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Ocean Freeholder's Daughter Steals From Taxpayers-Literally

1/16/2013

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Ocean County Freeholder Director John P. Kelly's daughter, an employee in the municipal tax offices, has plead guilty to stealing more than $40,000 from township taxpayers.

Dawn Marie Kelly, 30, has admitted to pocketing cash payments she handled when property owners came into the municipal complex to settle tax liens. 

The money was stolen to support her drug addiction and she could face a sentence of up to five years in jail. 

Kelly was not arrested, having admitted responsibility upon being first confronted about the missing money and she agreed to plead guilty before a grand jury could indict her. 

The Little Egg Harbor Police Department referred the matter to the state Department of Law and Public Safety, he said.

Michel Paulhus, a spokesman for the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office, said the matter was referred to the state to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest.

On the five-member, all-Republican Board of Freeholders, Kelly’s father is the director of law and public safety for the county government.

Dawn Marie Kelly had been a municipal employee since 2004 and had a salary of 37000 dollars.
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sheriff Kelley
1/16/2013 01:26:03 pm

Maybe that's why he wants to be ocean county sheriff?

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yussel
1/17/2013 02:21:22 am

It is NOT always a parents fault when children don't turn out as they wish. Freeholder Director Kelly has been a friend to Lakewood. Why the bashing? Do we bash the many members of our community whose children get arrested for various reasons fron car theft to shoplifting to drugs to use your own imagination?

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Thelakewoodtimes
1/17/2013 06:02:17 pm

This was reprinted from a local paper. Nothing against Kelly. We wish him all the best. But the lesson we do see from this is the rampant nepotism that goes on in our local government is not a good thing.

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