Mind Farting in Radnor at "Windybrow"?

I got a comment this morning that said:

Anonymous said...
The heck with mini man, check out Moses...err...I mean Pollard...he's parting the Red Sea next...

Past Perfect
Profiles of some of the more compelling players in the ongoing battle to keep history alive on the Main Line.
By J.F. Pirro

Hmmmm...I read that article over the weekend after hearing about it at a couple Merry Happy Holiday Festivus gatherings prior to the weekend, and put it aside and said "hmmmmm, blog fodder". But others beat me to it, so I am but a blogger come lately who says my anonymous commenting friend is right.

WTF Ted Pollard? On the 8th day you single handedly created Radnor? Isn't it very bad form to take credit for everything happening around you? What you did, what you didn't do, what you failed to do? What is this preservation group Pollard talks about? I have never heard of it, so who belongs to it? Is it a secret society with a handshake and coat of arms?
And Pollard, you loquacious trust fund baby, haven't you moved to Mexico yet? You have been talking about it since George Washington was crossing the Delaware. And the log cabin at Eastern? How could you have saved it since it is now a pile of matchsticks?

Past Perfect
Profiles of some of the more compelling players in the ongoing battle to keep history alive on the Main Line.
By J.F. Pirro
Main Line Today
December 18, 2009

In the coming months, when Ted Pollard is living comfortably as an expatriate in the Yucatán city of Mérida, he’ll either relish what he’s accomplished on the Main Line or regret that he couldn’t have done more. Either way, the president of the Radnor Historical Society will know exactly why he fled to Mexico.

There, he’ll live in a 2,500-square-foot home that cost him just $40,000....Once in town, Pollard will develop a holistic wellness center—and he’ll continue to hope Radnor Township and other Main Line communities adopt a similar sort of long-range vision.

In a final local push, Pollard’s Radnor Community Preservation Coalition celebrates its second anniversary this month. RCPC is a nonpartisan association of neighborhood groups, residents and business owners that stresses community stewardship. It defends the principles that guided initial development in Radnor and the laws that protect its neighborhoods, all to preserve and protect the local quality of life through information, education and communication.

RCPC’s widespread interests include neighborhoods and their cohesiveness, population diversity, affordable housing, open space, historic assets, physical character, natural beauty and environmental issues, parking, storm-water management, density, scale, and traffic. It’s also concerned with the residual effects of housing an increasing number of local college students.

At 64, Pollard isn’t shying away from making RCPC his legacy. Even as he’s gone about resettling in Mexico, each project here has a team leader (some 30 of them) charged with bolstering support. “My goal is to have a foundation or heritage center outside of government to be a watchdog,” says Pollard. “Up to now, we’re still too staggered, too scattered.”

A Radnor Township commissioner from 1992 to 1996, Pollard prefers the grassroots sector. Since returning from Mexico over a year ago, he’s focused entirely on preservation....Take the destruction last fall of La Ronda in Bryn Mawr. “It’s so sad,” says Pollard, who can’t bring himself to even drive past the site of what was architect Addison Mizner’s only surviving work north of the Mason-Dixon Line. “I’m incensed, really. Shame on Lower Merion Township. La Ronda should’ve been a sacred cow. We have our hands full with Radnor, but this ought to be a wake-up call to everyone for the need for much stronger historic preservation ordinances.”

Of all the RCPC-supported projects, the restoration and adaptive reuse of the Willows Cottage may be the best example. The two-story, 3,000-square-foot linear gatehouse of the historic Willows estate neighbors the famed Ardrossan property on Darby-Paoli Road in Villanova. With $150,000 of in-kind services and another $50,000 in donations, the cottage has been stabilized just in time for its 100th anniversary this year. It’s also the distribution point for Skunk Hollow Farm’s 2-acre community-supported agriculture facility....After development was successfully halted there, calls began coming in from West Wayne and Garrett Hill. “We need help, too,” the callers told Pollard. “We thought, ‘Why reinvent the process all the time?’” he recalls. “We began reaching out to all communities [in the township], inviting them to help us—to use us."....In the past year, the Garrett Hill Coalition spearheaded 80-100 community meetings to force changes in the planning process and development of its master plan and overlay district......The Radnor Community Preservation Coalition emerged in 2007 out of efforts to save Ithan, a village of roughly 10 buildings that was the commercial center of Radnor Township 300 years ago. Once called Radnorville, it served as a crossroads during Revolutionary times.

Pollard’s first project was a log cabin at Eastern University, just down the street from his home.....

