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Former New Brunswick Water System Operator Pleads Guilty To Falsifying Water Test Results

December 17, 2015 Crime News

Edward-ORourke
Edward O’Rourke. Photo: NJ Attorney General’s Office.

The former licensed operator of the New Brunswick water system – from which the township buys drinking water – plead guilty Dec. 17 to lying “hundreds of times” about the results of water tests.

Edward O’Rourke, 60, of Brick, plead guilty to 2nd Degree Corruption of Public resources and 3rd Degree violations of the Safe Water Drinking Act, according to a press release from the state Attorney General’s Office.

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