ALBANY A state employee who once worked as the chauffeur for Secretary of State Gail Shaffer may have been acting as bookmaker and using his office for that, according to a state report released Monday. The state inspector general's office called for disciplinary action against John J. Macejka Jr., who has worked since 1988 as a telecommunications analyst and administrator for the state Department of State.
Investigators collected evidence including telephone records suggesting that Macejka acted as a bookie for State Department mail room employees for a year and a half, ending in November 1992, the report said.
They also found evidence that Macejka pressured a co-worker, Michael Damiano, into taking out a loan to repay a $1,200 gambling debt, the report said. It also accused Damiano and fellow worker Gerald Arnold of using a state van for personal reasons.
LEGISLATOR SEEKS STUDY ON EXPANDING OTB IN SCH'DY COUNTY.(Local) Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) October 8, 1987
Schenectady County Rep. John J. Macejka has proposed the county review the possibility of going into the off-track betting business.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
If this guy wasn't a liberal dem and part of the family and friends club....it would have been all over the liberal media....FACT!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
GUILDERLAND — Town officials are mum after the town's assessor was fired abruptly.
John Macejka said he was called into town Supervisor Ken Runion's office March 8 and told he was terminated. He was not given any documentation.
"He was somewhat evasive — he said something like three complaints in 10 days," Macejka said about Runion's reason for dismissing him. "I deal with 13,000 parcels. Three complaints, that's not bad for an assessor."
Macejka said he was not aware of any complaints until the meeting with Runion. He became assessor in 2008.
Runion and other Town Board members refused to discuss the matter, citing an executive session where the decision was made behind closed doors March 6.
Town Attorney Richard Sherwood said discussions in executive session remain private indefinitely, and only the decisions made there can be released.
Minutes from the March 6 meeting only state that Councilman Brian Forte moved to terminate Macejka, "for cause, effective immediately."
Councilman Allen Maikels seconded the motion, and the decision was made unanimously.
Macejka said he has never met Maikels or Forte, the two newest members of the board elected in November, and has no idea why he was fired.
"I'm just totally stunned," he said. "I'm still stunned."
Macejka speculated about an incident at the end of January when senior services was relocated to his office, and he felt compelled on one occasion to lock the office door.
"I handle highly sensitive income information," he said. "I literally had senior citizens walking through my office that I could not account for. I certainly was not thinking it was fodder for him to fire me."
A staff member wasn't happy with the locked door, he said, and senior services were moved back out of his office three weeks later. Macejka said his door was locked for a total of two hours.
"As a department head, I should have been able to make that executive level decision" to lock the door, he said. "The supervisor wasn't there."
Macejka said Runion was on vacation when the incident occurred, and was not there to witness it.
Carol Wysonski, who retired as town assessor before Macejka was hired, has taken on the post temporarily while a permanent replacement is found.
Wysonski said she did not know Macejka had been fired until after she agreed to temporarily fill in as assessor.
"I was just informed that he was no longer working here," she said.
Wysonski said she has received several calls from residents who have said they are glad Macejka is no longer assessor, but she said she has not asked them to elaborate.
"It doesn't pertain to me," she said.
Macejka said Wysonski retired amid another political firestorm after former town board members Warren Redlich and Mark Grimm campaigned on changing the assessor's role.
Macejka said he has hired an attorney, but did not elaborate about any legal action. He said the termination has caused tremendous hardship on his family. He has two children who are in college, he said, and is now unable to pay their tuition.
He said the termination has caused tremendous hardship on his family. He has two children who are in college, he said, and is now unable to pay their tuition.
My heart is breakin' for ya John..............here's a novel idea how about getting a real job in the private sector instead of sponging off taxpayers you dipwad!!!!
Wysonski said she has received several calls from residents who have said they are glad Macejka is no longer assessor,
I agree! No surprise here! Rude and obnoxious and not helpful at all to the rotterdamian residents before, during and after the reval. But then again.......when the family owns the business, you'll always have a job! So he is now, or should rotterdamians say, 'again'....their aSSessor!
Ya just can't make this crap up!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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