"We've had our hands full in Radnor", Ted? If you have "just returned" from Mexico, what have you done? You are taking credit for the work of the Garrett Hill Coalition in addition to everything else? That takes balls...


I am not saying that Pollard hasn't made his contributions, only from what I have been told and the chatter I hear over punch at holiday gatherings, it hasn't been for a very long time. As I hear it, people are pissed at him over this article, some calling him a flat out liar. Grannie always told Teddie not to take credit where credit wasn't do, but Teddie must be starved for attention?

I hate trust fund babies who say they give back, yet don't really, it's just self promotion. This article is an insult for all those who really do things. For example, is he the only member of the Radnor Historical Society? And the Willows Cottage thing? Not that I would be bragging about involvement in that three ringed circus, but he did it all? Does he get up at commissioners, zoning, and planning meetings fighting for Radnor? Or does he just show up once in a while and sit in the back of the room mute?

And let's talk about the house in Mexico? He's building it because he can afford to. He's a trust fund baby. Has he ever diverted trust funds towards local preservation projects? When has this guy ever held a real job? And my final note? Here is the white elephant he owns in St. David's --- someone ---- buy it please so he just MOVES...but I heard there is a quarry or something in the back yard?

Would be curious to discover what Mr. History has done to see that the family manse is preserved for centuries to come?

Will he be saving Poplar House? Ardrossan?

What good is preservation in Radnor? Everyone knows that HARB thing is a joke, for example. If HARB really worked all the brainless would not be able to add those ridiculous additions to the huge homes in West Wayne, let alone oops knock them down....and Ithan? What did he do there?

Is he taking credit for what seems like a student rental owned by a former commissioner's kin? Is he taking credit for a developer simply doing nothing? And isn't the developer who was there O'Neill? So what Ted calls up the big bopper and it's all better?

LOL. The only one who is scattered or staggering is Ted Pollard under the weight of his bullshit.

So What Does Chip Addis Get Out of Radnor's L'Affaire De Bashore?

Have you guys read the gag me letter to the editor of the week? By Chip Addis of Addis & Hill Financial Services of scenic downtown Wayne, PA?

Ok, Chip Addis is an irksome elf, ain’t he though? He’s still singing Bashore’s praises, and why is that? Does Bashore’s wife still work for Chip’s company?

Now that the township has the surcharge judgement against Bashore, the solicitor could send what do you call them, interrogatories? That’s the ticket, Radnor should send interrogatories in aid of execution to Chip Addis to see if any of the money is still there, yes? Maybe? Right? Wrong?

Now one thing Chip Addis never does when he describes himself as "Chip Addis, St. Davids resident, Wayne business owner" is that he is also the employer of Kelly Bashore? As in Dave Bashore's wife? And if the rumor mill places Dave Bashore and Kelly Bashore at different addresses for whatever reason, why does Chip Addis care? What does Chip Addis get out of this? Why draw instant attention to Bashore's wife, therefore his family again? Why would Addis want attention drawn to himself and his company again? Doesn't this stuff make his clients uncomfortable?

MLSL Letters to the Editor: Bashore the scapegoat
Published: Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Bashore the recession scapegoat of Radnor

To the Editor:

If you picked up the last two editions of Main Line Suburban Life and read the headlines and editorials it would be easy to assume that Dave Bashore is guilty of embezzling nearly $400,000 of Radnor Township funds for his own personal use – a convicted crook no doubt.

However, if you take a step back you will realize that the commissioners’ actions against Bashore have been nothing more than a justification for their hostile actions against him after Tom Masterson’s “surprise” discovery that Dave Bashore was paying himself bonuses each year. A surprise? To Masterson, perhaps, since he is a relative newcomer to the board (five years), but not to the long-standing commissioners including an immediate past president currently serving on the board.

Remember, the ability to pay bonuses was included in Bashore’s employment contract – a nine-year-old contract that the commissioners are now trying to invalidate because it wasn’t voted on in a public meeting. Is that is Bashore’s fault? The contract was signed by three attorneys and now suddenly it’s invalid? Let’s not forget that the previous township manager paid himself and his staff members bonuses in exactly the same way during his tenure. Has anybody checked the meeting minutes of years ago or asked the immediate past president to determine if the commissioners approved those bonuses in public at the time? The commissioners clearly knew this was an accepted practice but chose to nail Bashore instead of sharing in the responsibility and changing the procedure for how bonuses and other expenses are accounted for in the future.

The Radnor Township commissioners have done nothing more than make Dave Bashore the scapegoat and to divert attention away from their own lack of oversight to protect themselves at a time of intense financial pressure and public scrutiny.

