Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy arrested after Bradley Beach incident

Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 06/17/06

BRADLEY BEACH -- Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy was arrested early this morning and issued two summons for disorderly persons offenses following a predawn incident today outside Barry's Tavern, according to Dep. Chief Leonard Guida.

Healy was arrested around 2 a.m. today and issued a summons for disorderly conduct and a second summons for resisting arrest, Guida said.

Healy was released soon after he was charged.

No other details were available, Guida said.

-- Andrea Alexander

http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/arti ... D=/20060617/NEWS/60617021

I can just imagine the spin they will put on this. One thing for sure -- diabetics that drink don't have a long life expectancy. This is very sad – and embarrassing for the citizens of JC.

unbelievable - I just rode my bike past city hall and saw channel 2 and channel 7 microwave vans set up to do reports, and - I kid you not - I thought to myself, hmm, on a Sunday? Did Healy get picked up DWI last night?

God's honest truth. Good old Jersey City.

I just saw this on local cbs 2 news -- the spin machine is in high gear!

Healy was maced in the face, handcuffed and and pushed to the ground after leaving his sister's tavern at 2AM. Healy claimed he was trying to break up a fight between a couple, and the last thing he expected was to be arrested for being a good Samaritan. If convicted he could get 6 months in jail and $1000 fine.

Updated story link

Mayor Jerramiah Healy arrested outside Bradley Beach bar
Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy was arrested and charged with disorderly persons offenses and resisting arrest outside a Bradley Beach bar early yesterday morning, police said today.

According to Bradley Beach police, Healy repeatedly tried to involve himself in an investigation outside Barry’s Taven — which is owned by the mayor’s sister, Kathleen Barry — despite warnings that cops would arrest him if he didn’t leave. Police say Healy then resisted arrest, leading to two disorderly persons charges.

After handcuffing Healy, around 2 a.m., police took him to Bradley Beach police headquarters, where he was released 90 minutes later, reports said.

He faces up to $2,000 in fines and six months in jail if he is found guilty. He is set to stand trial in approximately two weeks, police said.

Healy, his sister and at least one eyewitness disputed the police account of events.

In an interview today at the bar, Healy said he was just trying to calm down a man outside the bar who started jumping on his girlfriend’s car after she refused to let him drive home. When police showed up, Healy informed them that the girl was not at fault, he said.

At that point, Healy said, he was thrown on the ground, handcuffed and maced by the arresting officer. Healy said when his wife reached down to retrieve his glasses, which had fallen off, she was maced as well.

Police would not comment on Healy's version of events nor would they elaborate on the initial incident that they responded to.

Hubert Cutolo, an attorney from Colts Neck who was at the bar at the time and said he saw the incident, told essentially the same story Healy did.

“It was uncalled for," Cutolo said of the police response. "They weren’t causing any problems. It was completely inapproriate.”

Barry said acting Deputy Police Chief Leonard W. Guida came into the bar today to apologize for the incident but he could not be reached to confirm that. When asked whether that was true, a spokesman for the department, Police Sgt. Neil Scully, said: "I have no knowledge of that whatsoever."

Michaelangleo Conte and Jack Herman
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Based on last night APP report I can see why we would assume and now after reading the above link I want to see what the real truth is. I'm not defending him nor judging him, I agree, anyone with diabetes should never drink it’s a death wish but, I think we should wait and see what the real story is here before jumping to conclusions.

Mayor Arrested then released then apology from Police.

It all smells fishy and JC has serious crime and enforcement issues - maybe we are not alone!

If JC Council was run like a private enterprise most would be sacked and others would be made more accountable.

I hope this doesn't tarnish the police if this is all true, but arresting someone isn't done on a whim and I've never known a person arrested for a crime say 'yep I stuffed up - take me away' or their friends say ' yep he was an idiot - take him away'.
My congratulations goes to the arresting officer but the political machine could destroy his career and I just hope the officers' commander at Bradley Beach stand by their officer.

Then again if this is just a tall tale, I hope the Mayor sues the story teller.

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I found this on the net:
STATEMENT OF JERSEY CITY MAYOR JERRAMIAH HEALY
“After gathering with my family on Friday evening to celebrate the graduation of my niece from the State Police training facility, the last thing I ever expected was to be a part of a police response gone awry.

Upon leaving Barry’s Tavern & Restaurant, my sister’s establishment in Bradley Beach, to walk home with my wife and family, we encountered a couple in a dispute just down the street. The Bradley Beach Police arrived and I approached the lead officer to tell him that the woman was not at fault.

Without cause or provocation, the police officer grabbed my arm, threw me to the ground and handcuffed me. At no time during did I offer any resistance. During this incident my wife was shoved by the police to the ground whereby she sustained injuries to her ankle and leg. While immobilized by several police officers, the police officer who handcuffed me asked another officer for mace and proceeded to spray first into my left eye and then into my right eye.


I have owned a home in Bradley Beach for many years and my family has spent a lot of summers here. Through the years, we have met a number of fine officers in the Bradley Beach Police Department, and the actions of this officer do not reflect the entire department.


My wife and I have retained Ralph Lamparello of the law firm of Chasan, Leyner & Lamparello, and we will be filing a criminal complaint with the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office as well as a Civil Complaint against this officer. On advice of Counsel, we will not be making any additional public comments, as it is a matter now for the judicial system.”

I am sorry this happened to the Mayor and his wife - I hope they are ok.

There can often be inexperienced cops in little shore towns. IMHO

I think there are too many small municipalities in New Jersey!

Who voted for Healy????????????
I moved here 1 year ago.just after the election. Regardless of this incident, he has done nothing to improve JC. I agree with previous post.........FULOP for MAYOR!!

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Anything of course could have happened but it's hard to imagine that if Healy calmly and normally was talking to a fighting couple that the police would leap on him and his wife with mace, etc. It's less hard to imagine that a seriously drunk diabetic mayor probably was incoherent, yelling and repeatedly moving too close to an officer who was trying to break up a fight.

I voted for Healy and boy am I sorry. Sorry, sorry, sorry. I am sick and tired of this city and its joke politicians. Unfortunately, the joke is on all of us.

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In last weekend's JC Reporter in the political gossip column it was rumored that Healy will not be offered the kind of judicial appointment he wants (one that will keep him in Hudson Co.) and so he intends to ask us for another four years as mayor.

