September 30, 2013 at 1:55 P.M. NYPL, computer #14, (Morningside Heights) frozen due to what the librarian describes as "severe problems causing damage to the hard drive." Evidently, a number of library computers have been damaged by sabotage of various kinds. I can never be sure of writing again.
This computer shut down once. I had to sign-in, twice, without being able to sign-out on either occasion. ("How censorship works in America.")
I will try to sign-in, again, from other computers in order to continue writing.
September 27, 2013 at 2:13 P.M. Due to sabotage at NYPL, #10, (Morningside Heights) no printing is possible from this location today. I will try to print this text from public print shops.
On second thought, it may not be wise to attempt to print from another location in light of the computer crime aimed against these blogs and me. I will wait until I can make use of a functional computer at the New York Public Library.
It is sad to think that for many poor persons library computers -- that are the only access to the Internet upon which they can or must rely -- are disabled at the whim of politicians or others wishing to silence a lone dissident. ("How censorship works in America" and "Censorship and Cruelty in New Jersey.")
Shame on you, Mr. Rabner. ("No More Cover-Ups and Lies, Chief Justice Rabner!")
"Income Inequality: Economy is Improving For Some," (Editorial) The Record, September 23, 2013, p. A-11. (N.J. income rose to $69,667 per household; this is second highest in the country, except that the high cost of living and expenses due to the worst corruption in the nation reduce the quality of life for most New Jersey persons to one of the lowest in the country. Disparities in income between the wealthy few and the poorest many have grown under Mr. Christie's administration: " ... poverty in New Jersey actually increased last year from 10.4 percent of the population to 10.8 percent. And the number of residents receiving food stamps or on welfare increased from 8.8 percent in 2011 to 10.2 percent in 2012." 1 out of 10 N.J. persons needs help to eat regularly in a state with the country's second largest income per household due to unequal distribution of wealth.)
Will a Christopher Christie presidency produce an increase in wealth for the super-rich and more poverty for the rest of us? Would Mr. Christie care about the suffering of the poorest Americans? Why continue to give tax breaks and other perks to the richest New Jersey persons at the cost of the poorest people? You decide.
Jessica Silver Greenberg & Ben Protess, "JP Morgan May Settle With Group of Agencies," The New York Times, September 25, 2013, p. B3. (Neither Mr. Diamond nor any prominent Wall Street figure will be going to prison. The lapses and thefts on Wall Street are in the billions of dollars and have affected the entire world. "So Black and So Blue in Prison.")
John C. Ensslin, "County Attorney Back on the Job: County Likely to Settle Wrongful Dismissal for $250,000," The Record, September 24, 2013, p. L-1. (KELLY DURKIN, ESQ., politically targeted attorney, may next face legal ethics charges. "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")
Rebecca D. O'Brien, "Defiant Bergrin Goes Out Swinging," The Record, September 24, 2013, p. A-1. (N.J.'s legal system was further disgraced and humiliated when Mr. Bergrin was charged with owning a brothel to which prominent lawyers and judges in the state -- probably including Stuart Rabner, Bergrin's colleague in the U.S. Attorney's Office and alleged one-time friend! -- were invited and for far worse offenses. "Paul W. Bergrin, Esq. is an Ethical New Jersey Attorney.")
John Petrick, "2 Judges On Notice For Ties to Defendant: Misconduct Seen in Dinners With Friend, Indicted in PVSC Case," The Record, September 24, 2013, p. L-1. ("Two judges in Paterson courts were accused of 'misconduct' Monday because they regularly dined publicly with an INDICTED Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission Supervisor, [Mafia?] a longtime friend and fellow 'church group' member." Irony?)
John Petrick, "Justices Review Finds Lawyer 'Deceitful' and They Disbar Him," The Record, September 24, 2013, p. L-3. (CHARLES INGENITO, ESQ., apparently, was not "sharing" -- despite being connected to "Jaynee LaVecchia, allegedly -- with judges. He got greedy. The N.J. Supreme Court's silence and cover-ups in my matters are deceitful practices which the justices are unwilling to acknowledge, but continue to cover-up. Chief Justice Rabner is unwilling to admit his "connections" to Solomon Dwek or Terry Tuchin as well as his deceitful "conflicts of interest" in my matter. "Have you no shame, Mr. Rabner?")
