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<p>Hey, give these guys a break … it’s EXPENSIVE to live in NJ.</p>
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<p>This jumped out at me, and I read the rest of the article looking for details, but didn’t find any. This is heartbreaking.</p>
<p>There goes the Monmouth County real estate market; if it wasn’t in the crapper already…
Not sure any of this is really shocking to anyone who has seen the kind of $$ thrown around in the Syrian Jewish community of both Brooklyn and Deal/Long Branch…17 yr olds driving around in brand new Bentleys/Mercedes/BMWs is not normal…</p>
<p>Rabbis involved…well, that’s another story altogether…</p>
<p>I was pleased to not know any of the 30 some names listed.</p>
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<p>Exactly - besides, it makes the Chicago politicians happy because the corruption investigations aren’t focused on them for once.</p>
<p>5 Rabbis arrested. Oh my goodness.</p>
<p>Joseph Doria is one of the slimeballs- here’s an excerpt from a NYTimes article in 2007:
Hmmm…watch out for “ultimate pols.”</p>
<p>"Besides his long career in the Legislature — he was once the speaker of the Assembly — Mr. Doria is the mayor of Bayonne, where he no doubt saw firsthand the shortage of housing in New Jersey. On the downside, he is the ultimate pol, comfortable with many of the cozy dealings in Trenton and Hudson County. (He will have to resign as senator and mayor before starting as community affairs commissioner.)</p>
<p>But he also has great potential to improve the relationship between the Legislature, where he has friends in both parties, and the governor, many of whose top appointees come from business and lack much feel for New Jersey politics."</p>
<p>NJres, and I know that you are pleased to no longer be living in NJ! I am jealous!</p>
<p>As if NJ housewives wasn’t bad enough…This state is so full of old fashioned tammany hall politics that it is amazing it functions at all. Selling the kidney, what can you say? You kind of hope that he has to answer to that higher authority some day… And as to what Rodney said at post 4, I just figured they were selling drugs not kidneys.</p>
<p>toneranger- Doria was not arrested at least not yet. No indication that he will be.
I was surprised that the cooperating witness was Solomon Dwek. He has been charged with fraud and these idiots were still willing to deal with him. Dwek almost took down PNC Bank.</p>
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yes, you are correct.
But i did hear on the news that Corzine has asked him to resign… and he complied.</p>
<p>The parties have asked all of them to resign.</p>
<p>I lived in NJ for decades. Corruption here is the **IN YOUR FACE **kind. My naive wife asked me why was is that all our local, county and state officials (elected and appointed) become criminals? I pointed out that you can’t get elected or appointed UNLESS you were a criminal to begin with. </p>
<p>BTW, did you know that the Chief of Police in Hoboken, NJ (a 1 mile square town) gets paid a salary of $240K a year? PLUS an unbelievable generous benefit and retirement package? Such abuses are repeated throughout the state. Not only our politicians and official,s but our state judges are a big part of the corruption too. The Feds REALLY need to do something.</p>
<p>Ah, NJ at its finest…(sigh).</p>
<p>I am happy to be living here…these folks and their contretemps mean nothing to me. </p>
<p>I expect to call NJ my home for the rest of my life.</p>
<p>Thread title may as well have been “The Sun Rises in the East.” 'Cause that’s corruption in NJ. (Says the woman who lives on an Island that should be part of NJ)</p>
<p>^^Ditto, Garland. I came here as a 31 year old and expect to keep NJ as my domicile until my ashes are buried in The Bronx. Suburban/urban amenities, proximity to NYC, the shore and rural NJ make this an unbeatable location as far as I’m concerned.</p>