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Re: Fulop again donating his salary
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of course thats true, but you don't hear about the other people who work for this city doing this. You know the ones, the ones getting paid for 2-3 jobs a piece!

Posted on: 2007/8/2 19:14
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Re: West Side: Cops nab 2 teens (14 & 17) after Chinese restaurant delivery man hit for bike
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shove chop sticks in their eyes, f**k em!

Posted on: 2007/8/2 18:48
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Re: Taqueria
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I think the place is fast paced. Place your order, then eat your food. It ain't big, and its busy.

That being said, I do occasionally feel a tad rushed. The food is so good, it's hard to choose. I would hesitate to go so far as to say the service is bad, it's just very NYC style. It's not like their spitting in your food.


That moby guy with the glasses does make me expect them to play a constant loop of Zooropa or something. Haven't seen him around in a while.

Posted on: 2007/8/2 18:22
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Re: Fulop again donating his salary
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Anyone that can donate $20,000 is making a siht load of money and that $20,000 will be tax deductable.

I'm not saying he is doing a bad thing, all I'm saying is that $20,000 isn't a big 'hit' for him and the benefits to him will and have, outweighed any loss / donation.

Posted on: 2007/8/2 18:17
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Re: Fulop again donating his salary
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He's so cool. I bet he does more work than the rest of city council combined. And he's only 30!

Posted on: 2007/8/2 17:19
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Re: West Side: Cops nab 2 teens (14 & 17) after Chinese restaurant delivery man hit for bike
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wow, more upstanding kids in jersey city. douche bags

Posted on: 2007/8/2 16:33
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Re: Fulop again donating his salary
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i'd like to see how the other council members spin this one.

lets see them put their money where their oversized blowholes are.

Posted on: 2007/8/2 16:30
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Fulop again donating his salary
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Fulop again donating his salary
Thursday, August 02, 2007
By KEN THORBOURNE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

For the second year in a row, Jersey City Ward E Councilman Steve Fulop is donating his salary to worthy causes.

Last year, Fulop, 30, gave $20,000 to the York Street Project, a center for homeless and economically disadvantaged women and children.

Having completed his second full year on the council, Fulop, who works as a Citigroup trader on Wall Street, will be donating $10,000 to the Liberty Humane Society, the organization that manages the city's animal shelter; $5,000 to the St. Joseph's School for the Blind; and $3,000 to the Jersey City Reservoir Preservation Alliance, a group that protects the reservoir from misuse and destruction, according to a statement released by his office.

Fulop's remaining salary will be distributed to various active recreation organizations throughout the city, according to the statement.

Posted on: 2007/8/2 16:12
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West Side: Cops nab 2 teens (14 & 17) after Chinese restaurant delivery man hit for bike
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Nab 2 teens after man hit for bike

Thursday, August 02, 2007
By BERNETTE PEARSON
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

Two Jersey City teens were charged with robbery after they attacked and stole a bike from a restaurant delivery man at Yale and Mallory avenues Tuesday night, police said.

The two boys, ages 14 and 17, were part of a group of four who attacked the Chinese restaurant worker and took his bike at about 8:20 p.m., witnesses told police.

The 44-year-old victim, of West Side Avenue, said he could not identify his attackers because he was struck from behind, police said. A witness said a man ran up to the delivery man and punched him, knocking him onto a car, while another male picked up the bike and rode away.

Police were patrolling near Claremont and West Side avenues and saw three males run past their car. Police saw one male riding a black mountain bike with a crate attached and heard screams from several blocks away, police said.

The two officers followed the screams and after receiving descriptions and directions of where the boys went from witnesses, chased after the suspects.

The 17-year-old was sitting on the steps at the Light Rail station on West Side Avenue with his shirt off and breathing heavily and attempted to run when police identified themselves. He was caught and arrested at the intersection of Claremont and West Side avenues, police said. He was also charged with resisting arrest.

Police nabbed the 14-year-old on the corner of Yale and Claremont, police said.

While at the police station, one of the boys told police another boy in his group took the bike and had placed the take-out order, police reported.

The victim was treated for a cut to his knee, police said. The two boys are being held in the Hudson County Youth House in Secaucus, police said.

Posted on: 2007/8/2 16:03
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Jersey City Education Association head uses union office, secretaries to run his travel biz
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HAVE OFFICE, WILL TRAVEL
JCEA head uses union office, secretaries to run his travel biz
Thursday, August 02, 2007
By KEN THORBOURNE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

The ad couldn't be more enticing to classroom-weary Jersey City public school teachers seeking some R&R.

