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Posted on: 2015/9/24 13:13
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The biggest farce is the way public benefits are accrued and paid. DeGise may have been deflecting but was right...
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Think of what proposals to push local teachers on to local payrolls will do. Under the current setup, no teacher will want to move and local boards of ed will avoid hiring experienced teachers from out-of-town. That's the real madness here - and it may take a class action to end this stupidity.
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Posted on: 2015/9/23 20:48
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Can some one clarify this, his daughter does not get lifetime benefits, but can be on his benefits until she is 26 or whatever the age is these days. I really hope this is the case, I cannot see any reason that his daughter deserves to freeload for her lifetime as well. This entire thing reeks.
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Funny that both Fulop and county executive DiGise deny any involvement in this.
Guess something like this just happens on its own, surely favors had nothing to do with it.
Posted on: 2015/9/23 15:45
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According to this new SL editorial, Mcgreevey AND his daughter will be getting lifetime benefits courtesy of the HC taxpayers:
By Star-Ledger Editorial Board on September 23, 2015 at 7:45 AM, updated September 23, 2015 at 7:46 AM McGreevey earned his benefits. But there's more to it. | Editorial Former Gov. James E. McGreevey just managed to wrangle a deal that will give him and his daughter lifetime medical benefits paid for by the taxpayers of Hudson County, where he worked for just four months. Sounds like a horrible scam. Who gets lifetime benefits in return for a few months' work? The answer: No one does. Not even McGreevey. Like him or not, the man worked for the government for more than 25 years, he has never been convicted of a crime, and he is entitled to the same lifetime medical benefits that cops and teachers receive. That's not quite the end of the story, granted. SL Editorial
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Posted on: 2015/9/22 19:13
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McGreevey fallout may just be getting started | MorganBy Wow! There's a lot of fallout from the revelation that former New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey was awarded lifetime health benefits for four months work. Even the New York Post weighed in with an editorial that ended with the line "Hudson County: producing corruption from the cradle to the grave," an allusion to the county's longtime reputation for corruption. Read more: http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2 ... getting_started_morg.html
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He should have been the first gay governor of New Jersey to go to jail for public corruption and malfeasance in office. There really needs to be a grass roots movement for instituting term limits for elected officials in federal positions and at all level of state government.
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Sad?? People should go to jail for pulling this sort of crap.
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Posted on: 2015/9/22 3:27
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you really cannot make this stuff up.
it is truly sad.
Posted on: 2015/9/22 1:52
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I am sure Fulop called up the county executive and asked for this favor. After all, McGreevey was on JC payroll for prison re-entry. Most likely, Fulop promised not to interfere with the county's race. This reminds me of the meeting between County Executive Bobby J and Mayor Schundler. The both met and decided not to interfere with certain matters. Before that meeting there was fireworks, after that meeting you heard nothing.
Posted on: 2015/9/21 18:10
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The ?New Jersey of New Jersey? is taking care of Jim McGreevey By Post Editorial Board September 20, 2015 | 9:32pm Hudson County just lived down to its rep as the New Jersey of New Jersey ? giving lifetime health benefits to a Garden State poster boy of corruption for just four months on the county payroll. County officials say disgraced ex-Gov. Jim McGreevey made ?positive change? in helping set up a prisoner re-entry center. ?Was there a price to have him do this? Yes,? said county spokesman James Kennelly. ?But the lives that have been changed for the better already and the change in direction we have made regarding recidivism thanks to the governor?s involvement we believe was worth it.? Except that McGreevey was hired to do the work on the Jersey City payroll ? which wouldn?t earn him any retirement benefits. Somehow, though, he was switched to a county job for four months ? which qualified him for the sweet health-care deal. ?Positive change?? The center he was hired to set up has no home ? community objections bounced it from the planned site. McGreevey quit as governor back in 2004, coming out as a ?gay American? ? as the secret lover he?d hired to run Jersey?s homeland-security operation was threatening a lawsuit. His partial term was also packed with scandals involving aides and associates taking payoffs, extorting others and hiring prostitutes. It?s fitting he wound up in Hudson County ? so dirty that even its birth certificates are compromised, thanks to a former deputy at the county Office of Vital Statistics who got caught selling false ones. Hudson County: producing corruption from the cradle to the grave. NY Post Source Terrence McDonald Article about NY Post Piece
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Yvonne, thanks for the correction and detail on post-65 health benefits. It's worse than I thought. Someone posted a comment in the JJ under the name "Seeya". I can certainly understand why they might.... What a mess.
