Morris County Tax Board: Bipartisan Dimwits?

Published: October 22, 2007, 7:12 am

Tags: corruption, politics, new jersey

So a grand jury is looking into the trips and perks of the bipartisan (by law) Morris County Tax Board, according to Sunday's Ledger (more here).And their eating habits.Or at least their restaurant receipt habits.Seems that besides junketing all over the country -- ostensibly studying the fine points of tax board duties -- two of them had the astounding coincidence of swaths of restaurant receipt stubs that form long unbroken sequences.The Ledger includes a table showing receipts in a sequence from #717612 through #717694, submitted variously by the two officials dining in venues from Alaska to Atlantic City, from Kansas City to Orlando.What are the chances of waitresses in these cross-continent locales working from identically printed receipt books with the same numeric sequence?"Coincidence," said one of the board members, a contributor to Plainfield political campaign committees.A more reasonable explanation might be that they came from a single receipt pad, purchased perhaps at a

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