Lindenwold
- 01Certified 94,558.94 encumbered with every order paid94,558.94
- 02Reported a year of deposits as encumbered funds105,908.84
- 03Certified a police CPR course as Narcan training5,055.32
- 04Reported more unspent money than it had received24,535.56
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
Lindenwold has received $197,949.24 in opioid settlement funds and spent $55,055.32 of it.
The money, four ways.
Four figures describe the same settlement money. Each one comes from a different document.
Certified against the books,
every report year.
Every year this jurisdiction has filed, and the year it has not. The match on each row is computed from the rows, not judged.
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Received to date
- $42,234.57
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $151,021.08
- Received to date
- $126,485.52
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $166,442.74
- Received to date
- $166,442.74
filed
- Program name
- Public CPR and Narcan Training Program
- Recipient
- Borough of Lindenwold Police Department
- Recipient category
- County or Municipality (including Departments and Municipal Alliances); First Responders, Law Enforcement, and Emergency Services
- Programs listed
- 2
- Amount expended
- $55,055.32
- Unspent on hand
- $142,893.92
- Received to date
- $197,949.24
5 findings.
Every finding is verified to the documents in its own row. An inference is labelled as one.
Red with the marker: a certified figure the books contradict.
The FY2026 report certifies 94,558.94 appropriated or encumbered but not yet spent in the period 7/1/2025 to 6/30/2026 (p2).
Its program pages certify 14,944.68 encumbered for the Public CPR and Narcan Training Program (p10) and 0.00 for Shared Services for Mental Health Therapy (p15). The opioid expense account 5-01-55-780-000 is non-budgeted and adopted at 0.00. Both of its orders were paid in full on 02/11/2026, purchase order 02509843 by check 49368 for 50,000.00 and purchase order 25-10828 by check 49420 for 5,055.32. The audit trail printed 08/25/2026 shows Encumber YTD 0.00 and no transaction from 05/01/2026 to 08/25/2026. No order, contract or appropriation for 94,558.94 is in the record. The CPR page's 14,944.68 is the 20,000.00 funding figure less the 5,055.32 spent, with no open order behind it. The same report counts every unspent dollar as uncommitted. Its unspent figure, 142,893.92, is the 197,949.24 received since 2022 less the 55,055.32 spent. The encumbered and unspent figures together are 237,452.86, which is 39,503.62 more than everything the report says the Borough has received.
fake-encumbrance · 3 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2025 report certifies 105,908.84 appropriated or encumbered but not yet spent in the period 7/1/2024 to 6/30/2025 (p1).
It certifies 0.00 expended and answers No to funding any new program (p3). 105,908.84 is the printed Period Revenue of the Revenue Transaction Audit Trail for account 4-01-12-711-000 National Opioid Settlement Funds, the 14 settlement deposits of calendar 2024 from 05/31/2024 to 10/31/2024. That account is cash basis and not anticipated in the budget. The opioid expense account 5-01-55-780-000 is non-budgeted, adopted 0.00 and amended 0.00 for 2025. It begins the year at 0.00 and carries its first order on 12/22/2025. No order, contract or appropriation stands behind the figure in the produced records. It is a total of money received, not money committed. The FY2024 report certifies 54,502.88 encumbered. That figure equals the seven settlement deposits of 2022 and 2023 posted to the general Miscellaneous revenue accounts, 33,228.59 and 21,274.29, to the cent. No 2024 expense record was produced. The FY2025 report also certifies 166,442.74 unspent and uncommitted at Q9, the full amount it says was received, so Q7 and Q9 together are 272,351.58.
fake-encumbrance · 4 documents · 10/04/2026The FY2026 report certifies 5,055.32 spent on the Public CPR and Narcan Training Program (p8, p10), with Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention as its primary category and Prevent Overdose Deaths and Other Harms as its strategy (pp12-13).
