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Falmouth DPW director on town hydrant sales; Blue Meany video

TODAY's quote: “It was a common practice there and, actually, everywhere.”
- Raymond Jack said about letting employees sell town scrap metal for personal funds

Falmouth Public Works director let employees sell old equipment, keep money

 Blue Meany Octopus Hyannis video

Maxine Wolfset's video of last week's "Blue Meany" invasion of Hyannis by Occupy Cape Cod protestors.
It promotes a protest at the State House in Boston at noon on February 28.Before he became the Public Works Director in Falmouth in 1994, Raymond Jack held a similar post in Woodbury, NJ where he was accused of allowing his employees to sell old fire hydrants and keep the money.

Mr. Jack said the practice was common there and then because employees earned only $5.50 and hour.

The Falmouth Enterprise reported all this after Marc P. Finneran of Trotting Park Road sent them an article from the Philadelphia Inquirer published on June 25, 1992, outlining the accusations against Mr. Jack.

The Inquirer story siad that the "Woodbury NJ City Police are investigating allegations that Superintendent Raymond Jack permitted an employee to falsify time sheets and allowed money from the sale of city property to go to employees. The City Council voted 8-1 on Tuesday to suspend Jack, without pay, with the intention to dismiss him. Jack said that he would request a hearing before the Council next Tuesday."

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