Donastorg reveals another $44k spent on Governor’s personal residence
ST. THOMAS – Senator Adlah “Foncie” Donastorg has obtained documentation detailing an additional $43,774.75 spent on improvements to the Governor’s private residence at Estate Mafolie on St. Thomas.
The improvements include a new septic system, a “shower room” for the security cottage, and new exterior lighting all on Governor John de Jongh’s private property. Click to view press release
More than half of the contributions Delegate to Congress Donna Christensen has received in the current election cycle are linked to a Washington contractor who is the subject of a federal inquiry.
According to an article today in the Washington Post, Christensen has received at least $37,000 from contractor Jeffrey Thompson, who is suspected of using “straw” or phantom donors to evade contribution limits that are set for candidates running for office. His operations have drawn the attention of Federal authorities.
According to the article, Thompson’s accounting firm Thompson, Cobb, Brazilio and Associates, has 189 contracts with the federal government, worth $17.1 million. The company has done some business in the Virgin Islands, auditing grant funds awarded by the U.S. Department of Education and the Federal Highway Administration. TCBA recently advertised for an accounting position based in Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands.
Recently, Christensen has urged the Federal Election Commission to investigate the election system of the Virgin Islands, citing public discontent with the way the Board of Elections in operating. Perhaps this current development will hasten their acceptance of her request.
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VI RESTORE HOPE LEADER ROOSEVELT DAVID, PEOPLE FOR PROGRESS, AND GOVERNOR DE JONGH, JR. IS VIOLATING THE LAW BY ALLOWING PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN A RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY BEING BROADCAST LIVE ON THE RADIO. USING THESE CHILDREN TO PERFORM AT THIS POLITICAL RALLY IS TROUBLING BECAUSE THE LAW CLEARLY PROHIBITS THESE TYPES OF ACTIONS.
AGAIN, GOVERNOR JOHN P. DE JONGH, JR. AND SENATE PRESIDENT LOUIS P. HILL IS CLEARLY VIOLATING THE LAW AND THEIR PUBLIC TRUST BY USING OUR CHILDREN FOR THEIR POLITICAL GAIN. GOVERNOR JOHN P. DE JONGH, JR. IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS AND SENATE PRESIDENT LOUIS P. HILL IS A UNITED STATE VIRGIN ISLANDS LAW MAKER. THIS IS VERY DISGRACEFUL AND UNETHICAL.
Handing A Victory To Americans United, Justices Skip New Jersey Legal Contest Over Football Coach’s Prayer Promotion
New Jersey football coach Marcus Borden was running out of options. A federal appeals court had rejected the East Brunswick High School official’s argument that he had a right to engage in religious activity with students.
Desperate, Borden’s lawyers threw the legal version of a Hail Mary pass, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a final appeal of his case.
Unfortunately for Borden, the play was not completed. The high court on March 2 announced it will not hear an appeal of Borden’s case. The decision brings the three-year legal battle to an end.
The court, in a 51-page lead opinion written by Judge D. Michael Fisher, an appointee of President George W. Bush, went on to say that district policies banning employees from engaging in religious activities with students were constitutional.
“The policies, Fisher wrote, “were necessary for the School District in order to avoid [church-state] violations.”
Officials at the East Brunswick School District hailed the outcome.
“Public school officials simply may not engage with students in religious activity,” said East Brunswick Board of Education President Todd Simmens. “Consistent with this law, the board of education and district officials have, throughout this case, made certain that no school employee supervises or otherwise participates in any type of prayer with our students.
“Needless to say,” Simmens concluded, “the board is pleased that, in this case, the courts have reaffirmed this long-standing constitutional principle.”
http://www.au.org/media/church-and-state/archives/2009/04/touchdown-at-the-supreme.html
VI RESTORE HOPE LEADER ROOSEVELT DAVID, PEOPLE FOR PROGRESS, SENATE PRESIDENT LOUIS P. HILL, AND GOVERNOR DE JONGH, JR. HAS JUST ENDED THEIR POLITICAL/RELIGIOUS LIVE BROADCAST IN WHICH VIRGIN ISLANDS PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS WERE USED TO PROVIDE MUSIC FOR THEIR PEP RALLY.
