What about collateral. Did Atlantic Stewardship have him post collateral like Average Joe would have had too? Many more questions are to be raised with the conituning articles about money being loaned. How many people loaned this man money on his fast talking and implication of his being "honest" since was/is an Assemblyman?

Why does this crook stay in office?

I have three words for the banks and everybody that loaned money...U C C

Were any of the loans between Schroeder and Durso and Schepisi (all elected officials within the 39th district) made public on any of their financial disclosure forms upon taking office? Did they all donate money to each other's respective campaigns while at the same time conducting personal business and/or making personal loans to Schroeder in amounts of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars? Do these financial relationships between elected officials at least raise the question of whether they constitute conflicts of interest or perhaps involve campaign finance law? The answer is, speaking to fellow republicans, the citizens of the Township of Washington and the 39th District MUST get involved, mobilize, and demand a clean slate of candidates (dare I say Republicans not beholden to the whims of the BCRO or Independents) to replace each and every member of the mayor and council in the township in addition to Schroeder and Schepisi. Write letters to the governors office, letters to the editor of local media and, most of all, engage your Township of washington friends and neighbors and urge them to go to council meetings and the polls and seek a new start. Otherwise, we will just get more of the same.

yikes, the hole gets deeper and the mountain higher - BS's has no future and I am sure he will be leaving the Assembly soon enough....not for himself or his constituents or even because his party has asked him to leave, but because his family needs him to leave his elected office, so he can concentrate on getting some sort of life back after the dust settles and he deals with ever growing criminal and civil issues.

Oh he is well past doing the right thing by the family. He is still in denial as to how bad this is if he is staying in office at this point. I guess he is still looking for that huge contract that will make him solvent again. NOT
He is making mockery of the Reoublican Party and they are letting him take the rest of them down with him. As for cleaning house in Twp., then you need people to step up to the plate and actually get invloved and run. There has been no opposition to the leadership in years. The ones who did run against the status quo (Durso and Goetz) actually turned out to be wolves in sheeps clothing. You could start a recall vote but it is costly on the ones calling for it. Otherwise you have to wait for their seats to be up for election. You are correct that they should have declared these loans on the Financial Discolsure Forms and good luck with getting someone to do something , it could take years before legal actions catch up to this whole sordid mess.

B@B: it's part apathy, part ignorance, and the rest is entrenched interests that have gripped the town over the past 20 years. Schroeder's (or as it turns out other peoples money) literally bought him influence with all the key members of the BCRO despite his relative lack ( my opinion) of ability and charisma ( ever hear him give a speech?) I believe it was much easier for him to build this influence in our town given its modest socio-economic level. Do we ever really get worthy, able, and honest candidates? Given some of the nonsense one has to deal with as a mayor or councilman it doesn't surprise that most of those who run tend to have egos and personalities out of proportion to true ability to lead. The fact remains that we have a serious problem in town that may only be remedied by a clean slate of candidates.@

Maybe that's what we need, clean house from top to bottom, from the mayor to all the departments heads etc, lately it's like they ALL have the attitude that we are here for them not them for us. Have you tried to get anything accomplished? The shopping center has no problem getting their wishes past, Seasons will have no problem building the strip mall they want, Five Star on Pascack and Washington are getting what they want, I still haven't heard any commitment to the clean-up that should have been completed years ago when they bought the property, see what happens it you sold a house with an in ground oil tank.
I've lived in this town for over 40 years and it just gets worse and worse. Recall ALL the elected, fire all the appointed and start fresh, I'll cast that first vote.
I am fed up with all their attitudes that they can do as they please and we have to accept it from Washington to WT.

Bob BS Schroeder should resign now. Wash Twp has a circus for Mayor and Council - remember this at your next election - and should really consider a merger with Westwood. After all, who need all this nonsense for a town of a little over 10,000 people. That's like one block in NYC. BS got to where he is just like Jon Corzine, using and mishandling other peoples money while living big. But BS is probably waiting for the Republicans to tell him when to leave so they can keep his useless assembly seat. Stop the BS Bob and resign now.