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So is anyone keeping track of the shootings on/near Bergen Ave this year? I think it's a relatively high number, even for Jersey City.
Let's see, there were 5 people shot at Bergen and Claremont: http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... e_shot_in_jersey_cit.html Then there were the 5 cops shot, including Marc DiNardo (rest in peace), and two lowlifes (rest in hell) killed at Bergen & Reed. Now this one at Bergen and Dwight. I think there was also a murder at JSQ (end of Bergen). Am I missing any? Anyone got a witty comment on the safety of Bergen Ave?
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Please keep us apprised indeed, because if you read what Jamie LeFrak (the egotistical dimwit who has unfortunately thrown his two cents into this) said, they built this with their own $$$ and we should be appreciative of the fact that he "allows" us to use "his" walkway.
http://www.nj.com/hobokennow/index.ss ... kway_from_jersey_cit.html Quote: The walkway cost LeFrak $2 million to build; it was funded solely with his own money. Quote: "I built it as sort of a goodwill gesture, to connect Newport to NJ Transit's Long Slip pedestrian bridge," said LeFrak last night. Since he wasn't required to build the walkway, LeFrak said he's also not required to follow that 24-hour mandate.
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FBI goes into 4 offices in Jersey City's City Hall
by The Jersey Journal Friday September 11, 2009, 8:44 AM Last night, Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy confirmed that FBI agents paid a visit to his Bradley beach home in August-and to City Hall yesterday. Healy said he couldn't say more about the visits because investigations connected to July's massive corruption sweep are ongoing. But according to sources, six to eight agents visited the City Hall offices of the business administrator, tax assessor, tax collector and city clerk yesterday. Healy was not among the 44 people arrested in the FBI sting on July 23, but seven of those arrested worked for Jersey City, including Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini, who has been indicted. The officials are charged with accepting bribes from FBI informant Solomon Dwek, who was posing as a developer looking for help with zoning approvals. http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... nto_4_offices_in_jer.html
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I believe if you actually review the stream here, it was I who was "attacked", albeit by someone with less than ample weapons. Iwitless has been spewing stupidity on here quite a bit lately, and while I don't wish to dredge up any ugly past, I believe you've thrown a couple of good punches at me in the past (I think they usually are a bit more thoughtful that I witless though). All in good debate, I say, but I don't appreciate people who reach for the race card every time someone opens their mouth about this multi-racial society. (again Jenny, I am not speaking of you at the moment). I'm not the one yelling, but I can see how people who disagree with me might see it that way. C'est la vie. I must move on.
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Did I upset your delicate sensibilities? I put facts in. Any "color" that I added was not meant to be racist, but some people are so thin skinned that everything looks like that to them. If you don't like my comment, well, I really don't care. Either contribute to the discussion or keep your mouth shut. We already have a webmaster, and don't need you to be our PC police. "IWitless" would be a more apt name for you, by the way.
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How can you say Kabili Tayari (aka Randy Brown) does nothing for his $104K?!
He gives Healy the African-American vote and steals from his own community. It takes HARD WORK, to 1. keep your no-show job, steal a car (oh, right, "borrow"), 2. steal your constituents' NAACP dues, 3. tie a bow tie every single f'in morning, 4. walk around with a holier-than-thou attitude and then, on top of that, 5. look yourself in the mirror every day. He's the most hard working, scummiest scumbag of them all. But of course Healy is right--the job is to "represent the Mayor's Office at events throughout the community", and if Healy showed up at some of the "events" he sends Randy to, Healy'd get jacked -- jacked FO SHO! By the way, since when can someone just make up a name and walk around using it!? If his legal name is Randy Brown, isn't there some law against giving a false name on official documents?
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No offense intended, as I'll assume you never practiced criminal law. The gov't can proceed by complaint or indictment. If they proceed by complaint, they have to indict within a certain amount of time (absent consent from the accused to extend that period--usually given by cooperating witnesses, which I presume Beldini is not). Based upon my reading, the US Attorney could likely indict Healy now. They probably want to lock the story together with the cooperation of another conspirator before doing so at this point though.
