Share/Save – Corruption Cases for Non-Elected Officials ‘In Limbo’: With a federal judge’s recent ruling that Lou and Ron Manzo couldn’t be charged under the Hobbs Act since they weren’t holding public office, and the government’s appeal of that ruling, the corruption cases for a number of non-elected officials swept up in last year’s probe [...]
Share/Save- Auto Fluids Contract Questioned: A company that donated about $3,000 the the campaigns of City Council members, and another $2,500 to the Hudson County Democratic Organization, has been awarded a contract worth up to $100,000 to provide automotive fluids and lubricants to the Public Works Department. City officials say the contract doesn’t ban the [...]
The proposed municipal budget was once again the star of the show at Wednesday’s council meeting, drawing a rowdy crowd of 500 or so to the council chambers — dozens of whom spoke out in protest of what is likely to turn out to be a hefty tax hike. But there was plenty more going on as well.
Share/Save- Freeholder Bill O’Dea is putting forward a resolution that would sever the contract for health services at the county jail, but the item might get tabled before it has the chance to be voted on. The contract in question was the subject of a lawsuit alleging that the county had violated state pay to [...]
Share/Save- At-Large councilman Mariano Vega* was indicted on federal corruption charges yesterday after being arrested in the late-July sweep. The eight-count indictment adds the charge of lying to federal investigators to the charges Vega* was arrested for, namely, taking $30,000 in bribes from a FBI informant. He tells the Journal he intends to “clear his [...]
Share/Save- Teachers at Liberty Academy Charter School in the Heights refused to work yesterday morning; they are upset over a change in health insurance costs that they say was sprung on them without discussion. – Judge Maurice Gallipoli heard arguments yesterday in Hudson County pay to play case; a contract for medical services at the [...]
Share/Save- Hudson County judge Maurice Gallipoli is scheduled to hear arguments tomorrow on whether Hudson County violated the state’s pay to play law when it awarded a contract to Correctional Health Services for prison medical services. That company’s president, Geoffrey Perselay, donated $1,000 to Hudson County freeholder Anthony Romano on May 30, 2008. The contract [...]
If the council members thought they’d be able to breeze through Tuesday’s pre-Thanksgiving City Council meeting, they were sorely mistaken.
Share/Save- On Wednesday we reported that T&M Associates denied giving any money to the campaign of At-Large councilman Mariano Vega*, a donation on his campaign finance reports that gave the engineering firm some trouble at this week’s council meeting. Today the Journal picks up the story, with a little more on Vega*’s reaction — and [...]
Share/Save Photos: Steve Gold At this week’s brisk City Council meeting, the plans for Marion Greenway Park moved forward, despite apparent problems with one contract; four ordinances were introduced, three were voted into law and one was held up; and, as always, dozens of resolutions were approved. All in less than an hour! Marion Greenway [...]
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