June 11, 2014 at 1:54 P.M. Calls received from "Turtle Creek," PA, on June 10, 2014 at 12:40 P.M. from this number -- 412-662-7386; June 11, 2014 at 11:33 A.M. from 855-225-7898. I suspect that these calls emanate from the same source. Senator Menendez, can you identify that source and/or the purpose of these calls? ("Does Senator Menendez have mafia friends?")
June 10, 2014 at 2:30 P.M. No computers at NYPL, Morningside Heights can access Google Chrome or print items. Thank you for installing these miraculous laptops. Apparently, the problem may be solved in about six months or (perhaps) in a year or so.
"Budget Shortfall: Courts May Force Christie's Hand," (Editorial) The Record, June 9, 2014, p. A-11. (Disaster in Trenton as New Jersey's government resembles Guatemala under the generals in the eighties.)
Mathew McGrath, "Chief Gets Big Checks for Unused Time: Lodi Cop's $342,000 Payout Prompts More Calls For Reform," The Record, June 7, 2014, p. A-1. (Vincent Caruso is going into the "cement business" after retiring from police work.)
John Reitmeyer, "Legal Researchers Wary of Pension Payment Cut: Say Yes For Current Budget[,] but Not Next Year's," [sic.] The Record, June 7, 2014, p. A-3. (NJ pensioners may bear the burden of corruption and will certainly endure the incompetence of judges and politicians.)
Stephanie Dazio, "Chief For a Day is Welcome Challenge: Top Cop Salutes Brave Kids," The Record, June 7, 2014, p. L-1. (Young "Tommy," 9, of Waldwick, New Jersey was Bergen County Sheriff's Office "Chief For a Day" and was given $200,000 for unused sick time at the conclusion of his day in office.)
"Documents Flap May Cost Hackensack $20,000: Legal bills pile up over city's demand for $450 fee," The Record, June 7, 2014, p. L-3. ("A request for public documents that should have cost $15 in copying fees may wind up costing N.J. taxpayers $20,000 in legal fees." This is an excellent example of New Jersey government's pervasive misuse of government money to enrich lawyers and politicians. Are you sure that this is a mistake or stupidity? How much is coming back to the mayor under the table?)
Chris Harris, "Shroeder's Trial Set For Feb. 2," The Record, June 7, 2014, p. L-3. (Former N.J. Assembly member Robert Shroeder allegedly stole $1.8 MILLION from individuals who lent him money and issued $3.1 MILLION in bad checks. Mr. Shroeder served on the legal ethics committee no doubt.)
Peter J. Sampson, "Court Official Receives Probation in Theft From Interstate Park Agency," The Record, June 7, 2014, p. L-5. (Maria Gorski, 58, ordered to pay $11,200 in restitution for thefts while she was a deputy court administrator for Palisades Interstate Park Commission.)
Charles Stile, "High Level Talks Could Save Rabner: Chief Justice Remains Quiet On His Job Status," The Record, May 17, 2014, p. A-1. (Was there a secret deal for Rabner's reappointment that involved Mr. Rabner's help with continuing the cover-ups in my matters in order to protect Mr. Menendez and other Democrats?)
John Reitmeyer & Melissa Hayes, "Christie Halts $900 Million For Pensions: Rerouting Money to Aid Budget Further Threatens Credit Rating," The Record, May 21, 2014, p. A-1. (Christie forced to halt application of $900 million to stabilize the pension system in order to cover "holes" in the budget. Loss to credit rating is greatest in the country.)
Karen Sudol, "North Bergen Contractor Allegedly BRIBED Fire Aide: Hudson Building Carried $8 MILLION in Fines," The Record, May 21, 2014, p. L-2. (A North Bergen man is charged with bribing a West New York municipal official to eliminate more than $8 million in fines. Victor Corca, 48, is charged by the feds -- no N.J. officials saw a problem! -- with bribery in an ongoing investigation that may reach top local officials. Mr. Coca explained, allegedly, that "Big Nicky" Sacco and Bob Menendez never 'had a problem with it." Mr. Coca offered $5,000 in cash to an un-named official who was probably caught and is cooperating with the feds. This official was likely to be sharing money with the higher-ups.)
Jim Norman, "Passaic Man is Facing Sex Charges in Wallington," The Record, May 21, 2014, p. L-3. (Tomas Flores, 26, charged with numerous sex offenses involving adolescent girls.)
