Hi Tommy -
That's because the Conover case was moved to Somerset County for
investigation, to avoid a conflict with Monmouth which would've been both his
employer
and his accuser.
When the grand jury delivered the indictment, the case had to be
moved under the Attorney General's office, because Conover's alleged crime
wasn't committed in Somerset. Since the AG's office doesn't distribute press
releases like the county prosecutors do, none was distributed on Conover. I
got
the information because, after reading the Monmouth County release about
Doggett, I actually called the Mon. Cty prosecutor's office and asked for a
status
on Conover's charges.
As a result, I was faxed information from Matt Murphy of the
Somerset County Prosecutor's office, who was for this purpose made a deputy
attorney general. I did see that Bob Jordan of APP did post a story on
Conover yesterday. I'd have to go back to see if that one mentioned Doggett
though.
I should've added to my story that Conover is represented by
Alton Kenney. Kenney's in Jordan's report, saying that his county car was
"inoperable," so Conover borrowed a private vehicle. And it was gas for
official
use that he pumped into the privately owned car.
What bothers me is that whether Conover is convicted or not, no
one has looked into his handling of Asbury Park's emergency management. On
the County Emergency Coordinator's web site the office bragged that it has a
100% record -- all municipalities in Monmouth County had current emergency
plans filed with the office. When I looked at our plan, which required an
afternoon of sitting outside City Manager Terry Reidy's office to gain access
to the
plan, all I found was a stack of loosely piled pages with information on
some of them dating back decades, with the names of companies to call some of
whom went out of business years ago. Dead people to call. Someone has to look
into this. How many shore communities are in a similar situation? I know the
AP fire chief is working on getting the report together, but last I asked -- a
year later -- it still wasn't ready.
Maureen
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