April 22, 2013 at 12:59 P.M. Sabotage and hacks into computer #13, NYPL, Morningside Heights, made it difficult to access these blogs. There is always a danger that I will be unable to return to this site. I cannot send or receive e-mails, nor can I post images here.
If you have attempted to contact me (whether from the U.S. or elsewhere) and have received no response, I assure you that I am not being rude. I am denied access to my Internet mailboxes and accounts for no reason that has been explained to me. In fact, if you have sent me an e-mail, the chances are excellent that you have been communicating with the CIA, FBI, OAE or some other law enforcement agency.
Perhaps you have reached CCA EOS? Computer crime prevented me from writing much on Saturday because the words I typed were instantly deleted from my text. Efforts are, evidently, still underway to deny me access to the Internet. I will do my best to continue writing under these conditions. ("How censorship works in America" and "Censorship and Cruelty in New Jersey.")
Peter J. Sampson, "Two Sports Gear Sellers to Admit School Scam: Make Plea Bargain Days Before Jury Selection," in The Record, April 2, 2013, at p. L-1.
New Jersey's record for shameless and mendacious corruption continues to reach new lows.
Thefts from the state's schoolchildren, in the form of expensive and poor-quality sports equipment, is only the latest story of political bosses and judges making money from exploiting the taxpayers.
As usual, in this latest disaster, the persons supplying the outrageously expensive and inadequate equipment, may have provided kickbacks to the dirty politicians who made these deals possible:
"Two former executives in a Pennsylvania athletic equipment company decided to forego trial and were expected to plead guilty today to conspiring to defraud schools and colleges in New Jersey and 11 other states through the sale and re-conditioning of football helmets and other sports gear."
The safety of children placed in schools where the state acts in locus parentis was expendable for the very officials entrusted with protecting their welfare, but who were making self-serving deals for outrageously expensive equipment that was junk and that politicians must have known would fail to ensure the safety of young athletes. ("Cement is Gold.")
The Garden State's children were sacrificed (again) to the greed of politicians and judges as well as corrupt manufacturers making a bundle from selling sub-standard equipment, at obscene prices, with officials looking the other way for a piece of the action. ("More Mafia Influence in New Jersey" and "Another Mafia Sweep in New Jersey, and Anne Milgram is Clueless.")
There is no way that such sleazy transactions would have been made and gone undetected for so long, without kickbacks to politicians and lawyers. ("Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "New Jersey is the Home of the Living Dead.")
Although several states have been victimized by the same "cast and crew," the source of the scams and the deepest "connections" are with New Jersey government, where alleged "mafia affiliations" for the indicted "industrialists" and their friends may also be found:
"A plea hearing for MITCHELL KURLANDER, the former chief financial officer of Circle System Group, Inc., and his father-in-law, ALAN ABESHAUS, the company's chief executive officer and largest shareholder, was scheduled for 10:30 A.M., before District Judge William H. Walls, in Newark."
I notice that the plea deals with the U.S. Attorney's Office apparently had nothing to do with New Jersey's "underwhelming" Attorney General, James Chiesa, who was and is oblivious to this deal and to the commission of these and many similar crimes of corruption. ("New Jersey is Lucky Luciano's Havana.")
I am also surprised to learn that, at least as set forth in the press coverage of this plea bargain, there is NO requirement AT THIS TIME that the two individuals accepting the plea, Mr. Kurlander and Mr. Abeshaus, implicate any and all POLITICIANS with whom they negotiated these deals, nor will they have to place on the record whatever payments, if any, were made to public officials, anywhere, in order to "close" these transactions "promptly and efficiently."
It will be especially interesting to learn whether there were "payments not specified in the contracts" for "consultation services incidental to these transactions."
Strangely, there may be substantial prison time for these upstanding men taking this plea deal if they remain "silent." ("Mafia Influence in New Jersey Courts and Politics.")
The amounts involved in total are in the MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. The investigation that led to these arrests and that, I suspect, will involve further cooperation from these fine gentlemen with the FBI and Justice Department was brought about by a whistleblower's lawsuit.
Allegations that judges and politicians as well as lawyers (Lowenstein, Sandler -- perhaps?) negotiating these deals were in on the scams and will now escape all liability may be a trifle premature. ("Corrupt Law Firms, Senator Bob, and New Jersey Ethics" and "New Jersey's Politically-Connected Lawyers On the Tit.")
"In [only] one of these schemes, the defendants allegedly used monthly statements that looked identical to Circle's billing invoices to collect more than 500 duplicate payments totalling upward of $970,000 from schools."
CCA EOS? Were any contributions made, directly or indirectly, to Mr. Christie and Mr. Codey -- or Bob Menendez, possibly -- by this company, its employees, and/or these defendants? ("Is Menendez For Sale?" and "Crooked Broker Paid-Off Menendez.")
Is this an example of New Jersey's "ethics," Mr. Rabner?
