10 East Drive

                                                                                                            Stanhope, NJ 07874

                                                                                                            Jun 25, 2006

 

Department of Agriculture

John Fitch Plaza

P.O. Box 330

Trenton, NJ 08625-0330

 

Dear Mr. Bruni,

 

It has been a pleasure communicating with you in the past Mr. Bruni as you have always provided excellent service as an OPRA custodian. In addition, I appreciated the opportunity in discussing at length with Ms. Erin Simone, esq. numerous detailed aspects of the State Soil Erosion and Sediment Control Act and its standards that need improvement. I also discussed with her the Title 40 considerations, Stanhope Chap 100-119 and N.J.A.C. 2:90-1-14 Minor Subdivision and other legal and procedural aspects.

 

I prepared a 20 plus page detailed report reviewing some of the State Codes in an analysis that is available via the Internet at a web site I created for education as I am now preparing guidelines and other materials as I indicated to the Department of Agriculture in my work breakdown structure analysis of State agencies and Stanhope as an example as a free service to be published on the internet as a global community neighborhood of the world after peer review by professional societies, universities and government. These graduate and undergraduate courses will be available for download free to any instructor and student or citizen and be provided in multiple languages.

 

Unfortunately, I am unable to inform the public of classified facts and can only “educate” and “mentor” and suggest changes in laws that do not divulge the classified knowledge of mathematics and knowledge of structures, permafrost, mud, soil, sand and other material and scientific properties and mathematical analysis known to appropriate engineers and scientists with a “need-to-know” as noted in the background I provided my web site. 

 

I am unable to correct the many errors I have seen in the peer review journals such as the Soil Science Society of America of which I was a member which were written  by team of PhDs and scientists as it the information is not publicly available.

 

I have attached some data which has already been provided to the Governor’s POC, U. S. Attorney’s Office, Commissioner of the DEP and Mr. Larry Baier her representative on the State Soil Conservation Committee who she assigned in my request to her as she was kind enough to bring the then Commissioner of the DEP to met me in the DEP cafeteria. That letter is on the web site: thomascaggiano.com along with other information Ms. Simone may find useful as I expect to introduce changes in State law via the courts as my efforts with the Department of Agriculture and State Commission of Investigation were not beneficial as noted in my letter to the Governor on the web site.

 

Please share the attached information with Ms. Simone and I look forward to a future of our team working together harmoniously to benefit all those who live in and visit our state.

 

Thank you again for all the courtesy both of you have shown me as our community leader.  I am also providing your letter as I have made some annotations on a copy that I have shared with our Governor and others.

 

I discussed various actions with the Governor’s aide, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the New Jersey Attorney General’s office, the Borough of Stanhope, Honorable B. Theodore Bozonelis secretary (Superior Court assignment judge) and Commissioner of Department of Consumer Affairs Susan Levin’s secretary. Stanhope new outstanding municipal clerk and OPRA custodian has provided me access to Stanhope records in spite of Stanhope’s illegal directive written by its Town Administrator Teri Massood with the assistance of its Borough Attorney / Municipal Prosecutor Richard Stein.  In similar fashion to the Department of Agriculture HQ and Sussex County Soil Conservation District, the Borough of Stanhope’s Mayor in a public town council meeting as the audio recording I obtained under OPRA is available on the web site as I was limited to 5 minutes. Even through the Director of Consumer Affairs Ms. Ricketts has Mr. John Cilo Jr. Stanhope’s prior Borough Engineer (if he had a legal contract under the Local Public Contracts Law), SCSCD’s professional engineer Mr. Joseph Sedivy who also based upon my review of 4 years of his contracts none were awarded per the Local Public Contracts Law nor per its auditor’s reports does SCSCD comply with any United States accounting standard.  Mr. Inhoffer, Mr. Schneider and Ms. Keith are also under investigation by the Department of Consumer Affairs and I have the “confidential data” which is listed on the web site. Strangely, none of these agencies are interested in accepting my repeated offer to discuss the data that the Director of Consumer Affairs referred to the U. S. Attorney’s Office and the New Jersey’s Criminal Justice Department or even to your Director Ms. Monique Purcell. According to her assistant, I apparently sent in so much evidence via fax as the more then 100 emails I sent were deleted but as a COOP they are in the Department of Community Affairs Codes and Standards department of investigators to see what information was provided in the feet of evidence of which I was convicted at the “hands” of SCSCD’s chairman Mr. Lundin and Ms. Straub.  As I recall at the meeting I had with them at the appeal which is noted on the web site, although not mentioned in their minutes, Mr. Lundin, an attorney, prior Mayor of Hopatcong where I was convicted as his photograph is on the wall in the courtroom, GROANED aloud when after reading the letter written by Mr. and Mrs. Pawar who Mr. Brian Smith wrote to me they were both shills when they provided SCSCD a copy of their observations of the Oak Drive development which they had sent previously to the Board of Engineers as its excellent executive director Arthur Russo also added 05-13a and 05-13b complaints against Mr. Cilo.

 

Stanhope’s order banning me was determined to be illegal by the Government Record Council panel of Governor’s appointees and found to have willfully violated State laws.

Per OPRA the penalty may be $83,500 as 18 complaints were filed as noted on the GRC web site, I had as many against Stanhope as the GRC received from the entire state.

 

I drove down to attend the meeting and while my time was extremely limited in the public comment period as noted on the web site, the GRC did take appropriate action by canceling the State’s scheduled monthly meeting for the entire state regarding its Jun 2006 meeting to incorporate changes I suggested to its executive director Ms. Starghill and the Department of Community Affairs commissioner.

