East Orange
- 01FY2025 says 0.00 on hand, its own figures leave 509,159.92509,159.92
- 02FY2024 on-hand figure is 189,388.86 more than was left189,388.86
- 03Reported no programs funded, then 373,573.79 spent on one373,573.79
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
East Orange has received $3,021,633.45 in opioid settlement funds. No ledger has been produced.
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
- Program name
- Opioid Awareness
- Recipient
- Various vendors
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Received to date
- $540,098.88
filed
- Program name
- Opioid Awareness
- Amount expended
- $1,070,269.20
- Unspent on hand
- $786,405.25
- Received to date
- $1,667,285.59
filed
- Program name
- Community Outrach events
- Recipient
- City of East Orange
- Recipient category
- County or Municipality (including Departments and Municipal Alliances)
- Programs listed
- 3
- Amount expended
- $1,374,141.50
- Unspent on hand
- $0.00
- Received to date
- $3,021,633.45
3 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 FY2025 report certifies 3,021,633.45 received since the distribution commenced in 2022, 1,374,141.50 expended and 68,062.83 appropriated or encumbered between 07/01/2024 and 06/30/2025, and no transfer to the county (page 1).
It then certifies 0.00 of unspent and uncommitted funds on hand (page 2). The City's earlier reports certify 0.00 expended as of 06/30/2023 and 1,070,269.20 expended between 07/01/2023 and 06/30/2024. On the City's own figures, 3,021,633.45 received less 2,444,410.70 spent leaves 577,222.75. Less the 68,062.83 encumbered, 509,159.92 is unspent and uncommitted. The report says none is. The City has produced no ledger, so what the fund held at 06/30/2025 cannot be tested against the books.
unspent-misstated · 3 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2023 report certifies 540,098.88 received and 0.00 expended as of 06/30/2023.
The FY2024 report certifies 1,127,186.71 received between 07/01/2023 and 06/30/2024 and 1,667,285.59 received since 2022, which is the sum of the two. It certifies 1,070,269.20 expended, 94,652.49 appropriated or encumbered and no transfer to the county (page 1). It then certifies 786,405.25 of unspent and uncommitted funds on hand (page 3). On the City's own figures, 1,667,285.59 received less 1,070,269.20 spent leaves 597,016.39 in total, and 502,363.90 once the encumbrance is set aside. The certified 786,405.25 is 189,388.86 more than everything left and 284,041.35 more than the uncommitted part. The City has produced no ledger.
unspent-misstated · 2 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2024 report certifies 1,070,269.20 expended between 07/01/2023 and 06/30/2024, of which 696,695.41 was program administrative expense (page 1).
Asked whether the City funded any programs with opioid abatement funds that year, it answers No (page 7). Its update on the Opioid Awareness program then says the amount spent on the program in FY2024 is 373,573.79 (page 9), which is 1,070,269.20 less 696,695.41. The FY2025 report carries the same program forward and prints 0.00 as the amount expended between 07/01/2023 and 06/30/2024 (page 17), with a last updated date of 09/24/2024 (page 18). The City has reported the same year's program spending as none, as 373,573.79 and as 0.00. The City has produced no ledger.
self-contradiction · 2 documents · 10/03/2026The ledger, as printed.
The opioid account as printed from the jurisdiction's own accounting system. Classification follows the Exhibit E gates.
No ledger line is published for this jurisdiction yet.
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.
No payee is published for this jurisdiction yet.
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 East Orange tell the State it spent the money on?
It certified 5 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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East Orange City told the State it had 0.00 of its opioid settlement money left at 06/30/2025, when its own figures leave 509,159.92, and it has filed no FY2026 report and produced no ledger.