May conference scheduled for assistant city manager case
Famularo, suspended without pay, still legally holds the position
A pre-trial status conference is scheduled for May 5 as the domestic violence case against Assistant City Manager James Famularo moves toward trial, according to a spokesman from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office.
Monmouth County Superior Court Judge Francis J. Vernoia will preside over the conference, Charles Webster, spokesman for the prosecutor’s Office, said in an email.
Status conferences allow attorneys to meet and discuss how the case is proceeding and what discovery has been conducted in terms of depositions, interrogations, production of documents and other relevant case matters.
Famularo was charged with simple assault under the domestic violence statute, as well as one count of aggravated assault on a police officer and one count of resisting arrest following an alleged June 2012 domestic violence incident at his home. City administration suspended him from his post without pay effective June 18, 2012, a decision later upheld by an independent hearing officer.
His pay at the time of the suspension was $80,069 per year.
Famularo still legally holds the position of assistant city manager.
Prior to becoming assistant city manager, Famularo was a member and president of the Asbury Park board of education in the 1990s.
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