Russ Bueltner, "Port Authority Land Purchase: Is Boon to Bayonne, and Christie," The New York Times, June 9, 2014, p. A1. (Mr. Christie's appointees at the Port Authority -- Mr. Baroni and Mr. Samson included -- "finagled" the purchase of a 131-acre tract of land for $235 million of New York and New Jersey taxpayers' money, as well as from fees paid by travelers from many states, essentially, to protect Mr. Christie's reputation for fiscal probity by avoiding a costly Trenton take-over of Bayonne's finances. The latest disaster in Menendez's Hudson County is due to plunder and theft from municipalities, like Union City, North Bergen, Jersey City and Hoboken as well as Bayonne -- Hoboken is where Mr. Menendez now lives -- over a period of years. This Port Authority caper is basically a Republican operation where Menendez and Sweeney "looked the other way.")
Linh That, "Police Retirees Cash In While Lawmakers Stall: $1.5 MILLION in New Payouts Piles Up [sic.] For Public Workers," The Record, June 9, 2014, p. A-1. (This is mostly a Democrat operation that allows "their people" to retire, often in their early fifties, to collect massive payouts while continuing to work at other public jobs, eventually also collecting multiple pensions from the public treasury. For a hint of what these games are doing to the state's treasury see the list of sources to be attached soon to this essay.)
"In the last three months, North Jersey taxpayers have been put on the hook for $1.5 million in payouts to eight police officers -- including five chiefs -- to cover thousands of hours in unused sick, vacation[,] and compensatory time."
This latest absurdity is only one more expression of New Jersey's real philosophy of government that seems to apply no matter who is governor or which party has control of the legislature.
Most of the persons involved in these scams, including Christie and Sweeney, happen to be New Jersey lawyers. ("New Jersey Lawyers and Judges Pay Themselves OT.")
Government is a cash machine for politicians and their friends -- "friends" is a word that often includes organized crime figures as well as police officers (sometimes they are the same people) who are "taken care of" by politicians in order that they, these criminals/cops, may then "take care of" politicians. ("Joe Ferreiro Indicted Again" and "Mafia Influence in New Jersey Courts and Politics.")
Traditionally, public employees are properly compensated for "unused" sick time and, by holding several job titles and salaries, "earn" multiple pensions even after reform legislation. ("New Jersey Pension Funds Are $54 BILLION Short" and "New Jersey is the Home of the Living Dead.")
Efforts to curtail the exploitation of government resources by Republicans -- who seem to have no problem with Mr. Christie rewarding contributors to the GOP with public money! -- have been led by Senator Gerald Cardinale, known in Hudson County as "the enemy of the people," who is bitterly opposed by the man who would be king in New Jersey, Mr. Sweeney. ("New Jersey's Politically-Connected Lawyers On the Tit.")
Mr. Sweeney needs the public employees' unions to support him in his efforts to become the next Democrat governor of New Jersey (a fate worse than death).
Mr. Sweeney is planning to seize the crown and send the young prince, Mr. Christie, to the tower for beheading.
Sweeney wants to be governor of New Jersey, in other words, and he must keep his loyal serfs happy by dispersing public gold to them, especially among the rabble in places like Hudson County:
" ... these [payouts] have become a rite of passage for some retiring public employees -- Lodi Police Chief VINCENT CARUSO [no relation to the tenor?] is getting $342,381, for instance -- and other long-time workers still on the job, despite repeated criticism from Governor Christie and fiscal watchdogs who have called for the benefit to be repealed entirely."
Among cops already "on the tit" in New Jersey are the following "loyal officers": Gary Giardina, allegedly "connected" Chief of Police in Diana Lisa Riccioli's Clifton, will take home $134,000 of your money in addition to what he is making in cash from local mob bosses; Frank Papaprieto will yank down a bonus of $158,000 to supplement his bribe money and modest salary this week; and lagging behind, as usual, is Mathew Paz of Passaic, a Menendez man who got lost trying to find Hudson County, who will pocket $100,000 plus whatever he made from the thriving heroin dealers who have made his area their home and do everything but advertise on-line.
This is to say nothing of the token WASP among these cops, Thomas Johnson, hired under an affirmative action program for white people in New Jersey, who will only scoop $228,141 over his salary and moneys confiscated that "got lost somehow, he don't know how."
"Some of these payouts rival the salaries of top brass in some of the nation's largest police departments [where they actually deal with criminals.] Bill Bratton, New York city police commissioner [sic.] is earning a measly $205,180, [he is unfairly denied opportunities to take bribes under New York law!] while the new police chief for Miami Beach will be paid $207,500, plus a $2,000 monthly housing allowance" -- to supplement a decline in bribe money from local Cocaine dealers -- "according to media reports."