Whether Healy was acting like a good samaritan or an drunken a$$, doesn't really matter. He did do something that caused a police officer to cuff him and take him for a ride. Who believes that at 2am His Honor hadn't knocked back enough drinks to limit his reasoning capacity sufficiently to mouth off to a cop?

What a disgrace.

i have rented houses down at the shore for years and i wouldn't be one bit surprised if this was not the mayor's fault - the one witness quoted agrees with healy's version.

i've seen those rinky-dink cops in bradley, belmar, avon go off on people many, many times. especially late night when they had probalby all ready been on 10 calls dealing with drunken frat boys all night.

it will be interesting to see how this story develops.

The Truth

Thats right, cops dealing with Drunken Frat Boys....

Why was yr mayor behaving like one ?

This guy is a Joke and an absolute embarasment to this city ,

CK

When the Mayor was found drunk and naked on his front porch his quote to the new york times was as follows"i had a few beers and i can't for the life of me figure out how i got on the porch"
Now in the jj today his paid pr person said "he had a couple of beers"When he mows down some people in his car or hurts someone in a drunken black out will that finally get our attention.

this is one of the reasons why JC is the laughing stock of this state and the nation...

Here's part of an Asbury Park Press article from today -

"Barry said Healy's wife sustained bruises on her leg and a broken finger as a result of the incident.

A witness, 32-year-old Hubert Cutolo, a lawyer from Colts Neck, agreed with Healy's account.

"We saw the whole thing. They were, like, older people, and the officer threw him on the ground and cuffed him," said Cutolo, who was leaving the bar with two friends when they saw the incident. "It was really uncalled for. They knocked his wife to ground and then Maced them. We were like, "Did that really just happen?' Officers are not supposed to act like that."

The witness (Cutolo) seems to be impartial in this. Although Hizzoner has a reputation for throwing a few back, I don't think he has a rep as a wildman. Yeah, this is starting to look like a case of dumb cop/bad cop. Seems to me that if the mayor of the 2nd largest city in NJ is a part time resident of a small town like Bradley, all the cops in town (18) would be aware of it and would know who he is. Maybe this cop knew exactly who he was. Ever since I was a kid it was common knowledge that the shore cops are not especially gracious to out of towners. Whatever the reasons and circumstances, I find it hard to believe the cops felt threatened enough by a 55 yr old guy who looks like an accountant and his wife so as to warrant throwing down and using mace after he was cuffed on the ground.

As mentioned on the net by another party:
STATEMENT OF JERSEY CITY MAYOR JERRAMIAH HEALY

“Without cause or provocation”

“While immobilized by several police officers”

THESE ARE MAY FAVORITE LINES – How can someone just standing there require SEVERAL police officers to subdue them unless your kicking and fighting and the officer to then finally have to use mace?

The police prosecutor will love this statement when it gets to court – that’s if the statement was ever made.

Still feel for the arresting officer, when the political machine makes the Mayor as innocent as an alter boy at church – by the way, is it common or a regular habit for the Mayor to play the Good Samaritan or batman?

I just hope the Mayor doesn’t have a habit of story telling or not being a man of his word that could show history of his behavior traits.

But then again this incident or statement might have never happened or made!

Mayors Gone WIld!!! $19.95 for the DVD!!

... the single best reponse in this thread was when someone asked (...reality check...) - can you imagine Bloomberg being remotely cuffed and maced in a bar parking lot at 2:00 AM??? (or Giuliani for that matter)

It's such a tragedy, because JC could be so much more - unfortunately the slick developers showed up a few years before we got the old-school buffoons out, so we're getting our clocks cleaned with the PILOTS/abatements - this will be Healy's lagacy, not his alcohol misadventures.


The other best line recently on these boards:
"Someday a book will be written on how Jersey City could be 'broke' in the midst of all this development"

no, drinking 5 or 6 beers isn't illegal, but the moment you become elected, you're held up to a higher standard. all politicians know that the spotlight is on them, so they have to be extra cautious not to give ther opponents something to pounce on. healy instead seems to be presenting these opportunities on silver platters. why risk even getting tipsy in public?

A diabetic, having only five or six beers, in public, suggests that having more than that is also routine. I know diabetics who do this--it is not advised. The fact that it is the mayor of NJ's second-largest city is absurd. Welcome to Mayberry, RFD! We really do have clowns running this city, don't we?

Did he do anything illegal? I don't know. But when an apparently negligent drunken mayor encounters an overzealous shore cop and the whole incident gets played out in the papers, I say they deserve each other!

"Someday a book will be written on how Jersey City could be 'broke' in the midst of all this development."

Indeed.

I don't want to sound patronizing, but this person who suggests heavy drinking is a part of everyone's family get-togethers (...first we get ripped and hang out naked on the prorch, then one of us is arrested... good times...) or the person who suggests we be proud our mayor's at least not on coke too (if that person's even for real) - it just makes me sad - is that Jersey City?

tell me that's not Jersey City...

With Many Colorful Officials, City Shrugs At Mayor's Arrest

WNBC - June 22, 2006

JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- Residents of Jersey City got an unusual glimpse of their mayor-to-be in 2004 when a teen snapped a blurry photo seeming to show then-candidate Jerramiah T. Healy passed out naked on his front stoop.

The latest story about Healy resonating in the state's second-largest city involves him being pepper-sprayed and arrested by police last weekend outside his sister's Jersey Shore bar.

With a history of colorful city officials, most residents are taking the news with a collective shrug.

"Jersey City doesn't surprise me about anything," said Greg Andrade, 50, who has lived here for 10 years. "It's a chuckle, another story."

Fourteen years ago, Mayor Gerald McCann resigned after he was convicted on federal fraud charges. A famous party boss, Frank Hague, declared himself to be "the law."

Healy's confrontation occurred at about 2 a.m. Saturday in Bradley Beach as he left Barry's Tavern.

Healy said he saw a couple arguing in a nearby parking lot and spoke to the man in an effort to calm the dispute. He disputes the police contention that he was interfering in their work and ignored warnings to leave.

"Without cause of provocation, the police officer grabbed my arm, threw me to the ground and handcuffed me," Healy said in a statement. He said his wife, Maureen, also was "shoved by the police to the ground" and police sprayed pepper spray in his eyes.

His lawyer, Ralph Lamparello, said the mayor "clearly wasn't intoxicated," but declined to talk about what he ate or drank that night.

