Political Corruption
In 2005, Republican Mayor Jo-Anne Shubert resigned as Mayor of South Bound Brook a week before admitting that she gave a $35,000 no-bid computer contract to a company owned by her brother and where she was employed as an office manager.
In 2010 and 2011, Republican Mayor Terry Warrelmann, was involved in a controversy involving his family and the Borough’s refusal to release police reports surrounding the incident. On July 9, 2010, John Paff, filed a lawsuit seeking the release of the documents. On December 17, 2010, New Jersey Superior Court Assignment Judge Yolanda Ciccone, sitting in Somerville, New Jersey, conducted a hearing on Paff's lawsuit. On March 31, 2011, Paff received a 79-page file containing the redacted versions of documents within that investigative file. The records show that Mayor Warrelmann, along with his son Stephen, Nancy Santora and an unidentified juvenile, were suspects in an investigation of a November 21, 2009 burglary of a shed at 60 Elizabeth Street, South Bound Brook. No charges, however, were brought against any of the suspects.
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