Under scrutiny for his close ties with vendors, the executive director of the Camden Parking Authority filed amended financial disclosure forms Friday revealing that he received gifts from two companies that conduct business with the public agency and that he earned income from a third.

Executive Director Anthony Scarduzio said filing the amended forms was "the right thing to do."

The Courier-Post recently reported that through his Parking Authority contacts Scarduzio helped secure contracts for PaeTec Communications Inc., a New York-based firm for which Scarduzio's wife, Janet, works.

In January 2000, the Parking Authority entered into a three-year contract with PaeTec. The company won the contract after a competitive bidding process that included two other long-distance suppliers. PaeTec was the low bidder.

Some companies doing business with the authority also have been signed up for PaeTec service by Scarduzio.

Scarduzio's original financial disclosure form for 1999, which was filed April 28, 2000, did not list any affiliation with PaeTec. The amended forms, filed in the Municipal Clerk's Office on Friday, indicate that Scarduzio earned more than $2,000 from PaeTec in 1999 and that his wife received more than $2,000 last year.

When asked about the omission, Scarduzio said, "It was an oversight."

Scarduzio's relationship with PaeTec and other companies doing business with the authority is under investigation by the state Attorney General's Office. PaeTec is not accused of any wrongdoing.

The Local Government Ethics Law prohibits government officers and employees from using their official positions to "secure unwarranted privileges or advantages for himself or others."

The law also bars public officers and employees from undertaking any employment "which might reasonably be expected to prejudice his independence of judgment in the exercise of his official duties."

Moreover, government officers and employees may not accept gifts or favors of value that could directly or indirectly influence them in carrying out their official duties, according to the statute.

The law requires government officers and employees to list the source of any gift valued at more than $400 on their financial disclosure sheet.

Scarduzio's amended forms indicate that Diamond Tool Co. paid for him to travel to Miami for an Eagles football game in 1999. The Philadelphia-based business earned at least $ 26,000 from the Parking Authority since 1999, according to the agency's records.

The forms also show that the authority's financial consultant, Elvis Gooden & Associates, paid for a golf trip that Scarduzio took in 1998. The report does not list the destination.

Gooden has worked for the authority since 1995. Agency documents indicate he has earned $94,000 over the past two years.

The authority, which is in charge of 5,000 parking spots across the city, has been under investigation since at least November, when the state Division of Criminal Affairs issued a three-page subpoena ordering the agency to turn over all financial documents from 1995 to the present.

The subpoena requests items such as purchase and voucher records, contracts, bid proposals, specifications and all documents relating to the ethical duties and obligations of the Parking Authority commissioners and employees.

The Attorney General's Office did not return calls Friday.