If Dave Bashore was milking the township for all these years, why didn’t the auditors who conducted the annual audit of Radnor’s books question the credit-card charges and “missing” receipts along the way? They didn’t because the expenses were normal acceptable charges that any manager (who was given broad powers) running a $25-million operation would be expected to incur. The records were probably not perfect, but if a forensic auditor is being paid $125,000 (not the $15,000 that was approved in a public meeting) to find discrepancies, he will. Next, just watch: the commissioners will try to blame Bashore for the township-building construction overruns and will make scapegoats out of all the auditors as well.

The commissioners have spent in excess of $400,000 of taxpayer money so far on the Bashore matter. Nearly one-half of the proposed 11-percent tax increase for Radnor taxpayers can be directly attributed to the cost of this one-sided “investigation.” The commissioners have acted as judge, jury and prosecution. Dave Bashore has not been given the opportunity to defend himself. Our residents need to know how this situation is going to affect their own pocketbook and realize that we are only in the early stages of this mess. The costs incurred to date will likely pale in comparison to what will get spent once the lawsuits start flying.

The commissioners have destroyed a man and his family for alleged discrepancies – things that have not been proven. In the process, the hate demonstrated by our elected leaders has destroyed our town’s spirit as well. Remember the accolades Radnor has received for being a great place to live and work? Now ask yourself – who would want to live, start a business, work for our township or get involved in a community with a reputation like this? Maybe that’s why the three township-manager candidates who were offered the job ran as fast as they could! Radnor Township needs its community leaders and residents to step forward and insist that our commissioners accept responsibility for their actions (or inaction) and stop the ugly politics.

Chip Addis, St. Davids resident, Wayne business owner

How in whatever hallucinogenic haze can this twerp consider Bashore blameless? At this point is that like saying Bernie Madoff or Joseph Forte each made a little mistake and should be left alone??

I mean seriously, not that some commissioners should be held blameless, but hmmmm, Bashore as scapegoat of recession? And people take financial planning advice from this Addis? Why is it every time something appears on Bashore, up pops the Wayne Weeble? Is it because Weebles wobble but they don't fall down?

Now, let's consider something else: if there are folks who were recipients of Bashore's largesse on the taxpayer dime, why not go after them to return some dinaro? Like what I have never understood is the role Aimee Cuthbertson played in all of this? She's now over at Haverford Township, right? What would the last finance guy, what was his name, David Fiorenza? What would he say? Or what about whoever Ann Grossman was?

So while I agree that others might be complicit in this, how is Bashore lily white? Whatever happened to the rumored criminal investigation of Radnor's odd past year? FBI? Delco D.A.? Is Radnor cooperating with authorities or is the criminal investigation just bullshit?

MLSL Radnor: Manager owes $1M
Published: Wednesday, December 23, 2009
By Sam Strike

Last week Radnor Township put into motion its attempt to recoup more than $1 million it says that former manager Dave Bashore misappropriated during his eight-year tenure at the helm.

Township treasurer John Osborne, on behalf of the township and with the help of legal counsel, filed a $1,008,512 judgment against Bashore in Delaware County’s Court of Common Pleas on Dec. 16.

The judgment has been entered into the court’s docket, according to the Office of Judicial Services Web site.

MLSL Bashore: Privacy invaded by the auditor, township
Published: Wednesday, December 23, 2009
By Sam Strike

Former Radnor Township manager Dave Bashore and his wife filed an invasion-of-privacy complaint against the township and its forensic auditor last week after copies of their 2007 tax returns were included in an audit, which was posted on the township’s Web site Dec. 8.

Bashore and his wife, Kelly, filed the lawsuit in the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas on Dec. 14 against the Radnor Board of Commissioners and the forensic auditors, Joseph Barbagallo, CPA, and Marcum LLP.

The complaint seeks damages in excess of $50,000 for the “loss of privacy,” “great humiliation” and “emotional distress” caused by the release of the 2007 federal tax returns, according to the complaint.

The complaint also states that the Bashores believe the action was motivated by malice and ill-will.

You know what, I am tired of the ongoing crap in Radnor. Dave Bashore was a smarmy used car salesman type hired to run a township. Can it be said when he saw no lock on the cookie jar, he helped himself? And while he was helping himself commissioners and former commissioners looked the other way? Including but not limited to the unchecked corporate credit card use? Like that 2/13/2004 Farnan Jewelers charge and all those booze charges from the state stores?

I think Chip Addis is full of shit and people shopuld be asking why, shouldn't they?

