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Turner has been fired from her post as a Port Authority commissioner, but her troubles may not end there.
Mark Zinna, the former Tenafly Borough Council President who served as acting Mayor in 2017 is now calling for official misconduct charges to be brought against Turner.
“It really is official misconduct,” said Zinna, in an interview with NJ Advance Media on Tuesday afternoon. “It is the definition of it.”
Under New Jersey’s Official Misconduct statute, “a public servant is guilty of official misconduct when, with purpose to obtain a benefit for himself or another” he (or she) “commits an act relating to his (or her) office but constituting an unauthorized exercise of his official functions, knowing that such act is unauthorized or s/he is committing such act in an unauthorized manner.”
As a crime of the second degree, official misconduct carries a minimum sentence of five years in prison without parole, and carries a maximum of ten years.
A spokeswoman for the Attorney General’s office said on Tuesday afternoon that it neither confirms nor denies investigations.
WIKI——Caren Zeldie[2] Turner is a Democratic lobbyist and former commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.[1] She is also a political consultant and the founder and CEO of Turner Government & Public Affairs, a government affairs firm.[3][4] She served on Hillary Clinton’s national finance team and is a co-chairman of the Financial Committee for Ready for Hillary, a super PAC created to draft Clinton for the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.[5][6] Turner has been featured on Fox Business as a correspondent on Washington lobbying.[3][7] She is also an attorney with Potomac Law Group[8][9] and a former adjunct professor at George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management.[10]
Turner has written articles for The Huffington Post[11] and The New Agenda.[12] She was a member of Together4Us.[13] Turner previously served as a vice president of FleishmanHillard; practiced international trade law and litigation at Cameron, Hornbostel and Butterman; and worked as a research analyst at International Business Government Counselors.[11]
She is the former president of Shelter our Sisters, a New Jersey shelter for victims of domestic violence. Additionally, Turner is a women’s rights advocate and works with the organization Vital Voices to secure rights for women internationally.[14]
Turner served on the finance committees for Jon Corzine and others.[15]
Turner received her juris doctor from Georgetown Law, where she served as the editor of the school’s Law and Policy in International Business law journal. She received a bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University where she majored in both political science and Spanish. She also received an executive MBA from Rutgers University.[10] Turner sits on the Georgetown Law Alumni Board.[16] She is from New Jersey.[17]
In February 2017, at the recommendation of New Jersey Senate Majority Leader, Loretta Weinberg, she was nominated by Governor Chris Christie to serve a six-year term on the Board of Commissioners of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.[1][18] On March 13, 2017, her nomination was approved by a Senate Judiciary Committee and the New Jersey State Senate.[1]
In March 2017, Turner voiced her opposition to President Donald Trump’s 2018 budget due to the impact his proposed cuts would have on the Gateway Program.[19]
NJ is the Soprano State.. The ‘BigShots’ think they are above the law.