Ex-Brick Superintendent To Enter Pretrial Intervention: Report

BRICK, NJ — Just over four years after he was first arrested, former Brick Township superintendent Walter Uszenski and prosecutors have reached a resolution in the case that accused him of official misconduct, according to a report.

The agreement allows Uszenski to enter pretrial intervention and, after successfully completing it, apply to have the charges against him expunged, the Asbury Park Press reported.

That report said the cases against the other three people charged — Jacqueline Halsey, Uszenski's daughter; Andrew Morgan, who served as interim director of special services; and Lorraine Morgan, who had been the district's academic officer — in what was alleged to be a scheme involving school district services for Uszenski's grandson were resolved before Ocean County Superior Court Judge Michael Collins as well.

Charges of misconduct and theft against Halsey, Uszenski's daughter, were dismissed Monday. Last Friday a misconduct charge against Lorraine Morgan was dismissed, according to another Asbury Park Press report.

Andrew Morgan, meanwhile, is the only one of the four who entered a guilty plea on Monday, according to the report, admitting he lied on his job application to the school district in connection with a 199- criminal conviction for dealing cocaine. A misconduct charge against him was dismissed as well.

Read more of the report on Monday's court proceedings here.

Uszenski, Halsey and Andrew Morgan all were charged on May 7, 2015, accused of a scheme to provide what then-prosecutor Joseph Coronato characterized as taxpayer-funded day care for Halsey's son. Lorraine Morgan was charged almost five months later, when a grand jury issued indictments in the case.

Uszenski was suspended, first with pay, and then without pay once the indictments were handed up on Sept. 29, 2015. He remained suspended without pay until his contract expired on June 30, 2018.

The case wound its way through the courts, with a dismissal of charges by Superior Court Judge Patricia Roe in February 2017, and a new indictment in June 2017.

Uszenski and his daughter filed a lawsuit against the Brick Township Board of Education and school district, the prosecutor's office and several others in September 2018. The lawsuit appears to be moving forward.

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