Brittany Murphy Dead at 32

Was watching CNN this morning and across the bottom of the screen scrolled "Brittany Murphy dead at 32". HUH??? I liked he, she was a quirky, cute actress, but look at this photo in People Magazine from a couple days ago. She looked kind of scary skinny. So, did she have an eating disorder that no one wanted to talk about or was undiagnosed? Because eating disorders can cause temendous stress on the human heart and whole body, so who knows?

BBC: Brittany Murphy's family pay tribute to 'shining star'

The family of US actress Brittany Murphy have paid tribute to their "shining star" after she died at the age of 32.

Murphy, who starred in Clueless and 8 Mile, collapsed at home in Los Angeles and was pronounced dead in hospital.

The Reuters news agency is reporting that she died of a cardiac arrest.

A family statement said the "loss of our beloved Brittany is a terrible tragedy. She was our daughter, our wife, our love and a shining star."

It added: "We ask you to respect our privacy at this time."

Murphy's father, Angelo Bertolotti, said: "She was just an absolute doll since she was born.

"Her personality was always outward. Everybody loved her - people that made movies with her, people on a cruise - they all loved her."

Murphy was pronounced dead at 1004 (1804 GMT) on Sunday at a hospital near Beverly Hills.

Of course, now I did find reference on the web to this?

Brittany Murphy had plotted an Aussie escape By Holly Byrnes and Carly Crawford From: The Daily Telegraph December 22, 2009 12:11AM

The Clueless and 8 Mile star was found unconscious in the shower of her Los Angeles home by her mother Sharon.

Rumoured to have suffered from anorexia nervosa, the star could not be revived. Despite speculation her death was prescription drug-related, actor friend Jamie Kennedy suggested bad body image contributed.

Kennedy, who dates Jennifer Love Hewitt, tweeted: "Britney (sic) they say died of cardiac arrest from anorexia. Jesus Christ how long before we f . . . in realize w r too hard women in this biz."

Well there a whole SLEW of Main Line housewives that had best see this as a wake-up call, right? Or are we going to keep on pretending that some don't drink,some don't pop pills and even more don't stick their fingers down their throats or chase their food around their plates?

The Meaning Of Christmas

Getting a teensy tinsel bit contemplative the week before Christmas. What does Christmas mean to you? Are we feeling Christmas-y in this country this year?

As I walked the center of Wayne this week, I saw the trappings of Christmas. I was actually thrilled that people were saying "Merry Christmas" and not just "Season's Greetings".

The phrase "Season's Greetings" and the phrase "Happy Holidays" bugs the crap out of me. Say the word people, you won't burn in hell. It just befuddles me that we can wish each other well for every other holiday known to man and co-opted by Hallmark, yet that "Christmas" word starts a war each year.

You have the politically correct versus the super conservative religious right. Where do those of us in the middle go? The ones who celebrate Christmas and wish their friends well who have alternative celebrations and traditions?

I saw this comment on a Chicago Tribune editorial today that says:

Twas the night before the war on Christmas and all thru Fox News,
not a free thinker was stirring, because you know it's not news.
The talking points were placed in the prompters with care,
in hopes that Fox viewers would be clueless and scared.
The pundits were nestled all smug at their desks,
as delusions of Glenn Beck haunted the rest.
And Greta with her lockjaw and Sean with his yap
had just settled down after broadcasting their crap.
When out from the Mainstream there arose such a clatter,
Bill-O sprang from his compound to see what was the matter.
Away to the media he flew like a flash,
and tore into sinners and deemed them all trash.
When what to his cynical eyes did appear
but a fake War on Christmas like he fights every year,
Most vapid crusaders like lemmings they came
and he whistled and shouted and called them by name.
Now Brett Baer, now Britt Hume, now Glenn Beck and Van Sustern,
On Cavuto, on Kilmead, on Doocie, John Gibson!
To the edge of insanity and the thick on the brawl
now bash away, bash away, bash away all.
Bill-0 Sprang from his program to his team gave a whistle
and again they all whined like crazy wing-net people.
And I heard him complain like he does every night,
Happy War on Christmas to all and to all a fake fight!

Hat tip to Ken in Cleveland and Shayno.

zabes_ (12/18/2009, 7:50 AM )

So as we get ready for snow, and as I officially had my feet run over by the snow crazies in Genuardi's this morning, are we in the Christmas spirit? Are we feeling Christmas-y? Or are we all just quasi blah humbugging along because our country is in the economic toilet in hell?