Ryan Hutchins, "N.J. to Sue Over Foul Cleanup at Landfill: Smelly Roxbury Site in Years-Long Dispute," The Star Ledger, September 24, 2013, p. L-1. (N.J. is a foul-smelling clean-up site. Much of the stench is due to corruption in the courts, legislature and politics of municipalities where little can be, or has been, done to "clean things up." "New Jersey is the Home of the Living Dead.")
Jason Grant, "Disgraced Ex-Lawyer Bergrin Gets 6 Life-Sentences," The Star Ledger, September 24, 2013, p. 13. (None of the N.J. lawyers and judges who were Bergrin's guests at his whore house have been identified, sanctioned, or charged for their despicable and grossly unethical conduct: Is there a war on criminal defense lawyers? "Lynne F. Stewart's Path of Thorns.")
Michael Barbaro, "Now Revealed by Stripper: Booker's Twitter Messages," The New York Times, September 26, 2013, p. A23. (Mr. Booker's stripper friend is a Republican.)
It is traditional wisdom among prostitutes and attorneys (overlapping categories in New Jersey) that clients have to "pay-to-play."
This maxim is the unwritten fundamental rule of Garden State politics for Republicans and Democrats. In the words of the proverbial Trenton insider, "Fat Tony": "You gotta bring something to the party!" ("Is Union City, New Jersey Meyer Lansky's Whore House?" and "New Jersey is Lucky Luciano's Havana.")
"Fat Tony" may be related to "Big Nicky" Sacco whose North Bergen base is suffering from an outbreak of suspicious fires and, perhaps, worse things. ("North Bergen, New Jersey is the Home of La Cosa Nostra" and "Jay Romano and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")
In fairness it should be acknowledged that the state's Democrat Machine has been linked to the mafia for decades. ("Mafia Influence in New Jersey Courts and Politics.")
In an effort to undermine the accurate impression of N.J. as a sewer of political corruption, legal attempts at reform have focused on this "pay-to-play" tradition governing contractors and others doing business with the state as well as litigants in the state's soiled courts. ("Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "Does Senator Menendez have mafia friends?")
Litigants have been known to bribe judges, whether with sexual favors or through politicians as intermediaries offering under-the-table cash payments. ("Bribery in Union City, New Jersey" and "New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court.")
Bergen County has witnessed a war between County Executive Kathleen Donovan (R) and Ferreiro's old crew as well as Zisa's operatives among cops and judges. Ms. Donovan is a brave and honest public official and yet, somehow, still a Republican:
"Donovan, a Republican, began the exchange with a letter Wednesday in which she cited the recent indictment of JOSEPH FERREIRO and the 'negative light' it once again shines on Bergen County and the Democratic party as a whole." ("Joe Ferreiro is Bergen's Godfather.")
A so-called "Mr. Ganz," whose first name is not given in this article, probably because he "knew somebody" at this paper (a paragraph is missing from the published text, I guess), who is an "unindicted co-conspirator" -- as per the Grand Jury transcripts, allegedly, in the Ferreiro matter -- found it easy to object to any and all complaints that he, Ganz, may have been "influenced" to support the Xanadu/American Dream scam by Ferreiro or bribes received, if any. ("Cement is Gold.")
In other words, "Mr. Ganz" probably would have voted the same way, anyway, even if he were not bribed. "So what the hell?" says Mr. Ganz. ("Senator Bob Loves Xanadu!")
Mr. Ganz is what I would describe in more ways than one as a "Freeholder" in Bergen County, New Jersey. This means that his "services" -- like those of a hooker -- are far from "free."
What they have done in Bergen County is to make pay-to-play easier under the existing law:
"The freeholders reached a bipartisan agreement earlier this year on a revised pay-to-play ordinance that relaxed the limits on what no-bid contractors could contribute to county political committees."
