I'd say that jerry healy had know idea that his worker had been registered illegally but thats the problem with him and this city in general.There is no grownup in charge.

I'd like pinko's take on this, especially when it involves our spineless leader Healy?

Election investigator has her own skeletons

Monday, August 20, 2007
By KEN THORBOURNE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

Perhaps the theory was it takes a cheat to catch one.

Sonia Marte, a $42,000-a-year "community relations specialist" with the Mayor's Action Bureau in Jersey City, was one of four persons deployed to identify voting irregularities former Mayor Gerald McCann allegedly engaged in on his way to winning a school board seat in April. (Jenny Garcia, the losing school board candidate who brought the court challenge, eventually dropped the case.)

But Marte has a voter registration skeleton in her own closet, The Jersey Journal has learned.

From Sept. 14, 2004, to July 19, 2007, Marte, 27, was registered to vote at 302 Morris Pesin Drive, according to the county's Office of the Superintendent of Elections.

Only one problem: That address is a self-storage facility in Liberty State Park.

John Mondry, a manager at Liberty Self-Storage, said he's never heard of Marte, adding, "This is a business. We are not zoned for apartments" - a zoning restriction city officials confirmed.

On July 19, Sonia Marte changed her voter registration at 16 Westervelt Place, according to county records. But a person familiar with residents at this four-story building told the Journal, on condition of anonymity, that Sonia Marte's cousin lives there, but Sonia Marte does not.

And there might be even more to the story.

Last week, a secretary at the facility readily accepted messages for Sonia Marte, as well as for Desire Marte and Mohamed Ali, two other people also registered to vote at the storage facility.

A person familiar with Sonia Marte who did not want to be named said Desire Marte is her sister. The person also said Sonia Marte's father is an investor in the storage business.

When asked, the secretary pointed to a two-story building across the lot from her office and said that's where Ali lives.

Tony Lambiase, the city's zoning officer, said his office is investigating the possibility of illegal apartments at the facility - a violation punishable by $1,250 a day in fines and the focus of a task force set up by Sonia Marte's boss - Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy.

Sonia Marte didn't return phone calls left for her at the storage facility, her job, or through a friend. Neither Ali nor Desire Marte returned messages left for them at the storage company.

Convinced Healy was behind Garcia's failed lawsuit, McCann assailed them both.

"You had people making all kind of charges against me as far as illegal voting, and who does Jenny Garcia and Jerry (Healy) hire to investigate? An illegal voter," McCann said. "She (Marte) committed a crime."

Healy declined to respond.

Jenny Garcia could not be reached for comment, but her husband, Bernardino Garcia, said he was speaking for her when he said: "These charges (by McCann) are false and inaccurate because we never had any communication with the mayor and played no role in the investigation."