Everyone I know is afraid to spend money...well almost everyone I know. Some of the spend gals oblivious who haven't worked since dinosaurs roamed the earth or since they bagged their own Daddy Warbucks are ch-ch-charging away.

So will it be a year of simple gifts or spending like the world is coming to an end?

Heated debate again over 'War on Christmas' claims
By Kristi Keck, CNN
December 18, 2009 8:01 a.m. EST

Americans are in a war that pits the politically correct against Christmas carolers, some say. They say it's a battle that plays out in the halls of Congress, retail stores and public schools across the country, and it's one that's been raging for years.

Republican Rep. Henry Brown of South Carolina introduced a resolution this month asking that the House express support for the use of Christmas symbols and traditions and frown on any attempt to ban references to the holiday.

"Each year, I could see a diminishing value of the spiritual part of Christmas," Brown said. "It would seem like another group would go from the Christmas spirit to the holiday spirit."

"What I'm afraid of -- if we don't bring some kind of closure to this continuous change, then in 20 years it will almost be completely different from what we see today ... and so we would lose the whole emphasis of what the very early beginnings of Christmas was all about."

So far, the resolution has one Democrat and 72 Republicans as co-sponsors. The House hasn't taken it up, but the chamber adopted similar resolutions in the past....some people feel a "false sense of some kind of attack on Christmas" if a school holds a winter concert instead of a Christmas concert, or if retailers declare "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas."

Nastyball, Anyone?

So apparently the youth in this area can't behave at basketball games? Anti-Semitic slurs vs. Good Ol' Boy Racist Comments?

Lovely.

Posted on Fri, Dec. 18, 2009
Anti-Semitism arises at U. Darby game
By Mari A. Schaefer, Joelle Farrell, and Robert Moran
Inquirer Staff Writers

A varsity basketball game between two of the region's best-known suburban high schools took an ugly turn Tuesday night when a handful of students yelled anti-Semitic chants.

The episode during a game between Upper Darby and Lower Merion set off concern among parents, quick action by school officials, and an apology to Lower Merion from Upper Darby's school superintendent.

The chants came from a few teenagers among several hundred spectators in Upper Darby High's gym during the last half of the boys' basketball game.

Two Lower Merion parents in the stands said they had heard spectators chant, "Warm up the ovens."...The two Lower Merion parents who sat near the Upper Darby fans section said they also had heard, "You're so Jewish, get your yarmulke," and, "We'll write you letters when you're in Auschwitz" - and shouted at the teens to stop.

Just lovely. See what we are teaching our children? Aren't you all proud? UGH. Just UGH.

Conshy King in a Spot of Trouble in Malvern?

Hmmm....the King of the "Millennium" seems to be having a spot of trouble? O'Neill getting a whopper of a judgement against him? Is this Merry Christmas Monster Developer?

Friday, December 18, 2009
O’Neill facing $61M ruling
Philadelphia Business Journal - by Natalie Kostelni Staff Writer

Citizens Bank has secured a $60.9 million judgment against the developer of Uptown Worthington who borrowed money from the financial institution to construct the sprawling project in Malvern.

The judgment was entered in Montgomery County Court on Nov. 12 against Brian O’Neill after the bank and developer had tried to work out new terms on the loan, according to court documents.

Ho, Ho, Ho..What a Shocker - Bashore is Suing...

Blow me over with a feather! Dave wants his annual bonus any way he can get it? Bashore, Bashore, Bashore...must you be quite so predictable...and trying your case ahead of time in the press? Didn't work so well for Milton Street and Fumo, now did it?

And correct me if I am wrong but didn't Bashore turn over that information fairly willingly? And he was a public official, right?

Radnor, ex-township manager in court
Published: Thursday, December 17, 2009
By TIMOTHY LOGUE
tlogue@delcotimes.com

Armed with a damning forensic audit, Radnor officials are now looking to recoup $1.08 million from ousted township Manager David A. Bashore.

“On behalf of the township, the treasurer filed a judgment against Bashore (Wednesday) in Common Pleas Court under the surcharge provisions of the state and the Home Rule Charter for the misappropriation of funds,” said Neil Morris, special counsel for Radnor Township.

A forensic audit conducted by Bala Cynwyd-based Marcum LLP claimed Bashore compiled $377,762 worth of “inappropriate, unauthorized or undocumented expenditures” during his tenure, which began Jan. 1, 2001, and ended with his firing April 13.

An attorney with the Philadelphia firm Archer & Greiner, Morris was initially retained to look into township employee practices and policies. More recently, he was retained to represent township Treasurer John Osborne in the surcharge filing.