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Joe Epstein/For The Star-LedgerJ NEWARK -- A federal grand jury in Newark today handed up the first indictment in connection to last month's sweeping corruption sting, charging two Jersey City officials with extortion. The one-count indictment against Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini and Edward Cheatam, a city housing authority commissioner, comes four weeks after they were arrested along with 42 others accused in the massive bribery and money-laundering scandal that has shaken state politics. Full Star-Ledger coverage of the New Jersey corruption probe The case rests largely on a single government informant who allegedly offered bribes leading to the arrests of two state legislators, three mayors and dozens of other officials and operatives. In a separate investigation, authorities say the informant's work led to five rabbis and nine of their associates being charged with money laundering. One defendant is accused of trying to sell a human kidney. Beldini, 74, is accused in the indictment of taking $20,000 in illegal campaign contributions from the informant in exchange to help him gain favor with "Jersey City Official 1," who has been identified as Mayor Jerramiah Healy. Beldini was Healy's campaign treasurer. Jersey City Council President Mariano Vega, Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini, and Assemblyman Daniel Van Pelt are led into FBI building in Newark The mayor, who has not been charged, has suspended Beldini without pay. "As alleged in the Indictment, Beldini, a high-ranking Jersey City official, sold her office for her personal financial gain and the benefit of Jersey City Official 1," said Marra. "In exchange, she promised a developer official favors not available to the honest business person." Cheatam, 61, who is also the affirmative action official for Hudson County, is accused of accepting $15,000 in bribes and introducing the government informant to Beldini. Under federal law, prosecutors are required to seek indictments against defendants within 30 days of filing charges. Most of the other defendants in the case have signed agreements with prosecutors agreeing to push back the 30-day deadline. Many of the agreements say the defendants are engaged in plea negotiations with prosecutors, including former assemblyman Daniel Van Pelt and Jersey City Council President Mariano Vega. Other defendants in the case include Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano, Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell and Ridgefield Mayor Anthony Suarez. _______________________________________________ Can we all agree that Healy deserves the next indictment?
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I assume Obama will invite Dylan and the cop to a sit down at the Whitehouse. I just don't understand why Dylan didn't immediately start insulting the cops and calling them motherf'ers. I thought professor Gates, a good friend of the president, taught us that is the appropriate way to treat police officers.
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Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini -- arrested in FBI sting -- resigns from board position
By Amy Sara Clark/The Jersey Journal August 14, 2009, 1:52PM Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini, who was arrested in the FBI corruption sweep, resigned from the Jersey City Economic Development Corporation today. Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini -- who was arrested in last month's FBI corruption sweep -- resigned today from the board of directors of the Jersey City Economic Development Corporation, said Jennifer Morrill, a spokeswoman for Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy. Beldini, 74, is charged with accepting Charged with accepting $20,000 in illegal campaign contributions from an FBI informant. She was suspended without pay from her $66,165-a-year job as deputy mayor after being arrested July 23. The resignation comes at the urging of Healy, who is quoted in today's Jersey Journal as saying, through Morill, "I think it's in the best interest of the city and all concerned parties that all individuals who have been charged should voluntarily remove themselves from any and all city boards, and we are working on achieving that." It's not yet clear whether fellow arrestee Joseph Cardwell, 68, has followed suit. An official at the Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority board, where Cardwell serves as a second alternate on the board, said she didn't know if the office had received a resignation letter today. As of yesterday afternoon he hadn't resigned. (Update: Morrill confirmed at 3:12 p.m. that Cardwell has not yet resigned from the MUA board) Cardwell is charged with accepting $20,000 from the FBI informant -- $10,000 for himself and $10,000 for a political campaign. Unlike Beldini who received no compensation for her board position, Cardwell receives family health coverage for his duties, which costs the MUA roughly $10,000 a year, MUA Executive Director Dan Becht said yesterday. Wednesday, The Jersey Journal reported that Edward Cheatam, 61, resigned his post as a commissioner of the Jersey City Housing Authority, and Maher Khalil, 39, resigned from the board of trustees of the Jersey City Development Corporation. Jersey City Health Officer Joseph Castagna, 53 - who was also arrested July 23 - has been suspended without pay from his $105,000-a-year job and is now off the Hudson Regional Health Commission. He served in that post by virtue of being the city's health officer, officials said.
