Thursday, July 07, 2011

Former Brigantine condo officials charged with theft, fraud

Brigantine police charged two former Spartan Harbour Condominium officials and a local contractor with theft and conspiracy in an alleged fraudulent billing scheme against the city, police said.

The charges allege that from 2004 to 2008, former Spartan Harbour property manager Walter Czyzewicz, former Spartan Harbor board President Richard DeBenedetto, and Robert Musumeci, the operator of the Moose’s Cans dumpster service in Brigantine, conspired to defraud the city of Brigantine of more than $75,000.

“The city reimburses all condo associations in town for their trash removal based on a certain formula,” Lt. James Bennett said in a release, “and according to reports, there was a marked increase in the amount the Spartan Harbour Association was submitting from a company known as Moose’s Cans.”

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The Spartan has since been renamed Dolphin Cove Condo

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No one is safe, not even the city.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

“The city reimburses all condo associations in town for their trash removal based on a certain formula,”

Do the condo associations reimburse the homeowners for the property taxes used to pay for trash removal?

Or are the homeowners still being double-taxed for the privilege of being governed their associations?