In addition to the expenditures detailed in the forensic audit, Morris said the township is also demanding Bashore reimburse the more than $600,000 in lump-sum bonuses he paid out to various township employees without board approval.

“The facts are what they are and the audit says what it says, which is why the district attorney and FBI are looking into this matter,” Morris said.

Monday, Bashore filed an invasion of privacy complaint against the board of commissioners, Marcum and its lead forensic investigator for the Bashore audit, Joseph Barbagallo, CPA.

The suit, which Bashore filed in Common Pleas Court with his wife Kelly, centers on the inclusion of the couples’ tax returns in the audit and the township’s decision to post the information on its Web site.

In a press release, Bashore cited “egregious breaches of confidentiality” by the defendants and said he would seek damages.

Citing “ongoing criminal investigations by several agencies,” Barbagallo had little to say about the Bashore suit.

Posted on Thu, Dec. 17, 2009
Radnor sues former township manager for $1M
By WILLIAM BENDER
Philadelphia Daily News
benderw@phillynews.com 215-854-5255

The fallout from a million-dollar scandal involving former Radnor Township Manager Dave Bashore made its way from the Main Line to Media this week with the filing of opening legal volleys in Delaware County Court.

Township Attorney Neil A. Morris yesterday entered a $1,008,512 judgment against Bashore, seeking to recoup money that Bashore had paid himself and township employees in the form of secret bonuses, as well as other taxpayer funds that Bashore allegedly misspent.

The judgment, filed on behalf of Radnor Treasurer John Osborne, follows the release of a forensic audit report that accuses Bashore of altering public records, of misusing his township-issued credit card and of handing out huge bonuses to employees to ensure that they remained loyal to him.

Sweeten Singing The Scam Mommy Blues

WAAAAHHHH!
Hear that?
WAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Yeah that.
That is the sound of scam mommy-who-sees-black-men singing the scam mommy blues.
Bonnie wants out of jail and to be on house arrest.
Get real. Rot Bonnie, Rot.

Posted on Sun, Dec. 13, 2009
Kidnap hoaxer seeking reprieve
Amid more allegations, a woman who faked a carjacking wants house arrest instead of jail.
By Larry King
Inquirer Staff Writer

Less than halfway through her prison sentence, Bonnie Sweeten wants out.

The suburban mother of three, who in May faked her abduction and fled to Disney World with her 9-year-old daughter, will ask a Bucks County judge this week to transfer her to house arrest.

Saddled with nine to 24 months for the widely publicized hoax, Sweeten is contrite and will never transgress again, her lawyer says.

Even so, new allegations about Sweeten keep turning up in public records.

The onetime paralegal is accused of getting her former boss' law license suspended, masquerading as a lawyer, stealing six-figure sums from clients, defrauding a lender, and using forgery and a fake passport to pose as her employer at a mortgage closing, according to documents filed in civil lawsuits and state disciplinary proceedings.

Sweeten, 38, was even listed as a lawyer in the 2008 and 2009 editions of the Philadelphia Bar Association's legal directory.

Lawyers for Sweeten and her accusers have said the FBI is probing allegations of fraud and massive thefts involving Sweeten and the Feasterville law office of attorney Debbie Carlitz, where Sweeten worked....And while she stands convicted only of identity theft and making false reports, Sweeten's hoax was prompted by her admitted fleecing of a former relative.

Lawyers agreed that Sweeten had fled under pressure to repay $280,000 she had stolen from the retirement account of Victor Biondino, her former husband's 92-year-old grandfather.

Sweeten had told Biondino's family that she took the money to cover six-figure settlement checks owed to two clients of the Carlitz firm. The clients say Sweeten told them she would be acting as their lawyer after Carlitz's license was suspended.

In urging Finley to consider granting house arrest for Sweeten, Busico argues that she deserves more credit for admitting her crimes, expressing remorse, and sparing taxpayers the cost of a trial.

"Ms. Sweeten for the first time in her life has tasted incarceration," Busico's petition says, "and it will no doubt leave an indelible impression upon her, such that she will never again violate the law."

Rot Bonnie, Rot.

So?

Is it true Dave Bashore and his wife have different addresses?

Is it true Radnor hasn't locked down where he's living yet?

Is it true a last minute deal may have saved the ACME?

If the ACME is saved, will Wayne still have to breath coal dust from coal fired pizza?

Is it true that Radnor Township residents have had insult added to injury as everyone will be paying for 4% salary increases across the board?

OK if the last is true it's BULLSHIT. How much are people supposed to pay? And pay again?

