court deposit

He lost his job in 1986, according to a January 2000 article in The Star-Ledger, after a disciplinary hearing determined that he had taken cash from court deposit envelopes for his personal use, had court employees cash his personal checks knowing they would bounce and had lied to the county prosecutor.

State Democratic officials said on Tuesday that one of the Democrats appearing in an anticorruption commercial for the Republican candidate for governor, Douglas R. Forrester, was fired as a court clerk in Essex County after being accused of stealing money from court deposits and was, for a time, a Republican.