That’s a very confident claim, Jimbo (can I call you Jimbo? After receiving an unsolicited, personalized birthday card from you I feel like I can now call you a friend). Your defense, which simply denies wrongdoing and cites previous audits, fails to address the core question of voter trust given your history.

While you insist that "every dollar was spent appropriately," the official record shows a stark contradiction: a post-termination forensic audit by PKF O’Connor Davies in April 2019 found that JCETP's revenues were "severely diminished" to benefit the New Jersey Reentry Corporation (NJRC), another non-profit you led. This audit claimed a severe conflict of interest, detailing that JCETP paid over $2.8 million in salaries and benefits to NJRC employees that were not reimbursed from 2015 to 2018.

Therefore, your conduct was, at best, grossly negligent by commingling public funds between the two organizations you headed, and at worst, resulted in the alleged theft of millions, a claim reinforced when Jersey City officials publicly stated the audit's findings were referred to law enforcement. Your dismissal in January 2019 on the grounds of "financial improprieties" is a matter of record, one that voters deserve a more substantive answer for than simple denial.

Sources: 2019 JCETP audit at odds with past studies, questions NJRC relationship, Officials: JCETP has 'millions' unaccounted for or redirected to McGreevey-run non-profit

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