{"id":6538,"date":"2019-05-02T03:48:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T07:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=6538"},"modified":"2019-05-02T03:48:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T07:48:25","slug":"gilmore-steps-down-as-seaside-heights-attorney-cipriani-takes-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2019\/05\/gilmore-steps-down-as-seaside-heights-attorney-cipriani-takes-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilmore Steps Down as Seaside Heights Attorney, Cipriani Takes Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6539\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jean_cipriani.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"Jean Cipriani (File Photo)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6539\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6539\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jean_cipriani.jpg\" alt=\"Jean Cipriani (File Photo)\" width=\"618\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jean_cipriani.jpg 618w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jean_cipriani-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jean_cipriani-341x220.jpg 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean Cipriani (File Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Embattled local attorney George Gilmore, who was ordered to step down from all his public positions by New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal following his <a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2019\/04\/gilmore-convicted-of-tax-offenses-faces-up-to-35-years-in-prison\/\">conviction last month<\/a> on tax-related charges, is no longer the attorney of record for Seaside Heights.<\/p>\n<p>Gilmore has served as borough attorney in Seaside Heights, where he grew up, for decades. Borough Administrator Christopher Vaz said he tendered his resignation April 17. Jean Cipriani, a partner in his firm, Gilmore and Monahan, was unanimously appointed borough attorney. Even before Gilmore&#8217;s conviction, Cipriani acted as attorney at borough council meetings and conducted the majority of its legal business.<\/p>\n<p>Cipriani is widely considered one of the foremost experts in municipal and administrative law in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For continuity, it made sense to stick with Jean,&#8221; said Borough Administrator Christopher Vaz. &#8220;They\u2019re working it out on their end at the firm, we\u2019re not sure yet how they\u2019re working it out, but we thought this was the best solution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2019\/05\/gilmore-steps-down-as-seaside-heights-attorney-cipriani-takes-over\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embattled local attorney George Gilmore, who was ordered to step down from all his public positions by New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal following his conviction last month on tax-related charges, is no longer the attorney of record for Seaside Heights. Gilmore has served as borough attorney in Seaside Heights, where he grew up, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,6,5],"tags":[1540,1545,20],"class_list":["post-6538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-seaside-government","category-seaside-heights","tag-george-gilmore","tag-jean-cipriani","tag-seaside-heights-nj-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jean_cipriani.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-1Hs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}