
You can do that. Been doing that for years at various parties along the Clearfield Fireman's parade route.
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9 hours ago, Ignatius said:
As far as Waste Management, I'm curious as to who the "payee" was on the checks and further, whose name was the receiving checking account titled to. Could those payments (from Waste Management) have originally been set-up in a purely altruistic manner and titled for "DuBois Days"? Anything is possible!
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1 hour ago, Ignatius said:
I certainly hope that outside auditors of the local government are scrutinized. Those here that are familiar with this process understand that a number of steps are involved before financial statements are produced, including recommendations to the local government, contact with outside vendors and steps even as far as refusing to produce statements.
I do not understand why council thought it was a good idea not to place the Waste Management payments in a city account.
The payment of entertainment for community days with cash seemed stupid too. (The solicitor approved of this)
Where did the money come from for the annual year end bonuses to highly paid employees????
Is the budget balanced because excess money is being transferred from water/sewage fund?
My feelings are that whenever the council needed more revenue they just sent a sewage surcharge/ rate increase to Sandy Township.
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3 hours ago, fedup said:
If crooked is getting crooked money some crook is handing out the crooked money.
Who are the crooks handing out your tax dollars to a crook?
Waste management money:
As alleged, beginning as early as 2008, Suplizio and Shaffer used the city’s tax identification number to establish secret bank accounts into which they diverted city money, including approximately $60,000 in annual administrative fees from the city’s waste management contract. During the alleged conspiracy, Suplizio and Shaffer made large cash withdrawals from these unaudited accounts, wrote checks to themselves and others, and obtained cashier’s checks with themselves listed as payees—totaling more than $350,000. The defendants also allegedly spent more than $450,000 from the accounts toward payments on Suplizio’s personal credit card, which he used to pay for personal vacations, utility bills for his residence, department store purchases, and jewelry store purchases, among other personal expenses.
“Herm Suplizio allegedly funneled city money into secret bank accounts that he and Shaffer controlled and that he could use for his personal benefit, including hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal credit card payments,” United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan said. “Our communities entrust public officials like Suplizio with tremendous authority, and when that trust is violated—as is alleged here—this office and our federal and state law enforcement partners will hold them accountable to the fullest extent of the law.”
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DOJ: Former DuBois city manager, fellow city employee accused of stealing city funds
Federal authorities say Suplizio and Shaffer face up to 45 years in prison, if convicted, as well as a $1.2 million fine
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3 hours ago, Carl Brutananadilewski said:
Read on WTAJ about the recent city council meeting. I am suspicious of this Jackson woman who keeps showing up and is now apparently running for council. It seems odd to me how she has all this time on her hands. She legit???
Apparently the voters think she is legit. As a write in candidate she secured both ballot positions against the incumbents with over 95% of the vote. Hard to argue with these results.
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Chris Nasuti will remain Interim City Manager until Jan 2024.
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4 hours ago, Ignatius said:
First, I am not defending or condemning Herm, the council, the mayor, the solicitor or any of them.
All must remember there is a legally enforceable contract governing Herm's employment and must remember citizens in this country are innocent until proven guilty.
If DuBois had a different solicitor the recommendation would be to fire the city manager without pay.
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On 7/24/2023 at 8:45 PM, Petee said:
The petition is ready to be signed. Several petition presenters are on board to collect signatures. It reads:
The undersigned legal residents of Sandy Township do hereby request that implementation of Consolidation of the City of DuBois and Sandy Township be halted pending completion of the Forensic Audit and all legal processes involved.
To sign this petition, you must be a legal resident of Sandy Township, over 18 years of age, Names and contact info are for residency validation only and will not be used for any reason beyond the purposes of this petition. Any questions? Ask the presenter of this petition who will have proof of their identification as an official presenter of this petition.
Sandy Township already file a motion.
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4 minutes ago, disgruntled said:
I'm curious to know which sidewalk he was driving on.
I have seen the Mayor drive on the sidewalks of the City Park near the Cherry Amphitheater before.
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2 hours ago, BillyC said:
Now the latest has our current mayor being issued a couple of citations for careless driving and driving on the sidewalk on June 17th during community days. Charges were filed on June 26th with the magistrate. Not really sure what the reason was for being on the sidewalk. Will have to wait until gypsy Toni tells him how to answer.
Sounds like he should quit driving. There has been many pedestrian killed by cars being driven on the sidewalk.
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29 minutes ago, redmill said:
Phony Tonee should not represent anything to do with DB City and certainly excuse herselve with consolidation or not , merging with Sandy..... Gipsy Karma Bad !!!......Herm should bolt away from her pronto.
Toni should resign ASAP for the good of the community.
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4 hours ago, fedup said:Dec 30, 2016 — The retired city manager of El Monte collects more than $216,000 a year, plus cost-of-living increases and fully paid health insurance.Jul 21, 2010 — A municipal manager in California who makes nearly $800000 a year working for a small, poor city could draw pension payments exceeding $30 ...Missing:
votedthemselvesMoniz earns a jaw-dropping $344,200 a year, making him the top-paid city manager in the state, according to a new salary survey by the League of California ...It might be time to do a recall vote on the remaining DuBois City elected office holders.
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1 hour ago, etink3908 said:
Sounds like a supervisor with a vendetta against another… supervisor or not.. township destroys someone’s property they should be the ones to fix it. Gotta love how the news tries to spin everything. Bet if the issues in the city weren’t happening this wouldn’t have even been made an issue.. idk.. I don’t see anything here
The Supervisor complaining has his head up the City official's butt so far that he can taste the Bud Light he drank at the Sandy Club.
He might as well be counted as a City Councilman
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Sandy Township in Clearfield County files a complaint, asking court to delay merger with DuBois
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54 minutes ago, JimmyPete said:
Good! They better be threatened and they deserve as well after the crap they did!
The threats are being made against the people who are determine to digs through the City's corruption garbage to find the truth.
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34 minutes ago, L8RG8R said:
There are also specific demands this organization has that the city must meet each year or they can pull the plug. With everything going on with council and the management, are they willing to make the improvements and/or negotiate a new contract?
The City will need to determine how much money they have left to fund the baseball events after figuring the cost of the criminal defense and pay to the suspended city manager.
Maybe they can eliminate the healthcare and deductible payments for the no work council and mayor to fill any budget gaps.
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7 hours ago, L8RG8R said:
This would have never happened without Herm and the other city politicians. You should be thanking them for bringing the revenue to local businesses.
Thank the Sandy Township Municipal Authority customers. They have been bank rolling DuBois for years.
Arrest of Dubois City Manager John “Herm” Suplizio
in Message Place
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Herm was employed by the United Way as the executive director. The United Way board members should not have employed him as Herm's position of City Manager created a conflict of interest.
Records obtained by Spotlight PA reveal that in 2014, for instance, the United Way gave $30,000 to the city for a “baseball field sign purchase.” In 2016 and 2021, the charity made two additional donations totaling $60,800 to the city for “general support.”
So close was the working relationship that in 2018, the United Way began acting as an “agent for the City of DuBois,” according to financial statements submitted by the charity. Those records said the United Way collected contributions for capital construction and improvements for several baseball fields and related facilities operated by the city.
Spotlight PA found a total of $560,503 in contributions to the city were handled by the United Way from 2018 to 2020 — a period when Suplizio reigned over both entities.
https://www.spotlightpa.org/statecollege/2023/11/dubois-pennsylvania-herm-suplizio-fraud-corruption-attorney-general/