Joseph Cardwell, the political consultant who acted as go-between for a Hudson County official and a man he thought to be a rich developer but who was in fact a cooperating witness for the FBI, Solomon Dwek, was sentenced to 6 months in prison and fined $3,000 on Friday, January 13th. Cardwell, 70, had earlier [...]
The unsuccessful 2009 City Council candidate who just served a prison term for taking bribes from government informant Solomon Dwek was sentenced in January 2010 to 18 months. Since his official release, he has not spoken to the press, but decided to do so recently in an exclusive interview with the Jersey City Independent.
- Post-Irene Aid: Hudson County’s welfare director says the potential for fraud is great in the Hurricane Irene-related one-time food benefit program. Meanwhile, long lines have many would-be aid seekers getting quite frustrated. – ‘Untitled Jersey City Project’: During last night’s Emmy Awards, FX premiered the first teaser for a new dramatic series, Untitled Jersey [...]
- UEZ: The fate of the Urban Enterprise Zone program is part of a tug-of-war between Gov. Chris Christie and Democratic lawmakers that will play out in today’s state budget votes. – Elwell Corruption Trial: Former Secaucus mayor Dennis Elwell testified yesterday that he did not understand he was being offered a bribe by FBI [...]
- Spending Guidelines for Abbott $ Lacking: Jersey City and the other 30 former Abbott districts know a windfall is coming their way, their share of the $447 million in aid awarded by the state Supreme Court in its latest ruling in the epic Abbott v. Burke case. They even know, thanks to fairly accurate [...]
- Corruption: The corruption trial of former Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell began yesterday in federal court in Newark, with prosecutors alleging that Elwell knew he was accepting bribes, and not campaign contributions, from a confidential informant. Meanwhile, government informant Solomon Dwek has been arrested on car theft charges in Baltimore. – Doc Indicted in Murder [...]
- School Funding: The cost for the state to comply with the Supreme Court’s latest Abbott v. Burke ruling may have just come down $50 million or so, as the Office of Legislative Services (OLS) sent a letter yesterday to the Senate and Assembly budget committees that revised its original estimate from just shy of [...]
- NJCU Theft: The husband of a former New Jersey City University office manager and two others have been sentenced for their roles in a scheme to steal funds from the college’s student government organization. – Shooting: A man in his early 20s was shot in his back last night in Jersey City and two [...]
Though the city budget expects to bring in $15 million from the sale of city-owned land behind the Jersey City Medical Center, there was plenty of skepticism regarding both the figure and the process of the sale — skepticism that led to the discovery of what one council member calls “hidden” money in the budget.
- Epps: Jersey City schools superintendent Charles Epps “apologized” at a press conference yesterday for comments he made this week to a group of clergy saying “young ladies” are the community’s “worst enemy.” Epps, however, defended the meaning behind his comments, and his spokesperson tells the Journal that “he was referring to all boys and [...]
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