Posted on 02/28/2005 8:42:38 AM PST by Calpernia
Wow, an amazing roundup of crooks and all in New Jersey.
Cal,
You put in a lot of work on this thread.......
It is not a surprise that we may have cells of terrorists with fake but real ID's.
And to think, it is happening in every state.
People will sell their souls for a house payment.
Newark can't resist the mayor's parties
February 27, 2005
Every year on his birthday, Newark Mayor Sharpe James holds a political fund-raiser that brings in thousands of dollars -- much of it from municipal employees. Last Thursday, in the midst of a snowstorm, the mayor's annual gala brought out more than 1,000 people who paid $500 each to party in a cavernous ballroom wrapped in red, white and blue at the Robert Treat Hotel. The mayor's wife, mother and three sons were there. So was acting Gov. Richard Codey, city council members, local politicians, as well as scores of developers and others who do business in Newark.
Too funny. Sad, but Sopranos funny.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1352740/posts
Smiling Through the Storm
Camden--WAYNE R. BRYANT, a longtime Democratic state senator, has been getting the sort of attention that most politicians would be happy to do without.
The Courier-Post, a local newspaper widely read in his Camden-area district, recently called him the "king of double dipping," and an influential Web site, politicsnj.com, has taken to introducing articles about him with the words "oink, oink."
Meanwhile, Mr. Bryant has been singled out in news media accounts statewide as one of the chief stumbling blocks in the failed attempt earlier this month to pass a state law placing limits on the awarding of public contracts to political donors.
Perhaps most remarkable about this storm of criticism, though, is how little Mr. Bryant seems to care. His reaction to the mention of one graphic representation of him on the Web brought a broad smile
TRENTON - Attorney General Peter C. Harvey announced that the former owner and chief executive officer of a now-defunct Camden mental health counseling center has been sentenced to state prison after being convicted of submitting more than $137,900 in fraudulent bills to the Medicaid Program.
The Medicaid Program, which is funded by the state and federal governments, provides health care services and prescription drugs to persons who may not otherwise be able to afford such services and medicines. The State of New Jersey administers the Medicaid Program through the Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services and through the Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor’s Medicaid Fraud Section, which investigates both criminal and civil Medicaid fraud.
According to Vaughn L. McKoy, Director, Division of Criminal Justice, and Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Greta Gooden-Brown, Eliezer Martinez, 57, Arthur Avenue, Camden, former owner and chief executive officer of Hispanic Counseling Center and Family Services of New Jersey, Inc., Camden, was sentenced on Jan. 21 by Camden County Superior Court Judge Thomas A. Brown, Jr. to five years in state prison and was ordered to pay more than $275,900 in criminal fines and $137,900 in restitution. On Oct. 27, 2004, Martinez was convicted by a Camden County jury on charges contained in a May 31, 2002 State Grand Jury indictment filed by the Division of Criminal Justice - Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor. The indictment charged Martinez with Health Care Claims Fraud (2nd degree) and Medicaid Fraud (3rd degree).
Corzine-Kushner group crunching numbers to make offer for Nets
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-4/106213538544380.xml
The Star-Ledger
Sen. Jon Corzine (D-N.J.) and real estate magnate Charles Kushner, leaders of a New Jersey investor group vying to buy the Nets, hunkered down yesterday with their lawyers, accountants and bankers to decide how much to offer for the team.
A principal owner of YankeeNets, which owns the basketball team, said the meetings in Morristown would continue through the Labor Day weekend. By the middle of next week, he said, the group would decide how much to pay and where the team would play its home games -- the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford or a proposed Newark arena.
http://1010wins.com/topstories/local_story_062150108.html
A state grand jury has indicted an Old Bridge Township official on corruption charges, alleging he solicited and received thousands of dollars in goods and services from developers doing business with the township.
Barry C. Bowers, the community's engineering inspector, was charged with official misconduct and accepting unlawful benefits as a public servant, the state Attorney General's office said Thursday.
There used to be a site dedicated to corruption in North Bergen (historically run by the DeCalvacante family) online, but it misteriously disappeared.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1192415/posts
FBI adds Touro College to extortion probe (sex-blackmail, gay guv, Torricelli connection)
STAR LEDGER ^ | 8/16/04 | JOSH MARGOLIN
Posted on 08/16/2004 8:29:51 AM EDT by Liz
(Touro's) board members include politically connected developer Charles Kushner, and other prominent New Jersey developers and businessmen.......and plans to build a medical school in Livingston and enlisted former Sen. Robert Torricelli as its consultant on that project........ Golan Cipel was helping Touro with its medical school plans, and now federal investigators have made Touro part of their probe into the sex-and-blackmail scandal that last week all but ended the political career of Gov. James E. McGreevey.
The FBI is reviewing allegations that Cipel's attorneys asked McGreevey's administration to help fast-track the Manhattan-based college's application to open what would be the only private medical school in New Jersey.
