- State Investigating Test Erasures at JC School & Others: The state Department of Education (DOE) yesterday released an analysis compiled over the past three years that examined patterns of erasures on the state’s battery of standardized tests — including where they could be clues to tampering. As a result, it has sent 34 schools, [...]
- Elwell Trial: A jury has acquitted former Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell of conspiracy and attempted extortion but found him guilty of bribery for accepting a $10,000 cash payment from an FBI informant posing as a corrupt developer. – Cunningham & Christie: State Sen. Sandra Cunningham takes exception to the idea that she’s lying in [...]
- UEZ Funding: After months of wait and see, New Jersey’s Urban Enterprise Zones (UEZs) face a future of surviving through penny-pinching and reduced services. Gov. Christie’s veto of line-items worth $1 billion from the Democrats’ budget, among them about $47 million allocated to the UEZs, leaves the zones with no state funds this year [...]
- Eliu Rivera: Hudson County Freeholder Eliu Rivera has been hospitalized for several weeks and was in stable condition yesterday at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston. – City Worker Layoffs: Jersey City carried out a second round of employee layoffs yesterday, with roughly 40 persons in administration being shown the door. – Gang Criminality [...]
- UEZ: The fate of the Urban Enterprise Zone program is part of a tug-of-war between Gov. Chris Christie and Democratic lawmakers that will play out in today’s state budget votes. – Elwell Corruption Trial: Former Secaucus mayor Dennis Elwell testified yesterday that he did not understand he was being offered a bribe by FBI [...]
- Beldini Appeal: The 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals is considering whether Leona Beldini, the former Jersey City deputy mayor convicted of federal bribery charges after being rounded up in the massive 2009 money laundering and corruption “Bid Rig” sting, got an unfair trial because her jury got flawed instructions from the trial judge. [...]
- Spending Guidelines for Abbott $ Lacking: Jersey City and the other 30 former Abbott districts know a windfall is coming their way, their share of the $447 million in aid awarded by the state Supreme Court in its latest ruling in the epic Abbott v. Burke case. They even know, thanks to fairly accurate [...]
- Corruption: The corruption trial of former Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell began yesterday in federal court in Newark, with prosecutors alleging that Elwell knew he was accepting bribes, and not campaign contributions, from a confidential informant. Meanwhile, government informant Solomon Dwek has been arrested on car theft charges in Baltimore. – Doc Indicted in Murder [...]
- Gun Buyback Program: Jersey City initiated its first weapons-buyback program since 2005 Sunday, with city ministers reaching out to their congregations on Father’s Day for donations to help fund the program. – JCDO: The Insider delves into the Jersey City Democratic Organization “takeover” and discusses what it may mean for the 2013 mayoral election. [...]
- Petersen’s Pension: Atlantic City Public Safety Director Christine Petersen owes the state about $105,000 in pension payments she was not entitled to receive, the state pension board ruled Monday. Petersen received the pension money when she retired from the Jersey City Police Department in 2010. – Corruption: In direct violation of a court order, [...]
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