July 6, 2008 at 7:15 P.M. I seem to be experiencing new difficulties backing up files. I will continue to try to do so overnight and into tomorrow, running scans and updating my system 24 hours per day. See "New Jersey's Legal System is a Whore House."
July 4, 2008 at 7:02 P.M. viruses and obstructions prevent me from accessing my msn group, again. This usually means that new vandalism is underway. Perhaps this is the revenge of New Jersey's walking turds (OAE)? I will continue to struggle. I am running new scans. I will do my best to correct newly inserted "errors" as quickly as possible. See the forthcoming "Jim Florio and the Mafia in Atlantic City."
July 4, 2008 at 10:41 A.M. "Independence Day!" Have a good one! Let's send Chris Christie a fruit basket from the "Jersey Boys"?
A young lawyer asks whether he can do criminal defense work if he "cares" about criminals' actions. Well, the law school bullshit and the requirements of the ethics rules concerning zealous advocacy demand that defense counsel not be hindered in their representation of even the most heinous criminals by personal moral reactions. Attorneys should not -- in that sense -- "care" about what their clients have done. However, you should care as a human being -- which many lawyers are not -- and offenders certainly should care about their own actions.
Most lawyers stop caring about people a few years into practice. Lawyers never stop caring about money. These are the lawyers who become New Jersey Superior Court judges. After all, "feelings" are not "factual," they say. Feelings are not tested on the bar exam. Cognitive dissonance and hypocrisy are endemic in the Garden State's legal profession -- especially in New Jersey's "ethics" enforcement system. Nothing is worth the loss of your humanity. Right, Jaynee?
Happy holiday to the walking turds at the OAE! July 3, 2008 at 4:58 P.M. These are a few of the calls received today: 12:11 P.M. 831-480-6326; 3:45 P.M. 702-520-1157; 4:07 P.M. 208-463-9543; 4:27 P.M. 000-000-0000 -- maybe they're all marketers calling by mistake. I am still blocking:
http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90WBCBRB00110msn/direct;wi.728;hi.90/01 (NJ)
July 2, 2008 at 4:23 P.M. call received from 000-000-0000. What an unusual number? Police? I wonder what this address blocked on June 24, 2008 could mean?
http://ad.doubleclick.net/N3285.msn_cusa/B2343920.20;dcadv=140759;sz=300x250;ord=8226086956?
(I wonder if this strange number and the above address are "connected"?)
July 1, 2008 at 3:35 P.M. calls from 704-824-1393; July 1, 2008 at 11:03 A.M. calls from "Anonymous": June 30, 2008 at 4:59 P.M. calls from 800-214-3143; June 30, 2008 at 3:32 P.M. calls from 702-520-1131; June 29, 2008 at 1:54 P.M. 720-214-0440. Other calls were received as several essays were altered. I will continue to make corrections. (A new "error" was just inserted and corrected in the foregoing paragraph.)
June 30, 2008 at 10:42 A.M. calls received: On June 29, at 1:54 P.M. from 720-214-0440; June 28, at 11:50 A.M. from 435-294-2516; June 28, 11:50 A.M. 435-294-2316; June 28, 10:02 A.M. from 702-520-1131; June 27, at 6:20 P.M. from 615-886-7224; June 27, 6:40 P.M. 800-214-3143. Attempts to print from my computer left me with a blank page bearing this address:
http://uac.advertising.com/wrapper/aceUAC.htm (criminal violation)
Mission Statement of New Jersey's Judiciary:
"We are an independent branch of government constitutionally entrusted with the fair and just resolution of disputes in order to preserve the rule of law and to protect the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States and this State."
Peter Applebome, "Hoboken, an Economic Success That Can't Pass a Budget," in The New York Times, June 26, 2008, at p. B1.
"... the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs ... anounced on Tuesday that it was moving to place Hoboken under state supervision and take control of its budget process." Other municipalities in Hudson County are drawing the attention of state and federal observers.
This state agency has long been associated with political bosses outside the legal process, like most New Jersey institutions. Hoboken's tainted police force and corrupt municipal government and courts (former mayor Anthony Russo was indicted and did time) may be better than what the state has to offer. This is really about control of the county and several factions currently fighting for that control. By way of comparison, see my forthcoming essay "Jim Florio and the Mafia in Atlantic City" and "Fun and Games in Union City, New Jersey." (A crooked Municipal Judge in that town will be discussed at length.)
