Vicki,

I have already gone the legal route back in 2006. The auditor I contacted with the fraudulent documents showing fraud committed by Aqua America hustled me and I believe my lawyer as well.My lawyer told me that the documents I disclosed did not show any fraud. My story is really a barn burner, it has many layers and many different types of injustices perpetrated against me. Back in 2005 the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission was conducting a 6 month internal audit of Aqua America.It was a five year audit,by state law every five years utilities governed by the PUC would conduct a internal audit, meaning they set up shop within Aqua America for 6 months. We were informed by management that if we could help the auditors in any way feel free to do so, I have the email.

I took them up on it and requested a meeting with PUC auditor John Clista and was granted a meeting, it lasted 3 hours. Mr. Clista was intrigued with my reporting to him. My first issue was to do with as built construction drawings at Aqua America, they simply were not doing them. I am a drafts-person and was saddled with doing the revisions to some 800 drawings. By law these drawings were to be completed within 6 months of a construction project. It is important to have up to date drawings for other utilities wishing to dig, our drawings were used to mark out our pipe lines so they would not hit them. But he was much more interested in my other issue of the fraudulent documents showing fraud at Aqua America. I provided these documents to him, this was in November 2005, in December 2005 I was informed by Mr. Clista that he was required by law to inform Aqua America that I had approached him and turned over these documents. Here is where it gets interesting, he told me he was not turning over the documents showing the fraud I alleged was going on at Aqua America. I have the email. I felt vindicated because Mr. Clista once told me “I Would Not Want To Be In Your Shoes”. I really felt good at this point, we had calculated from the documents that Aqua America had diverted 40% of capital expenditures onto expense d items, such as office supplies,etc…. I was fired in January 2006 an by March 2006 Aqua America stock had dropped 6% in two days. It went on to collapse by 40% over the next 6 years. Mr. Clista turned over the fraud documents to his boss the Commissioner of the Pa. PUC, Mr. Wendell Holland. Mr. Holland perpetrated a conspiracy coverup by contacting Nick DeBenedictis CEO of Aqua America. As I mentioned their stock dropped 40% with explanation. Jim Cramer of “Mad Money” was confused by the drop in Aqua America stock. You can Google him, He dropped them from his charitable portfolio. Aqua America stock bounced back in 2012 after using a 2003 FedEX vs. IRS lawsuit, using their award in using repair parts as expense-ed items, not capital as they were required to do. Aqua America used this accounting loop hole to by pass their IRS taxes by $33 million dollars in one year. This is when I realized Aqua America had been for years expensing capital expenditures. I filed a wrongful termination lawsuit but my lawyer was involved with the coverup and I settled out of court.

But, as I have mentioned I continued to follow Aqua America very closely. Turns out Mr. Wendell Holland was elected to the Board of Directors in 2011.

I can go on and on, and will do so on a blog as you have mentioned. Maybe you could direct me in setting one up, it will NOT be anonymous I name names and dates, I have the documents over 400. All dedicated to the Aqua America Hustle! I will contact the gentlemen you informed me of, Mr. Schechter and Mr. Barrett.

My Story has many twists and turns. I have been screwed over and will not go quietly into that dark night. I am not disabled both physically and mentally thanks to the wrongs committed against me. I am on Social Security Disability for the past 2 years, I am only 59, the past 10 years have been pure hell for me.

My story has:

1. The initial fraud I blew the whistle on.

2. The hustling of me and the ever infamous coverup, think “Watergate”.

Thank you for posting to my story.

Regards,

Michael Duffy