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NYP: SO MUCH FOR 'MR. CLEAN' - Corzine's 'privacy' problem
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Last October, just before launching his statehouse bid, Corzine invested $7 million in a hedge fund headed by Carl Icahn... majority owner of the Sands Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City. That would be a blatant conflict of interest and a violation of ethics for a sitting governor....
Then there's his financial partnership... with real-estate tycoon Charles Kushner. The soon-to-be-convicted Kushner was brought down in a tawdry scandal involving tax fraud and sex. Ironically, he'd been the key link between then-Gov. Jim McGreevey and his lover, Golan Cipel, whose hiring as a key state homeland security official ultimately led to the governor's resignation....
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Bob Menendez: Cuban-American Hero or Cuban- American Castroite?
Jersey Politics.com ^ | 12.12.05 | Murray Sabrin, Ph.D.
Posted on 12/15/2005 12:53:30 PM EST by Coleus
Governor-elect Corzine’s appointment of Congressman Robert Menendez to fill the remaining year of his U.S. Senate term was no surprise. Corzine had been signaling the Menendez appointment since he jumped into the governor’s race a year ago.
In all the press reports about the life and career of Bob Menendez, he is always identified as the son of Cuban immigrants. The implication is that Menendez’s parents fled Castro-ruled Cuba. In yesterday’s Record columnist Mike Kelly writes, “As the son of Cuban –American parents, who fled the brutal hand of Fidel Castro…” stating in no uncertain terms that Menendez’s parents arrived in America to escape Castro’s brutal totalitarian regime. (Emphasis added)
In his address accepting governor-elect Corzine’s appointment to the U.S. Senate, Menendez said, “My own parents came to this country fleeing tyranny and searching for freedom.” Again, Menendez implied his parents fled Cuba because of Castro’s oppressive policies. And journalists have been inferring that the Menendez family escaped the Castro regime.
There is one major problem with the newspaper reports about Menendez’s parents’ migration from Cuba, and Mike Kelly’s column. Bob Menendez was born in New York on January 1, 1954, exactly five years before Castro seized power on January 1, 1959. Menendez’s parents arrived in America well before Castro ousted the dictatorial Batista regime. In other words, the Menendez family did not leave Cuba because of Castro. Why did they leave Cuba? Were Mr. and Mrs. Menendez brutalized by Batista—the Cuban dictator of the early 1950s? If so, how were they able to leave Cuba?
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