Johnny Casino Uses Casino Funds Without Telling Council (BAD BOY!!!)

Oh, John Callahan, you crazy little awesome cute mayor you! Aww, you used more than $300,000 of the money the city gets from the casino and didn’t think to clear it though council???? Ohhhh, that’s ok, you’re so cuuuuute, I just want to pinch your cheeks.

Um… yeah, in the real world, this is sort of an issue and I hope Chucky Dent jumps on this shit like Lisa Boscola on the contents of an overturned Jim Beam truck.

Bethlehem City Council on Tuesday reached a consensus to notify the city controller and auditors that Mayor John Callahan’s administration spent $335,000 in casino host fees and other money last year without council’s approval.

Council had also been considering a resolution warning the administration that it will take future action — such as a formal censure or reprimand — if it ever happens again.

Councilwoman Jean Belinski, who had pushed council to consider repercussions, was not at the meeting, and the resolution got no sponsor Tuesday.

”We already expressed our will as strongly as we can. I think it’s time to move on …,” Councilman Gordon Mowrer said. ”If they do it again, they’re in major trouble.”

City business administrator Dennis Reichard, who had apologized in public for the oversight, said after the meeting he has already contacted the auditors.

Council solicitor Christopher Spadoni had recommended against formally censuring the administration on this infraction, saying the money went to legitimate city uses.

While some council members have said they don’t have a problem with what the money was spent on, they resented the administration cutting out council’s check on how taxpayers’ money is spent. Source

I GUESS he used it for SOMETHING that the city needed, it certainly wasn’t plowing the fucking streets, I can tell you that much.

If you go to his spaghetti kick-off tonight, maybe you can ask him why he thought it was OK to use the funds without approval.

The only thing saving his butt in this situation is that 1. he probably used the funds for something that didn’t include hookers and 2. HE’S SOOOO CUUUTTTEEEE