Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The state Department of Environmental Protection has given United Water until April 1 to outline their schedule for the project.
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection is requiring United Water to start work to upgrade the dam at the Woodcliff Lake Reservoir "as soon as possible" in a letter dated March 1. The DEP is requiring United Water to approximately double the rate at which water can flow out of the reservoir so that the dam would not break in a 1,000-year storm. United Water has until April 1 to submit a schedule for the project. Steven Goudsmith, a company rep, told Patch that the schedule is still being developed. United Water's plan was approved by the DEP in late 2011, but work has not yet started. Hillsdale officials have insisted the borough's Planning Board should review the effects the project could have on downstream flooding along …
Thursday, March 7, 2013
The Hillsdale & Westwood Flood Solution Group's attorney said some flooding along the Pascack Brook can be stopped.
The Hillsdale & Westwood Flood Solution Group, an organization of residents affected or concerned by flooding, offered to work more closely with the Hillsdale government during a borough council meeting Tuesday night. Donald MacLachlan, an attorney representing the group, said that the council should form a committee tasked with advising the governing body on resolving the flooding problem along the Pascack Brook. MacLachlan said the committee could help with formulating a plan and also finding funding for any projects needed for the plan. The state government is currently "highly sensitive" to flooding issues, he said. The upcoming United Water project to upgrade the dam at the Woodcliff Lake Reservoir is one focus of the group, but not …
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Robert Schroeder allegedly stole $1.8 million from investors and wrote $3.4 million in bad checks for loan payments.
A grand jury indicted State Assemblyman Robert Schroeder Friday on charges that he stole $1.8 million and wrote bad checks valued at more than $3.4 million, according to Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa. Schroeder, 52, was charged with issuing bad checks, theft by deception, and misconduct by a corporate official. He faces five to 10 years in prison and fines of up to $150,000 for each of the three offenses. State officials allege Schroeder wrote at least 47 bad checks to 12 individuals for payments on loans they had given him for his businesses. The checks were worth a total of $3,431,150, but the bank accounts they were drawn from, in the names of businesses Schroeder controls, did not have sufficient funds, authorities said. Numerous …
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Two Hillsdale-based companies owned by Assemblyman Robert Schroeder have been suspended from doing business with the government and are facing possible eviction due to unpaid rent.
The U.S. Army has suspended all business with two companies owned by State Assemblyman Robert Schroeder, according to a report on NJ.com, and a bank which gave Schroeder mortgages for two Hillsdale properties used by the companies filed complaints to evict them Tuesday. The Army alleged the companies, All Points International and Hercules Global Logistics, failed to pay subcontractors and deliver tents for work in Afghanistan, according to the report. API previously protested the loss of two government bids, according to records from the Government Accountability Office. In the first, officials at the General Services Administration picked a more expensive bid because they were not happy with the features offered by API's products. In …
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Atlantic Stewardship Bank filed a complaint against State Assemblyman Robert Schroeder for $2.5 million in loans.
State Assemblyman Robert Schroeder allegedly failed to disclose millions of dollars worth of loans to Atlantic Stewardship Bank when applying for loans there, according to a complaint filed last Thursday. The bank alleges it loaned $2 million to Schroeder in September of 2010 and later extended the loan to $2.5 million. When Schroeder borrowed the money, he did not disclose loans from other lenders totalling more than $5.6 million — lent between April of 2007 and March of this year — according to the complaint. "The borrowers commited fraud on the bank," according to the complaint. Schroeder was due to pay back the first $1 million plus interest last month, along with another $500,000 and interest in September, October and November. The …
Thursday, August 23, 2012
The Washington Township bank alleges State Assemblyman Robert Schroeder failed to make payments on more than $3.5 million in loans.
The Washington Township-based Oritani Bank filed seven lawsuits against State Assemblyman Robert Schroeder Monday, alleging Schroeder owes more than $3.5 million on defaulted loans. The bank loaned Schroeder's company, RS Consultants, $1.5 million in 2006 and also provided mortgages totalling another $1.2 million for four properties Schroeder owns, including two in Park Ridge and two in Westwood, according to the complaints. Oritani gave a $640,000 loan in 2007 to All Points International, Schroeder's Hillsdale-based company. They also provided him with a $532,000 mortgage in 2010 for a property he owns in Hillsdale. Schroeder failed to make payments due August 1, according to six of the complaints. Gary Redish, the attorney representing …
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
State Assemblyman Robert Schroeder was charged with writing almost $400,000 in bad checks.
Officials from the Bergen County Democratic Committee called for Assemblyman Robert Schroeder to resign from his seat and for county Republicans to return money contributed by Schroeder Monday. Schroeder was charged with writing almost $400,000 in bad checks August 3. He previously said he would not give up his seat. "He has abused the integrity of the office we entrusted in him inorder to borrow millions of dollars from unsuspecting friends, neighbors and associates," District 39 Democratic Chairman Todd Sherer said in a press release. "I do not see how he can fulfill the duties for which he was elected and he should resign immediately." Since he was charged, other investors in Schroeder's two Hillsdale-based companies, All Points …
Monday, August 6, 2012
District 39 Assemblyman Robert Schroeder said he will not give up his seat after being charged with writing almost $400,000 worth of bad checks.
State Assemblyman Robert Schroeder said he would not give up his seat after being charged with writing almost $400,000 in bad checks, according to a report on NJ.com. Schroeder, 52, was charged Friday with writing bogus checks to investors in his Hillsdale-based company, All Points International Distributors. State Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa alleged Schroeder had knowingly written the bad checks. Schroeder said Monday he would not step down from his seat in the New Jersey State Assembly, according to the report. He had previously admitted to writing about $100,000 in bad checks and said the debt had already been paid. "I am not going anywhere," Schroeder said, according to the report. "This has nothing to do with my legislative office…
Friday, August 3, 2012
State Assemblyman Robert Schroeder wrote almost $400,000 in bad checks, according to the state attorney general.
New Jersey State Assemblyman Robert Schroeder was charged Friday with writing almost $400,000 worth of bogus checks, according to a press release from the state attorney general's office. Schroeder allegedly wrote the checks to people who invested in his Hillsdale-based company, All Points International Distributors. The company manufactures pre-fabricated structures. Most of the company's business has been with the federal government, according to the press release. Schroeder said he wrote two checks totalling about $100,000 because he believed the U.S. Army had wired him money owed for a contract, according to a report on NorthJersey.com. Schroeder apologized and said the debt had been paid, according to the report. Officials from the …
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
The utility is required to release the information each year.
United Water recently released its annual Consumer Confidence Report for customers in Bergen and Hudson Counties. According to the report, United Water received no violations in 2011 for contaminants in its local supply. Jim Glozzy, United Water's vice president and general manager, said the legally-required report is an "important tool" for educating their customers. “We’re pleased to advise our customers that our water continues to meet or exceed all state and federal regulations for safe drinking water,” Glozzy said. United Water's local supply comes from the Oradell, Woodcliff Lake and Lake Tappan Reservoirs in Bergen County and Lake DeForest in Rockland County, N.Y., as well as some wells. The reservoirs hold approximately 14 billion …
Martha
12:50 pm on Friday, August 24, 2012
I guess that Robert S. Hekemian, Jr., who serves on the Board of Oritani Bank, must have fallen asleep while all this "schmoozing" with State Assemblyman Robert Schroeder was going on, or, he was too busy with the rest of the Hekemian clan bullying into towns where they are not welcome, raping open space by destroying hundreds of mature trees so that they can build monstrosity-mixed-use … more ›