Like Fumo, Like Bashore? Cha Ching, Cha Ching

Cha Ching a ringy dingy! Bashore was a super shopper! The audit is out, the audit is out! The audit is out!

And so is a fab article in the Daily News that promises many juicy details to follow? How delightful! So where is Dave these days? (I figure if I keep asking sooner or later someone will tell me?)

Now William Bender refers below to "digging dirt"...well reporter darling, the dirt is always dirtier on the Main Line. Didn't you know? It's like Melrose Place meets Desperate Housewives meets Peyton Place. Come on now, how do you think Agnes Nixon continues to be inspired with "All My Children"? Agnes is a Radnor Township girl...she gets it...and here I thought Fumo drama was entertaining...

Posted on Tue, Dec. 8, 2009
Manager had $ecrets, Radnor audit finds
By WILLIAM BENDER
Philadelphia Daily News
benderw@phillynews.com

The deeper you dig, the dirtier it gets.
Even on the Main Line.

Radnor Township officials are reeling from an audit report that accuses Dave Bashore, the former township manager, of misspending up to $378,000 in public funds through questionable purchases and unauthorized payments to himself.

The long-awaited report, released Tuesday, is a 48-page crash course on the perils of government secrecy.

It alleges that Bashore, who was fired in April, had turned the affluent community into his personal fiefdom by handing out secret bonuses to loyal employees, altering public records requested by his political enemies, and fudging the numbers to cover his tracks.

"I think we're all outraged," Radnor's interim solicitor, John Rice, said at Monday night's commissioners meeting. He said Bashore had "engaged in a pattern of secrecy, self-dealing and fiscal mismanagement" since he was appointed manager in 2001.

The forensic audit, performed by accounting firm Marcum, uncovered evidence that Bashore may have committed several serious crimes during his tenure. Rice said the report had been turned over to Delaware County, state and federal law-enforcement agencies.

Ronald Surkin, Bashore's attorney, said Tuesday that he hadn't read the report, but denied that his client had done anything wrong.

Please report any Bashore sightings!! Do you think he has hidden assets? OOHHHHHH DRAAAAMMMMMA! I am so exicted! Do you think we will make Huffington Post before all is said and done?

Audit: Bashore totals $377K in 'unauthorized' expenditures
Published: Tuesday, December 8, 2009
By TIMOTHY LOGUE
tlogue@delcotimes.com

RADNOR — A long-awaited forensic audit of David Bashore claims the ousted township manager rang up $377,762 worth of “inappropriate, unauthorized or undocumented expenditures.”

Investigators from the accounting firm Marcum LLP found Bashore paid himself $151,500 in lump sum bonuses without board approval and accumulated $165,470 in questionable or insufficiently-documented charges on the township’s credit card.

The 48-page report said Bashore, who was suspended by commissioners last March and fired in April, spent thousands of dollars on tickets for the Phillies, 76ers, Villanova basketball and football games, Advanta championship tennis matches and PGA tour matches.

He also spent nearly $6,000 at Pennsylvania Wine & Spirit shops, almost $2,100 on a teambuilding/management retreat in the Poconos involving whitewater rafting, and $3,000 on teambuilding dinners.

A township employee since 1987 and former director of finance and assistant manager, Bashore was elevated to township manager Jan. 1, 2001. During his tenure, the report said he caused the township to “pay out hundreds of thousands of dollars in bonuses to favored employees.”

Several current and former township workers told auditors Bashore “used annual bonuses to reward loyalty to him personally....The report said township employees who “questioned Bashore or frustrated his management of the Township”did not receive bonuses and some, like former township finance director David M. Fiorenza, were forced out.

Fiorenza received bonuses until he began “challenging Bashore's unilateral decisions and management practices”by 2004 or 2005, the report said. Subsequently, Fiorenza received no bonus in 2005 or 2006, when he resigned his position under pressure from Bashore

Merry Christmas Radnor Township: No One Wants To Manage You!

Ho, ho, ho Radnor Township! Even in this economy, no one wants to be Township Manager? What does that say for the sorry state of affairs that is Radnor Township?

Rudderless and directionless, save for what the taxpayers are being raped over the coals for...ahhh "The Bashore Effect"is never ending...so where did Davey baby move to anyway? People say he moved?

Radnor manager finalist not taking position
Published: Monday, December 7, 2009
By Sam Strike

The most recent finalist for the position of township manager of Radnor Township is not taking the job, the township learned today.

The finalist was expected to give notice at his current employment on Friday but reportedly chose to stay there.

The board was originally set to appoint the manager tonight.

