Citizens have a right to expect honesty in public officials.
When that expectation is breached, we will not hesitate to investigate and prosecute. Zoubek said that the investigation revealed that Reid made more than 100 illegal transactions in that one year and stole thousands of dollars each week. Reid, who was indicted by a State Grand Jury in January 1998, was responsible for picking up bail monies from Hudson County Jail in Kearny and accepting bail money posted directly at the bail unit at the court house. Zoubek said that Reid, after making the pickups and accepting the bail money, returned a percentage of the money and kept the remainder for herself. She disguised the theft by falsifying court documents and by back-dating the transactions into the computer system to make it appear that the bail had been previously paid.