MULLICA LAWYERS: THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY

While this comparison does NOT compare apples to apples it is interesting to note the different billing practices of Mullica’s 2 solicitors: Bill Cappuccio who is the solicitor for Mullica’s School Board and tim THE SHYSTER mcquire who is the solicitor for THE CORRUPT MULLICA 5 (Mullica’s Committee).

Mullica’s School Board meets only once a month and Cappuccio’s billing shows a flat charge of $3,150 for legal services. There are no extra charges for special meetings or phone calls or research into this or that Board related legal question. The only extra charge, less than $1,560, involves the negotiations and drawing up of the necessary legal papers for the recent purchase by the Board of the 15.33 acres across from the school on Elwood Road. Cappuccio does charge extra as the labor negotiator for the school board. So every 3 years when new contracts are negotiated there is an additional charge. That’s the GOOD.

Mullica’s Committee has in the past met twice a month…the second and fourth Tuesday of the month and the Township solicitor gets a salary of $10,000. Under THE CORRUPT MULLICA 5 this was quickly changed to just one meeting in the summer months July and August. In 2003 the schedule was also changed to have just one Township meeting during November and December. This all a part of the on going drive to keep the citizenry in the dark as these once a month meetings were conveniently held in the afternoon and were not televised.

Yes, THE SHYSTER mcquire continued to collect $10,000 last year even though there were 4 less Township meetings. "In the Norse mythology Loki originally was on the side of the rest of the gods, helping them once or twice using a particularly nasty forms of trickery. He was a cunning negotiator with a talent for technicalities. He was sort of the Norse equivalent of a lawyer, no doubt the reason they tied him down in a pit dripping acidic venom on him.” (Martin Terman)

Someone once said that IF YOU LAID ALL OF THE LAWYERS IN THE WORLD, END TO END, ON THE EQUATOR—IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO JUST LEAVE THEM THERE. Unlike Cappuccio THE SHYSTER bills Mullica’s taxpayers for most calls that are made to him requiring information on this or that issue. The total payout to tim THE SHYSTER mcquire over the last 12 months has been over $45,000.

It should be noted that a previous Republican solicitor for Mullica’s governing body billed as Cappuccio does with a flat fee for legal services; excluding special projects. That flat fee was less than $20,000 and the Republican lawyer then was Jim McGeery.

THE SHYSTER mcquire however has done an excellent job for THE CORRUPT MULLICA 5 in sustaining their illegal actions. Whether the failure to provide legally required documents to the public, the cover up of auto insurance fraud by their crony Forman or the use of Township time and equipment for personal use by george THE SLACKER forman and we could just go on and on here. As Ambrose Bierce aptly defined the noun, Lawyer; ONE SKILLED IN THE CIRCUMVENTION OF THE LAW.