Putting the thumb on the Union County taxpayers' scale

Someone -- Charlotte DeFillippo? Ray Lesniak? -- is costing Union County taxpayers a pretty penny for job hanky-panky.

No, not the Cryan kind.

The kind that comes from picking the son of a former Union Township mayor to head up the County's Weights And Measures Division -- responsible for seeing you are not being ripped off by gas pumps or produce and meat scales throughout the county.

So far the County has had to settle with two employees who were passed over so the young man could have the job -- for a total of $550,000 -- plus legal fees which have yet to be fully tabulated. (The plaintiff's legal fees, which must be paid by the County, amount so far in this phase, to $34,000).

The story is in the Ledger [see more here...]

By the way, the head of the Division of Weights and Measures reports to Plainfield city councilor Harold Gibson, who, in his day job, is Union County's Director of Public Safety.

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Star-Ledger: "Rejecting employees remains costly"

-- Dan Damon

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