Funding-source substitution

Moved the same vendors and events onto opioid money

$127,190.87

Amount in this finding

FGrade FWest Deptford Township

Funding-source substitution · Inference · Updated 09/20/2026 · 2 documents

Vendor payment histories covering 01/01/2018 to 08/19/2026 show the Township bought drug prevention giveaway merchandise, LEAD apparel, LEAD bowling parties, Junior Police Academy uniforms, Safety Town apparel and National Night Out catering and amusements from the same vendors on Municipal Alliance grant accounts and police budget lines from 2018 through 2023. The same purchases for the same recurring events moved onto the dedicated opioid accounts from May 2024 forward and grew each year. 127,190.87 of the 146,859.68 paid from those accounts through 08/19/2026 sits in that category. The Township kept paying the same vendors from ordinary accounts in parallel, including 10,090.36 to the promotional products vendor from the police community outreach line on 12/17/2024, between two opioid funded orders. The ordinary funding capacity still exists. Reading that sequence as supplantation is an inference. The change in funding source is documentary.

Inference, not a finding

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