- Demellier & Dwek: Harold “Bud” Demellier, a close associate of Mayor Healy who ran the mayor’s ’09 re-election campaign, was secretly on the payroll of infamous FBI informant Solomon Dwek, according to a confidential government surveillance video. – Other Corruption News: The attorney for Lou Manzo plans to see this week if he can [...]
The City Council is set to vote tonight on whether or not to approve a $10,000 legal settlement with former Parking Authority CEO Mark Russ, who sued the city and several other entities in 2009 over his termination. In his lawsuit, Russ alleged that Mayor Jerramiah Healy ordered him not to issue tickets after 6 [...]
“Stop talking — just, I understand — you make me feel like I want to pat you down,” says federal prosecutor Jenny R. Kramer, quoting from a video recording of L. Harvey Smith at the start of her opening remarks. This parking-lot conversation, with all its sad irony, represents what the government contends was the culmination of a cash-for-favors deal made between the defendant and informant Solomon Dwek outside of a Bayonne diner.
Considering the madness that went down in Jersey City in 2009, it is another relatively light year for Chilltown on Politicker’s annual recap of Winners & Losers in New Jersey politics. The Healy campaign for mayor lands at number three on the “Best Campaigns of the Year” list, behind Chris Christie’s gubernatorial run and Nelson [...]
- The Journal has more on the lawsuit filed by former Jersey City Parking Authority head Mark Russ that alleges Mayor Healy wrongfully terminated him after he failed to obey orders not to issue tickets after 6 pm. – Speaking of the Parking Authority, it is not enforcing meter rules or alternate side parking rules [...]
- Former Parking Authority director Mark Russ alleges in a lawsuit that Mayor Healy ordered Russ not to issue tickets after 6 pm to curry favor with voters during Healy’s re-election campaign, and had the parking official fired when a few of his officers violated the illegal order. (Story from Courthouse News is no longer [...]
How did Jersey City’s mayoral and City Council candidates use emerging web campaign technologies to bolster their bids for office this spring? With the hangover from the elections receding into the background and the runoff passed, we take a look at how well the campaigns integrated new technologies into their own strategies, and what impact that had on the outcome.
New Jersey City University’s Margaret Williams Theatre was near capacity yesterday morning as Mayor Jerramiah Healy and the nine members of the City Council were sworn in to four-year terms. New Jersey politicians of all stripes, including Gov. Jon Corzine and both U.S. Senators, were on hand to celebrate the occasion.
Photos: Steve Gold Turnout was relatively light at Wednesday’s meeting of the City Council, the first regular meeting since late April. About 25 people were in the audience for the meeting, which lasted a little less than two hours. Among them was newly elected Ward C councilwoman Nidia Rivera Lopez. Council president Mariano Vega kicked [...]
- County and federal authorities say they’ve dismantled a counterfeit check ring based in Jersey City and arrested more than 45 people believed to have stolen over $140,000 in North Jersey and New York. – Star-Ledger columnist John Farmer, noting that last week’s municipal election wasn’t a big deal in state political circles, says it [...]
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