New Jersey's gonna make us an offer we can't refuse ...

August 1, 2007 at 3:18 P.M. I am blocking (it's a slow day for the mob):

http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N950.NPR/B239818 (National Public Radio.)
http://view.atdmt.com/view/msnnkhac001728x90 (Senator Bob?)

In addition to the convictions of Lesley Devereaux, a former official with New Jersey's Office of Commerce, Economic Growth, and Tourism on July 31, 2007; and previous convictions against Malboro Mayor Mathew Scanapieco for accepting $245,000 in bribes from developers; and a former Mayor of West Long Branch for accepting cash totalling $15,000, also convictions against former Hoboken Mayor Anthony Russo and Anthony Impreveduto, there is a new investigation pending, allegedly, against former Governor Donald Di Francesco, the Office of the Bergen County Sheriff -- yes, the Sheriff -- and other Bergen County officials. Where's the OAE?

Both the Hoboken police and Bergen County sheriff as well as "authorities" near Trenton (swastikas?) are under "secret" federal investigation, allegedly, and have drawn international attention to New Jersey's corrupt law enforcement establishment. More such information is on the way.

"I have reason to believe" (my favorite phrase) that the number of readers of my book and this blog are not reported accurately. Curiously, I seem to be having many difficulties with one of my books lately. Oh, well ... The real numbers may be about three times more than what is being shown. This has been true for some time. Whatever the real numbers may be, I am grateful for anyone's time and attention to my writings.

I urge you to struggle against the forces identified in these posts and to share your opinions with readers searching for like-minded friends. You are not alone. Do not be discouraged by attempts to deny you a forum or an audience for what you feel compelled to say. Such censorship efforts are the best proof that you are having an effect on the powers that be. Speak out. Fight the power, corruption and incompetence in New Jersey's bemerded legal system. You are not alone.
As of August 1, 2007 at 3:27 P.M., I am still struggling against spyware and intrusion attempts against my computer. The following essay was written in July, 2006. I will now update it.

David Kocieniewski, "Trenton: Audit Says School Overbilled," in The New York Times, July 25, 2006, at p. B6:

"The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey overbilled state and federal charity care programs, according to a federal audit released yesterday. The audit, issued by the federal Department of Health and Human Services, found that the school received $171 MILLION in excess reimbursements from a joint federal [and] state program that helps hospitals serving a disproportionate number of low income patients. The audit recommends that New Jersey repay $85.6 MILLION."

Where did the money go? Does this situation have anything to do with new pools and kitchens, or fancy cars, acquired by so many distinguished Garden State public servants? How about it Anne? Is this "politically incorrect" enough for ya? I can tell you're really "ethical" and highly competent, so why ignore these crimes? Ethics? Do you need to call a "boss," Anne, to find out whether these are made members who are not to be touched?

The whereabouts of this loot is what is known in "X-Files" episodes as a "mystery." Maybe aliens got the money. New Jersey will have to "cough up," as it were, $85.6 MILLION guacamoles that it does not have, even as it engages in an expensive investigation of the worrisome incident concerning Attorney General Zulima Farber's decision to appear at a friend's side when he was stopped by traffic cops and, more recently, the burning question of whether one Supreme Court justice, Mr. Rivera-Soto, gave someone his business card. What a coincidence, they are a Latino and Latina in public life. Meanwhile, 300 MILLION biscotti disappeared from the HIP matter, right under Jayne LaVecchia's nose, but nobody cares?

The former A.G.'s friend was not issued tickets by any police department on that occasion. Neither was Ms. Farber, who wore her seatbelt, so we can all sigh with relief. It appears that she was not intimidated by calls for her resignation. Instead, Ms. Farber engaged in a statewide roundup of gang leaders and made other high profile arrests. She needed several buses to haul in the hoodlum "catch of the day."

Amazing that these crooks were never captured in previous administrations and won't be in any future administration if Anne Milgram is in charge. I wonder why? Maybe that's why Farber will be made to resign eventually. Oh, wait ... she was made to resign. I bet it had something to do with Farber's curiosity about those $300 MILLION, assuming that Farber was curious about Jaynee's faux pas.

New Jersey politicians putting in a new pool in their backyards -- possibly with your tax dollars -- are deeply worried about other people's moral lapses, never their own ethical flaws. Reimbursal by New Jersey will also be made with your tax dollars, if you are unfortunate enough to reside in "cancer alley." This amounts to a double theft of public funds. Overbilling took place, now reimbursal of that overbilled amount is a second "dip" into the public treasury."

Stating bluntly that "'if we were a business, we'd be bankrupt,' Governor Jon S. Corzine on Friday offered New Jersey legislators a blueprint of changes intended to improve the state's fiscal habits, and challenged them to come up with a permanent solution to reduce property taxes." David W. Chen, "Corzine Offers His Ideas About Fixing New Jersey," in The New York Times, July 29, 2006, at p. B5.