Nine days, seven nights in Argentina for $1,939 per person. Includes round-trip airfare, hotel transfers, a tango show, a cruise down the Tigre River, and a farewell dinner at Spettus, a swanky Buenos Aires steak house.

Another come-on reads: Cruise Burgundy and Provence aboard the River Royale, Aug. 4-7. Includes eight shore excursions with "English speaking guides" and special "Captain's Welcome and Farewell Dinners." Price-tag: $3,399 double occupancy.

These and two other travel-related "paid advertisements" appear in the latest edition of the JCEA Communicator, the bi-monthly newsletter of the 3,500-member Jersey City Education Association.

The company running the trips is identified as the "United Teachers Alliance of Hudson."

But what the ads don't say is that UTAH is a private, for-profit business owned and operated by the union's longtime president, Thomas Favia.

Although the state-registered address for UTAH is Favia's home in Bayonne, the company clearly also operates out of the teachers union offices at 1600 Kennedy Blvd.

The phone number listed on flyers advertising UTAH trips happens to be the JCEA phone number and union secretaries field incoming UTAH phone calls. Favia acknowledged he handles UTAH business during office hours. Flyers advertising UTAH's trips are prominently displayed inside the JCEA office.

The newsletters with the "paid advertisements" are distributed to teachers' mailboxes and mailed to their homes on the union's dime, union officials acknowledged.

Asked about the appropriateness of running his private business out of the JCEA office using union resources, Favia found nothing wrong. "I've been doing it for 38 years," Favia said Tuesday.

According to state records, UTAH was incorporated in 1970. Favia is the president, his wife Olympia the treasurer, and his daughter Suzanne the secretary.

Favia, 76, explained that in good years UTAH makes about $2,000 profit, but some years he loses that much.

"It's almost like a travel club," Favia said. "The ultimate goal is to break even." Favia refused to share the company's IRS tax statements.

Favia said he compensates the JCEA for the union resources used by UTAH by donating $500 to $1,000 to the JCEA's "philanthropic fund" each year. If secretaries have to stay after work to work on UTAH-related matters, he pays them out of his own pocket, he said. But that rarely happens, since he only receives "one or two" calls about UTAH trips during the day each week, he said.

UTAH pays the JCEA $100 per ad, Favia said, acknowledging no other travel-related firm has ever advertised in the union newsletter. Some teachers who own travel companies made inquiries, but they decided against it given the limited audience, Favia said.

Gerald McCann, the former mayor and recently elected school board member, blasted Favia's actions as "criminal."

"This is a union office, it's not the 'Favia Travel Agency,'" said McCann, whose school board victory was challenged by a JCEA-backed candidate. "You can't be running a profit-making corporation out of a nonprofit business. That's an IRS violation.

"If Tom Favia doesn't think it's a crime, I will file the criminal complaint and we'll let someone else figure out whether it's a crime," added McCann, who served time in prison for bank fraud and tax evasion unrelated to his time in the Mayor's Office.

Hudson County First Assistant Prosecutor Guy Gregory declined to comment on the subject.

But Judith Schneider, executive director of the New York-based union watchdog group Association for Union Democracy, thinks McCann has a point.

"If he (Favia) is using the union offices, union telephones, union time to do for-profit work, it would appear to have not just ethical violations, but more substantive legal violations, depending on what's actually happening," Schneider said.

Posted on: 2007/8/2 15:57
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Re: Taqueria
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"Moby's" name is Vincent and he's a really sweet guy! He's French and my husband and I always joke that's why people think he's rude...

I'd go there any day over Beechwood where the wait staff is more concerned with fixing their bangs or the next cigarette break (where have you been that the server smokes outside right in front of you and comes straight in to touch your food?). Or Majestic with it's super ridiculous faux NYC decor...don't get me started...

Taqueria keeps it real. They don't pretend to be something they're not.

I heart them.

Posted on: 2007/8/2 14:11
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Re: NY Times - When Does a Housing Slump Become a Bust?
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Quote:
P.S. I could buy several condos for cash in Jersey City, but I'm holding out until prices return to the mean, as they ALWAYS do after a mania induced bubble...


And why would you? Nearly every one of your posts is negative towards this city. You think people are stupid for raising their kids here, and they are stupid to have paid so much for their property. Do you and your precious metals even live here? What interaction have you had with this city that is remotely positive?

