Posts Tagged ‘Edward Cheatam’

Tuesday Morning News Roundup

By • Nov 16th, 2010 • Category: Blog

Share/Save – Port Authority Overhauling Police: The Port Authority Police Department is overhauling its command by eliminating nearly a dozen senior positions as part of a huge cost-cutting effort that is expected to save $2 million annually, the New York Post reports. The secret plan — details of which are still being hashed out — [...]



One Year Later, What’s Happened to Everyone Arrested for Corruption?

By • Jul 23rd, 2010 • Category: Featured, News, Politics, Uncategorized

Share/SaveOn the morning of July 23, 2009, federal agents began knocking on doors all over Jersey City, arresting politicians and other public officials and taking them to the federal courthouse in Newark. The process of bringing the accused to trial has progressed slowly throughout the last year; a year that has brought resignation, death, court [...]



Wednesday Morning News Roundup

By • Apr 21st, 2010 • Category: Blog

Share/Save- School Board Results: As we reported last night, it looks like two of the three incumbents running for the Board of Education have been ousted, and the budget has been approved. Gerald McCann and Terry Dehere are far behind Sterling Waterman, Angel Valentin (also an incumbent) and Carol Lester, with 97 percent of the [...]



Sausage Factories of The Great Recession: The Beldini Trial, Day Ten

By • Feb 8th, 2010 • Category: Featured, News, Politics

There is one lesser-noted detail from the footage displayed at the federal corruption trial of Leona Beldini. It’s the time she tried to sell the sausage factory. And no, that’s not a figure of speech.



Friday Morning News Roundup

By • Feb 5th, 2010 • Category: Blog

Share/Save- Prosecutors rested their case yesterday in the federal corruption trial of suspended deputy mayor Leona Beldini, without ever calling Edward Cheatam to the stand. Meanwhile, the girlfriend of deceased political consultant Jack Shaw testified that Shaw gave her cash and she wrote out personal checks to campaigns. – Sparks are flying between Ward E [...]



What Shlo Knows: The Beldini Trial, Day Eight

By • Feb 4th, 2010 • Category: Featured, News, Politics

One of the most stunning revelations from the five days of testimony by Solomon Dwek is his ignorance of the system in which he has wreaked so much havoc. Few professional politicians have ended as many promising careers as Mr. Dwek has, and yet a tenth-grade civics class probably has a better handle on government than he does.



The Big FedEx Envelope In The Sky: The Beldini Trial, Day Five

By • Jan 31st, 2010 • Category: Featured, News, Politics

Maybe it was a couple of extra handshakes. Or bending down to pick up that quarter he dropped. Could’ve been the moment he waited for the car to pass until he crossed the street. What’s clear is this: a few seconds on April 30, 2009 saved Jerramiah Healy’s ass. Otherwise, he might no longer be mayor of Jersey City.



Wednesday Morning News Roundup

By • Nov 18th, 2009 • Category: Blog

Share/Save- An indictment handed down yesterday charges former Secaucus mayor Dennis Elwell and political associate Ron Manzo with conspiring with former Jersey City Housing Authority commissioner Edward Cheatam and others to extort cash from an FBI informant in relation to a fictitious hotel project in Secaucus. This is the second indictment for Manzo, who was [...]



Monday Morning News Roundup

By • Sep 21st, 2009 • Category: Blog

Share/Save- Friday saw two more guilty pleas in the federal corruption probe. Former Housing Authority commissioner Edward Cheatam says he took $70,000 and funneled $15,000 to the re-election campaign of Mayor Jerramiah Healy. Former Hudson County elections investigator Dennis Jaslow says he took $15,500 in his role as a go-between for Solomon Dwek and a [...]



Friday Morning News Roundup

By • Sep 11th, 2009 • Category: Blog

Share/Save- Mayor Jerramiah Healy has confirmed that FBI agents visited his Bradley Beach home in August and City Hall yesterday as they continue their probe into political corruption here. Sources tell the Journal that six to eight federal agents visited the offices of the business administrator, tax assessor, tax collector and city clerk yesterday. – [...]

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