Enforcer "Joe V. Doria, Jr., [a.k.a. "JoeyV"] the commissioner said that after almost a year, Hoboken was not close to being able to approve a plan to pay for its own spending -- the last municipality in New Jersey without a budget."
"... 'This is not a cooperative situation, it's an adversarial one,' he said."
"'They're refusing to do what they are required to do.' ..."
"It's not as if anyone should be stunned that a local government in Hudson County, N.J., is something less than a model of efficiency and transparency."
This is the New York Times saying this, not just me. Whatever Joe Doria is "for" probably ain't good. If a town's mayor takes bribes, you can be pretty sure that every other official can be bought, probably through the mayor. At least 40% of New Jersey Judges are on the take, in my opinion, probably more than that. Right, Stuart?
"Hoboken has done its share over the years to live up to the image of Hudson County as something between 'Let's Make a Deal' and 'On the Waterfront.'"
Again: this is The New York Times' description of facts. Hackers taking a letter out of this essay kind of helps to prove my point.
"It was just four years ago that Anthony J. Russo, who was mayor of Hoboken from 1993 to 2001, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to accepting $5,000 in bribes in exchange for his help in securing city contracts."
In the immortal words of Sydney Greenstreet's "fat man" in The Maltese Falcon, former mayor Russo was "a man who liked to talk to a man who likes to talk." What's in it for 'Pappa'? Mayor Russo was, allegedly, contrite enough to say that he "should've asked for ten grand!" A New Jersey police officer mentioned that two previous mayors in his town were indicted, presumably leaving office in handcuffs. That's better than many New Jersey municipalities can claim.
There's a lot of money flowing through Hoboken with all the YUPies moving in to be close to Manhattan. ("Young Urban Professionals" -- that was me a long time ago, in the go-go eighties and nineties). Condos and waterfront views have caused the New Jersey mafia to opt for designer clothes and gold watches to match their corrupt politicians -- politicians who wear what they're told to wear, maybe even a wire for the FBI. The stink near the river is the smell of corruption. The town slogan in Hoboken should be "Let me wet my beak."
No wonder Senator "Bob" a.k.a. "Roberto" a.k.a. "BobbyM" a.k.a. "Pappa" likes to live there with the really cool people. The same goes for Corzine and his former main squeeze, N.J.'s fearsome labor union leader, "Carla." Geez. If you're in Hoboken, try "Helmer's" on Washington Street. It's really good and the prices are outstanding. For a laugh, in the middle of your meal, get up and yell: "FBI!" Then make sure to duck.
"... people are still trying to figure out how a place increasingly full of affluent [former] New York city [residents] where the value of property has increased to $9 BILLION from $3 billion in 2001, is in such fiscal straits. Had the state not stepped in, the city would have needed to pass a mammoth tax increase to pay its bills."
How about theft as an explanation? Maybe the politicians "scooped" the dough? Everything (and everybody) had a price tag in town hall and probably still does. Mob influence is pervasive, although there are some fine lawyers in town. I will not name them because it would not be helpful to them. The lawyers who make out in terms of city money are the ass kissers who kick back to the politicians.
" ...'I talk to a lot of people around town -- barbers, crossing guards,' said Perry Belfiore, a Hoboken native long active in civic affairs. 'And they all say the same thing: How can we have all this development and no money? It's the most closely guarded secret other than where they sequester Dick Chenney.' ..."
New Jersey is not in a position to monitor its own towns as the number one organized crime-controlled jurisdiction in the nation. To seek to "monitor" the center of mob activity that is Hudson County is absurd. The corruption in the Garden State is ingrained, system-wide, deepest among regulators and so-called "ethics officials," who are for sale or under the influence (in every sense) of the mafia, or some other substance or authority. The A.G. and OAE are a sad joke. Supreme Court justices in New Jersey are rumored to be affiliated with one of the 7 families operating in the Garden State. Right, Jaynee? Gambinos? Genovese? (See "Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?" and "Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks.")
The judiciary is ethically discredited and incompetent. Elected officials are opening accounts in foreign banks or depositing "contributions" in their party's "non-federal" accounts. It is a disgrace to the United States of America that New Jersey is part of this country. Federal action is desperately needed, including independent federal prosecutors and grand juries around the clock. Time to end the nightmare for New Jersey's residents. No more slithering, behind-the-back government. Secrecy is the enemy of freedom. N.J.'s crooks must face the music.
How you doing, Diana?