Healy, who has owned a home in Bradley Beach for many years, plans to file a brutality complaint, saying he and his wife were mistreated by police, Lamparello said.

The lawyer said he's agreed with a request from prosecutors in Monmouth County to defer the complaint until they've completed their own investigation.

"Based on the facts that are determined and developed during the investigation, we'll take action," said Monmouth County Prosecutor Luis Valentin.

Healy, who worked as a Hudson County prosecutor and served as chief judge of the city's Municipal Court, has long been a fixture in the Jersey City politics.

A former city councilman, he took over for Mayor Glenn D. Cunningham, who died of a heart attack in 2004. Before Healy won a four-year term last year, he defeated 10 other candidates in a special election. It was during that race that Healy was photographed on his front porch.

At the time, Healy did not deny that the photograph was authentic, or that he had been drinking alcohol. But he insisted he had been lured outside by someone banging his trash can, and that he was not naked.

Lori Turoff, 48, who sells real estate in Jersey City, said Healy's troubles don't help Jersey City's image.

"Business is bad when government is bad," she said, walking near City Hall. "He's a representative of the government and he should hold himself to higher standards."

But Maria Hatzidoukas, whose family has run a dry cleaning and tailoring shop near City Hall for four decades, said the mayor has always been respectful.

"He treats everyone the same as himself," she said. "I'm sure he was trying to do the right thing."

City Council President Mariano Vega Jr., a supporter of Healy, said the mayor is humble and doesn't see himself as above the law. He called the incident unfortunate.

"It distracts us from the things that we need to focus in on," he said. "I spoke to him the other day. He wants to get this behind him."

Quoted from the NY Times article:

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"The larger question is whether the mayor's activities and the unwelcome publicity will give pause to developers — like Hartz Mountain, K. Hovnanian and Mack-Cali — who together have hundreds of millions of dollars invested in a gilded future for Jersey City.

"Absolutely not," said Mitchell E. Hersh, president and chief executive of Mack-Cali, a developer that owns 4.3 million square feet of property here.

Indeed, Mr. Hersh called the mayor "a man of high integrity, a former judge."

He added, "Our dealings with the administration in Jersey City have certainly been on a very high level, and I have seen nothing but an honorable administration of the highest integrity."

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...forget the alcohol - that the mayor's staunchest defenders are the developers says a lot about how hard a bargain his administration must be striking with them.


I'll quote that post of someone else's yet again:
"Someday a book will be written about how this city can be broke in the midst of all this development".

Jersey Journal prints hearsay about Healy - titled: IN BUFF AND CUFFS

I think they should wait till they get the police reports -- they have one unnamed Neighbor as the source for this story.
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IN BUFF AND CUFFS
Neighbor: Healy scuffled with cops years ago
Saturday, June 24, 2006
By KEN THORBOURNE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER
BRADLEY BEACH - Last weekend's scuffle with Bradley Beach's finest wasn't the first time Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy has been tackled and handcuffed by the Shore town's cops, according to neighbors here.

A neighbor, who didn't want to be named, recalled an incident several years ago at Healy's Monmouth Avenue house that he said looked to be straight out of the TV show "Cops."
The mayor's attorney, Ralph Lamparello, said he knew about an incident "seven or more years ago" in which someone in Healy's home was cited for violating Bradley Beach's noise ordinance. Lamparello said he has no knowledge of any events in the neighbor's story.

The Jersey Journal has requested all incident reports related to Healy's shore home from the Bradley Beach Police Department, but they haven't been provided.

According to the neighbor, Healy came home around 2 a.m. on a Monday and started yelling and cursing about not being able to find a towel. Unable to sleep, the neighbor called the police.
Four officers then arrived and questioned Maureen Healy, the mayor's wife, on the front porch. Healy then came outside - naked except for a white towel wrapped around his waist, the neighbor said. Healy, a former municipal judge, told cops they needed a search warrant, the neighbor said. Then, while holding the towel around himself with one hand, he used his other hand to shove one of them, the neighbor said.
The four officers then pounced on Healy and a wrestling match ensued, the neighbor said. "They are bouncing off the railings. The towel of course is undone," the neighbor said. When Maureen Healy repeatedly tried to intervene, she was handcuffed and put in the back of a squad car, the neighbor said. Healy, meanwhile, was cuffed and stood up by police, the neighbor said. "I'm staring at his bare ass," the neighbor said.
The police then wrapped the towel around Healy, and he held it up behind his back with his cuffed hands, the neighbor said.
"I said, 'Thanks, guys,'" the neighbor said. "The whole incident took about an hour."

Asked what he thought when he saw on TV that Healy was elected mayor of Jersey City, the neighbor responded, "I said to myself, 'Oh my! What were those constituents thinking?'"

OK, whatever the truth or falsity of the neighbor's description of this incident, are we not all amazed at the similarity between this description and the pre-election nudie photo dealie?

Supposedly, in both situations, Healy was:

--apparently drunk
--on his porch
--naked, at least part of the time
--clad, when at all, in a towel (remember, Healy said he had been wearing a towel in the later incident, too)

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OK, NOW I know this "neighbor" is lying. I'm pretty sure there were some expletives, nouns and adjectives he conveniently neglected to say.

As for the parallels in this and last year's incident, yes, that is pretty amazing. Certainly one of those things that make you go, "hmmmmm...."!

All I know is that I have tried to contact the mayors office regarding other local issues, (eg, taxes, trash, etc) and they never responded to my emails. I voted for this idiot and I plan not on making the same mistake, if he can't respond to a local resident concerning critical issues then he deserves to get whatever that police did to him. Maybe he can show the mayors buddy, (JC police chief), how to tackle crime, since our mayor and chief seem to be reactive rather than proactive. Hey healy, fix your damn comb over you are a disgrace to NJ and Jersey City!!!

Healy is a joke!!
FULOP for MAYOR!!
I hope I'm still living here to see it.

Jersey City mayor charges Shore officer with assault
Friday, August 18, 2006
BY MARYANN SPOTO
Star-Ledger Staff

Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy and his wife have filed charges against a Bradley Beach police officer who they claim manhandled them after the mayor tried to quell a lovers' spat near a bar earlier this summer.

Lodging a complaint in municipal court Tuesday, Healy accused officer Terry Browning of aggravated assault, official misconduct and other charges in the June 17 incident.