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As eloquent as ever. . .
This guy should keep his mouth shut, because he is certainly no smarter than the rest. To the contrary, this stooge probably didn't understand that he was being offered a bribe, or I'm sure he would have stood in line with the rest. http://hudsonreporter.com/pages/full_ ... te_lead_story_left_column JC Councilman Gaughan on Dwek: 'All he had was a good line of s**t' 08.13.09 - 04:42 pm Jersey City Councilman Bill Gaughan said after Wednesday's City Council meeting that he had been approached by the federal government's "cooperating witness" Solomon Dwek, but didn?t take the bait. Dwek is the failed businessman from the Jersey Shore town of Deal who offered bribes to various local politicians that led to the arrest on July 23 of 44 public officials and religious leaders in New Jersey and New York, including Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano and NJ state Assemblyman L. Harvey Smith. Gaughan said Dwek allegedly approached him about the purported development project on Garfield Avenue that would call for a condo tower. Gaughan was not named in any of the complaints pertaining to the 44 arrested. Gaughan did not reveal the date of the meeting, although it is believed they met before during the election season. He remembered Dwek offering no paperwork or details about his project, which made Gaughan suspicious. "It was very obvious, I asked for plans, I asked for site control, [Dwek] had nothing," Gaughan said. "All he had was a good line of s**t." Gaughan also blasted Dwek as a "con man entrapping people into a situation" who was "testing people's greed."- Ricardo Kaulessar ? hudsonreporter.com 2009
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Hudson County freeholders will use eminent domain to seize own building by Agustin C. Torres/The Jersey Journal Wednesday August 12, 2009, 8:57 PM Tomorrow, the Hudson County Board of Chosen Freeholders are expected to introduce a measure at its 1 p.m. meeting calling for the seizure by eminent domain of a Jersey City four-story building at 567 Pavonia Ave. It is the home of the freeholders. Sometimes called the Panepinto building, after the politically connected owner Joseph Panepinto, the blue-glass structure has been home for the freeholders for 20 years. By seizing the building "for the public good," county officials hope to encourage "realistic" sale talks and have a deal completed by Oct. 1. County officials said they have been trying to negotiate with Panepinto but the owner is looking for a price above $12 million but the freeholders are willing to go a bit above $8 million. The county governing body has been paying a lease of $1.1 million a year. If purchased, the building would require $2 million in upgrades, including a new air conditioning and roof. The annual cost to the freeholders would be about about $700,000 a year, $300,000 in annual savings, according to officials. The lease amount paid to Panepinto by the county included $118,000 in annual property taxes collected by Jersey City. http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... y_freeholders_will_1.html. Is this frigging ridiculous or what?! I am no fan of Joseph Panepinto, who according to some of the more colorful web comments, is a one of the most corrupt and vicious developers out there, but come on. If it's his building, he should do what he wants with it. This is extortion, pure and simple. You freeholders are absolute scum.
