Besides Letters, any chance we could mobilize enough people and have a protest at Cozine's place in Hoboken.


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Great. He's going to donate the dirty developer money that turned out to come from an FBI informant to charity. What about the rest of the dirty developer money? Does he really expect us to believe that Dwek was an exceptional, isolated incident? Is he an idiot, or does he just think we are?

sending my own letter to Corzine

Maybe you should proofread first.

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I wrote Corzine a few weeks ago also. Let's start pounding away at Corzine too.

Dear Governor Corzine,

I have noticed that you have pushed hard for some resignations such as Peter Cammarano in Hoboken and considering taking a state takeover in Ridgefield.

What about Jersey City? While I understand Healy is one of your Guys, he is unable to carry out his responsibility as Chief Executive of Jersey City as the corruption probe is a major distraction. Mayor Jerramiah Healy has confirmed that he is the ?Official 4? cited in FBI criminal complaints. With this distraction the citizens of Jersey City are suffering.

Council President Mariano Vega has been charged with taking $30,000 in bribes, and Councilwoman Lopez has cheated on her taxes and not proven that she even lives in Ward C must resign too. We need you to step up Governor Corzine and demand these resignations. Every vote that Mariano Vega, and Councilwoman Lopez make are tainted.

All three of these elected officials are still serving in public office. Given these allegations, the citizens of Jersey City cannot trust them to make decisions on behalf of us.

As an elected official you have the responsibility to ensure that your constituents are fairly represented, and with these three officials still active in public office, we are not.

Governor Corzine, perhaps Jersey City residents need to reach out to Chris Christie towards supporting him and putting together a rally in Jersey City to support him towards ensuring you do not get the Jersey City vote given you have left Jersey City out there to swim by itself while you have pressured others to resign.

If you do not want help Jersey City, then we should not help you get elected.

I look forward to hearing back from you.

I wrote to the Gov yesterday and suggest everyone do the same. Corzine needs to bring pressure on JC pols that refuse to resign; ask him why JC residents should vote for Corzine if he won't try to get these frauds out of office. Even if you don't like and would not vote for him, use the election to get his attention to help Jersey City.

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She's not dim. She just assumes that most of the people listening to her are dim. And, unfortunately, she's probably right.

Can the FBI please come and take Healy away already and hopefully his whole team all in due time.

And how wonderful is this?

"According to city spokeswoman Jennifer Morrill, Healy made the decision to donate the money the day after the arrests. He has not yet identified the charities he's giving the money to, Morrill said."

Did Jennifer Morrill used to teach pre-school? Is she that dim that she expects anyone to believe that "Healy made the decision to donate the money the day after the arrests"? And, somehow - this being spun as good publicity for the mayor and all - they just didn't get around to putting it out there for nineteen days? The poor woman must have a hard time sleeping at night, having to be the mouth of those lies on an ongoing basis.

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That the first thing that crossed my mind.

What's up with Vega's money?

Must be some serious horse trading going on. Healy is guilty as hell. Let's face it, no-one in their right mind would try to bribe Beldini, Shaw, or Cheatam if not for the on-the-take top dog (Healy), yet he still walks free.

Also, ill-gotten gains used to fund the entire Team Healy slate. Wow!!

What happens when your seat on the council is bought and paid for with funds obtained in this manner? Waiting to see.

The deafening silence from the council in the middle of a colossal s..tstorm continues. Guess I just answered my previous question. You say nothing.

And there it is:

"According to Healy, the amount totals $17,600 and includes contributions he received from Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini, City Council President Mariano Vega Jr., former Hudson County Affirmative Action Officer Ed Cheatam and the late political operative Jack Shaw.

All of the donors were arrested as part of last month's corruption sweep, with the exception of Catherine Chin, Shaw's girlfriend, who donated $5,000 to Healy's campaign and $2,500 to the Jersey City Democratic Committee."

The money Dwek gave to Beldini, Vega, Cheatam and Shaw as bribes flowed directly to Healy. Also, Healy "sat in" on a couple of these bribe collection adventures...I mean meetings. They then attempted to launder the money, skirt campaign finance laws, and funnel it to Healy (ofcourse Healy knew ABSOLUTELY nothing about any of this).

Also, not a stretch to conclude that Ms. Chin, Shaw's girlfriend, was simply another person that they used to launder the money.

Not sure what the FBI is waiting for, but Healy certainly needs to be picked up.

+1 Shadow

this is the most bizarrest thing i've read in a long time.