Because the complaint involves indictable offenses, the matter now goes to Monmouth County Prosecutor Luis Valentin for review. He can either keep all or a portion of the case or send it back to the municipal court level.

Besides aggravated assault and official misconduct -- two crimes that are handled in state Superior Court -- Healy charged Browning with simple assault and harassment, disorderly persons offenses handled on the municipal level.

Healy's wife, Maureen, filed charges of simple assault, harassment and official misconduct.

According to the mayor, the incident began when he spotted an arguing couple on his way out of his sister's bar, Barry's Tavern on Main Street, around 1:30 a.m. Healy said a young man was on top of a car, yelling at a young woman standing on the sidewalk. In recounting the incident the following day, Healy said he told the young man to quiet down or police would respond.

Shortly after that, police did arrive. Healy said he was pounced on when he approached one of the officers, Browning, to tell him that the young woman had nothing to do with the fight.

In his complaint, Healy says Browning grabbed his right hand and "twisted his arm behind his back, threw him to the ground, pushed his face into the asphalt, knocked his glasses off, causing scrapes, cuts and bruising about his body."

Browning also committed aggravated assault, the complaint alleges, by knocking Healy's glasses off and by spraying him in the eyes with a chemical, causing him temporary loss of his sight.

These actions constituted "an unauthorized exercise of his official functions," the basis of the official-misconduct allegation, the complaint said.

Maureen Healy said Browning used his knee to hold her husband's neck and head to the ground. When she tried to retrieve his glasses, Browning pushed her, causing her to fall to the ground, she said. She said in the complaint that she suffered abrasions to her right ankle and a swollen, sprained middle finger.

Acting Deputy Police Chief Leonard Guida said at the time that Healy "involved himself in the investigation" after being warned he'd be arrested if he stayed.

Healy was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, two disorderly persons offenses.

HEALY'S SIDE
Mayor testifies against Shore cop in late-night scuffle
Thursday, November 30, 2006
By KEN THORBOURNE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy and his wife Maureen testified this week before a Monmouth County grand jury that is deliberating whether to return an indictment against the Bradley Beach police officer Healy claims roughed him up while arresting him this summer.

Healy, who owns a home in Bradley Beach, said he and his wife testified on Monday in Freehold against Police Officer Terry Browning.

Browning, Healy says, unnecessarily threw him to the ground, handcuffed him and then pepper-sprayed him in each eye during an incident that took place at 2 a.m. on June 17 outside Barry's, a Bradley Beach tavern owned by Healy's sister.

Healy claims he was trying to help police sort out a lover's spat when Browning turned belligerent. Healy said he was trying to explain what happened; cops said he was disrupting their investigation after they'd told him to butt out.

Maureen Healy alleges that when she rushed to her husband's defense, she too was shoved to the ground by Browning, causing her to scrape her ankle and injure a middle finger.

"I told them what occurred," Healy said about his testimony before the grand jury. "We'll see what happens."

The case being presented to the grand jury accuses Browning of official misconduct and aggravated assault, both indictable offenses that carry prison sentences if convicted, according to court officials. The grand jury process could take a couple of weeks since several witnesses are expected to testify, Healy said.

Browning didn't return a phone call seeking comment, and Peter Warshaw, the first assistant prosecutor in the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office, left a voice mail Tuesday night saying there was "nothing new to report." He could not be reached again yesterday.

Several months ago, The Jersey Journal requested information about any previous complaints against Browning under the state's Open Public Records Act. Even though Bradley Beach's municipal attorney has instructed the police brass to turn over those records to the newspaper, police officials have so far failed to do so.

Healy was arrested during the incident on charges of disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and obstructing the administration of law - all non-indictable offenses punishable by fines. These charges aren't likely to be presented to the grand jury, a court official said.

But these charges cannot be dealt with until the indictable offenses against Browning either go to trial or are knocked down to non-indictable offenses, in which case all the charges would likely be sent to the Bradley Beach Municipal Court for resolution, the official said.

If the grand jury returns an indictment against Browning, the non-indictable offenses against Healy could either be sent to the municipal court or dealt with by the judge presiding over the trial, the court official said.

Healy has filed the paperwork to protect his right to sue Browning in civil court, but said Tuesday he wasn't sure if he'd follow through with that suit.

Healy is not going to sue the cop for one simple reason.The deposition he would undergo from a smart lawyer would be devastating.Ever been drunk and naked in public.ever hit your wife,give a pal a no show job ect.
The deposition is what got Bill Clinton.

Healy should hope the cop does not get indicted because he will surely be asked these Questions on the stand in open court.What a circus that will be.

Monmouth county is not like hudson,they will follow the truth no matter where it leads.The coverup may be worse than the crime.

COP IN THE CLEAR
No indictment in Bradley Beach scuffle with Healy
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
By KEN THORBOURNE
JERSEY JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

A Monmouth County grand jury decided yesterday not to indict a Bradley Beach police officer that Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy had accused of unnecessary roughness, according to a statement released by the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office.

Healy and his wife Maureen had lodged complaints against Terry Browning, accusing the cop of second-degree official misconduct and third-degree aggravated assault - charges that could have sent Browning to jail if he was convicted.

But the grand jury "no-billed" the indictable charges, prompting Monmouth County Prosecutor Luis A. Valentin to dismiss non-indictable complaints Healy and his wife had also filed against Browning, according to the release.

The case stems from an incident that took place June 17 about 2 a.m. just outside a Bradley Beach tavern owned by Healy's brother-in-law and sister.

Upon leaving a family get-together, Healy, who owns a home in Bradley Beach, claims he saw a couple arguing outside the bar and tried to defuse the situation. When cops arrived, he said, he was just trying to help, but the police didn't see it that way.

According to the release, "Bradley Beach police allege that as they sought to conduct their investigation, Healy involved himself in the police investigation and refused direct orders to withdraw and leave the scene."

Healy became "verbally abusive" when he was advised he could be placed under arrest for disorderly conduct and then "physically resisted arrest and continued to argue with officers," the release stated.

The release acknowledges "Bradley Beach police used some force" to subdue Healy, "including the use of a chemical spray."

Two officers had responded to the scene, according to the release - Browning and Patrolman William Major. But all the complaints were filed against Browning.

Once arrested, Healy was taken to the Bradley Beach police headquarters and charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, the release states.

