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Jim McGreevey |
McGreevey
Tries To Prove His Friends Are Every Bit As Greedy As Whitman Cronies
And Associates
Fees And Commissions; Supplicants
Compete With Each Other To See Who Can Grab The Most; Florio Now
Dunning Camden Taxpayers For Delinquent Taxes - And Getting Megabucks
Billboard Dudes Sucked Up $4.4
Million From Political Connections
We’re not talking about the salaries
connected with real jobs, the folks who actually provide a service for
the taxpayers.
The payments in question are fees and
commissions running to hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars,
ponied up by the taxpayers.
Remember Christie Whitman and the EZ
Pass contracts and the Parsons mess, and the bond attorneys, and the
investment bankers, etc., etc.
The Bloodsuckers Are Still Around
The bloodsuckers are still around, only
now they’re wearing McGreevey buttons and sucking up to the governor
and everybody around him.
Take Jack Arsenault. Jack got a cool
$370,000 in commissions and fees from Bear Stearns connected with a
state bond issue (a cool $1.6 Billion).
According to reports in the Star Ledger,
Jack didn’t do very much; just tossed the state bond business to Bear
Stearns (BS), who were so grateful, they handed Jack a quarter of a
million dollars as a kind of finders fee.
That in addition to the $10,000 a month
Jack was getting for other murky services related to the big bond
sale. Bear Stearns got $6.4 million.
$4 Million In Billboard Payola To
Taffet, Levinsohn
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Then there are the billboard payola
scandals perped by two of McGreevey’s former aides: Chief of Staff
Gary Taffet and Chief Counsel Paul Levinsohn, who put together huge
billboard lease deals just before they signed on with McGreevey.
They were close associates of McGreevey
before he hired them; their connections helped them to help
themselves.
According to the Star Ledger, “Taffet
and Levinsohn earned more than $2 million each by securing the rights
to 14 highway signs around the state.”
In the Star Ledger’s “Auditor” column on
Sunday, the auditor says it was $2.2 million each, and says Taffet and
Levinsohn have hired a “legal dream team to help them fend off federal
investigators.” The “dream team” is Nets basketball player Jayson
Williams’ lawyer, Joe Hayden, Gerald Krovatin and McGreevey crony J.
Michael Nolan, a senior partner at the “prestigious Lowenstein,
Sandler law firm.
The Star Ledger says when Taffet and
Levinsohn “sold” the billboard operation, they were represented by
Wolff and Sampson, the law firm of former attorney general David
Samson, thick as molasses with McGreevey.
And so it goes.
Florio
Might Make $2 Million Dunning Camden Taxpayers
And then there’s poor Jim Florio who
might make as much as $2 million dunning taxpayers for back taxes in
the poorest city in New Jersey.
Camden citizens who can no longer afford
to cash their welfare checks are being dunned mercilessly by the
former Democrat governor to pay delinquent property taxes pursuant to
a contract approved by McGreevey which could net Florio’s firm as much
as $2 million in “commissions”.
Florio,
a flaming liberal who has always cared deeply about the sensibilities
of New Jersey’s poorest citizens, is now screwing them wholesale in
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