WTF ? What about the interest earned from this money and if the money is in his account then he accepted the money. GUILTY!!!!
If a thief steels from you, then offers to give it back, the crime has still been committed.

once again, our money (gov't money is taxpayer $$) is used against us. Healy gets a headline under the guise of doing the right thing and we lose

The money from Dwek that wound up in Healy's campaign bucket was'nt Dwek's to begin with but the governments who gave it to Dwek as bait cash. Should not that money be returned to the government and not charity? What's the answer here?

I wanted to stop on comment on this. Today's Jersey Journal has another story this morning- the Mayor freezing executive salaries (given the 11% tax hike and another one inevitably on the way, I think we need to see a bigger sacrifice out of 280 Grove St).

Its seems the adminstration has suddenly woken up and decided to respond to the building public outrage, even if it is three weeks late. The real question will they do something that goes beyond what I think falls in the "nice gesture" category and do something more meaningful in the way of reform.

Shelley Skinner

Won't keep $17G tied to Dwek, Healy says
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
By AMY SARA CLARK
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

Responding to inquiries from The Jersey Journal, Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy said yesterday he is shedding from his campaign coffers all the money that is alleged to have originated from Solomon Dwek, the FBI informant at the center of the sting operation that led to 44 arrests on July 23.

According to Healy, the amount totals $17,600 and includes contributions he received from Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini, City Council President Mariano Vega Jr., former Hudson County Affirmative Action Officer Ed Cheatam and the late political operative Jack Shaw.


All of the donors were arrested as part of last month's corruption sweep, with the exception of Catherine Chin, Shaw's girlfriend, who donated $5,000 to Healy's campaign and $2,500 to the Jersey City Democratic Committee.

Healy said in a statement he would "donate an equivalent amount" of the money "to make sure there is not even a hint of uncertainty and to ensure the confidence we have in ourselves is shared with our contributors and the public at large."

According to city spokeswoman Jennifer Morrill, Healy made the decision to donate the money the day after the arrests. He has not yet identified the charities he's giving the money to, Morrill said.

Asked why he is donating the money from Chin, Morrill said Healy is showing "an abundance of caution."

Healy has not been charged with any crimes, but he has acknowledged meeting with Dwek at least twice, in meetings that included Cheatam, Shaw, and Beldini, who served as his campaign treasurer.

The federal complaints allege that Shaw - who died of unknown causes July 28 - Beldini and Cheatam "arranged for others" to provide checks to the campaign of "JC Official 4" with cash provided by the Dwek. Healy has acknowledged he's "JC Official 4," but says he did nothing wrong.

On April 30, Dwek told Healy he had given $10,000 to Shaw (on March 20) and would give another $10,000 to Shaw for the campaign that day, according to the complaint. Dwek also said to Healy he would give another $10,000 after the election, the complaint says.

On May 5, according to the complaint, Cheatam asked Shaw "is it best to do it out of my personal account, or do it (out of) the business account?" to which Shaw replied "Um, do it (with) your business account."

According to Election Law Enforcement Commission filings, on May 7, Healy's campaign received $2,500 contributions from Shaw, Catherine Chin, E. Cheatam Associates and Michael Schaffer, a commissioner on the North Hudson Sewerage Authority who was also arrested in the sting.

In addition, Cheatam contributed $2,500 to "Team Jersey City," Healy's slate of City Council candidates, on May 7, and Shaw contributed $2,500 to the slate on May 11.

The complaints also suggest that Dwek money may have been funneled into the Healy campaign through other political committees.

For example, on March 24, "Beldini acknowledged the receipt of the $10,000," according to the complaint, "and explained that '(w)hat we're trying to do is put money into different funds so we can, when we need it, funnel it back into (JC Official 4's election fund). Which everybody does."

On April 6, according to ELEC reports, the Jersey City Democratic Committee received $2,500 each from Shaw, Chin, E. Cheatam Associates and Maher Khalil, an employee of the Jersey City Health and Human Services Department who was also arrested on July 23.

Asked about this money, Morrill said "lawyers are reviewing" the Jersey City Democratic Committee account, and if it perceived that some of that money originated from Dwek, Healy will urge that committee to donate the money. Oswin Hadley, treasurer of the Jersey City Democratic Committee, said his committee would "more than likely" give the money away, "but it's premature to comment on that."

Len Gicas, ELEC's director of review and investigation, said he "could not confirm or deny" if the agency is investigating Healy's campaign filings.