Maureen Healy claimed that when she ran to her husband's defense, she too was shoved to the pavement by Browning.

Neither Healy, nor his attorney, Ralph Lamparello of Jersey City, returned phone calls yesterday to comment.

"'It was a thorough investigation," said Browning's attorney, Charles Uliano of West Long Branch. "Officer Browning is a good police officer who was simply doing his job and obviously the grand jurors, in evaluating the evidence, felt the same way."

The non-indictable charges against Healy - resisting arrest and disorderly conduct, along with a third charge of "obstruction of justice" added in August - would be returned to the Bradley Beach Municipal Court for disposition, the release stated.

No trial date has been set, a court spokeswoman said.

On June 19, Healy had requested the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office to investigate the matter and on Aug. 19, Healy and his wife signed complaints against Browning.
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Grand jury rejects mayor's assault tale
Panel declines to indict Bradley Beach officer accused of roughing up Healy
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
BY MARYANN SPOTO
Star-Ledger Staff

A grand jury in Monmouth County voted yesterday not to indict a police officer accused of assaulting Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy and his wife outside a Bradley Beach bar in June.

In announcing the "no bill," Monmouth County Prosecutor Luis Valentin said all charges against Bradley Beach police officer Terry Browning were dismissed and will not be sent to the municipal level for any action.

Meanwhile, Browning's charges that Healy resisted arrest and engaged in disorderly conduct remain active and will be sent to Bradley Beach municipal court for disposition, Valentin said. He said that on the advice of Bradley Beach municipal prosecutor Dennis Lavender, Browning filed an additional charge of obstruction of justice, which also is to be heard at the municipal level.

"The grand jury declined to return an indictment against Officer Browning," Valentin said. "Based upon all evidence available at this time, there is similarly no reasonable basis to allow the nonindictable charges against Officer Browning to proceed to trial in municipal court."

The Bradley Beach Police Department declined to comment.

In a statement released through his office, Healy said he and his wife were "disappointed that the police officer was not indicted for his egregious and brutal conduct."

"My wife and I have cooperated with the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office and have completed our civic duties in testifying against the unnecessary force of Officer Terry Browning," Healy said. "The fact that the Monmouth County grand jury chose not to render an indictment does not change the facts and conduct of the police officer."

He said he and his wife, Maureen, are weighing their options on how to move forward.

Browning's attorney, Charles Uliano of West Long Branch, would not discuss specifics of the case.

"It was a thorough investigation," Uliano said. "Officer Browning is a good police officer who was simply doing his job, and obviously the grand jurors, in evaluating the evidence, felt the same way."

The June 17 incident stemmed from an argument between a young couple outside Barry's Tavern. Healy has said he tried to quell the argument as he was leaving the Main Street bar, owned by his sister, around 1:30 a.m. When police arrived, he said, Browning pounced on him, pushed his face into the ground and twisted his arm behind his back with no justification. Browning also sprayed the mayor in the eyes with a chemical.

Bradley Beach police alleged that Healy refused direct orders to leave the scene and became verbally abusive.

On Aug. 18, Healy signed complaints accusing Browning of official misconduct and aggravated assault -- indictable offenses -- and simple assault and harassment, disorderly persons offenses handled in municipal court.

Healy's wife claimed Browning pushed her to the ground, and she filed charges of official misconduct, simple assault and harassment. Thoser charges also were dismissed yesterday.

Valentin said the grand jury heard testimony from a number of witnesses during multiple sessions.

Maryann Spoto may be reached at mspoto@starledger.com

Can you say "i told you so"
Those monmouth prosecutors don't fool around.

Whats interesting is that they even dismissed the minor charges against the cop which means the only person going up in front of a judge is Jerry Healy.The mayor and all his wittnesses/freinds testified and a Grand Jury did not believe them.

He has two option's, plead to something or get on the stand in open court and get asked a lot of very embarrassing questions.Both are bad for Healy.

Grand jury siding with cop 'doesn't surprise me': Healy
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
By KEN THORBOURNE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

Characterizing the treatment he and his wife received at the hands of a Bradley Beach police officer this summer as "brutal" and "egregious," Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy rapped a Monmouth County grand jury decision not to indict the officer in a statement he released late Monday.

"My wife and I have cooperated with the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office and have done our civic duty in testifying against the unnecessary force of Officer Terry Browning," the statement read.

"The fact the Monmouth County grand jury chose not to render an indictment does not change the facts or alter the conduct of the police officer," it read.

The charges against Browning stem from an incident on June 17 around 2 a.m. just outside a Bradley Beach tavern owned by Healy's sister that resulted in Healy's arrest for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

Healy, who owns a home in Bradley Beach, claims he had intervened in an argument between a couple and when police arrived on the scene, he tried to help them sort things out.

Healy "refused direct orders to withdraw and leave the scene," became "verbally abusive" and "physically resisted arrest," according to the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office statement on the grand jury decision.

Healy claims Browning tackled him and pepper-sprayed him in both eyes while he was handcuffed on the ground. And when Maureen Healy raced to his defense, Browning swatted her to the ground, according to the mayor and his wife.

On Monday, the grand jury "no-billed" the indictable charges against Browning - official misconduct and aggravated assault. This prompted Monmouth County Prosecutor Luis Valentin to also drop two non-indictable complaints - simple assault and harassment - Healy and his wife Maureen lodged against the officer in August.

The charges against Healy - including an obstruction of justice charge added in August - will now be sent to the Bradley Beach Municipal Court for disposition, the prosecutor's office said.

"Unfortunately, the decision of the Monmouth County grand jury does not surprise me," Healy stated in his release. "As we move forward and as this matter proceeds through the justice system, my wife and I will weigh all of our options and continue to consult with our attorney."

I don't get all this hate -- I like Healy!

I think he has been good for Jersey City.

::: ducking the crapkins::::

Mayor may seek reinstated charges
Bradley Beach cop's conduct is at issue

Wednesday, January 24, 2007
BY MARYANN SPOTO
Star-Ledger Staff

Attorneys for Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy and his wife may ask a Superior Court judge to reinstate charges against a Bradley Beach police officer that stemmed from an argument outside a bar the mayor alleges he was trying to break up.

