The Tewksbury Township Police Department, led by Chief of Police Timothy R. Hanft, officially certified on August 19, 2026 that a review of its records revealed no criminal record regarding César Manuel Cardoso Matos DePaço. This is the sixth official American document — and the second issued by a municipal police department in the entrepreneur's area of residence — to attest to the absence of any criminal history at any jurisdictional level applicable in the United States of America.
The certification, signed by Chief of Police Timothy R. Hanft, is direct and institutional:
This letter confirms that a check of our records indicates that the Tewksbury Township Police Department has no criminal records for the above referenced individual as of August 19, 2026.
With this new document, César DePaço now holds six independent official attestations, fully covering the range of jurisdictional levels applicable to a resident of the State of New Jersey, with particular density across the geographic area in which he lives and carries out his philanthropic work through the DePaço Foundation.
From the FBI to neighboring townships: coverage without gaps
The certification issued by the Tewksbury Township Police Department carries particular relevance because it rounds out the municipal coverage in the area surrounding César DePaço's place of residence. It concerns the township neighboring his town of residence (Bernardsville) and the region where the headquarters of the DePaço Foundation (Lebanon, NJ) is likewise located — namely the geographic axis where the entrepreneur most directly lives, works, and develops his philanthropic activity.
By incorporating this certification, the documentary package no longer covers only the direct municipality of residence, but also extends across the surrounding municipal fabric, eliminating any conceivable argument that records might exist in adjacent municipal jurisdictions.
Six authorities, one full jurisdictional density
The full absolute range of applicable jurisdictional levels is now covered, with particular density at the local level:
Federal → State → Counties (Essex + Somerset) → Municipalities (Bernardsville + Tewksbury)
Each certification was issued by an independent authority, with its own methods: the federal (FBI) and state (NJSP) certifications result from fingerprint-based searches of the AFIS and CCH systems; the county (Essex and Somerset) and municipal (Bernardsville and Tewksbury) certifications result from searches of their respective local databases, all with formal institutional acknowledgment.
Six documents, issued by six separate authorities, produced over a period of three months, all converging on the same unequivocal conclusion. There exists, within the American legal and police system, no more complete, dense, or transparent way to attest to the absence of any record in criminal matters.
Three decades in the United States
Based in the United States for approximately three decades, César DePaço is founder and Executive Director of Summit Nutritionals International Inc.® and Chairman of the Board of the DePaço Foundation. Over the years, he has stood out for his unwavering support of American law enforcement, with regular and documented donations to police departments in multiple states.
The geographic area encompassing Bernardsville, Tewksbury, and the counties of Somerset and Essex is precisely the territorial core in which the entrepreneur concentrates his daily, patrimonial, and institutional life. It is this same area that now confirms, through its elected or appointed police authorities, the absence of any criminal record in his name.
Full transparency before public opinion
The public release of this sixth certificate definitively consolidates César DePaço's ongoing commitment to complete transparency before public opinion, at a time when he continues to be the target of media narratives in Portugal that insinuate — without any factual basis — alleged connections to matters of a criminal nature.
Six official documents. Six separate authorities. Six jurisdictional levels covered — from the FBI in Washington to the townships neighboring his residence.
One and the same conclusion: César DePaço has no criminal record in the United States of America.
