Share/Save – Goya: New Jersey awarded an $82 million tax break to Secaucus-based Goya Foods Inc. Tuesday, to keep the nation’s largest Hispanic-owned food company from moving 369 jobs a few miles over the New York state border and instead have it build a new facility on County Road in Jersey City. MORE from the [...]
Share/Save- 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 [...]
Share/Save- Beldini Appeal Denied: The 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has denied former Jersey City deputy mayor Leona Beldini’s appeal of her conviction last year on federal bribery charges. – Candidate Filing Deadline Mixup: Candidates hoping to run this November for two vacant At-Large seats on the City Council were scrambling yesterday after they [...]
Share/Save- 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. [...]
Share/SavePoliticker NJ this week released its annual “Power List,” which features the 100 people who they think exert the most political influence in Trenton — not including elected officials or judges — and, like last year, several names familiar to Jersey City insiders are on the list. Attorney Elnardo Webster, who is an informal adviser [...]
Share/Save- Push for More Public Comment on Gas Pipeline: Mayor Healy and NY/NJ Baykeeper are asking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to extend the public comment period on Spectra Energy’s proposed natural gas line through Jersey City and Bayonne. The company has until August 24 to file an updated pipeline route, but the public comment [...]
Share/Save- O’Donnell Will Replace Chiappone: Bayonne Democrat Jason O’Donnell has been unanimously chosen to replace 31st District Assemblyman Anthony Chiappone by roughly 200 committee members of the Hudson County Democratic Organization. Chiappone resigned earlier this month after pleading guilty to campaign finance fraud charges in June. – Beldini Asks to Remain Free During Appeal: In [...]
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 [...]
Share/Save- City Looks to Bond for Embankment Deal: A bond ordinance that would allow the city to spend up to $7.7 million in its efforts to gain control of the 6th Street Embankment from developer Steve Hyman will be up for a vote at tomorrow’s City Council meeting. The city says it has a number [...]
Share/Save- ‘I am So Scared Right Now’: “I stand before you facing the most terrifying moment of my life,” former deputy mayor and Healy campaign treasurer said before a federal judge sentenced her to three years in prison yesterday. The Ledger has more. “It is a sad image: a 75-year-old woman expressing terror and begging [...]
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