Posted on 08/12/2004 11:57:40 PM PDT by kattracks
August 13, 2004 -- They made strange bedfellows. A devout Roman Catholic and former altar boy, Jim McGreevey is a married father of two and an ambitious politician who became governor of New Jersey.Golan Cipel, 12 years McGreevey's junior, is a dapper-dressed, smooth-talking, poetry-writing, Israeli national and ex-sailor.
The two began a sexual relationship — one that ended badly.
Sources say Cipel, 35, is poised to file a sex-discrimination lawsuit against McGreevey — and the governor's political career is finished after he admitted being gay and cheating on his wife with a man he put on the state's pay roll.
McGreevey, 47, first met Cipel in 1999 when the then-Woodbridge mayor toured the Israeli city of Ris hon Letzion.
McGreevey had been par ticipating with the United Jewish Federation of Metro West in the New Jersey Mega Mission to Israel, and Cipel was a spokesman for the Israeli city.
[snip}In fact, Cipel, who was in the country on a work visa, had been denied federal security clearance because he was not a U.S. citizen.
But McGreevey defended the hiring, saying Cipel's duties included "working on policy matters, intellectual property and federal and state regulatory policy."
He also issued a biography that detailed Cipel's alleged extensive military background — and hailed Cipel for making "significant contributions to state security."
Cipel's military career included a five-year stint with a Navy patrol boat unit in the Israel Defense Force and 10 years in the reserves at the Homeland Command, where he reached the rank of lieutenant.
But five of his reserve years were spent in the United States, attending college and working at the Israeli consulate.
McGreevey's administration refused to give a formal job description or allow Cipel to talk to the media.
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(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Immediately followed by a visit to Golan's Heights.
Is this what Kerry would call 'more sensitive' terror advising?
Clintons "legacy" continues ....on the other side of the fence.
Then he and Golan getzion
I think so and scary, for sure.
Has Edwards jumped on the case? Is he going to file a class action suit for the citizens of New Jersey? How else will they get that money back? Yeah, right.
I hope his homo boyfriend goes for those sealed records from McGreevey's FIRST marriage. That could put him in the slammer - maybe.
Mossad agent - that's what I think. Hope he takes the corrupt gov to the cleaners.
Here is an excellent article that shows his problem is more than sexual:
http://www.app.com/app2001/story/0,21133,656898,00.html
That's because "butt-bunny and knob goblin" doesn't really look all that good on a W-2.
Complicated, eh? Thanks for the link.
As someone involved in preservation along Asbury Park's waterfront, I'm very interested in this story since it involves the indicted Charles Kushner - a major redeveloper in this town. Things have been smelling pretty bad here for a couple of years and I think we're about to find out why...
Link doesn't work for me. Any ideas?
vaudine
Yes, you need to copy and past it into your browser than press go
This whole story has leaks...I don't think we have even heard half of the story yet. They paid this joker over $100k a year to be some kinda terrorist expert, when he was just a plain poet...makes you wonder who else is on the governor's staff?
Devout? How does he qualify?
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