It says two police officers were trained as instructors in CPR and the proper use of Narcan, and it lists instructor training, training manikins, Narcan kits and a certification seat fee as what was procured (p9, p13). The books show one purchase. Purchase order 25-10828 reads CPR TRAINING and was paid to Public Safety Training of SJ by check 49420 on 02/11/2026 for 5,055.32. No Narcan kit, manikin or naloxone course appears on the opioid account 5-01-55-780-000 through 08/25/2026. CPR certification cards from the same vendor, 340.00 in all, were paid from POLICE - TRAINING 6-01-25-240-042 by checks 49638 on 04/08/2026 and 49844 on 06/10/2026. The report gives 0 individuals served and a launch date of 12/01/2026, after the year it reports. CPR training is not among the uses Exhibit E lists. The report names a naloxone program that the books do not show.
program-misclassification · 3 documents · 10/04/2026The FY2024 report certifies 126,485.52 received since 2022 at Q3, 0.00 expended at Q6 and 151,021.08 unspent and uncommitted on hand at Q9 (p1).
The unspent figure is 24,535.56 more than everything the report says the Borough received. Q3 equals every settlement receipt on the books through 06/30/2024 to the cent, 54,502.88 posted in 2022 and 2023 to the Miscellaneous revenue accounts and 71,982.64 posted from 05/31/2024 to 06/30/2024. The 24,535.56 is the four settlement receipts the revenue audit trail posts on 08/31/2024, 3,993.10, 3,393.08, 13,241.13 and 3,908.25, after the period closed on 06/30/2024. The same report certifies 54,502.88 appropriated or encumbered at Q7. Q7 and Q9 together are 205,523.96 against 126,485.52 received, with nothing spent.
self-contradiction · 3 documents · 10/04/2026The FY2025 report certifies 39,957.22 received between 07/01/2024 and 06/30/2025 at Q1 and 166,442.74 received since 2022 at Q3 (p1).
The revenue audit trails show 49,347.86 received in that window. Four receipts on 08/31/2024 total 24,535.56. Check 2012 for 5,031.75 posts 09/30/2024. Check 32490 for 4,358.89 posts 10/31/2024. Two receipts on 06/30/2025 total 15,421.66. Q1 is the 08/31/2024 and 06/30/2025 receipts only. The 09/30/2024 and 10/31/2024 receipts, 9,390.64, appear in no report. The books show 175,833.38 received through 06/30/2025. The FY2026 report certifies 197,949.24 received since 2022 through 06/30/2026 (p1). The books show 204,117.14 received by 12/31/2025.
misreported-receipts · 4 documents · 10/04/2026Patterns this jurisdiction appears in: Fake encumbrances
The ledger, as printed.
Account 4-01-12-711-000, as printed from the jurisdiction's own accounting system. Classification follows the Exhibit E gates.
| Date | Check | PO | Payee and description | Amount | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02/11/2026 | 49368 | 02509843 | LINDENWOLD BOARD OF EDUCATION · REIMB - MENTAL HEALTH THERAPY | 50,000.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 02/11/2026 | 49420 | 25-10828 | Public Safety Training of SJ (PUBLI005) · CPR TRAINING | 5,055.32 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| Total paid | 55,055.32 | ||||
| Conforming abatement spending | 0.00 |
Vendors, and what paid them before.
What fund carried each payee before the opioid account, and how large the opioid slice is against the whole relationship. Bars share one scale.
Full width is $5,055.32, the largest payee total. Solid is the opioid account. Hatched is every other fund.
All documents are public records produced by the jurisdiction. Titles are the documents' own.
No dated event is published for this jurisdiction yet.
No correction received from this jurisdiction. If a figure on this page is wrong, send the record that shows it. The response is published here word for word.
Correct the recordCan opioid settlement money be spent on police cars or license plate readers?
No. Exhibit E of the national settlement lists the approved uses: treatment, recovery, prevention, harm reduction and related supports. Vehicles and surveillance hardware are not among the uses it lists, and state law bars using the funds to replace money a town would otherwise have spent.The approved uses
What did Lindenwold tell the State it spent the money on?
It certified 2 programs to the Department of Human Services. Each program, its recipient and its amount are reproduced above, beside the payments in the account.See the reports
How was this grade computed?
By code, from a published rubric: reporting integrity 50 percent, spending conformity 40 percent, transparency 10 percent, with hard caps for a certified program that has no payee in the books, for an uncertified transfer out, and for a records refusal.The rubric
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Lindenwold Borough paid nothing from its opioid settlement money until 02/11/2026, yet three reports told the State that 54,502.88, 105,908.84 and 94,558.94 were committed, and its FY2026 report calls a police CPR course Narcan training.