Radnor Township has been under the management of an interim manager, who works at the office only two days a week, since it terminated its former manager Dave Bashore in March.....The township hired Local Governmental Management Services, LLC to provide help in the search and selection process. Daniel Olpere served as a facilitator who placed ads and administratively handled the process of collecting resumes and doing preliminary interviews.

Somehow I don't think it is the fault of the search firm that people are not that interested...and while they are waiting, why don't they clean house some more?

Philly Mag's Brooke Skewers Springer

How divine! How I love the chic globe trotting dumpling Brooke De La Villanova! She gets it, she really gets it! There, glistening like a Christmas ornament in a fir tree comes this long overdue gem. A gem I wrote about a few weeks ago myself, lamenting that Brooke had yet to give her take on the situation.

Shame on me for not having faith and Merry Christmas to everyone Carol Springer has been miserable to - frumpy in a cardigan has gotten the good word in PulseChatter for Philadelphia Magazine in Brooke De La Villanova's column for December, 2009 that her bullshit is simply not socially acceptable any longer and one can only hope her paper gets the message and brings back those they should not have dumped for her in the first place:

....Covering the rich and famous is hard, darlings, as anyone who’s competed with Carol Springer for a photo can attest. For years, the Main Line Times columnist has insisted on just-for-her pics of partygoers. But now comes word that La Springer’s bossiness has other photogs threatening boycotts. Say cheese!

You get an "A" for effort Brooke, but the thing is this, it's not just other photogs threatening boycotts, it's the society dames as well. It's been hard for some of them to come out from behind that glass of bubbly and realize that there are options.

Of course Brooke, some day you will have to tackle the delicate topic of spouse shopping. It's not just the ladies who turn into big game hunters, it's a game for the boys too...there are some that actually believe the hype and aura their former spouses created around them. And sometimes when the boys go shopping for those new and improved models the ladies have to think about princes who really are toads. Can it be said that some of these repeat Tom, Dicks, and Harrys should just stick to paying for it?

Back To Gangsta' Basketball in Philly?

Allen Iverson? As in an Allen Iverson Do-Over? Are you kidding me? Whose Main Line community will he turn into a three ring circus this time? Maybe his mansion didn't sell in Villanova or Gladwyne or wherever and he'll move back in? I'm sure Nottingham will be thrilled.

Honestly, is Philadelphia so hard up that they would take back the T.O. of basketball? Or is that the next bad sports move? Will T.O. get a Do-Over too? But what do I expect out of a city that welcomes a dog murderer named Michael Vick like he is the second coming of Christ?

Philadelphia this is when it is embarrassing to say you are from the general vicinity. You keep on keeping on with the professional athletes with no honor. Nice example to set for the young in the area, eh? That bad behavior will be handsomely rewarded again and again and again.....oh riiiiiggghhht I forgot, that's called private school today on the Main Line. Silly me.

L.A. Times: AROUND THE NBA
Source: Allen Iverson offered one-year contract by the 76ers
Iverson, 34, who announced his retirement last week, could return to Philadelphia, where he won an MVP award in 2001.
Associated Press
December 1, 2009 | 7:30 p.m.

Allen Iverson and the Philadelphia 76ers are closer to a reunion.

A person with knowledge of the contract talks said the 76ers have offered a one-year, non-guaranteed contract to Iverson. The person spoke to the Associated Press Tuesday on condition of anonymity because the contract talks had not been made public.

Iverson, his agent and business manager met with 76ers President Ed Stefanski, Coach Eddie Jordan and two other members of the organization Monday during the first formal meeting between the team and its former most valuable player.

Iverson, 34, announced his retirement last week after an ill-fated stint with the Memphis Grizzlies. The 10-time All-Star was the NBA's most valuable player in 2001 when he led the 76ers to the NBA Finals.

Posted on Tue, Dec. 1, 2009
Sixers now look likely to sign Iverson
By Kate Fagan
Inquirer Staff Writer

DALLAS - What once seemed ludicrous - Allen Iverson returning to the 76ers - now appears likely.

Yesterday afternoon in Dallas, a quartet of Sixers personnel met with Iverson; his agent, Leon Rose; and his personal manager, Gary Moore.

Sixers brass present at the two-hour meeting included coach Eddie Jordan, president and general manager Ed Stefanski, assistant general manager Tony DiLeo, and assistant coach Aaron McKie.

A source close to the situation said it was "just the beginning of the negotiation" but also expressed belief that it would end positively.

And oh, about that Tiger Woods thing? Who cares? He's just pulling a Charles Barkley perhaps in more than one way?