Posted on 05/15/2008 8:22:15 AM PDT by Puppage
ELIZABETH, N.J. -- The nation's first openly gay governor was back in court Thursday, testifying for a second day as he tries to convince a judge he is too poor to pay alimony to his estranged wife.
Former New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey testified Wednesday that he has limited income, few assets and significant debts. He said he is all but unemployable because of the gay sex scandal that toppled his administration and ongoing publicity in his messy divorce.
"Because of this case, I have been financially crippled," McGreevey told the judge.
McGreevey, 50, stepped down 13 months before his first term was to end, announcing in a nationally televised speech that he was "a gay American." He said he had an affair with a male staffer while married to Dina Matos McGreevey. The staffer denies the affair and says he was sexually harassed by the governor.
Now an Episcopal seminary student, McGreevey said he owes a prior divorce lawyer at least $116,000 and has not paid his first ex-wife any child support this year. He said he relies on boyfriend Mark O'Donnell to pay legal bills and lifestyle expenses. He lives in a house owned by O'Donnell and said he owes O'Donnell money.
Matos McGreevey wants alimony, and is asking the judge to base the payments, at least in part, on McGreevey's "marital conduct," including his alleged adulterous gay relationship.
McGreevey lawyer Stephen Haller said the couple's "short-term marriage" does not qualify for her for alimony. They split in 2004 after four years of marriage.
Matos McGreevey, 41, is a hospital executive, but she is slated to lose her job next month when the hospital closes.
Her lawyer, John Post, accused McGreevey of underestimating his earning potential.
The judge said employment expert Donna Kolsky will testify Thursday afternoon. She is expected to testify that McGreevey could earn a maximum of $118,000 from teaching and consulting. Matos McGreevey earns about $82,000 a year at the hospital.
The couple is fighting over alimony, child support, and how to divide their assets and liabilities. They have agreed on custody of their only child, 6-year-old Jacqueline.
Matos McGreevey is asking the court to award her alimony and additional money based on the contention that McGreevey committed marriage fraud. She says she was duped into marriage by a gay man who needed the cover of a wife to advance his political career.
McGreevey says his wife should have known he was gay.
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Gee, I really feel sorry for him ........... NOT.
He’s morally crippled too.
So the proud “gay American” isn’t man enough to pay child support. What a bastard. Get your butt to McDonalds get a job and help support your kids you SOB!
Wish I could feel sorry for Gov McScurvy.....NOT!
Openly gay...... not until the day he quit.
She makes $82,000 a year. Plus, any money that could have gone to the child, she made him spend in legal bills.
He’s no better than one of the turds he burgles.
Former New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey testified Wednesday that he has limited income, few assets and significant debts. He said he is all but unemployable because of the gay sex scandal that toppled his administration and ongoing publicity in his messy divorce.
That’s crazy, this time of year there are lots of landscaping companies that are hiring.
So I presume the Episcopal Diocese in New Jersey is paying for his seminary tuition and books?
This SOB should be in jail for corruption.
That would be the only acceptable excuse for not paying alimony.
But, he’s a Dem in a Dem paradise. Plus he’s gay—double bonus points for that./s/
The real chickens came home to roost?
I might have misread but is says alimony - not child support.
What is it about being a gay, cheating husband causes one to become an Episcopal seminary student?
Keep this person away from the kids, people.
Typical gay white man.
“He said he relies on boyfriend Mark O’Donnell to pay legal bills and lifestyle expenses.”
Lifestyle expenses - the mind boggles at what this could possibly mean. Now I need an aspirin....
And if I remember correctly they had three-somes together - so why him being gay came as such a shock to her - I'll never know.
Who cheated again? To be blunt - he was married, then he went out, and s****ed d-—. He made that decision. That was his choice to make. Now he has to live with that.
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