Last year, a scathing report issued by the Office of the State Comptroller took aim at how Irvington allegedly misspent hundreds of thousands of dollars earmarked for drug prevention, treatment, or recovery from the nation’s deadly opioid epidemic.
Among that spending included concerts, T-shirts, cotton candy machines and VIP trailers, the comptroller said. Township officials, who had unsuccessfully sought to keep the report from being published, immediately denied the allegations.
Months later, a defamation case brought by Irvington continues to play out now in state Superior Court, with the township claiming that the comptroller’s main goal “was to embarrass Irvington before the state’s most powerful political officers.”…