The Bucks County prosecutor who gained national attention after he was caught delivering food orders on county time is stepping down.
Deputy District Attorney Gregg Shore has submitted a letter of resignation, Bucks County District Attorney’s Office spokesperson Manuel Gamiz Jr. confirmed Tuesday afternoon.
In mid-March, KYW Newsradio broke the news that Shore had been caught delivering for food service DoorDash during office hours from October through February. LevittownNow.com later confirmed the situation and learned Shore was being demoted from first assistant district attorney to the role of deputy district attorney.
Shore had apologized for his side hustle that he performed during work hours. He also repaid taxpayers for the wasted hours by using banked vacation time.
“I worked a second job delivering food during the pandemic, mostly on nights and weekends, but I sometimes made the incredibly poor decision to do so during the workday. By doing so, I betrayed my colleagues, my boss, and the citizens of Bucks County,” he said in a statement last month.
District Attorney Matt Weintraub said at the time that Shore “demonstrated very poor judgment” in taking on the DoorDash deliveries while on county time, but also noted Shore “should be judged for more than just his mistakes.”
Weintraub let Shore keep his job.
It’s not clear what led to Shore resigning weeks after the incident first came to light.
News reports of Shore’s DoorDash gig made headlines outside of Bucks County. The story has made the New York Times, Washington Post, and numerous online, TV, and radio outlets.
Jokes about the situation were common in law enforcement and legal circles in recent weeks, several people in those groups said.
Shore, according to county documents obtained by this news organization, went from a salary of $129,474 as the top non-elected official in the row office to $107,000 per year following his demotion.
Antonetta Stancu, a Democrat and a 16-year veteran of the district attorney’s office who is running against Weintraub, a Republican, called for Shore to lose his job.
“I call upon District Attorney Matt Weintraub to fire Gregg Shore. Slapping him on the wrist by simply penalizing him with some lost vacation time and a demotion does not honor the trust that the taxpayers have placed in the office of the District Attorney,” she said.
Stancu also called for a full investigation and stated Shore “should be tried for theft.”
“While some may seize this situation as an opportunity for political grandstanding, I choose not to use misfortune in such a manner,” Weintraub said in response.
Shore led the prosecution against Cosmo DiNardo and Sean Kratz. He had been the first assistant district attorney since 2017. The soon-to-be-former Bucks County prosecutor is a native of Newtown and worked as a prosecutor from 1996 to 2000 and with the Lehigh County District Attorney’s Office from 2000 to 2004. He worked in the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office and as state deputy secretary of labor before returning to the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office in 2015 to oversee an insurance fraud unit.
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