Suspicious Vehicle Auction Today by the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office (Passaic: 2015, attorney)

[BergenCountyCorruption]

Just a heads up to anyone in Bergen County.

http://njcorruption.us/2017/06/14/fraud-charges-bergen-prosecutors-attempt-another-suspicious-auction/

Two Years After Top Prosecutor was Charged with Fraud, the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office is at it Again Using the Same Auction Company

In 2015, a then little known community activist, Bill Brennan, and Pix11’s Howard Thompson exposed a scheme in which former Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli sold off fake baseball memorabilia at a county action conducted by the Caspert Management Company. [URL="http://pix11.com/2015/04/30/assistant-county-prosecutor-faces-criminal-charge-after-pix11-investigation/"]A Hackensack judge eventually charged former Bergen County Executive Assistant Prosecutor Frank Puccio with fraud after Brennan filed a citizen’s complaint.[/URL]
Now, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir Grewal is planning on selling “seized” and “confiscated” vehicles, including a 2010 Rolls Royce Phantom, at an auction in Hackensack on June 17, 2017. [URL="http://www.caspert.com/auction-details/?auctionGuid=064e48d9-c63b-4c08-bd00-c82004a9200d&utm_source=BCPO+Car+Auction&utm_campa ign=BCPO+Cars&utm_medium=email"]According to Caspert’s auction website[/URL], the following vehicles will be sold by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office:[INDENT]This public auction will feature a 2010 Rolls Royce Ghost, 2008 Audi R8, 2010 Land Rover Range Rover, 2003 Cadillac Escalade, 2013 Mercedes Benz ML63, 2006 Yamaha Motorcycle, 2008 Honda CBR Motorcycle, and More!
[/INDENT]The auction website doesn’t even mention that the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office is selling the vehicles. The [URL="https://bcpo.net"]front page of the prosecutor’s website[/URL], however, contains a link to the auction page.
The time John Molinelli decided to sell fake memorabilia
On May 3, 2014, Caspert and the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office conducted an auction in Mahwah where Molinelli sold baseball memorabilia that the prosecutor’s office had seized from a drug suspect. Caspert received a fee of 15% according to a Bergen County Freeholder Board Resolution.
Pix11’s Howard Thompson reported at the time:[INDENT]PIX11 reported in November that the prosecutor’s office made false statements in an official document so it could get a no bid contract to hire Prosecutor John Molinelli’s chosen autograph authenticator. That authenticator, Drew Max, has a dubious reputation in the field. He authenticated hundreds of signatures on the items Molinelli’s office had seized.
Molinelli subsequently sold the items at two auctions, bringing in close to $50,000. After paying the auction house its percentage, the balance went to Molinelli’s seized asset fund.
[/INDENT]It turned out that memorabilia was fake and Molinelli knew it was fake before he sold it off.[INDENT]However, about three weeks after PIX11 first reported on the false statements and evidence that signatures were bogus, Molinelli agreed to issue refunds to all purchasers requesting them.
Molinelli denied any wrongdoing when PIX11 spoke with him in September outside the Bergen County Criminal Justice Building. He also defended his choice of authenticators. But he bolted from our camera after we asked about a document showing he had been warned in previous litigation that the bulk of the signed items he’d seized were bogus.
[/INDENT]The 2014-2015 fiasco resulted in an investigation by the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office, the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office, [URL="http://law.justia.com/cases/new-jersey/appellate-division-unpublished/2016/a5440-14.html"]a decision by the Appellate Division (thanks to Bill Brennan)[/URL], and an ongoing Government Records Council proceeding.
On April 25, 2017, the state Government Records Council revived a 2015 case brought by [URL="http://njcorruption.us/2017/04/16/bergen-prosecutors-in-aakash-dalal-case-received-trips-to-israel-from-jewish-group-as-kickbacks/"]Aakash Dalal[/URL] and ordered the Attorney General’s Office to turn over several emails between Assistant Attorney General Michael Williams and John Molinelli. Williams had quashed a criminal investigation into Molinelli involving the 2014 auction. [URL="http://www.nj.gov/grc/decisions/pdf/2015-280.pdf"]The council ruled that Aakash Dalal’s “argument regarding the non-existence of investigatory reports does bring into question” the Attorney General’s Office’s refusal to disclose the records regarding the auction.[/URL]
The state panel is currently privately reviewing the documents to determine whether they should be publicly released.

[Retriever]

There may actually have been some interesting information in your post, but I refuse to attempt to read that wall o' text.

(Hint: Proper spacing, and the use of both paragraph breaks and appropriate punctuation will induce people to read your posts, even when they consist largely of cut-and-paste, as yours does.)

[Gerania]

A paragraph would have been welcome.