A partial audio recording obtained by the I-Team appears to show the mayor of Irvington, New Jersey, and his township attorney offering a job promotion and salary increase to a municipal employee — in exchange for the worker’s wife dropping her 2014 claim of sexual harassment against the mayor and the town.
In the recording, which documents a pre-trial discussion about settling the lawsuit, Mayor Tony Vauss and Irvington Township Attorney Ramon Rivera offer job benefits worth “a lot of money” to Carl Brown, the husband of Tamara Smith, a former township code enforcement officer who accused Vauss of sexually violating her inside the Irvington municipal building.
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