Posted on: 2007/8/2 14:10
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Re: NY Times - When Does a Housing Slump Become a Bust?
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I agree prices are cheap for condos, but I wouldn't look for them to plummet...at least not in the better parts of JC or Hoboken or NYC. Look at London, the market had a brief dip but came roaring back - that's an alpha city for you.

Posted on: 2007/8/2 5:53
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Re: NY Times - When Does a Housing Slump Become a Bust?
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So, I guess the answer is that you DON'T know anyone personally who is in, or fears, foreclosure.

Money pit?! Au contraire. My personal experience has been excellent with regard to Jersey City real estate, and I don't foresee that changing. I've bought and sold several properties. Maybe you should try it once and share your experience rather than throw out data that may or may not be relevant to someone (anyone) on this site.

Queens is considered the ends of the earth in terms of proximity to NYC so I really wouldn't consider it a contender with Jersey City. The Bronx is not exactly popular in terms of commuters, either. Why you're even bringing up Long Island is beyond me.

Most importantly: my heart goes out to anyone who is in, or fears being in, foreclosure. YOU, on the other hand, seem to wish it on people. So, basically, you own nothing and wish harm to those who do. Sounds like you're a resentful misanthrope. I suggest that you get therapy as it will be of far more beneficial use of your time than collecting data and trying to scare people with it.


Brava for your post - sane and compassionate. Jamaica, South Jamaica and St Albans are historically black neighborhoods - I suspect that, in this part of the country, neighborhoods like these are the ones that will have people losing their homes. My experience with getting mortgages for myself and when I've sold property is that mortgage lenders are pretty demanding. Right now, I bet any freelancer, artist, etc. trying to buy in JC is undergoing a financial colonoscopy.

Posted on: 2007/8/1 22:58
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Re: NY Times - When Does a Housing Slump Become a Bust?
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Au contraire mes petits moutons, I am a former property owner that opted to go liquid in 2006, as I can see the writing on the wall, i.e. the true direction the housing market is headed towards

A link for the economically naive among us...

P.S. I could buy several condos for cash in Jersey City, but I'm holding out until prices return to the mean, as they ALWAYS do after a mania induced bubble...

Posted on: 2007/8/1 20:59
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Re: NY Times - When Does a Housing Slump Become a Bust?
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So, I guess the answer is that you DON'T know anyone personally who is in, or fears, foreclosure.

Money pit?! Au contraire. My personal experience has been excellent with regard to Jersey City real estate, and I don't foresee that changing. I've bought and sold several properties. Maybe you should try it once and share your experience rather than throw out data that may or may not be relevant to someone (anyone) on this site.

Queens is considered the ends of the earth in terms of proximity to NYC so I really wouldn't consider it a contender with Jersey City. The Bronx is not exactly popular in terms of commuters, either. Why you're even bringing up Long Island is beyond me.

Most importantly: my heart goes out to anyone who is in, or fears being in, foreclosure. YOU, on the other hand, seem to wish it on people. So, basically, you own nothing and wish harm to those who do. Sounds like you're a resentful misanthrope. I suggest that you get therapy as it will be of far more beneficial use of your time than collecting data and trying to scare people with it.

Posted on: 2007/8/1 20:19
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Re: Whole Foods in JC?
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went to the whole foods in edgewater last night for the first time (didn't even know it existed until i read about it on here the other day). decent size, good selection, reasonable prices. granted you have a car it's not that far of a drive from downtown JC and considering i only go food shopping about once every two weeks i'd rather drive the extra 20 minutes to shop at whole foods than have to go to a&p.

Posted on: 2007/8/1 20:15
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Re: Daycare in jc/jch
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Yes. We just moved our 16 month old son to Future Generations from Baby Einstein. Since your child is three, they are probably eligible for the free abbott program there, which is supposed to be great

We really like it, and more importantly, our son seems to as well. He really misses the staff of Baby Einstein but there is more structure, awesome outdoor play areas for them (they get outside alot) and fun activities/visitors (zoo, visiting pony for pony rides, visiting hula dancers, etc). The staff seem great at F.G. as well. Email me if you want to talk more about it. sam264w@aol.com

Posted on: 2007/8/1 20:06
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Re: FIOS in hoboken
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I spoke to Verizon FIOS team person yesterday, and was told to expect FIOS in Hamilton Park as early as Dec of 2007. I complained about my slow DSL - only getting 1.5 Mbps download instead of the 3.0 due to the distance to the Central
Office (too far away) - and was told that they would be upgrading it in a month or two to 3.0. I think this is BS. Most of the Verizon staff are disingenuous. They'll say anything to stop you from moving to a cable broadband connection. I doubt we'll get FIOS in the first half of 2008.