WE ARE NOW READY TO CONFIRM THAT THE SPONSORS OF THIS EVENT WERE ROOSEVELT DAVID PEOPLE FOR PROGRESS ORGANIZATION, THE DE JONGH ADMINISTRATION, AND LOCAL ST. THOMAS RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION.
THIS IS ANOTHER SIGNAL TO THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION THAT THIS U.S. POSSESSION IS TOTALLY OUT OF CONTROL. CLEAR VIOLATIONS OF U.S. LAWS ARE BEING COMMITTED BY VIRGIN ISLANDS GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF THIS GOVERNMENT BEFORE THE WORLD. THE GOVERNOR OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS HAS DISREGARDED ANY CONSEQUENCES AS A RESULT OF HIS USING OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS STUDENTS OR CHILDREN RIGHTS IN NOT BEING USED AS PAWN IN A POLITICAL SHOW DOWN.
WE WILL MONITOR THIS DEVELOPING STORY AND THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION RESPONSE TO THIS BLATANT VIOLATION OF U.S. LAWS.
LEGAL PRECEDENCE TO SUE THE DE JONGH ADMINISTRATION FOR VIOLATING VIRGIN ISLANDS PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS RIGHTS TO SEPARATION OF CHURCH – STATE ACTIVITIES HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED.
GOVERNOR JOHN P. DE JONGH, JR. WAS PERSONALLY PRESENT AT THIS POLITICAL PEP RALLY AND “HE” WAS ALSO MENTIONED AS A COSPONSOR OF THIS “PRAYER” BREAKFAST WHERE VIRGIN ISLANDS PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS LABOR WAS USED TO ENTERTAIN PARTICIPANTS OF THIS PEP RALLY THAT “PRAISED” THE GOVERNOR.
Steele v. Van Buren Pub. Sch. Dist.
Updated: April 27, 2009
• Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
• Citation: 845 F.2d 1492 (8th Cir. 1988)
• Decided: 1988
• Church-State Issue: Religion In Public Schools
Description: A school district could be held liable for an employee’s leading the school band in prayer at mandatory events, in violation of the Establishment Clause, where the school board was aware of and implicitly condoned the prayer practice.
Municipal Liability: Evidence demonstrated that the school board knew of the prayers and of the parent’s concerns but took no action, and that individual members expressed support for the prayers. Further, the superintendent, with the board’s authorization, had informed the band leader that the board would support his decision to continue the prayers. These facts demonstrated that the board had adopted the prayers as a custom or policy — for which it could face municipal liability.
http://www.au.org/resources/court-decisions/archives/steele-v-van-buren-pub-sch.html
FOR THE FALSE PROPHETS THAT CAME BEFORE THE WORLD AT THIS PRAYER BREAKFAST POLITICAL PEP RALLY HONORING THE SINNERS AND NOT CONDEMNING THEES SINNERS FOR THEIR SINS, “YOU” WILL HAVE TO ANSWER TO GOD. TO COME BEFORE THE VIRGIN ISLANDS COMMUNITY AND PRAISE THE SINNERS IS USING THE WORD OF GOD IN VAIN AND YOU KNOW THAT’S BLASPHEMY. WHEN YOU STAND AT YOUR PULPITS TOMORROW BE SURE “YOU” HAVE CONFESSED YOUR SINS BEFORE GOD BECAUSE YOU HAVE “SINNED” IN THE EYES OF GOD FOR YOUR ACTIONS AT THIS MORNING PRAYER BREAKFAST POLITICAL PEP RALLY. TO INVOKE THE WORD OF GOD TO PROTECT THESE SINNERS BEFORE THE SINNERS CONFESSED FOR THEIR SINS IS NOTHING LESS THAN THE WORK OF THE DEVIL.
YOU FALSE PROPHETS ARE AWARE OF THE SINS OF THESE SINNERS BUT ASKED CHILDREN TO CONFESS THEIR SINS. YOU ALLOWED CHILDREN TO BE USED TO PROTECT THESE SINNERS INTEREST. THE SCHOOLS IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS ARE NOT EVENT UP TO PAR FOR OUR CHILDREN BUT YOU STILL PRAISED THE SINNERS. THESE SINNERS HAVE STOLEN FROM POOR DEFENSELESS PEOPLE AND BROKEN THESE TEN COMMANDANTS – THOU SHALL NOT LIE AND THOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY.
