Leo Glodzik (LAG Towing... "Cars for Cash") is set to receive 30 months in federal prison.
Wilkes-Barre Chief Gerard Dessoye
(1) Was forced to resign because of his support for "Cars for Cash" as well as his "friendly" contact with a woman, a felon who was a running a major drug house.
(2) Dessoye then resigned from King's College Head of Security because of his predatory nature towards gals young enough to be his daughter.
Former Mayor Leighton's rap sheet is so long I will leave you with one anecdote. Citizens of Wilkes-Barre posted a billboard of the Mayor stealing city gas (happened too many time to count. Here it is...
How much gas was stolen?
Enough to drive around the earth 27 times!
Anti-corruption activists like Frank Sorick and I have gone as far as we can. On the backs of our work and local news articles, JJ MURPHY is being exposed across the country. When Scranton FBI Director Quinn makes such bold statements he indicates a cause for action which should include arrests, indictments, and imprisonment.
U.S. Attorney Peter J Smith allegedly served as an impediment to justice. He is now gone. It is time that criminals pay.
- Former WB Mayor Tom Leighton
- Former Chief of Police Gerard Dessoye
- Head of Luzerne County Detectives Mike Dessoye
- District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis
- Asst DA Sam Sanguedolce
- Pa State Police Captain James Degnan
- King's College President James Ryan and more... Anyone who covers up a felony becomes a felon them self. It is that simple. How many felonies have been covered up (to include stolen cars)? One thousand would be a low estimate.
Remember JJ Murphy trying to scam up to $1100 per hour for parking authority (parking lots) business. Well JJ Murphy can run but he cannot hide (he was former WB city Manager).
MURPHY = $300 per hour
FOX ROTHCHILD (Philadelphia) = $400 per hour
MURRAY UFBERG (Solicitor) = $200 per hour (an approximation)
TOTAL = $ 1,100 per hour !! A $38,000 tab!!
NOTE: When Murphy was exposed he Never again showed his face at a public Wilkes-Barre Parking Authority meeting. Draw your own conclusion.
GOALS CONSULTING? In the opinion of many, an apocryphal business set up by JJ Murphy to deceive and add a false sense of legitimacy.
NEWSPAPER HEADLINES in TEXAS ( ): Red flags begin to surface on city manager finalists.
Read News article HERE which makes multiple references to Wilkes-Barre.
Background on JJ MURPHY and dealings in Wilkes-Barre... CLICK HERE
Wilkes-Barre Taxpayer’s Association c/o President Frank Sorick
On behalf of Wilkes-Barre Taxpayer’s
Association officers…
Chapter 39 of PA Code § 3922 - Theft by
deception.
Personal Criminal Complaint prepared in 2012 against JJ Murphy
Wilkes-Barre Taxpayer’s Association c/o President Frank Sorick
125 Waller St
Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702
prepared by Mark Robbins (570) 592-3246
On behalf of Wilkes-Barre Taxpayer’s
Association officers…
·
President: Frank R
Sorick (570) 574-6395
·
Vice-President: Tom Hirko
·
Secretary: Ellen Evers
·
Communications Coordinator: Dorene Schutz
·
Parliamentarian: Linda J. Urban
·
Treasurer: Karen Ceppa-Hirko
To:
11-1-01
Magisterial District Judge
Judge
Cronauer
100 Hazle
St Wilkes-Barre Pa 18702
Phone (570)
825-7373
Dear Magisterial
District Judge Cronauer:
We, the Wilkes-Barre Taxpayer’s Association,
would like to file a complaint against JJ Murphy (30 Reliance Drive in
Wilkes-Barre 18702) according to Chapter
39 of the Pa Code; specifically #
3922 – theft by deception.
Mr. Cronauer, we respectfully ask that you recuse yourself due to your past
relationship with Mayor Thomas Leighton who has been a party to these
allegations.
We
also ask that the District Attorney
recuse itself and send forward to the Attorney General. We say this
because of the personal relationships between the Mayor Leighton and Detectives
Noone and Dessoye.
Chapter 39 of PA Code § 3922 - Theft by
deception.
(a) Offense defined. A person is guilty of theft if he intentionally obtains or withholds property of another by
deception. A person deceives if he intentionally:
(1) creates or reinforces a false impression, including false impressions as to law, value, intention or other state of mind; but deception as to a person's intention to perform a promise shall not be inferred from the fact alone that he
did not subsequently perform the promise;
(2) prevents another from acquiring information which would affect his judgment of a transaction; or
(3) fails to correct a false impression which the deceiver previously created or reinforced, or which the deceiver knows to be influencing another to whom he stands in a fiduciary or confidential relationship.
We believe that a case can be made
for (1) JJ Murphy intentionally obtaining property (money) via deception, (2)
preventing others from acquiring this information, (3) and failing to correct a
false impression.
OVERBILLING ISSUE Essentially this an overbilling issue based on deception and fraud. Precedent was set for
deception in the following ways (some of these issues discussed more on next
page):
1)
JJ Murphy billed the
public at $ 300/hour for calls from Newspapers inquiring about his
obscene pay rate.