Posted on: 2007/8/1 19:11
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Re: 9/11 committee a joke
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Aaawwwww yeeeeaaah!


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Posted on: 2007/8/1 18:12
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Daycare in jc/jch
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Does anyone have experience with Future Generation Daycare on Palisades? we're looking to place our 3-year-old in daycare up here (currently is at Manhattan Kids Club in Manhattan) and need feedback. Any other suggestions?

Posted on: 2007/8/1 17:36
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9/11 committee a joke
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http://www.nj.com/opinion/jjournal/ed ... 85950528157430.xml&coll=3

This should come as no surprise, since this commission was formed during, and included members of the Cunningham administration, which STILL ranks as the most inept, self-aggrandizing bunch of clowns to ever inhabit city hall.

Soup pigeons, anyone?

Posted on: 2007/8/1 16:52
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Re: Anyone have any information on the new (huge) building going up at 5th Street and Brunswick?
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Well, here it is about a month later and they constructed about half of the first floor exterior wall today. It looks like there definitely won't be retail in this building along Brunswick Street. Also, it will definitely have a parking garage on the first floor, and if the whole first floor is a garage, it is definitely large enough for twelve cars. I disagree with you about the lot size though, ianmac - looks to me like they can probably fit four units per floor. That would mean four stories. We shall see though...if they continue working at the pace they worked today, the whole structure should be completed by the end of August at the latest!


Too bad about the lack of retail. That could have been nice...

Posted on: 2007/8/1 14:40
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Re: Anyone have any information on the new (huge) building going up at 5th Street and Brunswick?
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Well, here it is about a month later and they constructed about half of the first floor exterior wall today. It looks like there definitely won't be retail in this building along Brunswick Street. Also, it will definitely have a parking garage on the first floor, and if the whole first floor is a garage, it is definitely large enough for twelve cars. I disagree with you about the lot size though, ianmac - looks to me like they can probably fit four units per floor. That would mean four stories. We shall see though...if they continue working at the pace they worked today, the whole structure should be completed by the end of August at the latest!

Posted on: 2007/8/1 3:15
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Re: July 30 fund-raiser for Hillary Clinton at a Newport tower
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The fundraiser part never was cancelled.Thats just what the J__koff Politions who run this city wanted you to think.How utterly stupid and selfish the Healy and sires people were in getting the rally cancelled.How great would it have been for Jersey City to be seen on the Six o'clock news with thousands of people in Newport Square.No can't let Fulop look good,Healy could have went there and been the bigger man.I'm sure they would have extended happy hour until he got back.Asshole....


I can't seem to find the article that attributes the rally cancellation to anything but Clinton's schedule. I don't remember getting a call from the well oiled HCDO machine telling me that the fundraiser was cancelled. Please enlighten me...and not just "well, it's Jersey City, that's how these things work. Don't you think Fulop would have been all over that if it were the case?

According to politicsnj, if anything, it was Hillary playing politics. http://www.politicsnj.com/clinton-nix ... s-rival-jersey-city-10611

Will Fulop be at any the Obama rallies?

And with Harvey, Sandy, Jerry, and Steve in the Mayor's race, it's never too early to start campaigning. If you think Fulop's not, you're crazy.

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Re: Public rally was nixed but Hill takes in $150K from Jersey City visit
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nice pictures that are on line i can actually spot my balding head in one of the shots.I tried to pick out fat ass but was unsuccessful.

Posted on: 2007/7/31 21:15
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Re: Feds Seize Rocket Launcher In N.J.
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Let the fear campaign begin.



Bush probably put it there to scare all the Honest Democrat Politicians in Hudson County.

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That is funny! It wouldn't surpise me if he did! Or someone in that "administration"!

Posted on: 2007/7/31 20:49
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Re: JC Brownstone Renovations
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rpz620,

Good luck my friend. My wife Sandy and I did what you are doing (started in 2001) and I think it shaved 10 years off our life. In the end, we have an amazing home that has appreciated in value, but the process nearly killed us. (Is that negative enough for you?)

The hardest part is living in the midst of the rubble. Suggestion: have some place in your home that is a haven...no tools, no mess, someplace to shut the door and pretend life is normal.

As to contractors, there are a lot of con men out there. So get recommendations. And try to put in some incentive to complete the work on time. Say a bonus of $x if they get it done by a certain date. I always wanted to say: I will deduct $100 for every day this project goes past a certain date. I wish I had done that, but my day job is being a psychotherapist and my empathetic and understanding side would always get suckered by the excuses and crisis that they came up with for why things took longer than promised.

