State Officials Won’t Approve Expedited Sale of Christ Hospital: State officials will not approve the pending sale of Christ Hospital to a California for-profit healthcare chain by the end of the year, according to a letter from the state Attorney General’s Office to a city official. Meanwhile, Christ Hospital is one among eight northern New [...]
Jersey City 18th Happiest City: Men’s Health released America’s Saddest Cities, landing Jersey City with a “B” rating. The magazine looked at 100 cities and ranked them from 100 — being the saddest — to one — being the happiest. Jersey City took home spot 18, right above Austin, Texas. Hudson County Rents Rise: The [...]
Jersey City Board of Education Selects Interim Superintendent: The Jersey City Board of Education has tapped Associate Superintendent Franklin Walker to be the 29,000-student district’s interim superintendent until a permanent replacement is found for the departing Superintendent Charles T. Epps Jr. Look for more from JCI later today. Two Weeks Left to Fill Ward F [...]
- 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.
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 [...]
- Local, state and federal cops say they disrupted a violent drug network with a six-month operation dubbed “Operation Wetlands.” The investigation came to a head with early morning raids yesterday that reportedly netted 46 people, including the 18-year-old Jersey City man who was shot in the face by an undercover cop earlier this year. [...]
- Former At-Large city council candidate Lori Serrano, who was one of the many Jersey City pols swept up in a July federal corruption bust, pleaded not guilty yesterday. The complaint against Serrano accuses her of conspiring with former Housing Authority commissioner Edward Cheatam and consultant Jack Shaw to accept bribes from federal witness Solomon [...]
- Former City Council candidate Lori Serrano was indicted yesterday and charged with accepting $10,000 from an informant posing as a developer in exchange for her help with moving projects along once she was to be elected. The indictment charges Serrano with conspiring with then-Jersey City Housing Authority official Edward Cheatam (who has pleaded guilty), [...]
- As the City Council prepares to have its caucus meeting today, there are questions about whether or not council president Mariano Vega will keep his job. He no-commented the Journal last week when asked about the push — led by Ward E councilman Steven Fulop — to have him resign his post. Ward A [...]
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