- Port Authority: Chris Ward, who jump-started development of the stalled World Trade Center site and memorial and oversaw a significant toll increase on the Hudson River crossings, intends to resign next month as executive director of the Port Authority, according to the New York Times. Meanwhile, in other Port Authority news, lawmakers from both [...]
- Beldini: A day after former deputy mayor Leona Beldini lost her appeal, the U.S. Attorney’s Office yesterday asked a federal judge to revoke her bail and send her to prison. – Webb-Washington Indicted: Jersey City housing activist and former City Council candidate LaVern Webb-Washington was indicted yesterday for defrauding her campaign fund in connection [...]
- 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.
- JCIA/DPW Consolidation: The City Council will not vote this week on the controversial measure to fold the city’s Department of Public Works into the Jersey City Incinerator Authority. The city’s business administrator says he needs more time to get information to council members, who have aired many questions about the details of the plan. [...]
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 [...]
- 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 [...]
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