I wonder how many of those jobs are necessary or were they created for the individual. How many could be held (if necessary) by much less compensated individuals??

this is why closing the barn door after the animals get out isn't cutting it. We need to retroactively implement reform. Just make like it's a private company and simply take away their pensions or jobs,. Round up these overpaid crooks, I mean cops and throw them into the dungeon already. i know. It's perfectly legal. It's morally disgusting and these so called honorable men know it's wrong too, yet because they can they do. Cops are getting a bad name because of things like this. they should be ashamed and resign immediately.

As a candidate for Monmouth County Sheriff in 2010, I introduced this as a key issue (among several other important matters that continue to be unaddressed) during the campaign. My warning at that time was that instead of cutting the Sheriff's Office budget, as promised, if elected the Sheriff Golden would increase spending by, among other things, hiring more people (a prediction that has come true).
While the double dipping is egregious in itself, there is a much more serious issue that 2 1/2 years later still has remained unaddressed. As is pointed out in the NJ Watchdog report (which is almost 3 years old now- with frequent updates even to this day) the real issue is the illegality with which Mr. Donovan was appointed (by now Lt. Governor Guadagno) to the position of Chief of the Law Enforcement Division (and then surrepticiously re-positioned in the position of Chief Warrant Officer, a position that didn't exist and had been omitted from the Sheriff's Office organizational chart by order of Sheriff Guadagno). This is true despite the fact that his duties remained the same, he had been publicized as Chief of the LE Division, and even the Sheriff Office's website listed him as LE Chief. Most would say, so what? Here's the so what. Had Mr. Donovan continued in the position of LE Chief, he would have been unable under the police pension law to continue to receive his pension as a retired detective, WHILE RECEIVING HIS SALARY AS LE CHIEF.
Please read the link above.

Michael- all I can say is read the NJ Watchdog article. It links all of the documents that connect the dots of these shady transactions. I encourage everyone to read the article and to review all of the documents to get the full picture.

you are all so corrupt from the mayors to the police to the unions to any state worker this why NJ is the biggest joke and I am selling my house every person in public office/job in NJ should just kill themselves so we can start fresh and maybe have a chance

I wonder if these jobs could go to people who need jobs instead people who are already making a buck why be so greedy? also how you able take a pension and contiibute to a pension at the same time? it dose not seem fair

does anyone know if they will get a second separate pension or one big one

wow how did this get by. donovan under investigation this the first i have heard about this he has done this doubie dipping before. thanks for the information Eric I hope more people read your post

It is not Christie the people of New Jersey should be mad at it is these three scum bags and others like them that work the system at the taxpayers expense and then laugh all the way to the bank. He is at least trying to clean up the mess that has been created through years of neglect and by elected officials that do not represent the people that put them in office caring only about what they can get out of the system for themselves, family and friends.

Christie is in charge and he went after teachers even after their pension funds were looted by whitman. Now he let's these crooks double dip? He, the highest lawyer in our land, can't go after them retro actively? if he and whitman can rob pensions then they can take them back from these guys. Especially or maybe only if we demand it physically with some sort of demostration of our will to not only end it for future but end it from the past. If you get robbed and see the guy that robbed you spending your money in a gogo bar or resturant, would you go and get your money back? That's exactly what's happening except we are watching them slip your dollars into their bras. lol.

Dennis in the report christie is responsible for 1 third of the double dippers and he said he would stop this kind of shady stuff .that is why we are mad

Stalled in committee? I would like to know the names of the politicians who are NOT against double-dipping. If they're so brave, let them come forth and explain why.

Even worse, undersheriff Dawson was hired into a job he wasn't qualified for. He retired as chief-of-police in Spring Lake and was then put in the role of technology director, in charge of computers, communications and developing the county wide police dispatch system which is rife with problems now in no small part due to the inexperience and lack of knowledge of both Dawson and Golden. Spring Lake is a great little town but as a qualifier for taking on police technology for the whole county as well as developing a county-wide dispatch system? Definitley not! Nice gig if you can get it but I'm sure there were more qualified people out there with the abundance of unemployed in the communications and systems technology fields. His $96,432 pension for doing 25-yrs on the crime riddled streets of Spring Lake is bad enough but to add another almost $94,000 as the double-dip is ludicrous.

if u work for the state it is because u are too lazy/stupid to get a job in the real world privatize everything

state workers r lazy and worthless crooks always looking for an angle to suck more $$ from the taxpayer

@Michael Balzary: Eric Brophy is absolutely correct about the Donovan-Guadagno job title roulette they played. How nobody got indicted or fired over that one is amazing. But even more amazing is that she moved on to the lieutenant governor's position to further her disregard of the law and contribute to the pension mess in NJ by padding the pension roles with her cronies, flunkies and political hacks.

