East Brunswick Township
- 01Two one-time purchases certified as spent in two years12,257.45
- 02Certified balances do not follow from certified figures13,204.20
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
East Brunswick Township has received $202,712.98 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
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Received to date
- $40,908.91
filed
- Program name
- Awareness, Education, and Prevention: Drug Trends and Prescription Drug use and Abuse.
- Recipient
- Department on Aging-The elders in our community
- Recipient category
- County or Municipality (including Departments and Municipal Alliances)
- Programs listed
- 5
- Amount expended
- $17,149.43
- Unspent on hand
- $104,465.95
- Received to date
- $122,515.38
filed
- Program name
- Blue Cares.reentry
- Programs listed
- 4
- Amount expended
- $32,370.62
- Unspent on hand
- $106,416.62
- Received to date
- $170,314.30
filed
- Program name
- Blue Cares.reentry
- Programs listed
- 6
- Amount expended
- $59,587.30
- Unspent on hand
- $99,596.68
- Received to date
- $202,712.98
2 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 FY2024 report lists CALM, funded at 6,947.50 with 6,947.50 expended, and the Fatal Vision Opioid Program Kit, launched 02/26/2024 and funded at 5,309.95 with 5,309.95 expended.
Both show nothing encumbered. The FY2025 report lists both again as FY2024 programs and certifies the same amounts as expended in the period 07/01/2024 to 06/30/2025, 6,947.50 for CALM and 5,309.95 for the kit. It describes CALM as a one-time event and reports no modification or expansion of the kit. The FY2025 certified expended total of 32,370.62 is exactly 6,947.50, 5,309.95, 19,742.99 for Blue Cares reentry and 370.18 of administrative expense. The same 12,257.45 is therefore counted in the certified spending of both years. Either the Township paid for the same two one- time programs twice or one year of certified spending is overstated by 12,257.45. The reports do not say which, and no ledger has been produced.
misreported-expenditure · 2 documents · 09/23/2026The FY2024 report certifies 122,515.38 received since 2022 and 17,149.43 expended, which leaves 105,365.95.
It certifies 104,465.95 unspent, 900.00 less. Its program list shows 15,649.43 expended and 1,500.00 encumbered for Blue Cares reentry, while the report totals certify 17,149.43 expended and 0.00 encumbered. The FY2025 report certifies 170,314.30 received since 2022, 32,370.62 expended in the period and 1,173.43 encumbered. Taking both years of certified spending and the encumbrance from the cumulative receipts leaves 119,620.82. The FY2025 report certifies 106,416.62 unspent and uncommitted, 13,204.20 less. The reports do not explain either difference.
reporting-contradiction · 2 documents · 09/23/2026The 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 Brunswick Township tell the State it spent the money on?
It certified 15 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