It appears that Mr. Corzine is concerned to eliminate as many opportunities for graft as possible in future budgets by selling state assets. One measure of how much politicians despise each other, is how nice they are to one another in their public comments. By this standard, it appears that Governor Corzine and Assembly Speaker Roberts (who may be controlled by "others") -- together with any backstage "Svengali" associated with Roberts (see what I mean?) -- detest each other. Both Senator Richard J. Codey and George E. Norcross, III are routinely called the "real" Governors of New Jersey, but then so was Mr. Coniglio, who is now called the "real defendant" in a very real federal criminal case.

New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the nation, nearly twice the national average. The state "tax burden ... now averages about $5,826.00 a year for each property." Richard G. Jones, "New Jersey Law Makers Tackle Rising Property Taxes," in The New York Times, July 28, 2006, at p. B1. It is estimated that about half of that average sum is either stolen or wasted.
Despite these revenues, this famous New Jersey governmental theft and corruption has brought the state to the edge of bankruptcy. Shifting the tax burden from property taxes to sales and other "revenue enhacement" measures is not going to fool anybody. I think theft and waste of public funds by politicians and judges in New Jersey is "unethical." Don't you? The OAE does not.

Where is the OAE? Many of these so-called legislators are lawyers? The people being hurt most by this stealing or waste of public funds are the poor and sick, whose desperate need for services is sacrificed to an insatiable greed on the part of crooks in public office and their friends, sometimes wearing judicial robes. "How the hell are ya?"

Your best hope -- if you are litigating a case in New Jersey -- is that you'll get a judge who, even if he or she is not too bright, will at least be relatively honest. You better hope that your adversary is not a local political leech, so that you will have some chance to have your case examined on the merits. (See "SYBIL R. MOSES and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "DEBORAH T. PORITZ and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")

Perhaps a fact-finding mission to Las Vegas by Garden State politicians and judges, requiring numerous consultations with "Showgirls" (Debbie is up for that!) -- both blondes and brunettes, so as to benefit from "all points of view" -- will lead to greater awareness by New Jersey's politicians of the "issues" in this sensitive area of public policy. I now move to have the following comments entered into the official record:

New Jersey continues to be the most inept and fraudulent jurisdiction in the United States. A politics of secrecy and corruption characterizes many of the operations of government, especially in state courts. Behind-the-back attacks, smears, insults using coopted minority group members or "legal colleagues" are common. Appointments to important positions and judgeships are often rewards for services rendered to political clubhouses by loyal soldiers. "Business as usual" in New Jersey is a disgrace to the United States Constitution and to basic human decency. (See "Is New Jersey Chief Justice Deborah T. Poritz unethical or only incompetent?" and "New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court," also "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")

Despite laws that punish pollution severely, the state is a cesspool of pollution and moral corruption, where cancer is exploding in a population unaware of the real causes of their sufferings. Two of the power plants ranked highest in the nation in venomous emissions are found in the vicinity of the Garden State Parkway. Anthony DePalma, "Power Plants Ranked High on Pollution List," in The New York Times, July 28, 2006, at p. B6:

"... the Valero refinery [in New Jersey] was fined $35,200.00 for an odor discharge on June 16 and a discharge of clarified slurry oil on June 17. The fine was issued last week. Officials at Gloucester County refinery said the odor discharge did not affect residents, but the 170 gallons of unrefined oil left residue on cars, fences and houses. A Valero spokeswoman [a LYING New Jersey Lawyer?] told the Currier-Post, of Cherry Hill, that Valero had already spent $2.5 million on cleanup."

"Paulsboro: State Fines Oil Refinery," The New York Times, August 14, 2006, at p. B7.

It must remain a mystery how Garden State politicians and the state's disgraced Supreme Court justices -- who recently had no problems in upholding a death penalty conviction -- find the nerve to face a skeptical citizenry. New Jersey is now "served" by the most discredited high court in the nation, whose justices are tainted by ethics charges, along with unsavory rumors of complicity in everything from child molestation to gambling. No wonder New Jersey's Supremes don't like to grace us with their presence, opting instead to provide the "little" people with their official portraits and photos, not to mention their lovely smiles and a casual wave worthy of England's royal family. ("Errors" were inserted in this last sentence by hackers since my previous reading of this essay.) It is not difficult to guess why judges and justices are smiling or chuckling at photographers. It is only the people of that unfortunate state who are not smiling.

Mr. Rabner, how do you live with your hypocrisy? How can your court and state legal system presume to judge others in light of your own obvious ethical flaws and uncorrected faults? More hypocrisy? How about it, Anne? Are you looking into the issue of judicial corruption in New Jersey? Got any judges in mind? Care for some suggestions?