Prominent assistant DA demoted for making DoorDash deliveries during office hours
The Bucks County district attorney’s office has demoted First Assistant District Attorney Gregg Shore after his side job as a DoorDash food deliverer during office hours came to light.
District Attorney Matt Weintraub said in a statement Thursday that Chief Deputy District Attorney Jennifer Schorn has been promoted to replace Shore, who earned an annual salary of nearly $125,000 prior to the demotion.
Shore “demonstrated very poor judgment” by working the side job, sometimes during the DA office’s business hours, for DoorDash, an online food-ordering company founded and based in California, Weintraub said.
Shore will remain in the office as a deputy district attorney, having “the opportunity to earn back the trust and confidence of myself, this office and the Bucks County community,” Weintraub said, adding Shore used his accrued vacation time to repay the county the money he earned working the extra job while on duty as first assistant district attorney.
“Nevertheless, his actions were thoughtless and demonstrated a lack of leadership,” Weintraub said. “He also violated the trust that I, the other members of the district attorney’s office and the people of Bucks County place in each of us. I have a duty to hold those who violate that trust accountable. No exceptions.”
Shore is allowed to remain with the office because he was always on call and available, even when not on the clock, Weintraub added.
“Due to my personal circumstances, I worked a second job delivering food during the pandemic,” Shore said Thursday, declining to comment in detail about his circumstances. “I primarily worked at night and on weekends.
“However, I made the incredibly poor decision to deliver during the workday at times,” he said. “In doing so, I realize I betrayed my boss, my colleagues and, most importantly, the citizens of Bucks County. The people of Bucks should expect that someone working in the capacity of first assistant district attorney would give their complete and undivided attention when duty calls, which is sometimes during non-traditional working hours. I consistently answered that call.
“However, this in no way excuses the fact that I chose to disregard that this could compromise the public’s trust in me as first assistant district attorney,” he said. “These poor decisions were mine and mine alone.
“Given the fact that I betrayed the office’s trust, I hold myself accountable and accept the consequences of my demotion and the stripping of the honor,” Shore said
with a pause and slight crack in his voice, “of being first assistant district attorney of Bucks County.”
On being given a second chance in being allowed to stay with the office, Shore said, “I’m extremely, extremely grateful. My job is my life and my identity. I can’t wait for the chance to being redeeming myself.”
Shore said his demotion comes with “a significant reduction in pay” from his $129,474 salary as first assistant district attorney, but isn’t sure what he’ll be earning as a deputy district district attorney.
Shore worked with the office from 1996-2000 and then joined the Lehigh County Prosecutor’s Office and Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General before returning to Bucks County in 2015. He started the Insurance Fraud Unit and prosecuted Cosmo DiNardo and Sean Kratz for the 2017 murders of four men on a Solebury farm.
Weintraub said he is proud to name Schorn as the office’s First Assistant District Attorney.
In naming Schorn as Shore’s replacement, Weintraub said, “Jen is one of our most talented and dedicated attorneys who has faithfully dedicated her service to our mission for over two decades, most currently in her dual role of chief of trials and chief of the grand jury division.”
Schorn joined the office in 1999 and has prosecuted multiple defendants in cold-case homicides and for sexually victimizing children.