2)
Murphy also billed the
at $ 300/hour for conversing with
the Mayor on same issue (see
last time sheet)
3)
Murphy lied to the newspapers when he claimed
picking his brother’s (Patrick’s) law firm was coincidental.
4)
Murphy hid his pay rate
(charged through Fox Rothschild) from the public and the Parking Authority
5)
After $34,800 in pay,
Murphy has yet to show any written work, calculations, valuations etc…
6)
For 8 days work, he
charged $16,800. His times sheets reflect projects through # 9… but # 5 is
missing.
7)
The only document
issued, the RFQ (Request for Qualifications), was issued by Fox Rothschild (not
Murphy)
We ask for: 1) A full audit of his JJ
Murphy’s time sheets to include phone records and verifications of time worked.
2) An investigation into Murphy deceptively
naming his own pay rate without consent of the Parking Authority. Murphy secretly embedded his
pay/pay rate within a law firm Can it get any more deceptive?
Summary of the proposed lease of the W-B Parking Authority and
the players involved
W-B Mayor Thomas Leighton
is the ringleader. He had a bird’s eye view of the scam and is letting it play
out. He is proposing to lease the W-B parking authority to a private concern
and is asking a ridiculous fee of $20,000,000. The Parking Authority has a cash
balance and Leighton is distributing the money to his campaign contributors. All
the parties below are in on the action.
JJ Murphy, former City Administrator, asked Leighton to pick his
brother’s (Patrick Murphy’s) law firm (Fox Rothschild) for the project. The Parking authority claimed that Leighton
“pushed this firm” on them. The parking Authority:
A) Was never told the JJ Murphy had any connection to the Fox Rothchild’s
firm
B) When questioned by the press, Murphy said picking Fox Rothschild was a coincidence.
C) The Parking Authority was not informed of Murphy’s embedded, outrageous
fees of $300/hour (below).
JJ Murphy (and/or his consulting company “Goals
Consulting.”), in a most deceptive way, embedded/concealed/hid
payments to himself within the bills issued by the Fox Rothschild law firm to the W-B
Parking Authority. These bills were paid by the Wilkes-Barre parking
authority which had no knowledge
that $300 per hour was going to Murphy. Herein
lies the deception (at least part of it). Upon receipt of the payments made
by the Parking Authority, JJ Murphy (and/or “Goals Consulting”) took his “cut.”
At $300 per hour, Murphy has received at least $34,800 in 2012 from Fox
Rothschild.
When “word got out” that Murphy was being paid $300 per
hour (now$ 400) – people were stunned. W-B City Council members were shocked.
The Parking Authority was surprised. Even police on the street were taken aback
(and understandably angered). It made headlines in two papers.
The Fox Rothschild
law firm (Philadelphia) is
represented by Alan Wohlstetter. He
has fleeced the parking authority by spending over $110,000 dollars. What do we
have to show for that money?
A)
Ads in trade magazines
and
B)
A poorly crafted “RFQ”
(Request for Qualifications). See http://www.wilkes-barre.pa.us/forms/parkRFQ.pdf
.
The $ 20 M price
is a misrepresentation. On
page 6 a revered consultant (Desman) is referenced. Yet Leighton dropped Desman
because they valued the parking authority “way lower than $20 M” (according to
Ed Katarsky who sits on the Authority’s board and was present for the
conference call). Leighton then issued a “gag order” on whoever heard this
figure.
This report is nothing but a “data dump.” There are no numbers to support the insane valuation
of $20 M.
Murray Ufberg is the Solicitor
for the Parking Authority. He plays
the role as the “good company man” to Leighton. For example, an “RFP” (Request
for Proposal of Services) must be issued on any proposal greater than $10,000.
This would include the hiring of Fox Rothschild. Ufberg should have insisted
that this project be put up for bid. This is the legal and correct way. Ufberg ignored
this legality. As a result, Fox Rothschild was hired illegitimately as a place
where JJ Murphy could embed/conceal/launder
payments to himself.
Thus far the wealth has been spread generously: Two
law firms, two consultants, a PR firm (Shelley), and City hall have all been
involved. I believe that I know, perhaps more than any other private citizen,
how much corruption is taking place. You see I used to do this work.
Once you understand the financial tools for valuations (Payback Period,
Internal Rate of Return, Net Present Value, Discounted cash Flows etc.) one
begins to realize that it is not too difficult. You may find this hard to
believe… but I used to do valuations such as these in as little as an hour… and
I did them routinely.
- Lehigh University Masters in Business Administration
MBA (4.0 GPA/Valedictorian)
- Certification in Management Accounting (CMA)
- Certification in Financial Management (CFM)
- Wake Forest
Economics BA
- Equities Trader
- Career as Senior
Financial Analyst for Fortune 200 Company
- Career as Senior
Financial Analyst for National Retailer
The depth of their research has been something like this:
If Indianapolis got “x,” then I think we could get “y.” This isn’t research…
it’s a stab in the dark. Not surprisingly, the only legitimate consultant
(Desman) gave a number nowhere near $20M and was summarily fired! We can’t mortgage Wilkes-Barre’s future on
10th grade analyses and gag orders! A critical first step is to
prosecute those who steal by deception and who plunder public
money.
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