Former Atlantic City MUA Attorney Files Intent To Sue For $1,000,000

We have confirmed that Attorney Fredric L. Bor has served a Tort Claim Notice to the Atlantic City Municipal Utilities Authority (ACMUA) and the following individuals and state and local public entities:

• Michael Armstrong
• Claude Smith
• State of New Jersey Tort And Contract Unit
• John Eccles
• Muhammed Dedar
• Bruce Ward
• Gary Hill
• Philip Gonzales Department of Community Affairs
• Jacquelyn Suarez, Director of Department of Community Affairs
• Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small
• Hossain Morshed Atlantic City, City Council

Bor has been the Solicitor for the Atlantic City Municipal Utilities Authority for the past 13 years until recently when the ACMUA hired Bruce Ward as Solicitor.

Ward is the immediate past Executive Director of the ACMUA.

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A Tort Claim Notice must be filed before you can file suit against a municipality or the state of New Jersey.

In his Tort Claim Notice, Bor writes that: “On or about February 8, 2002, February 9, 2022, March 14, 2022, to present, Offices of the Atlantic City Municipal Utilities Authority, Offices of Atlantic City Council, City Hall Atlantic City, and various other locations to be determined.”

“Circumstances of occurrence or transaction giving rise to this claim: On or about 12/27/21, Michael Armstrong, Executive Director of the Atlantic City Municipal Utilities Authority (hereinafter ACMUA), Bruce Ward, former ACMUA Executive Director and later on January 7, 2021 Claude Smith, ACMUA employee wrote and directed letters, with malice, to the Lieutenant Governor, the Director of the Division of Community Local Government Services, Mayor Marty Small and Attorney for Atlantic City Council, Robert Tarver, requesting that he distribute the letters to members of the City of Atlantic City Council for the purpose of presentation and in support of the removal of Chairman (John) Devlin of the ACMUA,” writes Bor.

Bor makes numerous serious assertions in his Tort Claim Notice, with specific allegations against Atlantic City, ACMUA, and State of New Jersey officials and government entities.

Bor concludes his Tort Claims Notice as follows:

Amount presently claimed: The amount claim will be $1,000,000.00. An estimated amount of prospective injuries, damages, or losses can not be fully ascertained since the damage is presently being incurred and will continue for some time in the future. In accordance with the TCA damage information will be provided on a regular basis but will include, but not limited to re-appointment of Solicitor at $75,000. per year; and ability to be considered for other public or private positions as a lawyer.

We will have the first on-air interview with Bor in the very near future.

Bor joins former ACMUA Chairman John Devlin, who has also filed a massive Tort Claims Notice against many of the same individuals and entities.

SOURCE: Fredric L. Bor - Tort Claim Notice, dated April 1, 2022.