Posted on 10/21/2009 10:49:42 PM PDT by freespirited
Jon Corzine this afternoon released records from his charitable foundation, including details on more than $3 million donations made last year.
Corzine spread his wealth around the state and beyond, including contributions to organizations connected to Newark power broker Steve Adubato and his son.
The North Ward Center, founded by Adubato, received $15,000, on top of the more than $1 million Corzine has given the organization in the last 10 years. Caucus Educational Corp. run by Adubato's son, television personality Steve Adubato Jr. received $1,000.
The foundation's finances returned to the headlines this week after The Star-Ledger reported that Corzine last year donated another $87,000 to the congregation of the prominent head of the Black Ministers Council, the Rev. Reginald Jackson. Jackson last week announced his coveted endorsement this year was going to Corzine, but the pastor said one had nothing to do with the other...
Corzine's donations to Jackson's church, St. Matthew in Orange, exceeded what Jackson had recalled. .. Corzine's foundation, according to the newly released records, contributed $38,700, not $37,000. In addition, Corzine gave Jackson $50,000 from the governor's personal funds, according to Corzine's 2008 tax returns.
The foundation's records show Corzine gave $450,000 to the Child Study Center at New York University last year. The governor's financial ties to the center won a $2 million state contract in April 2008 before the center withdrew from the contract in the face of bad publicity.
Another $250,000 went to the Cooper Foundation, which supports Cooper Hospital, where Corzine was treated after his near-fatal car accident in April 2007. South Jersey political boss George Norcross serves as the hospital's chairman...
... A prep school previously attended by the governor's son received $500,000. Also, a foundation established by the late mother of his new communications director, Stephen Sigmund, received $5,000.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
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