The soil case was being heard in Judge Mary Margaret McVeighs court. There was a court order against the Romboughs to not enter the property who could not even preserve and protect their documents that were threatened by flood waters. The judge was reported to have been angry that they attempted to save their papers.
Sorry, I do not recall the judge having anything to say about the 3rd party who somehow helped himself to these vehicles?
Come to find out now it was all a big misunderstang?

Article is written exactly like Jos. Affilto talks. He addresses the complaint in one sentence, then removes his client from the complaint is less than one sentence, then blames everyone else named in the complaint in 2 ( or more )paragraphs.

Judge, screw due process, mcveigh. I see.The perfect example as to why judges should not be tenured. Looks like she used her cronies in Wayne to punish poor Scott. Good for Afflito. Congratulations Scott. Unfortunately, it must have cost you a pretty penny for your due process. Charge back the "screw due process" judge. She has plenty of money.

Why don't you quote the Wanaque judge on why the case was dismissed, as opposed to the non-impartial lawyer of the defendant?

Was Kooreman fired from his job because of the charge or was he already out?

Well, Donatello "nobody". Very Good. It took awhile to figure out your alias. As a matter of fact, I like it. Do you have the quote from the Wanaque judge? You have my curiosity.

I for one is glad this is over. Having known Scott for many years as a Fire Inspectior for Wayne Township. He was always fair and professional when performing his duties. I believe he was a great loss to the township and do hope now that this has been cleared up the Township will offer him his job back and compensate him for the time he was not working. Best of luck Scott in what ever you decide to do. I'm also glad you are back serving on the fire department protecting us when needed. You are a true example of a public servant, always giving of yourself first. That I believe is something that has been lost over the years.

If you are a public employee then you can do what you want as the rest of us are ordered to keep out then?

Stewart,Being a friend of Scott , the reason he was there is he is also a member of the Wayne Fire Department Special Responce Team that deals with Rescue and Haz-mat(hazardous materials). Being a fire inspector, his duties is to keep Wayne safe which he has been doing for over 35 years as a VOLUNTEER fireman.. If you drive by the site there was drums that were left by the owner that kids found and dumped over. The Fire Department and DEP(department of enviromental protection) were called to the site to cleam up the spill that is right next to the river. If it was not for scott being there,that oil would have made it to the river and it would have been a nightmare. SO, before you go and start bad mouthing someone like you always do ,get your story right before you say something. Before I wrote this, I talked to scott.. And by the way,scott was forced to retire back in march before he even had a hearing on the charges or be FIRED!!!!! Guilty until proven innocent.YUP, the Right way or the Wayne way. CONGRATULATIONS SCOTT, your true friends knew this was all a bunch of garbage. Hope you can get your job back.

Yeah right...what part of KEEP OUT- UNDER COURT ORDER did some body exempt themselves from when they began carting off some one elses property?
So far as me getting my story straight suppose some of you here in Wayne get this one straight? So far as I am concerned all this shows is that there is a double standard of law here. You cannot convince me otherwise, this case underscores it.

Stewart,When i spoke to scott,the ATV'S and all the other stuff that was in the trailers were getting thrown out by the state.scott spoke to all the fire companies and first aid squad and they came down to the site before the state THREW OUT all the FLOOD DAMAGED stuff that was in the trailers,SO,that is why scott 's case was dismissed because everything has been under water for the last 5 years when they went out of business WAS GETTING THROWN OUT by the state,Scott being scott was trying to see if any fire or first aid could use anything before it got thrown in the garbage.That was the whole misunderstanding as his lawyer said. And the ATV'S, scott took them to see if he could fix them up along with the fire companies getting stuff that they could use for the fire trucks.Hope this CONVINCES you to why this whole thing was a big MISCOMMUNICATION !!!!!

Sandy, thank you for supporting my husband. I know that you can appreciate the kind of dedicated employee and volunteer that he has been for this town over the years. He has been a volunteer fireman saving lives and property for over 36 years in Wayne and is involved in the HAZ MAT team, Relief Association etc. He spends much of his time volunteering for this town and helping people because THAT is the kind of person he is!! That is how he was raised. This whole situation has been so stressful for him and me and our family. This has been very hard on all of us.

yeah right, it was all a big misunderstanding, uh-huh yep...okie dokie, wink nod nod, get off the right wing kool aide cover up flavor du jour, this is a crooked litlle township from top to bottom

To everyone else that does NOT know the story and is passing judgment on him blindly........as a Haz Mat team member and Fire Inspector he was called to the Top Soil Deposit several times due to drums leaking all over. He had numerous conversations with the guy from the State of NJ DEP, who took over the property due to toxic dumping, who told my husband that he could take anything he wanted for himself or the Fire Department and First Aid Squad that they could use since it was all going in dumpsters anyway. It was all contaminated and was being disposed of in dumpsters. The Fire Department and First Aid Squad took stuff that they could use on the trucks. My husband found the quads, which had been in many floods and didn't run and were total garbage, and took them because he was told they were going to get thrown out. He gave them to my daughter and her boyfriend to mess around with to try and fix. We put several hundred dollars into each of the two big quads and they STILL didn't run. Someone reported them as taken and the Police called Scott about them and he returned them immediately. Many people were questioned and all said the same thing my husband did, that the guy from the NJ DEP gave him permission to take them. When the guy from the State was questioned he obviously was covering his butt and lied saying that he never said that. Yeah right! So he was charged with stealing even though he had permission from the State DEP guy to take them.

