March 4, 2008 at 10:33 A.M. I am prevented from accessing my home e-mail account, calls received from 402-727-2510. I am running scans. I will spend the rest of the day attempting to regain access to my e-mail at my home computer. (An "error" was inserted and corrected in this foregoing sentence.)
March 3, 2008 at 2:03 P.M. call from 704-633-8373. Hoboken Police? New calls at 11:52 A.M. on March 4, 2008 from 704-633-8373.
Jonathan Miller, "Police Scandal Grows to Include Possible Misuse of Money," in The New York Times, March 1, 2008, at p. B3.
"HOBOKEN, N.J. -- A police lieutenant in charge of the SWAT team here who has been at the center of a widening scandal has been accused of improprieties in connection with his involvement with several Hooters waitresses, his lawyer said on Friday."
"Adding to the controversy surrounding the now-disbanded SWAT unit, people close to the case said federal investigators were looking into accusations that for the past 16 years, a fund ostensibly for equipment and gear was misused."
Is "misused" another term for stolen? Were dollars "misappropriated"? Are the cops "crooks" in Hoboken, New Jersey? Why did it take 16 years for somebody to figure this out? Could it be that there is corruption in Hudson County, New Jersey? Naaa ... that could never be true.
"They said that thousands of dollars from that fund, which was collected from team members at the rate of $20 per officer per month, may have been diverted to non-departmental uses."
"Diverted to non-departmental uses"? That means "stolen," doesn't it? Notice the Freudian implications here:
"The same lieutenant accused of posing for pictures with the scantily clad waitresses while they held the team's guns and rifles, Angelo Andriani, was also in charge of the fund, according to a city employee who refused to be identified out of fear of retribution." (emphasis added)
How does it feel to be afraid of speaking publicly in a society that guarantees your freedom of speech? How is this different from people in totalitarian societies intimidated about criticizing the government? At least officials in those societies do not act "secretly," behind-the-backs of targets selected for destruction by anonymous "bosses." This essay has already been altered, damaged and vandalized on several occasions, also publicly and with impunity. In totalitarian societies, at least you know it is the government torturing, stealing, oppressing you and you are usually spared the absurdity of those same monsters judging your ethics as a victim of oppression.
Cops in Hudson County often misuse their authority to target individuals for behind-the-back destruction, usually at the request of politicians worried that, say, a lawyer may "find out too much." Right, Senator Bob? Maybe that lawyer will get to be a thorn in the side of local prosecutors in the town's Municipal Court by embarassing police and "getting people off." We can't have that, right boys?
"Other officers claimed that the police chief, Carmen V. La Bruno, ordered officers to clean out the basement of his home in Clinton [irony?] while on duty, though they have not filed lawsuits."
The Hoboken Police Department has other problems:
"In October, five Hispanic police officers filed a lawsuit in Hudson County Superior Court" -- that's already a joke -- "accusing Lieutenant Andriani of creating a racist and hostile work environment and claiming that he had forced some on-duty officers to do work at his home in Verona, New Jersey. Soon afterwards the Hooters photographs began appearing on television and on Web sites."
Verona's Municipal Court judge liked to inquire into the immigration status of Latino attorneys, including the former partner of a judge now in the Appellate Division, a judge who knows this for a fact. I expect that, if questioned, he will lie and deny this. To my knowledge, no action was ever taken against that Municipal Court judge because lawyers were intimidated -- many N.J. lawyers are also afraid of retribution -- while Garden State judges were and still are frightened about enforcing Constitutional rights. So they don't. That explains why my writings are vandalized on a daily basis. I wonder what harassment efforts await me today? Oh, now I know. I can't access my own e-mail.
Judges and other officials are intimidated by secret organizations of cops affiliated with local power-brokers and political bosses, sometimes doubling as mafiosos, engaging in strong-arming efforts or extortion from behind the scenes. A number of N.J. officials are under federal investigation (Hudson County's Prosecutor's Office chose not to indict this Hoboken cop -- I wonder why?), allegedly, for possible civil rights violations. I can think of several bureaucrats in Trenton who should be prosecuted for such offenses, like several hacks at the OAE. (See "New Jersey's KKK Police Shocker!" and "More Crooked Judges in Jersey City," then "A Letter From the DRB, in New Jersey!" and "Driving While Black (DWB) in New Jersey.")
"A December 2004 memorandum written by Lieutenant Andriani and sent to Chief La Bruno about the team's expenditures claimed that over a 13-year period, $42,512 had been spent for 'repair and maintenance of city-owned vehicles, equipment and other property.' An attached list showed that the money went to such things as bills, dinners and in one case, $401 to 'party plaques.' The city's corporation counsel, Steven W. Kleinman, said he had 'no reason to doubt' the document's authenticity."
How about this?
"But officers noted that about $68,600 would have been deducted in that period, leaving $26,000 unaccounted for."
Maybe they bought Hooters t-shirts with the 26 grand?
"Mr. Kleinman said that how the fund was handled was certainly 'a matter of concern,' and said that the fund was terminated when the SWAT team was disbanded last fall after the Hooters episode."
I wonder why Hudson County Prosecutor, Edward J. De Fazio, did not indict this guy? I had a very unusual experience with the Hudson County prosecutor's office, which I generally admire and respect. A guy went to them to claim that I "stole" $500 for a legal fee in an uncontested divorce matter. In fact, I actually filed the complaint in the action, paid the filing fee of $175, met with the individual several times, billed him for additional services, phone calls, postage, offered to reimburse his retainer -- even though a civil court said that I did not have to do so in total (without deducting for the filing fee) -- just to get rid of the asshole.
The county prosecutors felt that I was "worthy of investigation." The matter was thrown out, eventually, but how curious it is that this particular lunatic would reach the Hudson County prosecutor's office. I wonder how he got there? Maybe we'll find out.