At a pre-conference hearing in Bradley Beach yesterday, the attorneys said Monmouth County Prosecutor Luis Valentin had no right to dismiss disorderly persons charges against Officer Terry Browning at the same time a grand jury decided not to indict Browning on more serious offenses.

They want to ask Superior Court Assignment Judge Lawrence Lawson to reinstate the misdemeanor offenses of simple assault and harassment that would go to municipal court.

When the grand jury decided not to indict Browning last month on more serious offenses, Valentin dismissed those misdemeanors but kept the charges against Healy of resisting arrest and disorderly conduct, also to be heard in municipal court.

In a letter to Healy's attorneys, Valentin said he dismissed the lesser charges against Browning because the grand jury found no basis for the more serious offenses.

Attorneys James Fagen and Ralph Lamparello said they haven't made a decision about going to Lawson yet because they have not received a copy of the grand jury testimony despite being assured by Valentin's office that there was no objection to getting the transcript.

Fagen said on Jan. 10 he sent a consent form to First Assistant Monmouth County Prosecutor Peter Warshaw Jr. asking for the release of the grand jury testimony, but he has received no word back yet.

"We can't make that motion until we have the grand jury transcripts," Fagen said.

Healy alleges Browning assaulted him on June 17 outside Barry's Tavern while the mayor was trying to quell a spat between a couple. He said Browning pushed his face into the ground, twisted his arm behind his back and sprayed him in the eyes with a chemical.

Bradley Beach police claim Healy refused direct orders to leave the scene and became verbally abusive.

Healy was attending a mayors summit in Washington, D.C. and was not in court.

Municipal Court Judge Mark Apostolou said neither the mayor nor Browning was required to be present for the pre-conference hearing. Browning attended but did not speak.

Apostolou, who noted the case could take several months to be resolved, directed Fagen and Lamparello to contact Valentin's office again about getting the grand jury testimony.

Lamparello said he originally asked the prosecutor to reconsider the dismissal of the charges, but the prosecutor said his decision was based on the grand jury's conclusion. If the grand jury wanted to take action against Browning, it also could have downgraded the indictable charges, the prosecutor noted in his letter.

Apostolou said he wanted to have monthly monitoring of the progress in the case "so it doesn't get out of control."

MaryAnn Spoto may be reached at mspoto@starledger.com or (732) 462-8603.

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NOT TAKING 'NO'
Healy lawyers want Shore cop charged, put on trial
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
By KEN THORBOURNE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

BRADLEY BEACH - Attorneys for Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy said yesterday they are likely to ask a Monmouth County Superior Court judge to consider issuing disorderly person charges against the cop Healy and his wife have claimed unnecessarily roughed them up during Healy's arrest outside a Bradley Beach bar in June.

The attorneys - James Fagan of Freehold and Ralph Lamparello of Secaucus - made their intentions known during a pre-trial conference for a disorderly persons case pending against Healy.

During the June 17 incident with the cop, Healy was arrested about 2 in the morning outside Barry's Tavern, which is owned by his sister and brother-in-law, and charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and obstruction of administrative law.

Healy - a former prosecutor and judge - claims he was trying to help police sort out a spat between a couple when Bradley Beach Police Officer Terry Browning threw him on the ground, handcuffed him, and then had chemical irritant sprayed in both eyes. When his wife, Maureen, came to his aid, Browning shoved her to the pavement, Healy claims.

The police claim they repeatedly asked Healy to butt out of a police matter, and forcibly arrested him when he refused.

The Healys filed four complaints against Browning, but a Monmouth County grand jury refused to indict the officer on the two most serious allegations - official misconduct and aggravated assault.

Monmouth County Prosecutor Luis Valentin then dropped the two lesser complaints against Browning - simple assault and harassment - which do not require a grand jury to return an indictment.

Healy's attorneys claimed yesterday Valentin had no right to drop those charges, and said they should have been resolved by the Bradley Beach Municipal Court. Fagan and Lamparello said yesterday they are likely to file a motion requesting those charges be reconsidered by the municipal court.

If that happens, both cases - the case against Healy and the charges against Browning - would be tried as one, a court official said.

In a letter read into the record by Bradley Beach Municipal Court Judge Mark T. Apostolou, First Assistant Prosecutor Peter Warshaw told Fagan earlier this month the grand jury would have "sent back charges to municipal court" if it had found any validity to the Healys' claims.

It could not be determined yesterday when the case against Healy would begin, nor how long it would take.

Healy's defense team said they are waiting on the grand jury transcript to prepare their list of witnesses and outline their discovery requests.

"Under the circumstances," Apostolou concluded - with agreement from Municipal Court Prosecutor Jason Shamy - "it would be unfair to compel the defense to proceed" with the case.

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Mayor's complaints against cop could head back to court
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 01/24/07

BY JAMES A. QUIRK
STAFF WRITER

BRADLEY BEACH — The disorderly persons complaints filed by Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy and his wife against a borough police officer, and dismissed by the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office, may be brought back before a Superior Court judge for reconsideration.

In municipal court Tuesday, attorneys James Fagen and Ralph Lamporello told Judge Mark T. Apostolou that they have requested to view the "voluminous" transcripts of the grand jury testimony the Prosecutor's Office used as a basis to dismiss the two disorderly persons charges against Borough Police Officer Terry Browning.

Healy was arrested on disorderly persons charges June 17 outside Barry's Tavern, which is owned by his sister, Kathleen Barry.

According to Healy, he was leaving the bar around 2 a.m. when he witnessed an altercation between a couple in the parking lot of a neighboring auto shop. Healy said he decided to intervene to defuse the argument, only to be roughly thrown to the ground and dosed with pepper spray by borough police officers when they responded to the scene.

The mayor claims his wife was also mistreated, suffering ankle and leg injuries when she, too, was shoved to the ground.

Borough police contend that Healy tried to interject himself into the dispute and then ignored officers' requests to leave the scene. Healy resisted arrest, was taken to police headquarters and then released after about 90 minutes without being required to post bail, according to police.

Healy and his wife, Maureen, quickly filed official misconduct and aggravated assault charges against Browning. But in December, a Monmouth County grand jury found there was not enough evidence to indict Browning on the charges filed against him.

Also, because of the grand jury's decision and a "careful and fact-sensitive analysis of the circumstances surrounding the arrest," the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office dismissed two other disorderly persons charges of simple assault and harassment filed by the Healys against Browning, according to a December press release.