This wonderful township of ours, which he has worked for for over 30 years fired him on the spot. Then they said we will give you a chance to retire or we will fire you again. So he was fired and then forced to retire without the case even being heard in court or anything. They didn't care, they said it was hurting the Mayors reputation. Excuse me?! They never even cared that he was innocent. They were more concerned about the Mayors reputation. BTW Mayor Chris Vergano and my husband were friends who went to school together. That didn't mean much either. So he was forced to retire. They judged him before he even had his day in court!! They never even gave him a chance.

When the Prosecutor looked at all the interrogations and facts in the case he laughed. Even one of the Police Officers from Wayne testified on my husbands behalf. It was obvious to them and the Judge that Scott was innocent and the case was dismissed!

My husband is a good, caring, giving, loving, wonderful person who would help anyone who needed it. He has gone into house fires too many times and saved people. He has been in way too many to count life threatening situations to save other people lives. He was brought up to be that type of person. He had a career with this town over 30 years. Why would he put all that at risk to steal quads that were garbage. Ridiculous!!! Anyone that knows Scott, knew that these charges were B.S. Now everyone knows and his name is cleared!! Would be nice if the town did the right thing this time and gave him his job back.

Betty, I applaud you for your grace and dignity on this blog. If I were in your family's shoes, there is no way I could handle myself with so much class. I am sorry and embarrassed at the town that we live in putting your family through so much unneeded stress. I have had the pleasure of dealing with your husband many times over the years, and I find it appalling and disheartening that he is no longer the fire inspector. I would only hope that the township comes to its senses and gives him his job back, however I do think that your husband is too good for a horribly run town like ours. No one will ever have the dedication or the knowledge of their job like your husband did.
As for Stewart, your ignorant comments just prove that you did not know Scott, otherwise you would not be making such vile remarks.

Mz Hummel because I DO NOT know Mr Kooreman is exactly why I take the unbiased opinion that I hold, that on the face of it a KEEP OUT COURT ORDER is a KEEP OUT COURT ORDER, and that the siezure of private property takings with out due process of law is precisely the sort of goings on around here that seems to happen far too often be it decisions from the dais at council time and again or here where personal property was the target of asset forfeiture.
Once again here at Patch we divine the real contempt that the general population holds for the alternative point of view that does not fall within the party line of the status quo rushing to give cover to one of its own.

Sandy, when I spoke to scott, he stated he was the one that called up the DEP because that was his inspection area and was keeping an eye on it because people were dumping on site and the site was vandalized several times before after closing down. While he was there one day, a car pulled in and two people got out, went over to the trailer and started throwing boxes of records out in the dumpster. He called the state and they were there in a few minutes.The two people were the owners son and another guy throwing out all the records in a dumpster that were to be used as evidence in the trial that is still going on. The state filled up an entire trailer with boxes. So if it weren't for scott being there and doing his job to keep the site safe ,all the states evidence would be in the landfill.What were they trying to hide ? And this is the thanks he gets for doing his job. Nice going Wayne Township !!!!!!

So? Under the color of authority then MR Kooreman in his officail position reported the owners of the property to the Police for attempting to save their business records, and there after the same individual went after the ATV's? Wearing a Fire uniform and driving city equipment? While exempting himself from the courts authority without a warrant or other instrument of due process? Is that correct?

Judge scolds Wayne dumpsite owner, who may face jail time
Friday, May 13, 2011 Last updated: Saturday May 14, 2011, 10:08 AM
BY JOHN PETRICK
STAFF WRITER
The Record
Pages: 1 2 3 > display on one page | Print | E-mail A state judge on Friday lambasted the owner of a long-standing contaminated dump site in Wayne for violating her order to stay off the property and scheduled a hearing for Wednesday to determine whether she should throw him in jail for doing so.

Sandy,. Didn't they put some kind of hallucinating drugs in KOOL AID back in the 60's. That should explain a lot.Stewart still doesn't get it. Maybe he should move back to California and run for mayor there.For somebody that has lived in Wayne for just over a year you seem to NOSE everybody.