Posted on: 2015/9/18 18:02
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I attended a freeholder's meeting over the county cutting the Friends of the Loews funding and Bill O'Dea wanted a limit on these benefits. He sited JC requires 25 years he was proposing a range of 15 years because people legitimately change jobs when layoffs happen. I didn't know why he brought that up but now we do.
Posted on: 2015/9/18 17:36
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Quote: Too Funny let?s also not forget that after the people of Jersey City unanimously handed Mayor Healy his walking papers Hudson County Executive Degise found a position for him in county government. So ironically the JC taxpayers who voted Healy out of office for doing nothing for Jersey City are still paying part of his county salary. (along with the salaries of a long list of HC/JC hacks and hacks relatives and friends) What an insult to the JC taxpayers and voters who booted Healy out of office. Quote: Hey DeGise I am a Hudson County /Jersey City taxpayer. I have yet to get a tee time on your new 20 million dollar Lincoln Park ?Public? Golf Course. Thank you so much for taking away the old LP pitch and putt / driving range which we ALL used to enjoy almost every weekend. (with no tee time reservations) I bet you and your fellow Duffers have no problem getting a tee times.
Posted on: 2015/9/18 13:59
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That is not how it works, Bamb00zle, yes he will receive Medicare at 65 but it only covers 80%, the county or taxpayers will be paying the 20% for life. I am sure he will pick the most expensive plan anyway.
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I laughed seeing this posted under ?Crime & Safety? ? thanks for that because otherwise it's no laughing matter. A comment in the JJ noted he's Medicare's problem at 65 yrs (like the rest of us), so there's a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. Meanwhile, for the next 7 or so years Hudson county taxpayers pick up the tab. Our elected and appointed representatives sure have well earned reputations.
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If anyone is selling "Almost Anyone But Fulop" t-shirts at tomorrow's street festival, they might sell out.
Posted on: 2015/9/18 12:48
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Fulop now owes former Business Administrator Jack Kelly an apology for attacking him for the same reason, receiving lifetime benefits. I definitely remember the tirade at the council meetings.
Posted on: 2015/9/18 12:14
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Think Fulop and McGreevey didn't know this was going to happen?
Again, Councilman Fulop would have been screaming his head off at Healy if he made a similar hire who will now cost the taxpayers for the rest of his life. But Councilman Fulop is dead, replaced by Fraud Fulop.
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What a disgrace. Would a regular Joe civil servant get to do this? Of course not. Fulop is just as corrupt as McGreevey.
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County exec, mayor defend McGreevey, call for changes in systemBy JERSEY CITY — Hudson County Executive Tom DeGise and Mayor Steve Fulop today defended former Gov. Jim McGreevey, one day after The Jersey Journal reported on McGreevey's four-month stint as a county attorney that led to lifetime health benefits paid for by county taxpayers. McGreevey has worked for various public entities for nearly 27 years, DeGise and Fulop, both Democrats, noted to The Jersey Journal today. But the two men advocated for system-wide changes to how retirement health benefits are awarded "At the end of the day, 25 years in public service ... is the general threshold," Fulop said. "The entire system should be changed as this really isn't about one person but a systematic issue." Read more: http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... evey_call_for_change.html
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Four months on Hudson County payroll gets Jim McGreevey lifetime benefitsBy Former Gov. Jim McGreevey has begun taking his state pension with a little help from Hudson County taxpayers, who will pay for his lifetime health benefits thanks to his recent four-month stint as a county attorney. The decision to allow McGreevey to work for the county for four months and then retire with lifetime benefits has the county's payroll officials livid, according to a source with knowledge of the situation, but county spokesman James Kennelly said the retirement package is worth it for Hudson County. Benefits are paid for by the last agency where the employee worked McGreevey brought "unique experience" and "intense commitment" to developing a countywide prisoner re-entry center, also known as a community resource center (CRC), which had been slated for the Sacred Heart Church priory. Read more: http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index ... s_on_hudson_county_p.html
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