Millville Insider

Team Santiago voted unanimously to hire Doug Long as the City’s Personnel, Foreclosure, Affordable Housing, and Tax Appeal attorneys.   Surprise, Surprise!! Democratic Chairman/ City Attorney Doug Long once again is facing serious ethics violation charges. On December 13, 2017, Doug Long was fined by the State of New Jersey Local Finance Board for an ethics violation. The details can be found at: http://njrandomgovt.blogspot.com/2017/12/cumberland-democratic-chairman-fined.html This is not Mr. Long and his firm’s first ethics violation. They are repeat offenders. In 2014, Mr. Long and his firm were fired by the City of Trenton because of yet more ethics charges. This link is: http://www.trentonian.com/general-news/20140904/state-ethics-complaint-dooms-embattled-law-firm-from-doing-work-with-trenton On November 4, 2016  the New Jersey Supreme Court reprimanded Long and his partner for another ethics violation.  The details of this violatio

Commissioner Parent is a seasoned politician with years of experience as an elected official. Mr. Parent denies any political affiliation and stated he had nothing to do with the derogatory commercials during the last election. At the recent commission meeting, a citizen stood up and stated he was paid $50 to hand out fliers for Team Santiago. A search of the election fund reports shows that the Cumberland County Democratic Party paid for this. Doug Long is the Democratic County Chairman and now his firm has the attorney contracts for personnel, tax appeals, foreclosures, and COAH. Coincidence? Probably not. At a recent commission meeting Mr. Parent stated that the fees charged by the new city solicitor from Atlantic County, James Schroeder were not out of line. In fact he compared them to the previous city solicitor, Brock Russell, a Millville native who lives and practices law in Millville. Mr. Parent is in charge of Revenue and Finance so he should underst