Stewart, you seriously need HELP!!! IF your house was on fire or you needed medical help(like i NOSE you need) would you need a warrant to come and help you ?

The 12-acre property on Pompton Plains Crossroad is in an environmentally sensitive area because it is located in a floodway at the confluence of the Ramapo, Pompton and Pequannock rivers. It is upstream from an intake point for drinking water for the Passaic Valley Water Commission.

So many tons of the contaminated material were dumped near the riverbanks — at least one pile is 40 to 50 feet, "taller than the trees," a DEP official said — that it has raised the elevation of land. DEP officials are concerned it could worsen problems in this flood-prone area.

"By them putting fill into the floodway, it almost creates a dam situation," Skacel said. "If the water can't go onto his property, then it has to go elsewhere."

A floodway is the area of a flood plain that should be kept free of obstructions to allow floodwaters to move downstream.

Sandy , maybe you know the answer , but why did the TSD get allowed to encroach onto Wayne Twsp park land? Green acres acquired some of that property and as far as I am concerned they should not have been allowed to encroach

THANK YOU SANDY, Every time it floods ,more and more soil is washed away from the site.How much land is NOW contaminated from being washed off the site ? Does THORIUM sound familiar ? Thank God scott found those drums when he did. How much more pollution do we need to be pumped up for our drinking water ? WAKE UP NEW JERSEY!!!!!!

Scondo,the township has NOSED for years what was going on there. Don't have to be a rocket scientist to drive past there and see 50 to 60 feet high piles of dirt with trees growing out of them that are just as big.It seems the only people who cared and tried to do something about it got FIRED!!!!!! ATTABOY WAYNE TOWNSHIP !!!

Sandy, I NOSE john when he had the top soil business. All he had was TOP SOIL. If you look at the site today,there is dirt,rocks,cement,bricks,garbage,tires,truck parts,trailers,etc,etc that were NOT there when John Baum had his business.Bought Top Soil from him many times, the place was always clean,None of the stuff that is there today.OPEN YOUR EYES WAYNE TOWNSHIP !!!!!

Stewart, Agent Orange? That is serious. Our Vietnam Vets are dying from that exposure during their service to the United States. Now it's in the survivor's backyard also? Who would want to touch ATV's that are contaminated in such a manner?

Stewart, Agent Orange? That is serious.. Our Vietnam Vets are dying from that exposure during their service to the United States. Now it's in the survivor's backyard also? Who would want to touch ATV's that are contaminated in such a manner?

As far as Mr. Kooreman is concerned, his termination is known as a constructive discharge, which is actionable; especially now that he has been exonerated. It is one way to recoup those legal fees. Vergogna has always had loose morals, going back to the Mersecola days. The FBI left quite a few behind. Yes, Wayne is an awful place with double standards and mass corruption. Sad, it used to be a great community, if you were a WASP, i.e.

Justice,your right on, this town USED to be a great community having grown up here all my life and going thru school here.Sad when you read about a person that has donated almost his whole life back to the township, gets kicked to the gutter and washed down the sewer.Wayne Townships true colors came out in full bloom on this one.SHAME ON THEM ALL!!!! Any comment NOW Mr.Mayor ?

@stewart resmer, If your so unhappy with Wayne? Why don't you go back to the west coast and Ca. where you came from. You just might be part of the problem of them almost be bankrurpt. Scott was a good employee of Wayne. I know him personally. It's not the first time Wayne has jumped the gun before all the facts were in. And Justice your remarks are so true about WASP. I've lived here all my 69 years except for 2 yrs army time.

Thank you Lean, have never met a person that has lived in this town for only a little over a year and NOSE so much.Like you, I NOSE scott personally and has given back so much to this town.Hopefully they will do what"s right and give him his job back. Scott doesn't want anymore litigation with this town because of past experiences with everyone else LAWSUIT happy,he just wants the town to do the right thing and give him his job back.

Nose, there is the right thing and then there is the Wayne's way. Doesn't look too good for Scott.

I am feeling a little sluggish with the humidity, so I don't want to run through the lengthy posting history, but could someone confirm my thinking on this. a deal for a reduction was made in exchange for retirement without loss of pension, sent to muni court and dismissed because supposedly some guy from the state who did not own the property in question said it was ok for someone else who also did not own the property to take it. And further muddying the picture was the idea that others who did not own the property but had some connection to volunteer service organizations could take what was there, just because it had been there awhile unused. Ok, tell me where I am wrong?

Scondo, you missed the part that no one had search warrants when they entered the property.

Scondo/Bill,I was confused about the whole thing.But what I was told,scott had a meeting on March 23rd before he even went to court and was fired.He was then told he has the weekend to think about it and let the Business Administrator know by monday morning either retire or be fired again. He was forced to retire and took early retirement without any hearing or anything.The court thing is another whole mess which scott went into great length of how the town screwed him.