I LEAVE YOU FALSE PROPHETS WITH THESE SCRIPTURES TO MEDITATE ON AND PRAY THAT GOD WILL HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOULS.
2 John 1:10-11 “If anyone comes to your meeting and does NOT TEACH THE TRUTH ABOUT CHRIST, don’t invite that person into your home or give any kind of encouragement. Anyone who encourages such people becomes a PARTNER IN THEIR EVIL WORK.”
Matt 16:4 Jesus says, “ONLY an EVIL, ADULTEROUS generation would demand a Miraculous Sign…”
Matt 7:15-20 Jesus says, “Beware of the FALSE PROPHETS, who come to you in SHEEP’S CLOTHING but INWARDLY ARE RAVENOUS WOLVES. You will know them by their FRUITS. (17) A Good Tree produces Good Fruit, and a Bad Tree produces Bad Fruit. A Good Tree can’t produce bad fruit, and a Bad tree can’t produce Good Fruit. So every Tree that does not produce Good Fruit is chopped down and thrown into the Fire. Yes, just as you can identify a Tree by its Fruit, so you can IDENTIFY PEOPLE BY THEIR ACTIONS.”
Matt 24:11 Jesus says, “MANY FALSE PROPHETS will appear and will deceive MANY people.”
1 Tim 4:1 “Now the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that in the LAST TIMES some will turn away from the TRUE FAITH; they will follow DECEPTIVE SPIRITS AND TEACHINGS that come from DEMONS.”
Matt 7:21-23 Jesus warns, “Not everyone who calls out to me, ‘Lord! Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the WILL OF MY FATHER in Heaven will enter. On Judgment Day MANY will say to me, ‘Lord! Lord! We PROPHESIED IN YOUR NAME and Cast out demons in your Name and Performed many Miracles in your Name.’ But I will reply, ‘I never knew you. Get away from me, you who BREAK GOD’S LAWS.”
Rev 12:9 “Satan, Deceives the Whole World” Satan Deceives The Whole Wide World – Rev 12:9 – is about How Satan Deceives the Whole Wide World. He did it in Noah’s & Lots Day, and he will be allowed to do it again. Many People and MANY Go To Hell. Satan Deceives the Whole World—Rev 12:9 (Matt 7:13-14, Phil 3:18-19, Matt 7:21-22,23)
To add insult to injury about de wolf prayer breakfast this morning. Recon announced on Mario Moorehead radio talk show this afternoon that he saw de wolf and his entourage in French Town last night hanging out drinking. Recon said he waived at de wolf and de wolf turned his head without acknowledging his gesture. Who knows, de wolf might have been under the influence. Never-the-less de wolf made it to his prayer breakfast this morning with a hangover to receive his praises.
Most of the so call pastors that participated in de wolf’s praising where either full time government employees or the immediate family member of a government employee that worked for de wolf. This gives a new meaning of “praising the man for your blessings”.
Guess the so call pastors didn’t mind de wolf hangover as long as they were getting their blessings from him.
Hypocrites!
I don’t know why all the bickering; don’t you guys know that Governor dejongh shall rule for ever….at least it appears so. He brags about increasing the value of his house with public funds; then using monies in departments although by law you can’t transfer line item funds; then he prides himself on working out both the Alpine deal with two of his cronies destined to receive kickbacks and the IBM deal where John George may eventually blow the whistile on the kickbacks as well. The Governor’s Assistant Cheif of staff must be sh….. bricks just about now. Remember, God don’t sleep not even for a second.
TITLE TWENTY-NINE Public Planning and Development
Chapter 15.The Virgin Islands Public Finance Authority
§ 919. Charter of the Authority
The Charter of the Authority shall be as follows:
CHARTER
FIFTH:(A)The Authority is governed by a Board of Directors consisting of seven members. The Governor, the Commissioner of Finance and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, or persons acting in the official capacity of such officers, shall serve as ex-officio members of the Board. The Governor shall appoint four additional members with the advice and consent of the Legislature, who shall serve for a term of four years. Two members must be residents of the District of St. Thomas-St. John, and two members must be residents of the District of St. Croix.
