7/23/2009, 11:18 pm
Comrades, I am bursting with pride at the latest advancements made by my home state of New Jersey towards the perfect People's progressive utopia. Allow my friends at Reuters to do some boasting for me....
Friends, not only has NJ rapidly adopted the progressive example of new politics as practiced by our Dear Leader and his apostles in the People's Democratic Republic of Chicago, but we have also gotten a head start on Obama's health care reform by creating a new system for distributing transplant organs!
It is also a tribute to the diversity of this great state that the clergy was also invited to participate in the new open government style we have achieved!
And we are so CLEAN here, too! We LAUNDER our money before using it! What other government organization, outside of perhaps the US Congress, can make that claim?
I have to say there were times I was a bit, well, ashamed to be living in this people's paradise. Comrades from New York would often say to me, "You from Joisey? What exit?" along with similar trite cliches. But NOW.... I'll bet Obama gives us a medal or something the next time he comes here to campaign for his BFF Governor Jon Corzine, who should win re-election this year in a landslide because of the great job he is doing and because he is also a limosine liberal man of the people. Gov. Jon didn't want to accept any credit for today's wonderful news and our great progressive US Senators Lautenberg and Menendez declined same also, but here is a picture of them all with one of the principals in today's festivities:
What a bunch of happy progressive leaders, eh? We're so blessed here to have folks like these here in the Garbage Garden State. Arizona may have the Grand Canyon and Colorada may have the Rocky Mountains, but New Jersey has Great Leadership!
Comrades, I'm sorry to be so boastful here but until you live in a state like this, you can't understand how justifyably proud I am. But please don't all of you try to come here to live, - as much as we'd love to have you - because it is a small state and there just isn't the room (and don't come here if you still have both kidneys either, if you know what's good for you.)
UPDATE 3-Mayors, rabbis arrested in NJ corruption probe
Thu Jul 23, 2009 4:31pm EDT
* Three New Jersey mayors arrested in corruption case
* Several rabbis, local politicians also among 44 arrested
* Case found bribery, money laundering, human kidney sales
By Edith Honan
NEWARK, July 23 (Reuters) - Dozens of New Jersey politicians, officials and prominent rabbis were arrested on Thursday in a sweeping federal probe that uncovered political corruption, human organ sales and money laundering from New York to Israel, officials said.
The 10-year investigation, dubbed "Operation Bid Rig," exposed influence-peddling and bribe-taking among a network of public officials and a separate multimillion dollar money-laundering ring that funneled funds through charities operated by local rabbis, said the U.S. Attorney's office in Newark, New Jersey.
The cast of the 44 arrested featured Hoboken, New Jersey, Mayor Peter Cammarano, who took office three weeks ago in the industrial city visible across the Hudson River from New York.
Others accused were mayors of nearby Secaucus and Ridgefield, state Assemblymen, a deputy mayor, city council members, housing, planning and zoning officials, building inspectors and political candidates.
"New Jersey's corruption problem is one of the worst, if not the worst, in the nation," said Ed Kahrer, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI's white collar crime and public corruption program in New Jersey, who has worked on the investigation since it began in July 1999.
"It has become ingrained in New Jersey's political culture," he said, calling corruption "a cancer."
Central to the investigation was an informant who was charged with bank fraud in 2006 and posed undercover as a real estate developer and owner of a tile business who paid off officials to win project approval and public contracts in northern New Jersey, according to documents in the case.
The public officials stand accused of taking bribes for pledging their help getting permits and projects prioritized and approved or steering contracts to the witness.
"CULTURE OF CORRUPTION"
In scenes that could have been lifted from the hit TV series "The Sopranos," about New Jersey organized crime, they met in diners, parking lots, even bathrooms, officials said.
"The politicians willingly put themselves up for sale," said Acting U.S. Attorney Ralph Marra. "The victims are the average citizens and the honest business people in this state. They don't have a chance in this culture of corruption."
Continued at https://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2340189320090723
Friends, not only has NJ rapidly adopted the progressive example of new politics as practiced by our Dear Leader and his apostles in the People's Democratic Republic of Chicago, but we have also gotten a head start on Obama's health care reform by creating a new system for distributing transplant organs!
It is also a tribute to the diversity of this great state that the clergy was also invited to participate in the new open government style we have achieved!
And we are so CLEAN here, too! We LAUNDER our money before using it! What other government organization, outside of perhaps the US Congress, can make that claim?
I have to say there were times I was a bit, well, ashamed to be living in this people's paradise. Comrades from New York would often say to me, "You from Joisey? What exit?" along with similar trite cliches. But NOW.... I'll bet Obama gives us a medal or something the next time he comes here to campaign for his BFF Governor Jon Corzine, who should win re-election this year in a landslide because of the great job he is doing and because he is also a limosine liberal man of the people. Gov. Jon didn't want to accept any credit for today's wonderful news and our great progressive US Senators Lautenberg and Menendez declined same also, but here is a picture of them all with one of the principals in today's festivities:
What a bunch of happy progressive leaders, eh? We're so blessed here to have folks like these here in the Garbage Garden State. Arizona may have the Grand Canyon and Colorada may have the Rocky Mountains, but New Jersey has Great Leadership!
Comrades, I'm sorry to be so boastful here but until you live in a state like this, you can't understand how justifyably proud I am. But please don't all of you try to come here to live, - as much as we'd love to have you - because it is a small state and there just isn't the room (and don't come here if you still have both kidneys either, if you know what's good for you.)
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