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Big Changes Coming To The DRPA
Updated: Tuesday, 17 Jan 2012, 12:23 PM EST
Published : Tuesday, 17 Jan 2012, 9:09 AM EST
CAMDEN, N.J. - A new deputy CEO is coming to the Delaware Valley Port Authority along with an inspector to “clean up” the troubled agency.
Fox 29 has learned that Michael Conallen, the former chief of staff for Michael Fitzpatrick and Curt Weldon, will be named as the new deputy chief executive officer for the DRPA.
Conallen is expected to be named to the position on Wednesday.
Robert Gross ended his term as deputy CEO on Friday.
In addition, Fox 29 has learned a new position of Inspector General will be created at the DRPA.
A Fox 29 source says a former FBI agent is getting that job to "clean up the DRPA mess.”
The DRPA has been in the headlines because of questions of how taxpayer money has been spent at the agency, which controls ports and bridges in the Philadelphia area.
The DRPA is run by the states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Gov. Tom Corbett is expected to make the appointment of Conallen.
Gross is an associate of former State Sen. Vince Fumo, who is in federal prison on corruption charges.
Gross was deputy executive director of the DRPA under John Matheussen. He joined the DRPA in 2003 in what then was a newly created position at a reported salary of $149,000 a year.
His salary was a reported $188,000 in 2008.
Traditionally, the governor of Pennsylvania has appointed the deputy executive director of the DRPA.
In 2010, Fox 29's Jeff Cole reported on Gross using DRPA funds to pay for a hotel in Manhattan when he attended Pennsylvania Society meetings.