I will give you one great name: Rolando of Clear Flow Plumbing. This guy gets a Christmas card from me every year. The best I ever dealt with. phone: 201-955-0011.

Good luck.

Clay

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www.walkandtalk.com

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Re: Feds Seize Rocket Launcher In N.J.
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"the veteran tried to throw the rocket launcher away with his trash"

What the HELL was he thinking?!

Posted on: 2007/7/31 14:15
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Former state official with Jersey City ties found guilty, used state workers to run legal practice
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Former official is found guilty
Used state workers to run legal practice

Tuesday, July 31, 2007
BY RICK HEPP
Star-Ledger Staff

A jury yesterday convicted a former high-ranking state official of using state employees to run her private legal practice, but acquitted her of conspiring with family members to funnel them public contracts.

The jury deadlocked on a dozen other counts after spending a week deliberating the fate of former commerce commission chief of staff Lesly Devereaux.

As the verdict was read, Devereaux sat at the defense table with her hand on a Bible and a content look on her face -- a sharp contrast to the brazen, overbearing bureaucrat described by state prosecutors during the six-week trial.

Prosecutors contend Devereaux began running her law practice almost as soon as she was named chief of staff in January 2002 by the Rev. William Watley after he became the commerce secretary. Devereaux was a long-time adviser to Watley, pastor of St. James AME Church in Newark.

Watley stepped down in July 2004 amid ethical questions into $870,000 in grants and land that Jersey City approved for St. James after being lobbied by Watley and Devereaux. Watley has not been charged and the proposed housing project never got off the ground.

Devereaux's problems started in April 2004 when state auditors suspended their review of the New Jersey Commerce and Economic Growth Commission after she refused to turn over documents. Within the month, criminal investigators got involved.

"Lesly Devereaux thought that she could do whatever she wanted and get away with it," Attorney General Anne Milgram said after the hearing. "She conducted herself in a manner at Commerce that was open and notorious, doing her private legal practice on an almost daily basis. Today, she was convicted of being a corrupt public official."

Devereaux faces at least five years in prison, a ban on public service and possible disbarment on the charges of official misconduct and the misapplication of $87,000 in state services. That includes the salary of the commerce secretary that Devereaux ordered to type, file and mail private legal documents on at least 45 separate matters, including work for St. James and Watley, who had a religious book deal that needed review.

During the trial, Devereaux's attorney argued his client was simply finishing up work from her previous job -- and that her boss, Watley, knew about it.

Jurors found the state failed to prove Devereaux conspired with her mother and her sister to get them more than $11,000 in state contracts to do proofreading and computer work and tried to disguise those contracts by submitting fake documents to make them look legitimate. The jury also found Devereaux not guilty of taking a cut of the contract that went to her sister.

Devereaux's mother, Lillian Harper, and her sister, Candace Harper, both pleaded guilty to reduced charges of tampering with public records just hours before jury selection began. The sister faces up to four years in prison while her mother will avoid incarceration.

The remaining 12 counts in which the jury deadlocked also centered on those contracts. Superior Court Judge Maryann Bielamowicz asked the state to decide by Aug. 16 whether it will seek a retrial on the remaining counts.

Devereaux, who resigned her office in June 2004, did not discuss the verdict afterward. Her attorney, Jack Furlong, said the jury's decision showed the state had no foundation for charging her with criminal conduct for getting her mother and sister work.

Furlong attempted to put the state's political system on trial, arguing his client was guilty of little more than ethical missteps commonplace in state government. He noted that former Gov. James E. McGreevey had put his paramour, Golan Cipel, in charge of homeland security.

"Anytime a jury spends as much time as this jury did, you have to figure they came closer to the truth than anyone in the Division of Criminal Justice," Furlong said. "The refusal to convict on 14 of 16 counts speaks volumes about the attorney general's tendency to hit every thumbtack with a sledgehammer."

Milgram, however, said "a conviction is a conviction" and credited the work of Deputy Attorneys General Robert Czepiel and Anthony Picione, State Police Detective Sgt. Myles Cappiello and Criminal Justice investigators Kiersten Pentony, Edward Augustyn and Anthony Luyber.

She said the case also sends a message to those who doubt the Attorney General's Office can effectively prosecute corrupt public officials.

"The state can both do corruption cases and will do corruption cases," Milgram said. "Today is a small step forward in that direction."

Rick Hepp may be reached at rhepp@starledger.com

Posted on: 2007/7/31 14:08
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