Mayor Robinson-Briggs' former City Administrator Carlton McGee, who left under a cloud last October after revelations about large unauthorized expenditures and a major goof in rolling over BANs that jeopardized the City's credit rating, has mysteriously disappeared.
(Evidently not everyone in Jersey City thought highly of McGee at the time Mayor Robinson-Briggs handpicked him to lead her Administration. See these posts on two forums: "Carlton the Roach will become Business Administrator of Plainfield", "I'm serving him with papers also", and this from the law firm of Ravinder S. Bhalla "McGee would benefit financially from contracts with Jersey City".)
McGee left Plainfield to take up duties as Chief Financial Officer for the Atlanta Board of Education. Nice step up, huh? And probably a nice step up salary-wise.
But a couple of months ago, rumors began circulating that McGee had either been fired or forced to resign in Atlanta.
Trouble was, research didn't turn up any evidence it was so. So it went unreported and was soon forgotten.
Until last weekend, when the topic came up in conversation with friends who said they had heard recently that McGee was, indeed, gone.
It seems he is.
Here are screenshots of two documents from the Atlanta Board of Ed (the links take you to PDF files).
On February 12, 2007 (above), McGee presents to the Board on the 5-year strategic financial plan per the Board Briefing Minutes.
On May 14, 2007 (abovd), a perusal of the Atlanta BOE organization chart (PDF) shows the Chief Financial Officer's position is 'vacant'.
When and why did he disappear? That remains something of a mystery.
The online Atlanta BOE board minutes don't reflect any action taken in the matter. Nor does the Atlanta Journal-Constitution turn up any reference to McGee and the school district.
Maybe he's headed back to Plainfield?
Could be. He still has a virtual life on the City's website, according to the Organization Chart (PDF) that has not been updated since last October.
Past articles on former City Administrator Carlton McGee --
The 'Quad-Tech' Deal
- (1) A 6-figure contract-less deal
- (2) What was it the City wanted?
- (3) What was QuadTech to deliver?
- (4) The 'extra' page - sloppiness or fraud?
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It stands to reason that Carlton would leave Atlanta because his partners in crime live in New Jersey and New Jersey is a bit more lucrative since he can approve contracts with no questions. Well, there are questions and I can shed a great deal of light on how it’s done and tell you exactly who the players in the Quadtech Systems contract.
Valerie Drew, Carlton Mcgee and Robert Minor are all part of Quadtech Systems. Let’s start at the end of the list and work forward. Robert Minor is the CTO for the State of New Jersey and his signature appears on the contract that was submitted. I don’t know the laws on collusion so I can’t say if this is illegal or not. Carlton Mcgee (on the inside) can push the contract through with no questions and bypass the bidding process. Valerie Drew (Carlton McGee’s Lover) is the company front that creates the contracts and submits them. How do I know this, I’m Valerie Drew’s soon to be ex-husband and business partner (thanks Carlton – you are morally corrupt). I have identical contracts that where submitted to Jersey City and know all to well the pattern of how these things are done. I will be more then happy to testify and or show evidence to this. Yes, I can prove what I am saying.
Quadtech Systems web site was taken down on July 25, 2007, the day after I found out who the players where, but get this, the web site domain name was registered in May 2006, I believe this was within 4 months prior to submitting the contract and the domain is registered for 2 years. This just happened to be the same time frame needed for Carlton to create this bid and Quadtech Systems to come up with an answer for the bid that they new was coming before it was actually created. From all that I know and can see, the bid package is fraudulent and a well planned scheme to make lots of money while staying under the public radar and that includes City Council which Carlton has no respect for no matter what city he is in.
The additional page on the contract which its signature is questionable and different then the one on the Non-Collusion Affidavit, if forged would be the work of Valerie Drew who has a history of forging documents, how do I know, she has forged my name on legal documents more then once.
The format of the contract and the Quadtech Systems logo is the identical format of InterWide Solutions, the company that I was partner with Valerie Drew. I made it a point of dissolving the company since it became corrupt at the hands of Valerie Drew who was working with Carlton.
Please, feel free to contact me if you would like hard copy evidence surrounding this matter. If bid rigging has taken place, I think every penny should be returned to the city and prosecution should be mandatory.
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