Galloway settles with Spodofora’s secret police
Back in 2012, we first wrote about John Spodofora, the mayor of Stafford, New Jersey, when he pretended to be a secret squirrel Vietnam veteran. A few days later we published his records. Earl Galloway, one of Spodofora’s critics, started spoofing Spodofora on a Facebook page that he created. The mayor got upset and sent the full weight of his police force against a citizen critic. They used the same technology that police have available to track real internet criminals.
Ultimately, it was determined that Galloway had done nothing illegal. So he sued Spodofora and the town for using the police to conduct a baseless investigation of him that almost cost him his job. He settled in court the other day for $34,000, according to the Ashbury Park Press;
Spodofora had told police from the outset that he suspected Galloway was behind the Facebook page. Galloway had been an ardent critic of Spodofora’s military claims and had confronted him about it during public comment time at Stafford Township Council meetings, over which the mayor presides.
The “fraudulent Facebook profile,” as it is referred to in police documents, was photographed and stored as evidence. A Stafford police detective then contacted the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office, where an assistant prosecutor advised that there was indeed sufficient evidence for a wrongful impersonation investigation, according to the police report.
I wonder how the citizens of Stafford feel about their taxes paying for an investigation and now to settle a lawsuit so John Spodofora can continue to be a phony secret squirrel Navy special warfare Vietnam veteran.
Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures
Spuck Fodofora.
“…where an assistant prosecutor advised that there was indeed sufficient evidence for a wrongful impersonation investigation, according to the police report.”
What if the cops misunderstood the assistant prosecutor and the wrongful impersonation investigation was supposed to be against Spodofora?
Ahhh New Jersey. You might think the Sopranos was gone and done, but its really not.
He probably has his job because of some particular good fellas.
Huh – I think it would be a good idea to set up satire FB sites for idiots like Spodofora with Photoshopped images.
Can you see the image above in a Sgt. Shultz outfit?
Could hire Bernath to do the photoshopping since he has so much experience at it.
My money is not going to that mass of protoplasm.
Dang. Didn’t close my tags correctly… again.
Need more coffee.
Like this?
“I know nothing. NOTHING!”
That’s Hillary’s line.
Weren’t you going to edit the photo of Shultz? (smile)
Spofodora? FA’KHEEM!!
Can I get a TAH AMEN for Brother API?
Now if the voters in Joizee had the balls to vote that sorry sack of shit JOHN SPODOFORA out of office, things would be all right…
One word away from getting stuffed down the TDU.
That’s you, you fake fuck. And you wonder why a lot of guys on the boat hated riders when they mouthed off.
So what you’re saying is that Spotafungoid doesn’t like criticism? Doesn’t like it when people point fingers at him?
If you’re in politics and you don’t like criticism, you don’t belong there and you won’t be long there, either. If you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen.
WTH ever happened to NHS Sparky? He was one funny fellow.
He’s still here, just using a different name.
No kidding? Off the top of my head, I can think of two possibles. I can draw him out. All I have to do is mention New England and 500 foot long mobile homes with Quebec tags.
Low Blow…now he either has to respond of deal with an aneurysm.
Full weight of the police to take down a dissenter using satire to tell the truth about the lying mayor?
Shouldn’t that be some sort of criminal activity and this Sploogeafora fellow be investigated for committing these crimes?
VOV: you did see that he’s from the Jersey Soviet Socialist Republic (JSSR), right? That kind of crap (the “great unwashed” common sheeple being told what they can and can’t do by their political ruling elite) is simply “business as usual” in Jersey.
Unfortunately for Spodofora, he ran across a rare ram among the sheep. Hopefully the town government takes the award out of Spodofora’s future salary.
I think New Jersey is the state where the citizenry can’t be trusted to pump their own gas – it takes a specially trained operator.
we in Oregon are too stupid to pump our own also….
Can’t speak for Oregon, but from what little I’ve seen of Jersey . . . maybe it DOES require special training before someone from Jersey is competent to pump gas.
Or maybe the sheeple there just enjoy being told what to do and not to do by those “superior beings” in charge of the state. “For their own good,” of course.
I was in Fayetteville NC in the 1980’s and I distinctly remember a customer pumping gas into his automobile whilst holding a lit cigarette between his lips, also whilst other customers were nearby. THAT is why NJ doesn’t allow people to pump their own gas- because 2 /10 people are reckless morons
It’s so you won’t set yourself on fire. Joisey must be desperate for jobs.
They are just afraid they might get enough gas to head south.
You are correct. But, there are a ton of Sikhs who are more than willing to do it for you.
Did anyone catch this from the original article?
Under the terms of the settlement, which was signed in June, all of the parties have agreed never to disparage one another again nor discuss the settlement publicly. However, both sides are permitted to say it was “a good and fair settlement,” if contacted by reporters about the matter.
What the heck?
The settlement was probably directly paid for by the town’s insurance, but the premiums for that insurance are paid for by the taxpayers and they have the right to a certain level of transparency. The documents for the settlement should be open records.
As for “not disparaging each other,” $34,000 should be well below the going rate for selling your First Amendment rights to comment on political issues and specifically politicians.
gitarcarver: see my comment above re: Jersey. Keeping sh!t under wraps and out of the public eye is simply “business as usual” in that “wonderful place”.
Hondo,
We seem to have been “cross posting” so I didn’t see that until you pointed it out.
I am very involved with local politics here in Florida and I can tell you, it is not just New Jersey. Government officials are more concerned with the appearance of things than they are about doing what is right. So like an ostrich with their head in the sand, if they can keep people from knowing or seeing what is going on, they have accomplished a primary goal for them.
Yeah, but it’s my impression that in Jersey it’s been raised to the level of fine art.
So if someone else wants to start up a fake FB page about Faker McFakerson, its worth 34,000 bucks to you. Just sayin….
OH, just like our POTUS and the money to
ISISIran?Is he from NJ or Ct, I read in another article that he was a city official in Stafford Ct.
Jersey.
http://twp.stafford.nj.us/Directory.aspx?EID=70
Suck a fat one John Spodofora.
Spofodora. Sounds like a particularly foul and virulent genital fungal infection.
“What is it doc?”
“I’m very sorry son, you’ve got Spodofora”.
I “acquired” a bit of that in Subic….
http://www.app.com/story/news/investigations/watchdog/government/2016/08/17/stafford-settles-secret-police-lawsuit/88921600/
“When confronted with such records, Spodofora said that his service in the Navy remained classified as a government secret to this day and that was why there was no public record of it.”
Well where have we heard that before?
This guy is an insult to all the intel “spooks” who rode with us, not to mention the submarine force and Navy in general.
You could have been happy doing a job that few people had the brains and chops to do, but noooooo.
Goddamnit…I thought my cat had been hit by a car but is actually attached to this idiot’s head…at least he’s alive but without dignity…maybe being run over would have been more merciful…
Hopefully this dude will fall of in a ditch….
What I’d like to know is why the cops agreed to do Spodofora’s bidding, and why any of them are still employed.
Just curious.
I think we should start an investigation to see if that’s really his hair, or a secret squirrel dyed white.
He’s the spitting image of the Billy Batts character from “Goodfellas.” “Now go home and get your f*ckin’ shine box.”
Hello all,
If there’s any Sailors on here can you help me out? I was in the Army and Navy rank structure confuses the hell outta me. WTF is a Navy Command Master Chief Petty Officer Earl Galloway? Isn’t that two (Maybe three) separate ranks? Is Earl a poser as well? Thank you for your help, it’s greatly appreciated.