Salvatore “Sal” Bonaccorso is in hot water, Save Jerseyans.
The long-time Republican mayor of Clark Township, New Jersey is facing multiple state corruption charges which were announced on Monday; his alleged public crimes include misusing township equipment and municipal employees to operate his landscaping business.
What’s more, according to the N.J. Attorney General’s Office, Bonaccorso “and his landscaping and underground storage tank company, Bonaccorso & Son LLC, fraudulently used an engineer’s name, license number, as well as, in many cases, forging the engineer’s signature on permit applications submitted to municipalities for tank removals — knowing that the engineer was neither supervising nor in any way involved in those projects, and without any legally required tank inspections actually taking place at those job sites.”
“Our complaint alleges the mayor was committing criminal acts for many years to enable his company to offer services it was not authorized or permitted to perform,” said Thomas J. Eicher, Executive Director of the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) . “The people’s faith and confidence in government is eroded when public officials act improperly, and my office will continue its diligent work to root out corruption.”
You can read the full AG release announcing the charge here.
Bonaccorso is charged with 2nd degree official misconduct, 3rd degree tampering with public records or information, 3rd degree witness tampering, 4th degree forgery, and 4th degree falsifying or tampering with records.
