July 17, 2013 at 2:24 P.M. No hot water for a shower today. Ice cold water helped cool me off. Harassment prevented me from writing at home. Maybe I'll try again later.
John Reitmeyer, "Computer System Delays N.J. Tax Returns: Thousands May Wait All Summer for Checks," The Record, July 12, 2013, p. A-1.
It appears that computer sabotage or incompetence -- possibly, also, "missing funds" and an unwillingness to admit to the shortfall -- explains the delays in New Jersey issuing much-needed refund checks to millions of residents of the state's fetid swamps and industrial parks.
" ... 'We gave them $1,300 that didn't belong to them,' said Sharon Patula, a former Hawthorn resident who now lives in South Carolina. 'I'm very frustrated.' ..."
For many poor persons suffering in the stifling heat near Trenton the lack of concern from public officials at this governmental incompetence, dishonesty, corruption and (perhaps) criminality from biased judges and politicians can only be called disgusting.
It is simply shameful how unconcerned are officials, like Stuart Rabner or Richard J. Codey and Stephen Sweeney, or Senator Menendez, about the hardships to which New Jersey's most afflicted families will be put by this delay. ("New Jersey is the Home of the Living Dead" and "Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" then "New Jersey's Legal System is a Whorehouse.")
For New Jersey's tainted Office of Attorney Ethics (OAE) to judge the ethics of anyone is sheer hypocrisy and farce. People need their money, Mr. Christie:
"Patula is not alone, according to the State Department of the Treasury. Nearly three full months after the deadline for taxpayers to provide their income tax returns to the Treasury's Division of Taxation, the agency said it is still working to process nearly 185,000 refunds."
Some returns may be delayed until the end of August or September. Others may be "lost" or simply disappear (like Mr. Corzine's clients' money thanks to his pricey lawyers), but whatever happens, someone has enjoyed the illicit use of the residents' money and made interest accumulated during the months of delay -- without ANY consequences for the culprits -- who may split that accumulated interest when attention has drifted away from this matter. ("New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court" and "New Jersey's Politically-Connected Lawyers On the Tit.")
This sort of "irregularity" in providing cash returns to residents has happened before:
"Christie himself apologized to [tax] filers on his monthly radio show after a screening program designed to prevent tax fraud was found to be flagging returns too aggressively, causing unwarranted delays for thousands of filers."
Rumors are that N.J. has fabricated allegations of computer trouble because they simply do not have the money to fulfill their obligations. New Jersey may have trouble with pension payments as well. This should concern John McGill of the OAE. ("New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System" and "New Jersey's Office of Attorney Ethics.")
Law firms sign-off on the "solvency" of New Jersey's financial structure, including pension plans they KNOW to be underfunded. ("Corrupt Law Firms, Senator Bob, and New Jersey Ethics" and "No Charges For Child Molester in New Jersey Assembly.")
" ... roughly 4 percent of the 4.7 million returns the Division of Taxation received this year have yet to be processed as the state transitions to the new computer system."
Compounding the difficulties for N.J. residents are fears that a grant from the federal government aimed at easing the burdens on aging veterans may be stolen by politicians desperate for money to cover "gaps" in New Jersey income as against obligations.
Perhaps politicians, state lawyers, judges will "dip into" funds held in trust for residents, such as the disabled. ("No More Cover-Ups and Lies, Chief Justice Rabner!")
I never stole a cent from trust funds for clients. Refraining from thievery and being the victim of thefts is "unethical" in New Jersey.
I wonder whether Mr. McGill was sharing in the money or clients stolen from my office? I guess the "cash goes south," eh, Mr. McGill? ("Is Union City, New Jersey Meyer Lansky's Whore House?" and "New Jersey is Lucky Luciano's Havana.")
The federal government is already sufficiently concerned to place special "precautions" on funds sent to New Jersey. Mathew McGrath, "Grant Could Help New Jersey Veterans: $2 MILLION to Prevent Homelessness," The Record, July 12, 2013, p. L-2.