 

In recent discussions with that Department, I understand the concerns that 15 property owners in Stanhope identified regarding criminal and illegal developments by E.N.F. Development Co. LLC in our May 8, 2006 letter on the web site and notification by our OPRA custodian that she, Ms. Robin Kline, even after consultation with the Town Administrator Teri Massood who duties include insuring compliance with laws and monitoring contracts and requesting numerous times with Mr. John Cilo Jr., Mr. Eric Keller and Ms. Doyle are ALL unable to find any existing 2006 contract for any of these professionals?

 

Per the Map Filing Law as I noted to the Department of Community Affairs, as there is NO municipal engineer in Stanhope this year NO Soil Erosion and Sediment Control Plan, site plan or map is a valid document and all construction in the Borough of Stanhope must stop immediately as I informed the Mayor, Governing Body, Borough Attorney, Town Administrator, Land Development Board and powerless Stanhope Environmental Commission. I even provided them all irrefutable evidence of criminal acts as both SESCPs prepared by E.N.F. Development Co. LLC. As I noted repeated to HQ, Department of Agriculture and Sussex County Soil Conservation District were criminal submission, for only 1 Lot, not the project and neither HQ, Department of Agriculture nor SCSCD have any data as required per the “application procedures” as you noted in your previous excellent response of what information was available to HQ, DA as SCSCD has no such data either.

 

Apparently the issue was of such great concern to the buyer’s of Block 10902 Lot 12, 6 Oak Drive that Mr. Lamicella wrote directly to the Secretary of Agriculture’s assistant Ms. Tovar as he could see boulders, sediment in his neighbors yards which came from 6 Oak Drive during its development which occurred on both lots before I brought the 2 Lot sub-division project to SCSCD’s attention as noted in SCSCD’s own minutes of my meeting and as noted in a letter on the web site, on Jul 25, 2002 all the surrounding property owners stated comply with Land Development Codes, the site plans, grading profile and restore trees. In the newspaper article it noted a wall was failing and as stated dozens of times there is no 150 ft long wall that is 8 ‘ tall on the site plan nor is there their another lower wall in the restricted deed conservation area marked with a heavy line.

 

As I showed Assistant Commissioner Lisa Jackson with Mr. Frank Minch of the State Soil Conservation Committee standing next to her as she was seated when I showed them both a large photograph I had taken from my bedroom window that a smaller version is enclosed.  The rear deck was built on the wrong side of 6 Oak Drive but the SESCP certified by Mr. Lundin shows the deck on the north side of the house. In addition, neither of the two walls the SCSCD field inspector’s Mr. Krause and Mr. Morris are observing are on either of the two-foot slopes contour maps that are certified for only one lot and neither is approved by Stanhope. Per the Land Use Board, no variance request was made to change the slopes, the wetland was buried BEFORE SCSCD knew about the project and I got a sinkhole as confirmed in our letter signed by 14 people.

 

None of these individuals were ever contracted by HQ, DA or SCSCD and SCSCD refused any meeting with them dozens of times.

 

That is all history. In my conservations last week, I was made aware our concerns regarding Stanhope were made to the Department of Community Affairs from the Governor’s representative and that Department after getting over 3,000 pages of evidence is undertaking some action.

 

The Sussex County Prosecutor’s Office recused itself from any criminal investigation after I presented some data to that office and met with its staff on Jun 14, 2006.

 

I believe that the U. S. Attorney’s Office may consider an investigation and based upon Senator Lautenberg’s introduction (letter on web site) I met with Mr. Nobile and Mr. Beet for two hours in Nov 2005 and have been providing them hundreds of pages of evidence I have gathered during my five (5) year investigation of State agencies, court proceedings in Stillwater and Hopatcong where I was convicted without being given the opportunity to have witnesses based upon the complaints filed by Mr. Lundin and Ms. Straub as I provided them more then 100 emails and also Mr. Sadley and Mr. Minch. I also provided significant data to Ms. Tovar and Secretary of Agriculture and Ms. Monique Purcell the Director of Agriculture without ever getting any response other then from Colleen, “you used up our fax toner” or “use sent us so many faxes you shut down the department”.  I was convicted of harassment for sending vast quantities of evidence previously to SCSCD. Now I just send mail reams of evidence through SCSCD’s Mr. Smith who wrote me that Mr. and Mrs. Pawar were shills and when they faxed him evidence. He destroys the evidence apparently stating to me in a letter that he, Mr. Smith, uses the back of the faxes as scrap paper before throwing the information away in the trash.  Previously in a meeting with Stanhope’s Town Administrator who wrote the many threatening letters to me banning me form Stanhope under threat of criminal convictions (been there done that) that were determined to be illegal (criminal) also stated to me in a meeting with the Code Enforcement Official Ms. Arlene Fisher, that Ms. Massood Stanhope’s Town Administrator threw my letters to Stanhope in the trash.

 

The most important areas of the attached letter are on pages 9 – 11.

 

Peace be with you.

 

                                                                                    Very Sincerely,

 

 

                                                                                    Thomas John James Caggiano

 

CF: Without encl: Governor’s Office Mr. Ian Brenner, U.S. Attorney’s Office Mr. James Nobile, New Jersey Attorney General Ms. Farber, Commissioner of Department of Environmental Protection Ms. Lisa Jackson, her State Soil Conservation Committee representative Mr. Larry Baier, Commissioner of Department of Community Affairs Ms. Susan Levin, Director of Consumer Affairs Ms. Kimberly Ricketts, executive director of the Board of Engineers Mr. Arthur Russo and Ms. Erin Simone, esq. HQ, Department of Agriculture.