On Dec. 20, in a letter to Monmouth County Prosecutor Luis A. Valentin, Fagen requested that the prosecutor reconsider the "administrative dismissal" of the disorderly persons charges against Browning.

First Assistant Monmouth County Prosecutor Peter Warshaw responded in a letter Jan. 3 that the dismissal decision would not be reconsidered. The grand jury examined the matter in such exacting detail as to make it clear there was no basis on which to charge Browning, Warshaw said.

Fagen said he wants to review the grand jury transcripts himself and determine a course of action. He made it clear he will most likely file a motion in the hopes that a Superior Court judge will overturn the prosecutor's dismissal.

Fagen and Lamporello said they have requested the grand jury transcripts but have yet to receive them. When asked by Apostolou to cement a schedule with which to move forward, Fagen replied, "How can I give a time frame when I don't have the grand jury transcripts?"

Apostolou after the proceedings said that the charges against Healy would most likely not go to trial for several months.

"What I'd like to do is have a monthly monitoring of this case so it doesn't get out of control," Apostolou said.

James A. Quirk: (732) 308-7758 or jquirk@app.com

Healy case to proceed Tuesday

Saturday, May 26, 2007

By KEN THORBOURNE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

A Monmouth County judge yesterday gave the go-ahead for the disorderly persons case against Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy to begin Tuesday - rebuffing attempts by Healy's attorneys to have the case postponed pending a decision on a related matter, a court official said.

Healy's attorneys had asked that the Healy case be postponed until the Monmouth County Court determined if disorderly person charges should be reinstated against the Bradley Beach officer Healy claims unnecessarily roughed him up and arrested him.

The charges against the officer were previously administratively dropped.

But yesterday, Monmouth County Assignment Judge Lawrence Lawson said even though he's reserving judgment on whether to reinstate complaints against Bradley Beach Police Officer Terry Browning, the case against Healy should proceed as scheduled, the court official said.

Neither Healy, nor his attorneys, returned phone calls to comment.

Also, Bradley Beach Municipal Court Judge Mark T. Apostolou, who has been overseeing the Healy case, has recused himself because one of the witnesses likely to testify is the daughter of a local councilman, the court official said.

John Colannino, the presiding judge of Monmouth County, will now handle the case, the official said.

No testimony is likely to be taken Tuesday, and it wasn't clear if Healy will have to be present, the official said. The case stems from an incident that took place last June 17 in Bradley Beach, where Healy has owned a home for years.

Healy claims he was trying to help police sort out a spat between a couple outside a tavern owned by his sister and brother-in-law when Browning pounced on him, threw him to the ground, handcuffed him, and pepper-sprayed him in both eyes. Healy said Browning also shoved his wife, Maureen, to the pavement.

Bradley Beach police maintain that Healy refused to keep out of a police matter even though he was politely asked to do several times and had to be forcibly arrested. Healy was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

In December, a Monmouth County grand jury "no-billed" an indictment against Browning for official misconduct and aggravated assault.

Mayor’s Turbulent Evening Is Big Case for Small Court

The New York Times
By JONATHAN MILLER
Published: June 17, 2007

BRADLEY BEACH, N.J., June 14 — Here in this shore town, a land of funnel cake and miniature golf, the talk is not of ocean tides and sand flies but of pepper spray and handcuffs. Not of saltwater taffy and lazy afternoons with Stephen King, but of motions of emergent relief and mornings with a judge.

On one side of the divide is Jerramiah T. Healy, Jersey City’s mayor, who says he was roughed up by a Bradley Beach policeman. On the other are the police, who claim that a disorderly mayor inserted himself into a situation in which he did not belong.

When the trial opens on Monday morning, the matter will have dragged out a year and a day since the encounter between the mayor and the policeman.

In all, there will be 39 pieces of evidence. Twenty witnesses, including the daughter of a local councilman, are on notice that they may be called to testify in a shabby courtroom with folding chairs and a fraying carpet held down by duct tape. There will even be opening and closing statements from lawyers — a rarity for municipal court — but no jury. Testimony is to be spread over three days, but that may not be enough.

“I’ve had Superior Court cases with a lot less witnesses,” Jason Shamy, the municipal prosecutor, said after a recent hearing. He waved to his opposing counsel, James Fagen. “I think Fagen has had capital cases with less witnesses.”

Mr. Healy has been charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and obstruction of justice. If he receives the maximum penalty for all the charges, he could be imprisoned for a year and a month and owe $2,500 in fines, Mr. Shamy said, although he acknowledged that the punishment could be a good bit short of that.

It all began about 2 a.m. on a Saturday last June, when Mr. Healy, 56, left his sister’s bar, Barry’s Tavern, after a meal and several Miller Lites. There in a parking lot near the bar, Mr. Healy said, he saw a man jumping on the hood of a car with a woman inside. He said that he tried to calm the situation, and that when the police came, he tried to explain what had happened.

But he said that a police officer, Terry Browning, pushed him to the ground, handcuffed him, and sprayed a chemical in both eyes. He also said Officer Browning pushed his wife, Maureen, to the ground, injuring a finger and an ankle.

But the police have a very different version. They say Mr. Healy repeatedly inserted himself into their investigation into the dispute, even after he was told to back off. Eventually, they said, Mr. Healy resisted arrest and “became disorderly.”

Mr. Healy, a former assistant Hudson County prosecutor and municipal court chief judge in Jersey City, said that his father was a bar owner who died trying to break up a fight, and, that in this case, he was confident he would prevail.

“I’ve professed my innocence from Day 1,” he said in a recent interview. “I’ve told the truth about this thing from Day 1. I did nothing wrong. I did nothing illegal.”

Mr. Healy filed a countercharge accusing the officer of abusing him, but the Monmouth County prosecutor threw it out in December.

This is not the first time Mr. Healy has been at the center of bizarre late-night incidents, or even the first time he has clashed with the police in Bradley Beach. Privately, some officials in Jersey City and long-time allies question the mayor’s wisdom in pursuing a case that has opened up questions about his past.

In 2004, when he was a councilman running for mayor, Mr. Healy was photographed naked on the front porch of his house in Jersey City — he says he did not remember how he got there — after drinking what he said were “six to eight beers” at a local bar.

The photos eventually made their way onto the Internet, creating a brief uproar, but Mr. Healy went on to win. Nor did the winning stop there. Just last week, he was elected chairman of the storied Hudson County Democratic Organization.

