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 [...]
- A Quick Note: JCI’s offices are closed today for the holiday, so don’t expect much action on the site. We’ll be back in full swing tomorrow.
- City Offices Closed, No Street Sweeping Today: Remember, city offices are also closed for the holiday, and alternate side parking rules are not being enforced. Garbage pickup will [...]
- Corruption Sentencing Postponed: A federal judge in Newark has indefinitely postponed the sentence of a former Ward F council candidate LaVern Webb-Washington, who pleaded guilty to extortion charges in last year’s corruption probe. The postponement comes in the wake of a judge’s recent ruling that the Manzo brothers couldn’t be charged under the Hobbs [...]
- No Teacher Contract: The school board failed last night to ratify a teachers union contract that had been negotiated over a 15-month period and agreed to by the administration. Meawhile, the New Jersey School Boards Association is pushing to skip the customary public votes on local school budgets this year, as one way of [...]
- School Aid Down $23 Million: The Jersey City school district will lose $23 million, or 4.9 percent, of state school aid, according to figures released by the state Department of Education yesterday. The district will still receive nearly $449 million in state aid. “It could have been worse,” Board of Education member Gerald McCann [...]
- As we noted yesterday, the big news was the seventh guilty plea in the federal corruption probe. Housing activist and former Ward F City Council candidate LaVern Webb-Washington pleaded guilty to accepting $15,000 in bribes from a purported developer in exchange for potential political favors. As a result, the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency is [...]
LaVern Webb-Washington, a housing activist who often made her presence felt at City Council meetings, pleaded guilty today in federal court to taking $15,000 from a purported developer in exchange for potential political favors. Webb-Washington ran unsuccessfully for the Ward F council seat this spring. ELEC reports show the cash she obtained from the “developer” [...]
- A new study by the Garden State Alliance for a New Economy (GANE) finds that most working people in Jersey City are either very poor or very well-off, with most of the wealth concentrated in a relatively small percentage of folks at the top. We’ll bring you more on the report’s findings later this [...]
Editor’s note: There are many moments in the unsealed federal criminal complaints against Jersey City politicians and officials that are stunning, many that are — quite frankly — hilarious and many that illustrate the personalities of the officials involved. With that in mind, we’d like to spotlight one quote or passage each day in a [...]
Here’s the full list of people charged in the public corruption portion of the federal investigation that culminated in the arrest of many political heavies today. Those charged with conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right and/or attempted extortion under color of official right could, if convicted, face a maximum statutory penalty of [...]
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