Why does an important article like this slide away in 1/2 a day and get replaced by a pig roast??

@Mike Rath: that's exactly why it is stalled in committee. All of that ilk count on people forgetting about the abuse and getting distracted with the next parade or big game. It falls to the back pages or out of the news altogether and the corrupt system goes on. Why is it stalled in committee? Because they are all guilty of it. Nobody can start pointing the finger at others when they know the finger can be pointed back at them. So they make a little noise but not enough to get things changed. And they are also afraid because they know the first Donovan or Dawson to go down can bring others just as guilty down with them and wouldn't that be a problem for all the politicos feeding their friends and buddies at the public money trough. Nobdy in power wants the system to change so it'll just keep on going and going ala Governor Christie packing the Port Authority with patronage jobs for those he owes favors to and we just keep on paying and paying for it.

Everybody here make such great points I just think it's just a matter of you have the ability to feel shame obviously none of these people feel any shame I also think it's a matter for the media to keep this in front of everybody so we all can see how much these guys are stealing and then maybe then. I think the only way to change this is to rub our nose in this scandal( and yes I say scandal because it is a scam perpetrated on all of us) to the point where we know these guys by name and by face we don't give him a minute rest every time we see them tell them how we feel maybe the pressure will make them quit

The NJ State Pension System borders on the Byzantine. Just go to the Asbury Park Press website and check out their Data Universe for "Double Dippers". Not only do these people collect pensions while taking other jobs, they also receive huge amounts of tax dollars claiming unused sick and vacation days upon "retirement." There are over 4,000 of these people!!! Some very illustrious names who know how to game the system.

And to make the whole smelly mess worse, there is no vetting for these jobs, no open announcements or job postings so that others can apply. Jobs are created, titles are made up and promised to those next in line to belly-up to the political patronage bar where you and I pay the tab. One day they are working as a police chief or county investigator and the next they are suddenly retiring and moving into an undersheriff's job that nobody else knew/or was told about. These jobs aren't filled by the best and brightest, only by the most politically connected.

You would think they would post these jobs so we could get qualified people not just hacks it just goes to show they don't want the best person . I would love to post their phone numbers email account numbers. Some public shaming we do them good

@Ray: You'd think posting these jobs would be a good thing but it isn't to them. Corruption thrives behind secrecy, it doesn't survive with openness and transparency. The "Good Old Boys" network (and now "Good Old Girls" too) flourishes behind closed doors. If you haven't, read Eric Brophy's links above and look at the lengths the state is going to in order to cover-up and hide the truth about the Guadagno as sheriff affair.

Hey lonestar yes I did read that Link and boy it was an eye opener I think eric brohpy.and for That matter you have a lot of good knowledge on this stuff only wish we got it somewhere else but this is the best way because I never would have come across this information

I also managed to turn to other people on to those links

I hope Eric runs again. Sounds like he's passionate about changing things.

we should have vince gopal or somebody actually post the 51s photos and addresses like they do to other common criminals robbing in broad daylight. Would that endanger them or be unconstitutional? i mean them no physical harm nor should anybody else. but we've got to do more to bring all this corruption and those that are commiting it out into the light.

I don't care if they are democrat or republican it does not make a difference to steal from all of us. lets stop trying to make this a partisan issue and I think you would get more people to support us going after both of these people Democrat and Republican thieves and eric B you got my vote if you run again

Remember folks, double-dipping is not illegal; perhaps unethical, however, what Kim Guadagno did as sheriff was outright fraud so her friend Micheal Donovan could still collect his pension and receive a county salary. Guadagno, and current Sheriff Shaun Golden are the blame for this mess. Read the below hyperlink for more ad nauseam details:
http://newjersey.watchdog.org/2011/10/10/the-golden-age-of-double-dipping-in-monmouth-county/

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