(B) The Governor shall serve as Chairman of the Board of Directors and SHALL CALL ALL MEETINGS OF THE AUTHORITY. The Commissioner of Finance or the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, as designated by the Governor, shall serve as Executive Director serve as Executive Director of the Authority.
(C) A majority of the members shall constitute a quorum of the Board for the purpose of conducting the business of the Authority and exercising its powers, and for all other purposes notwithstanding the existence of any vacancies, except that a lesser number may adjourn. Unless the Authority in its bylaws requires a greater proportion in any instance, a vote of the majority of members present at any meeting of the Board shall prevail.
(E) Members of the Board, while acting within the scope of their authority as directors or officers, shall not be subject to any personal or civil liability resulting from the exercise of any of the Authority’s purposes, duties or responsibilities, UNLESS THE CONDUCT OF THE MEMBER IS DETERMINED BY A COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION TO CONSTITUTE WILLFUL WRONGDOING OR GROSS NEGLIGENCE.
§ 920. Legislative approval
Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the contrary, except for any indebtedness involving special obligations issued to finance a project for the benefit of a private party, and payable out of the revenues generated by the involved project and/or payable to the Authority by said private party, the Authority shall be authorized to finance, to make loans for or otherwise to apply its funds, including funds derived from dividend payments and interest earned from bond proceeds ONLY TO THOSE PROJECTS SPECIFICALLY APPROVED AND AUTHORIZED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS or any agency, instrumentality, commission, authority or political subdivision of the United States Virgin Islands.
—Added Oct. 18, 1988, No. 5365, § 2, Sess. L. 1988, p. 220; amended Oct. 6, 2000, No. 6359, § 9, Sess. L. 2000, p. 122; Apr. 22, 2002, No. 6503, § 17, Sess. L. 2002, p. 272.
§ 924a. Written transcripts of proceedings
The Authority shall keep written transcripts of all of its proceedings and such TRANSCRIPTS SHALL BE CONSIDERED PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. Transcripts SHALL BE TRANSCRIBED NO LATER THAN 30 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF THE PROCEEDING DURING WHICH THEY WERE TAKEN.
—Added Sept. 28, 1990, No. 5627, § 1, Sess. L. 1990, p. 340.
CIF, GET READY, CLEAR CONVINCING EVIDENCE OF A MISUSE OF GOVERNMENT FUNDS AT THE GOVERNOR’S PRIVATE RESIDENCE AT MAFOLIEGATE WILL BE RELEASE TO THE WORLD SHORTLY!
Very interesting and revealing background information on Governor John P. de Jongh, Jr. Look at the number of times the Public Finance Authority is mentioned in this 2002 bio. This governor knew exactly what he was going to do when he came to power in January 2007. It’s not be chance that so much money has been looted from the PFA and the VI government by this governor.
“As Commissioner of Finance from 1987 to 1990, John was central in drafting the legislation which established the Virgin Islands Public Finance Authority, which enabled the Government to access the capital market.”
“In 1988, Governor Farrelly appointed John (still Commissioner of Finance) to the post of Executive Director of the Virgin Islands Public Finance Authority.”
“While serving as Executive Assistant to the Governor, he also held the position of Director of Finance and Administration of the Public Finance Authority (PFA).”
The governor was also a trustee of the Government Employees Retirement System.
It also appears that the governor graduated from high school at the age of 20 and went on to a small college in rural Ohio and got as far as a BA. He certainly has mastered the art of stealing public funds.
http://webarchives.loc.gov/collections/lcwa0006/20021002095821/http://www.dejongharnold.com/dejongh.html
My question is why John deJongh lasted only three years as commissioner of Finance? How come then-Governor Farrelly moved him from that position and appointed him as Assistant to the Governor?
John P. De Jongh, Jr., as Commissioner of Finance was involved with conflicts of interest and private business deals of his own that became a liability to the Farrelly administration. He was terminated from his Finance Commissioner position and transferred to a government position within the Farrelly administration where he no longer had direct authority over government funds.
In October 2006 he was elected to a government position where he now has complete direct authority and control over “ALL” VI government funds. The rest is history… ”MAFOLIEGATE”.
“The allegation, suggesting that de Jongh’s position on the purchase of the West Indian Company led to his termination by Farrelly”