Police Search for Lawrence Man Missing in Jersey City: Police are searching for a 26-year-old township resident who disappeared in Jersey City this past weekend while spending some time with friends, police said. Former State Senate Candidate from Jersey City Arrested on Charges of Witness Tampering, Making Terroristic Threats: A former state State candidate from [...]
- King Pleads Guilty to Mail Fraud: After a federal court tossed out the most serious charges to which he had already pleaded guilty, Jimmy King yesterday admitted to a single count of mail fraud in connection with the largest federal corruption sting in New Jersey history. – HudCo Judge Sues State Over Pension/Benefit Changes: [...]
- Corruption: U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman will not challenge a federal court ruling tossing out charges against some defendants in the state’s largest public corruption sting, instead allowing to stand a ruling by U.S. District Judge Jose Linares and a finding by a three-member panel of the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals that dismisses extortion [...]
When Lou Manzo appeared in federal court in Newark last Wednesday with his brother Ron, he was looking to have the federal corruption case against them thrown out altogether. But as it turns out, they — and several others rounded up in the federal government’s 2009 probe — will have to wait a little bit longer for an outcome.
A state appellate court has tossed a lawsuit seeking to remove Ward C councilwoman Nidia Lopez from her seat on the grounds that she wasn’t a Jersey City resident because the initial complaint wasn’t filed within the required 30 days. While the case was dismissed on a technicality, the appellate court says it would have [...]
On 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 [...]
- King Sentencing Postponed: The sentencing of Jimmy King on corruption charges was postponed last week in the wake of a judge’s May ruling that said the Manzo brothers couldn’t be charged under the Hobbs Act, since they were not elected officials. King pleaded guilty last fall. Meanwhile, former deputy mayor and Healy campaign treasurer [...]
- Former Parking Authority head and 2009 candidate for the Ward C seat on the City Council Jimmy King pleaded guilty yesterday to accepting up to $10,000 in bribes from a purported developer in exchange for potential political favors. King is the fifth person thus far to plead guilty in the federal corruption probe; he [...]
- Jimmy King, who was arrested by the FBI in last month’s corruption probe, is closing down the Jimmy King Civic Association. “This is to inform you that we are retiring. We are looking forward to spending more time with our 5 grandchildren,” a postcard mailed to the association’s members reads. “For the last six [...]
- Mayor Healy confirmed yesterday that the bandage he’s been wearing on his nose lately is the result of a second surgery to remove skin cancer on his nose. The mayor’s cancer is not malignant and he reports that “the doctors got it in time.” – The Hudson County Clerk’s office has become the latest [...]
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