Is it true that Senator Menendez has utilized the legal exemption for U.S. Congress members to engage in insider trading with impunity? If so, while it may be legal to trade based on inside information for a U.S. Senator, it would still raise an ethics issue for a member of the New Jersey Bar Association to do such a thing:
Is Mr. Menendez under investigation by the Office of Attorney Ethics (OAE) for any reason at this time? Curiously, I notice that the borders at my blog posting for all texts is colored blue today, November 16, 2011 at 1:11 P.M. No images can be posted by me and spacing between paragraphs is only possible with the use of the block quote device. ("New Jersey's Office of Attorney Ethics" and "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")
I am usually required to sign-out more than once from my blogs. All copies of essays are accompanied by blank pages for some reason. Yesterday, November 14th, I signed-out only once from NYPL computer 4, Inwood branch. I'll probably be at the Columbia University branch tomorrow, fellas. I can never be sure of continuing to write from one day to the next. I will do my best to write every day.
Herb Jackson, "Menendez Builds Up Campaign Bankroll: Backers Represent Causes Near and Far," in The Record, October 31, 2011, at p. L-2.
" ... A year before he faces New Jersey voters seeking reelection, Menendez has raised more than $10 MILLION. Half comes from his outreach to donors with national and even global interests." (emphasis added!)
Part of the problem in American politics is the corrupting presence of money in elections. Campaign finance reform is desperately needed. Instead, voters usually get token or cosmetic modifications of laws that benefit incumbents and those with access to big money figures who are rarely angels and, sometimes, they are not even Americans. ("Corrupt Law Firms, Senator Bob, and New Jersey Ethics.")
Allegedly, Mr. Menendez is one of the most corrupt politicians in the nation, but as long as he can generate contributions totalling $120 MILLION for Democrat coffers the odds of this man being indicted are slim. ("Menendez Gets Over On the Feds" and "Senator Menendez Was Not Indicted Today.")
It is certainly indisputable that the Garden State's junior Senator's attention to issues is based on how much a "constituent" has "contributed" to Bob's "campaign":
"The Passante family, owners of Royal Printing services in West New York, [New Jersey] gave Menendez $92,000 over the past five years."
Allegations of Passante organized crime affiliations are strenuously denied by family members, I am sure, but not the lucrative commercial affiliations by the Passantes with Hudson County, whose printing costs are "contracted" to the Passantes, every year. Every one admits that this is a mutually beneficial relationship. ("Mafia Influence in New Jersey Courts and Politics.")
Curiously, the $92,000 contribution to Menendez was made in one dollar bills, allegedly. This is to say nothing of other "cash" contributions, if any, deposited in the Democrats "non-federal account." It all goes south? ("Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?" and "Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks.")
The Passantes have been loyal "capo regimes" -- as it were -- for Mr. Menendez since his Union City days when he created his own family, in a manner of speaking. Remember Bill Musto, Bob? Will you be betrayed by Mr. Elias, Bob, as Musto was betrayed by his so-called friends?
"[Menendez] argued that campaign money does not influence Menendez's position."
If true, this would mean that all contributions by lobbyists and/or business people doing work for public entities is not based on any remuneration they may get, eventually, but on their admiration for Mr. Menendez's sterling qualities of mind and heart. ("Is Senator Bob 'For' Human Rights?")
I am sure that people only give Menendez money because they think he is a good man, highly ethical, perhaps. There is never any quid pro cuo from Big Bob, right boys? ("Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "New Jersey is the Home of the Living Dead.")
"On July 28, 2009, Menendez reported $16,000 in contributions from six people listing their occupation[s] as 'professional poker player.' ..."
Were they from Miami, Bob? Atlantic City? Las Vegas? Or all of the above? How many contributions -- if any -- came from "operators of adult entertainment facilities and media" through buffer corporations, Bob? ("New Jersey's Child Sex Industry.")
I hear you received a great reception when you visited South Beach, Bob. Give my regards to Manny.
"That was on top of $5,000 received a month earlier from the political action committee of the Poker Players' Alliance."
Guess what?
"On August 6, 2011, Menendez introduced the Internet Poker and Games of Skill Regulation, Protection and Enforcement Act, a bill he said would crack down on 'predatory gaming sites.' ..."
Quid pro cuo for those professional "poker players," Bob? I think it must have been. ("Senator Bob Loves Xanadu!" and "Senator Bob Says: 'Xanadu and You Are Perfect Together!'")
Lowenstein, Sandler and other allegedly "shady" law firms, from which New Jersey judges are too often drawn, forked over $96,860 out of a total of $1,796,178 from lawyers in New Jersey for "good-old, Bob." Say goodbye to any meaningful tort reform in the Garden State. ("New Jersey's Politically Connected Lawyers On the Tit" and, da capo, "Corrupt Law Firms, Senator Bob, and New Jersey Ethics" then "Herbert Klitzner's Greed and New Jersey's Hypocrisy.")
The same handful of lawfirms control the legal ethics system and protect their own, which may explain why so little action has been taken against John McGill, Esq. and others with "questionable ethics" at the OAE. ("New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System" and "New Jersey's Office of Attorney Ethics" then "No More Cover-Ups and Lies, Chief Justice Rabner!" and "New Jersey's Judges Disgrace America.")
The public interest is sacrificed by these shysters and crooks for financial gain with the assistance of bought-and-paid-for politicians, sometimes politicians wearing judicial robes. Hon. Linda Feinberg? ("Deborah T. Poritz and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "Sybil R. Moses and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" then "New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court" and "Christie Attacks New Jersey's Corrupt Judges.")
