Gazebo, via Wikimedia CommonsTime to Leave: A Sample of NJ Public Servants Whose Forfeiture Orders Were Signed in 2019
Each entry (culled from a list provided by the New Jersey Attorney General's Office) includes the name, date of conviction, date that the forfeiture order was signed, and a brief description of the charges.
October 23, 2019 at 11:51 AM
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Below is a sample of public officeholders who have been the subject of forfeiture orders this year. Each entry (culled from a list provided by the New Jersey Attorney General's Office) includes the name, date of conviction, date that the forfeiture order was signed, and a brief description of the charges.
- Ruben McAusland (June 27, 2018/July 1, 2019) — The Paterson police officer was convicted of assaulting a suicidal hospital patient after they got into an argument, and selling narcotics that he stole from a crime scene. He was sentenced to five and a half years in prison.
- Roger Then (Dec. 6, 2018/July 1, 2019) — He was McAusland's partner on the Paterson police force who recorded a video of McAusland's attack on the hospital patient and pleaded guilty to failing to report the incident. He was sentenced to six months in federal prison.
- Philip Zacche (Jan. 5, 2018/June 27, 2019) — The Jersey City police chief admitted taking $31,000 in payments for off-duty security details at a housing complex where he never worked. A judge revoked his pension and health-care benefits six months after he pleaded guilty on Jan. 5, 2018.
- Bennie Anderson (Nov. 21, 2017/May 30, 2019) — The Jersey City tax assessor's office employee accepted a $300 cash bribe in exchange for changing the tax description for a Jersey City property without official city approval. He was charged with attempting to obstruct, delay and affect interstate commerce by extortion under color of official duty.
- George Gilmore (April 17, 2019/May 7, 2019) — The former Ocean County Republican chairman was convicted last April of tax evasion for failing to submit payroll taxes collected from employees of his law firm and making a false application for a mortgage loan from a bank. He has yet to be sentenced.
- Ehab Abdelaziz/Andrea Fahrenholz (Oct. 3, 2019/April 16, 2019) — Abdelaziz, a Jersey City police officer, received an 18-month prison sentence for fraudulently collecting income for off-duty work he never performed. He was also ordered to pay $33,955 in restitution to Jersey City and forfeit $22,449. In 2015 and 2016, Abdelaziz paid fellow Jersey City police officer Fahrenholz, who assigned the off-duty work, $11,825 in bribe payments in exchange for assistance in submitting phony vouchers to the city. Fahrenholz was sentenced to five years of probation and eight months of home confinement for her role in the scheme, which reportedly involved 10 other officers besides Abdelaziz, as well as former Chief Philip Zacche. She admitted to taking more than $167,000 in fraudulent payments in the off-duty jobs program.
- John E. Schenberger Jr. (Jan. 2, 2008/April 9, 2019) — The Pennsauken police officer oversaw the department's in-house computers and was arrested for emailing hundreds of images of child pornography from a police computer. He was sentenced to 14 years in prison and 10 years of supervised release following his release.
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