The retired Clark Police Lieutenant who recorded racist and sexist remarks by Clark’s mayor says prosecutors in New Jersey have dropped the ball.
“The handling of the investigation is lacking. They were in possession of evidence that showed racism and gender discrimination and they did nothing,” said Antonio Manata.
Manata claims the Union County Prosecutor's Office, now led by William Daniel, and the New Jersey State Attorney General’s Office, now led by Matthew Platkin, failed to hold leaders of Clark Township accountable for allegations of race and sex discrimination.
“The Union County Prosecutor’s Office has never approached me and asked me to testify or give any statements in reference to the content of the tapes until January that just passed two months ago. And the only reason why we discussed the contents of those tapes is because they were investigating me for making the tapes,” Manata told NBC New York in an exclusive interview.
Manata said investigators told him, by secretly recording Mayor Sal Bonaccorso’s racist comments, he violated a 2013 town policy about recording internal conversations.
As a result, Manata’s attorneys filed a federal lawsuit alleging the Union County Prosecutor’s Office has retaliated against him for being a whistleblower, and despite the fact that the recordings were turned over 20 months ago, the prosecutor’s office failed to expose the alleged racism that existed in Clark City Hall and the Clark Township Police Department.
The lawsuit...
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