Will Mark Elias, Esq. be representing you in your future endeavors, Bob? And did Mr. Elias -- or YOU, Senator Bob -- visit any of my sites at any time? "Philosophy Cafe," gentlemen? ("Jennifer Velez is a Dyke Magnet!" and "New Jersey Gets a New Attorney General.")
Are you a "bought-and-paid-for politician," Senator Menendez?
Many New Jersey voters have, evidently, concluded that the answer to this question is "yes."
A list of sources detailing further legal corruption and political scandals in New Jersey will be added to this essay in the days ahead, depending on the level of cybercrime and censorship emanating from New Jersey government officials aimed at silencing me. ("What is it like to be censored in America?" and "How censorship works in America.")
Sources:
James Quick, "Sheriff Blasts Review Panel: Says It's Protecting County Police Force," in The Record, November 12, 2011, at p. A-1. ("A committee formed by Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan to examine county law enforcement has a predetermined agenda to PROTECT the County Police Department, Sheriff Michael Saudino has alleged in a letter sent to the panel's chairman." This is the usual pattern in New Jersey: spend $600,000 for a report then ignore the recommendations in the report and protect the cronies held responsible for some disaster. Has John McGill, Esq. been disbarred, Mr. Rabner? If not, why not, Chief Justice Rabner?)
Chris Megerian & Christopher Baxter, "Attorney General Hints of Quitting, Seeks Judgeship: Christie May Shift Chief Counsel," in The Record, November 12, 2011, at p. A-3. (Failed Attorney General, Paula Dow -- "The Invisible Woman" -- is forced to step down and will become, of course, another Linda Feinberg on the bench. What happened, Mr. Christie? Paula was not up to the job? Now you're going to make Paula a judge? Is that how you get rid of people in New Jersey politics? Make them judges?)
Terry Collins, "Officials Losing Patience With Occupy Protesters: Oakland Orders Shutdown of Site," in The Record, November 12, 2011, at p. A-5. (Rights to speech and assembly may be ignored by police to end this protest.)
Christopher Sherman, "Judge in Video Beating Must Stay Clear of family," in The New York Times, November 12, 2011, at p. A-4. (So many judges have "anger management issues" relationship-wise. They're often in denial about these relational difficulties. We need to start healing.)
"Weinberg Ascends: Buono is Out as Majority Leader," (Editorial) in The Record, November 12, 2011, at p. A-11. (Buono [Sweeney] is out; Weinberg [Menendez? Or Codey?] is in as Senate Leader.")
Nick Clunn, "Mayor Says FEMA Rule Allowed OT: Paterson Officials' Extra Pay Not Illegal, He Says," in The Record, November 12, 2011, at p. L-1. (Mayor Jeffrey Jones, Esq. insists that the city did nothing illegal in paying $50,000 in storm-related overtime to officials -- including himself, Mayor Jones.)
Kibret Marcos, "Bergen Buys Building for Court: $1.2 MILLION Deal Designed to Ease Crowding," in The Record, October 31, 2011, at p. L-1. (Bought well over its market value from a crony for $1.24 MILLION, this property will require $650,000 in renovations that -- like the Xanadu Mall -- will turn into 4 times that number and will never be finished: "Cement is Gold" and "New Jersey is the Home of the Living Dead" and "Law and Ethics in the Soprano State.")
Dean Hampton, "Failed EnCap Development at Issue in North Arlington Debate," in The Record, October 31, 2011, at p. L-2. (See what I mean? These fiascos never go away.)
John Brenan & Andrew Tangel, "Xanadu $1.2 BILLION Funding Outlined: Developer Vows Taxpayers Are Safe," in The Record, November 10, 2011, at p. A-1. (Menendez is said to have his paws in this one. Total expenditure for this "mall" is around $3 BILLION when all is said and done.)
Adam Liptak, "Justices Rebuke a New Orleans Prosecutor," in The New York Times, November 9, 2011, at p. A18. (Prosecutors cannot deny discovery or decide what is discoverable material to cover their behinds. Right, John McGill, Esq.?)
Frank Bruni, "Torture and Exceptionalism," (Editorial) in The New York Times, November 15, 2011, at p. A31. ("We must live by values worthy of exporting." Do you speak to me of "ethics," Mr. Rabner?)
"The Torture Candidates: Three Republicans Running for President Support Illegal Act of Waterboarding," (Editorial) in The New York Times, November 15, 2011, at p. A30. (What we do to others will be done to us.)
Shawn Boburg, "Doctor Accused of Drug Fraud: Arrest is Second in Past 8 Weeks," in The Record, November 10, 2011, at p. L-1. (Diana Lisa Riccioli and Terry Tuchin claimed to be "medical doctors" and "therapists." Who was providing protection to those two frauds? How many African-Americans -- or inmates of any ethnicity -- have been secretly tortured by those two persons gathering information, illegally, for the Garden State?)
Kibret Marcos, "Town Sued On Harassment Claims: Upper Saddle River Employee Alleges Improprieties by Official," in The Record, November 10, 2011, at p. L-3. (The level of sexual harassment that is common in Mr. Nixon's old home town -- Republican country! -- is surpassed only by comparable behavior in New Jersey's Senate building and Supreme Court, allegedly: "Sexual Favors for New Jersey Judges" and "Deborah T. Poritz and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" then "No Charges for Child Molester in New Jersey Legislature" and "New Jersey Superior Court Judge is a Child Molester.")
