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Gov.
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Robert
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There's Good News • •
And There's Bad News
Series Part
Two
FBI Probes Alleged Favorable Treatment For McGreevey Fund Raiser
Joseph D'Amiano, As Probe Supposedly Goes Forward Into Lottery
Chairman And McGreevey-Brush Fund Raiser D'Anton's Connection With
Corrupt Political Witch Hunt By NJ State Police
The GOOD News:
The Good News is the D'Amico investigation, and its connection
with McGreevey fund raising, is being conducted by the FBI, so the
investigation might have some integrity.
The BAD News
The Bad News is
the D'Anton investigation, and its connection with McGreevey fund
raising and a corrupt surveillance of prominent New Jersey Republicans
by rogue elements of the NJ State Police, is being conducted by
Attorney General Peter "See No Evil" Harvey, so it can be virtually
guaranteed that the probe will have no integrity at all.
FBI Subpoenaed McGreevey Records
The FBI probe has subpoenaed McGreevey fund-raising records
connected with David D'Amiano, whose family owns a Carteret-based
recycling company, and has been granted relief from nearly $450,000 in
state tax liens.
According to an article in the Star Ledger, the FBI wants to know if
D'Amiano has received preferential treatment from the McGreevey
administration.
McGreevey Says State Treasurer Acted "Ethically"
"I've spoken with the state treasurer, and he assures me that he and
the environmental protection commissioner acted entirely appropriately
and ethically," McGreevey told the Star Ledger as he inspected state
police barracks in Totowa on Thursday.
The DEP reportedly continued to issue permit renewals for D'Amiano's
company despite $348,000 of "unpaid environmental fines" against the
company.
Together with the "settled" tax liens, the total obligation never paid
by D'Amiano is nearly $750,000.
Illegal Immigrants
D'Amiano was convicted in 1989 of breaking immigration laws. He was
fined $20,000 and sentenced to four years probation for hiring illegal
immigrants.
D'Amiano's father, Joseph D'Amiano, a principal in the family company
until his death a few years ago, spent four years in state prison for
a drug offense conviction, and was also convicted of submitting fake
social Security numbers, a conviction that resulted in another prison
sentence, this one for six months.
Collusion Odor In D'Anton State Police Payments Is Pungent
Whatever it was, the odor of collusion
is present, but Mayor Paul Brush said last December the
monthly state police cell phone payoffs acknowledged by Robert D’Anton,
Vice Chairman of Brush’s transition team, are “irrelevant” and have “nothing to do with Dover
Township.”
D’Anton
Gave McGreevey, Democrats $100,000;
Got Contracts; Was Appointed Lottery Chairman
D’Anton,
who was appointed lottery chairman by Governor Jim McGreevey after
D’Anton’s development and construction company gave more than $100,000
to state Democrats and the McGreevey gubernatorial campaigns,
acknowledged he paid the monthly state police cell phone bills.
D'Anton Raised Money For Brush;
Was Appointed To Planning Board
Brush Brush responded to the disclosure by appointing D'Anton to
the Dover Township Planning Board, where D'Anton is continuing the
board's tradition of artificially increasing the prices
taxpayers will have to pay for open space properties by accepting
applications or awarding approvals for developments in the face of the
township's efforts to acquire the properties.
Brush Received Illegal $6500 D'Anton Campaign Contribution
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Mayor
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The Asbury Park Press reported this week that D'Anton was the donor of
an "illegal" $$6500 "in kind" contribution that was never reported by
Brush until disclosures of election law violations led to "corrected"
reports submitted on February 27th, nearly five months after D'Anton's
"contribution" was allegedly made, on October 9th, but omitted in two
successive campaign reports.
D'Anton "Didn't Know"
What His Phone & Fax Were Used For
D’Anton told the Star Ledger he “never knew what the cell phones were
used for,” but there are indications he knew perfectly well that the
phones and a fax machine he paid for were used in an illegal state
police surveillance for McGreevey of prominent state
Republicans.
Another Harvey Whitewash??
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Attorney
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According to a report in the Star Ledger
two months ago, Attorney
General Peter Harvey decided to look into the allegations and conduct
a "review," a term that once meant an "investigation" but
one that is rapidly becoming a synonym for “whitewash”, since Harvey
became McGreevey’s attorney general.
Brush promised to avoid appointees with obvious conflicts or
connected with scandals or investigations that could compromise their
good judgement.
So much also for the other seventeen campaign promises
already broken by Brush and his "Independent" colleagues.
See Part
One - Good News-Bad News - Click Here
See D'Anton
- Era Of Brush Part V - Click Here
Watch For Part III
of The
Good News • • Bad News
Series
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