Ocean Township Employee Alleges Sexual Harassment and Property Tax Fraud
Mayor Christopher Siciliano downplays the allegations as greed and politics
In a law suit filed on April 22, Meredith Nelson, the Deputy Director of Finance of Ocean Township, alleged that her supervisor, Stephen Gallagher (no relation to the editor of this website), the Director of Finance and Chief Financial Officer of the Township, habitually harassed her and other female employees of the Township.
Ms Nelson charges that the Township Manager, Michael Muscillo, took no action when she first brought the situation to his attention last August, six months into her employment, other than ordering her to take a “pre-employment drug test. When she complained of the ongoing harassment again in January of this year, Gallagher retaliated by ceasing all communication with her, “intentionally ignoring her existence,” thereby preventing her from doing her job. Three months latter, in March, Gallagher met with Nelson and and Muscillo to deliver a 12 page employment improvement plan which included instructions on which calculator to use, where her computer monitor and other business equipment was to be placed in her work area and instructions to seek certification as a Tax Collector…a position she explicitly declined in her pre-employment negotiations with the Township.
Posted: May 7th, 2019 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Monmouth County News, New Jersey, News, Ocean Township | Tags: Brian Nelson, Hazlet, Lawsuit, Mayor Christopher Siciliano, Meredith Nelson, Michael Muscillo, Monmouth County News, Ocean Township, property tax fraud, sexual harassment, Stephen Gallagher | 2 Comments »