Touro's attorney yesterday said college officials "are confounded" by the allegations and disavowed any role in the scandal. "Those statements were never authorized and we were unaware of them until we read them in the newspapers," said the college's lawyer, Franklyn Snitow.
In addition to Cipel, the medical school plan has brought together Kushner and Torricelli, two other controversial figures in Democratic politics.
Kushner, who has been charged with obstructing a separate federal investigation, is a Touro board member. He also had arranged with Touro officials to largely bankroll the creation of the medical school in his hometown of Livingston and, in return, hoped to see the institution named after his mother, Rae, who recently died..................
Torricelli, who did not seek re-election after being admonished in an ethics scandal, is representing Touro in its push for a medical school. Snitow said Torricelli was enlisted as "we prepare ourselves to go through the process."
Torricelli aide Sean Jackson said Torricelli is "providing general advice, fund-raising strategy and advice about opening a medical school."
Hiya Clemenza!
Do you have a link? Or the Police Officer's name so I can look it up?
Feel welcome to add info here. I am just making an attempt at organizing :)
http://wcbs880.com/njnews/NJ--ContributorCharge-jn/resources_news_html
Court suspends law license of troubled Democratic contributor
Thursday March 03, 2005
By MATT SMITH
Associated Press Writer
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) A midlevel state appeals court Thursday suspended the New York law license of a major New Jersey Democratic Party contributor who pleaded guilty last year to witness tampering and tax charges.
Charles B. Kushner will be prohibited from practicing law in New York under the decision by the Appellate Division of state Supreme Court. The motion to suspend Kushner's license was made by the state's Committee on Professional Standards.
Kushner is to be sentenced Friday in federal court in New Jersey for using a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law who was a witness in a federal probe that focused on Kushner's donations and business.
Kushner pleaded guilty in August to the witness tampering charge. In doing so, he also admitted sending a tape of the seduction to the man's wife Kushner's sister.
Kushner pleaded guilty as well to campaign finance violations and 16 counts of filing false tax returns for various partnerships affiliated with his company, avoiding up to $325,000 in taxes.
Since 1997, Kushner gave more than $1 million to Democrats and was the top donor to former New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey's successful gubernatorial campaign. The married McGreevey, whose administration was mired in its own scandals, resigned in November after admitting to a homosexual affair.
Kushner also donated funds in the past to New York Democrats, including U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and state Comptroller Alan Hevesi.
Kushner, 50, has been free on $5 million bail pending sentencing. He faces between 18 and 33 months in prison.
Following his guilty plea, Kushner resigned as chairman of The Kushner Companies, a firm valued at more than $1 billion that owns or manages 20,000 apartments in New Jersey and several other states. The company also builds new homes and has commercial properties throughout New York and New Jersey.
A call Kushner's attorney Robert Ray was not immediately returned.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1356228/posts
Corporate Exec Kushner Sentenced To 2 Years (massive bundling scam to DNC, Clintons, Torricelli)
POLITICAL MONEY LINE ^ | 3/4/05
Posted on 03/04/2005 4:37:18 PM EST by Liz
Charles Kushner
Charles Kushner, former chairman of Kushner Companies, a real estate and apartment owning/managing company in northern New Jersey and the Northeast, was sentenced on 3/4 to twenty-four months in prison and fined $40,000. He had been free on $5 million bail.
Kushner, a major fundraiser for Democrats, pleaded guilty in August to giving false statements to the FEC regarding $385,000 in political contributions he made from real estate partnerships without the permission of other partners, falsifying tax forms (16 counts), improperly listing $1 million in charitable contributions as business expenses, and shaving funds several hundred thousand dollars off taxes owed, and retaliating against his sister - a government witness.
Kushner had already paid the FEC a civil penalty of $508,900. The contributions were made in 1997-2000 and came from forty partnerships he controls. The recipients included 13 candidate committees, one party committee and one PAC.
Because federal law prohibits convicted felons from owning any interest in a bank, federal regulators forced the sale of Kushner-owned NorCrown Bank in New Jersey. On Nov. 11, Valley National Bancorp finalized a deal to buy NorCrown for $141 million. The Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp reached a settlement in February with Kushner and a trust fund requiring them to pay $12.5 million for not fully identifying all the persons connected to the family trust that owned the bank.
Kushner may also owe between $200,000 and $320,000 in back taxes.
PoliticalMoneyLine highlighted the Kushner bundles in its May 30, 2001, home page link.
See also DOJ press release on Kushner’s guilty plea (link).
Companies, partnerships & individuals connected to Charles J. Kushner (Kushner Companies) bundled over $1 million to federal candidates and the DNC in 1999-00.
Meekonegop has a number of bump lists as well as a Texas Ping list.
He may have something compiled.
Thanks again, I will initiate late Saturday night contact in this manner.
Bump to TT, Bump to MeekONEGop, come in Meekone
You've got Freepmail. :^Dbump!
Good morning!
And bump!
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