In August 1999, Mr. Healy, who owns a home in Bradley Beach, was charged with resisting arrest and obstructing justice, according to court records. David Dellett, a neighbor of Mr. Healy’s in Bradley Beach, told The Jersey Journal last year about the 1999 incident, in which he saw four policemen wrestle down a naked Mr. Healy on his porch.

Mr. Dellett said Mr. Healy would often hold loud parties that featured the playing of ukuleles and the singing of Irish tunes. Last week, a second neighbor, who asked not to be identified, also reported witnessing the same incident on the porch, adding that the mayor had unsuccessfully tried to hold onto a towel wrapped around him.

Court records show that Mr. Healy pleaded guilty to a minor disorderly person charge and paid $130 in fines and court costs.

Mr. Healy and his lawyers said they are not concerned about these cases coming up at trial. “It’s totally extraneous,” said Joseph V. Kealy Jr., one of his three lawyers. “Totally irrelevant. The only issue is what happened on the night in the lot next to Barry’s bar.”

In this latest incident, the officer at the center of the dispute, Terry Browning, who lives in neighboring Neptune with his mother, will be called as a witness.

“I know my son,” said his mother, Doris Browning. “I know he didn’t do anything he shouldn’t have done.”

She also said her son told her that the mayor was trying to throw his weight around on the night of the arrest and asked the officer, “Do you know who I am?” Mr. Healy denied making such an assertion.

Officer Browning has been the subject of legal challenges in the past. In 2004, he was accused of driving his squad car with the lights turned off when he ran into a bicyclist named Israel Sanchez, who had just left Barry’s Tavern.

Mr. Sanchez settled the case with the officer and the Bradley Beach police earlier this year for “north of $1,000, but not a heck of a lot,” said his lawyer, James W. Taylor. Barry’s Tavern helped pick up the lawyer’s bills.

In the end, even Mr. Healy’s lawyers acknowledge that not much good will come from the case.

“There are going to be no winners here,” Mr. Kealy said. “We are certain that the mayor will have been exonerated. But nobody wins here, the mayor — Mr. Healy — the officer in the case, the town of Bradley Beach. No one.”

"Roughed up" mayor's trial starts this week

Asbury Park Press -- 06/18/07

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BRADLEY BEACH — A year after his altercation with police outside a Bradley Beach bar, Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy will try to defend his actions when he goes on trial this week.

The mayor says he was arrested and roughed up by police for intervening in an argument between a couple outside a Bradley Beach bar. Police say Healy tried to throw his weight around as a mayor, refused orders to leave, and became verbally abusive.

Healy, mayor of the state's second-largest city, is charged with resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and obstructing justice. If convicted, the charges carry less than a year in jail and $2,500 in fines.

The mayor has said that as he and his wife, Maureen, left the bar, they saw a couple arguing and the man jumping on the hood of the woman's car. Healy said he talked the man down, and when police arrived, the mayor said he told an officer the woman was not at fault.

Healy said the officer, without reason, threw him on the ground and used a chemical spray. When his wife tried to retrieve his glasses, police shoved her to the ground, hurting her ankle and leg, according to Healy.

"I've professed my innocence from day one," Healy told The New York Times for Sunday editions. "I've told the truth about this thing from day one. I did nothing wrong. I did nothing illegal."

A grand jury declined to indict officer Terry Browning in December.

The charges against Healy, who worked as a Hudson County prosecutor and served as chief judge of the city's Municipal Court, are not the first nor the strangest.

In 1999, he was charged with resisting arrest and obstructing justice, again in Bradley Beach, where he owns a home. A neighbor told The Jersey Journal that he watched police wrestle with a naked Healy on his front porch.

Records show Healy pleaded guilty to a disorderly person charge and paid $130 in fines and court costs.

While running for mayor in 2004, Healy was photographed nude on his front porch in Jersey City. At the time, Healy did not deny that the photograph was authentic, or that he had been drinking alcohol. But he insisted he had been lured outside by someone banging his trash can, and that he was not naked.

Are they, the ones who should be working at City Hall today, using a vacation day or personal day for this?
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About 25 people were in the tiny courtroom, including Healy's wife, Maureen; former Police Chief Robert Troy and his wife; city Corporation Counsel Bill Matsikoudis; Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini; two of the Healys' children, and the mayor's sister, who owns the bar/restaurant where the mayor had been attending a party that night.

So this is the guy who used to run New Jersey Municipal Court? It's not quite as bad as Marion Barry running Washington DC, but it's not very good.

He will be convicted and then what,Nothing!

We have 100,000 voters but the average mayoral election brings out 39,000.

This is how the Machine wins.Untill we start voting in larger numbers we are stuck bitching about a drunk and naked guy who is are Mayor.

The guy is seriously medically addicted and has the shakes all morning until he gets his first drop of sauce at 11AM. He has a real problem and is not in condition to have this kind of responsibility. He needs 6 months at a clinic, not the stress of a mayor's job. If we re-elect him, we deserve him. The City is not being managed at this point.

The real Mayor is the Business Administrator and the Council is running amok.

I thought he is diabetic. Wouldn't all this alcohol kill or maim him?

Healy was found Guilty and fined $835

Does Jersey City taxpayers get reimbursed too?

Quote:

Yes, he used to be Presiding Judge of the Jersey City Municipal Court (not New Jersey Municipal Court), and yes, my comments about your website still apply (especially since you haven't made simple corrections).

http://jclist.com/modules/newbb/viewt ... id=108106#forumpost108106

Would any other public servant or police officer lose their job if they were convict of the same crime - I say yes, but will Healy get fired?

I need to throw up now.

He is going to appeal to a higher court which i think is stupid because it just drags this whole sordid mess out.

If he did not have a history of drunken behavior which i have personally witnessed over the years than i would have given him the benefit of the doubt.

If Jerry admitted to ten beers than he really had 15 or twenty(this guy can drink)He is known to get belligerent when drunk,at least when he's not singing Irish ballads.

The crazy part is he's a diabetic and should not be drinking at all.

The ass-hole has to appeal to prolong being asked to step down from many of his titles and politicial / civil associations and any other crap he has some sort of holding.

He will get at least another 6-12 months to finish off / pay back any favors and give out any grants, contracts and positions to his buddies before he has to return to court for his appeal.