enjoy your stay at the gray-bar hotel,lousy thief! oh wait! more of your friends will be joining you soon

Probably a rectal exam by Bubba, his cell mate :-)

Shelly - might not be bed & water where he's going but I'm sure he'd rather be chilling out in that million plus house in Seaside :). A guy like him who allowed ego and greed to take him down it won't be a picnic for him. Plus, I don't see a Martha Stewart comeback in his future :)

dirtbag, hope he rots in his cell and i wonder if the public will find out which prision he is going to.

I knew Mike well, I still find it hard to believe what he did, and it does sadden me. He had so many great ideas and saved the school system millions, that can not be disputed, but why did he have to get so greedy? I am so disappointed in him

A real scumbag, Where are all the Ritacco kool-aid drinkers now....

Asking $2,225,000 for his mansion at 16 11th St. (at Ocean Ave.)... loaded with luxury details -- courtesy of TR taxpayers.

well hope they look into the lives of all the children and if any grandchildren. confiscate any and all assets which are questionable,college funds,retirement accts and so on. Knowing Ritacco,he probably has a nice chunk of cash someplace too.

My opinion is that all the money/funds confiscated show go back into the school system, and be watched over more securely to make sure this does not happen again! Money that was intended for the system should be placed there where it was intended to be. I think we all know there's more money hidden somewhere...the question is....where?

Who cares about Ritacco anymore....

The real question is: What is next for TR BOE?
Any resignations? Any decide to back out of re-election?

I am just sorry to see that someone got to Mike and convinced him that it was in his and especially his family's best interest not to sing and make a better deal for himself. Otherwise, we might see him joined by perhaps a tax cheating assemblyman or a freeholder who likes to raid the cookie jar or a useless Mayor whose nickname was bagboy when he was an assistant something or other. Who knows, it might even have led to a Lt Governor who makes Mike's transgressions look like school boy stunts or a Governor who is making sure he is part of the 1% and who considered Mike his model of a School Superintendent.

So, wha ever happened to his gal pal Manson, or Mansfield, whatever. I ope to hell she still not employed by TR Schools.

Educating the Children 2016. A lesson in reality and its possibilities by design. Crime doesn’t pay, unless you are in good-standing with the politically well-connected (the true power in this world.) Whenever you violate the law and get caught, there is a penalty imposed that is to be expected by most of us. Money and its powerful influence can play a large role in understanding why everyone isn’t judged under the same rules with similar penalties imposed. However, political power, even with minimal money, doesn’t have any real rules to be judged under period. Bernie Madoff ripped off willing investors who let their greed overshadow their common sense as to why Madoff appeared to offer so much more for so much longer than the other deemed skilled professionals, and received a deserved 150 years in prison when finally caught. Michael Ritacco was a general in a political organized crime syndicate secretly and willfully violating the public trust for over 20 years with a continually broadening deception of schemes and only received an 11-year sentence (which may well be served in a federal country club atmosphere with three phones in his cell to use when he is not out on a weekend or holiday pass.) Under such a disturbing disparity, suggestions that Ritacco will be pardoned in four years by President Christie so he can sit next to Attorney General Gilmore become more interesting. What can’t be done for the children is absolutely amazing.

Huh? Am I reading this story right? Ritacco is sentenced to 11 years in prison, but NO restitution? He's getting OFF, light!! Governor Christie has this reputation as the Terminator, but he's REALLY just a wuss!! Ritacco will be out of prison, in a few, short years (good behavior!), and he'll actually be better-off, financially. So much for Justice in the Tony Soprano state (New Jersey).

Pictures of Ritacco's house for sale... very nice..

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/16-11th-Ave-Seaside-Park-NJ-08752/39694663_zpid/

why not have the proceeds from the sale of his house go entirely to the Toms River school district. unfortunately he didn't think of his own family while he fleeced our families. just his own greed. they'll be paying as well.

Just browsed the inside of the Ritacco house for sale in Seaside. Sure a 6x9 (or whatever size) cell won't have all these luxuries! Folks! Remember Ego and Greed will take you down every time (no matter how smart you think you are). It's so sad!

Honestly, who cares about what happens to him...more concerned about when we the taxpayers of Toms River will see the money given back so our elementary schools so they can have assemblies again, and our teams can have the correct equipment for every athlete on a team, and our middle schools have enough BOOKS per class so each student can have their own copy for the year instead of having to leave them in school so they can be shared with 2-3 other students...so like I said...Who cares what happens to HIM??!!??

I don't get it - I definitely agree and my sadness is mainly for the kids who've had to suffer snd do without in the District because of his ego and greed! Believe me I don't feel one bit said for him. Like my grandmother use to say "you make your bed you gotta lay in it" and right about now his is pretty hard.

So I hear Sleezeside has their clown fest this weekend... To bad the biggest clown is in jail now.

Big tough guy Mike Ritacco was crying in the courtroom. LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL

I bet your kids are real proud of their no good rotten crooked father now....LOL, LOL

It's always gonna get ya --- KARMA.

I think those who are questioning and dragging Chris Christie in to this problem is because he has been all about doing what is right for the kids, tax payers of our State. You are correct Christie was not even around or involved when Ritacco was stealing from the Tax payers... but Christie has not responded once he found out Ritacco was doing. Not one word, that seems funny being Christie has such a big mouth and has been vocal about the public schools in general. He would have been all over that if it was some other superintendent. Is it because Ritacco had a rather large party for him when he was running for Governor or is it because Christie made him a model of Superintendents. It just seems odd that Christie has so much to say about the public school system, what everyone is doing wrong but has been totally silent about this from the beginning. That is just not his style so it is being questioned being he has so much to say about everybody and everything else.

They are all scums...

You'd think, with the sum of monies involved, that he would have fixed the hvac issues at Toms River HS South. Cold air coming from the heaters in the winter and HOT, stagnant air in the summer with the occasional waft of body odor from sweaty teachers and classmates. I graduated in 2004, so I'm not sure about current conditions, but the rats that were living in our classroom heating units had it better.

Some of my textbooks would have entire sections torn out. There weren't enough books to go around, so we would have to share too often.

I know these would be considered "first world problems," but look at how he was living. Disgusting.

what's next for this website once you can't stick "Ritacco" at the end of every school news article and board meeting article? Wait.. forgot.. probably will.

It's what taxpayers are interested in, judging by all the comments here. It's statewide news. It has serious consequences for our schools, kids and TR's reputation for years to come. If you're not interested in this real-world scandal, go back to "The X Factor" and "Dancing With the Stars."

Hang him high. The Ritacco Center should be leveled and rebuilt. Corrupt cocksucker.

So agree Andrea, well said........

does anyone know the story about a sister who was killed? was wondering i seem to remember something about that...also lets hope when the book comes out or the lifetime movie any monies made go somewhere other than his relatives or other toms river school buddies who all now have cushion jobs, pensions after their sudden retirements and /or their children who have the jobs now

ah doug i think you are right and i do now remember something like that too..