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the actual quality of services rendered, and ethics of the person rendering them, when you have enough political pull in this county. Richard Censullo, as far as I know, continues to retain Hector Carbajales as animal control officer. Carbajales is the scumbag that left animals to die and stole $12K from the now closed and infamous HC SPCA. The two of them are thick as theives apparently. Let's round them up with the other indicted Hudson County officials. Also, let's check out Mayor Smith's finances while we're at it. If this job could be done for $30K, why was he paying someone else $115K? Seems fishy. ______________________________________________ Health officer deal would save $$$ Thursday, August 06, 2009 Bayonne will be contracting with North Bergen for the services of the township's health officer if the City Council approves Mayor Mark A. Smith's recommendation next week. Under the proposed agreement with North Bergen, Bayonne would pay $30,000 a year to use Richard J. Censullo as its health officer, said Anthony D'Elia, the interim general counsel for Bayonne. The Bayonne Municipal Council is to vote on the resolution at next week's council meeting. Under state law, each municipality is required to employ at least one licensed health officer so that its inspectors can issue health violations, officials said. That function was performed by Brigid Breivogel, the former health director and health officer; she retired at the end of June from her $115,092-a-year job. D'Elia said the new arrangement will save the city tens of thousands of dollars. Under the agreement there are no set hours but Censullo would be on call around the clock, he said. Breivogel's job as director is being covered temporarily by Peggy Lanni, director of the Bayonne Office on Aging. Also on the agenda next week will be hiring a former Hudson County prosecutor, Charles Michael D'Amico, of Paterson Plank Road in Secaucus, as general counsel for the city. D'Elia said the only other applicant to respond was Eric Bernstein, of Bernstein & Associates, of Warren. D'Elia said that while Bernstein was well qualified for the job, he would have further to travel. He also could not commit to the job full-time. "It is a big job in Bayonne and demands the attention of a full-time attorney," D'Elia said. D'Elia, of Secaucus-based Chasan Leyner & Lamparello, has been acting as interim counsel to the city since Mayor Mark Smith fired interim law director John Coffey II.
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How can this law firm represent city interests and individual city employees' interests? It makes no sense. This means that if a city employee says he/she has accepted bribes (or "gifts" as I am sure Vega and Healy would describe them), the firm cannot report this, because it would be privileged. This means that if a city employee says that he/she does things at the Mayor's direction, even if it runs in contravention to the best interests of the city, the firm cannot report this because it is privileged. This exercise is a complete waste of time and a transparent political move to somehow make it look like everything's legitimate. And I am sure that the mandatory ethics training would have stopped Healy's cronies from accepting envelopes full of cash on his behalf. Healy and his cronies are pure scum (that's not hyperbole--that's fact).
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How about incereasing penalties for felons in possession?! Can't do that! They, and their families, are his election base (as well as his fellow dems here in JC)! What a tool!
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NJ.com FLA. TELLING LOPEZ SHE OWES $30G Tuesday, July 14, 2009 By AMY SARA CLARK JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Florida officials have come up with a final bill for Jersey City Councilwoman Nidia Lopez for back taxes: $30,473.59. Orange County officials have determined that she did not deserve the homestead property tax exemptions she claimed for her four-bedroom Orlando house between 2002 and 2008, according to Michael Prestridge, chief deputy property appraiser for Orange County. A letter is being mailed to Lopez today, notifying her of the debt. Lopez declined to comment. Her attorney, William Northgrave, did not return phone calls yesterday evening. Lopez, 59, has claimed a homestead property tax exemption on the home since 1997, which saved her thousands of dollars a year. But in 2001 she started voting in Jersey City. Even though Lopez started voting in Jersey City in 2001, the change affected her status only beginning the next year, officials said. This amount includes the exempted taxes, plus another 50 percent as a penalty, and 15 percent interest compounded annually, according to Ann Wetherington of the Orange County Property Appraiser's Office. The investigation came to light after Jimmy King, who finished second to Lopez in May's municipal election in Ward C, filed a lawsuit in Hudson County Superior Court challenging Lopez's Jersey City residency. After receiving an anonymous tip in June that Lopez had been elected to the Jersey City Municipal Council, Orange County officials rejected her 2009 homestead claim and began investigating past years
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http://www.familywatchdog.us It shows where schools and parks are as well. It also has pictures of the pervs and details about their predilictions. Here are your local sex offender's homes: http://www.familywatchdog.us/ShowMap.asp?frm=0 Happy hunting.
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