Posted on 09/25/2006 6:05:07 AM PDT by Liz
Jim McGreevey may have blabbed too much in his tell-all autobiography - and not just about his sex life......the gay former gov's confessions about NJ's notorious "pay-to-play" politics and his ties to a parade of corrupt power players could get him criminally prosecuted.......
Ed Stier, a former federal and New Jersey state prosecutor told The Post..... "McGreevey's book may inadvertently supply enough information - to suggest that an already-closed investigation be reopened or expanded" ....McGreevey describes political patronage as "the coin of the realm" in NJ, a "form of sanctioned bribery" .......citing land deals and board appointments as examples of sought-after paybacks.
Aside from McGreevey's politically fatal move of putting his lover Golan Cipel in a top homeland-security post, his administration had "a history of brushes with corrupt situations," Stier said......"It's not inconceivable that McGreevey has [put forth] enough information to get him prosecuted as a co-conspirator."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Nice, very nice, take.
One of McGay's most enduring criminal legacies is Golan Cipel.
The Cipel-McG association is an unresolved criminal matter that begs for resolution. And let's be clear----the criminal matter has nothing to do with Cipel's sexual prowess in Statehouse urinals.
McG has yet to be called to account for aiding and abetting Cipel, an individual who creeped around US national security with felonious intent.
Just months after the tri-state area was recovering from 9/11, McG demanded US intel agencies and the US military brief Cipel on our strategic defenses.
McG might have used federal as well as state HomeLand funds to subsidize Cipel's grabbing US national security intel.
Taxpayers---at the state and federal level---may have been coerced into underwriting the commission of crimes against the state and federal government without their knowledge or consent.
Jimbo better (ahem) pack his boots.
;-)
This was a stupid approach on his part, and I've been saying this since the advance excerpts from his book were made public a couple of weeks ago. As dysfunctional and Marxist as New Jersey is, there are still a lot of hard-core liberals in this state who would be perfectly comfortable with corrupt government officials but would love to see deranged freaks like this run out of town on a rail.
The guys in cellblock B might find these too sexually stimulating.
As they say in politics---timing is everything.
What could be happening here is that McGay wrote the book under the protective mantle of political correctness.
Under the PC dictum, even a less than encouraging word about his gayness would have been met with disdain and charges of right-wing religious judgementalism.
McTurd felt free to spill all the dirt figuring his "I am a Gay American" speech put him above the law.
However, it appears there is a new political climate out there, born of the public's distaste for rampant corruption in politics.
McG may now be laboring under a climate where it's become accepted and even encouraged to lambaste politicans.
Too bad (cackle).
LOL----perfect for the whore that he is---that's what NY Post columnist Andrea Peyser called McGay---a whore.
thanks, I added NJ to the topics
Liz, excellent analysis. I see nothing gets by you. I hope you're in a position to do something about it. It's like the Sandy ("classified papers down his pants") Berger fiasco. You just cant believe the criminality of these people but, worse, that the justice system doesn't come crashing down on their heads. It is maddening. From what I can tell with McGay and Merger they both should be tried as traitors- never mind their sexual proclivities!
Menendez has slime problems of his own, and won't appreciate the voters being reminded about the close political alliance he and slimeball McGreevey forged.
Which brings up Golan Cipel. Now, someone had to facilitate Golan's Glorious Adventures--- particularly the high-level Washington, DC HomeLandSec meeting attended by Pres GWB, where the little snoop Cipel showed up, even though Cipel was not invited, nor was he listed as the official NJ HomeLand rep.
It would be really, really interesting to know whether McGreevey's close friend, Bob Menendez (then a Congressman), facilitated any of Golan Cipel's activities.
It would be interesting to know the degree to which then-Cong Menendez's Congressional office aided and abetted Cipel's travels around the Nation's Capitol---to the Pentagon and the Dept of Defense, maybe?
Sen Menendez should be asked whether he had firsthand knowledge of Cipel's interest in US intelligence, and whether he has knowledge of Cipel being given access to US classified intel.
Liz, lol. I don't know whether to laugh or cry at your post. You definitely have a way with words. I think the odds of us getting any answers to your questions is 0. I don't know why the Bush justice department isn't prosecuting the hell out of these folks. I want Sandy Berger's head, along with all the New Jersey players. And whatever happened to Torricelli? You don't hear much about that big mouth anymore after the Torricelli Amendment was exposed.
I was born and raised in the North East. I now live in God's country ;) These guys wouldn't last a minute. They eat people like this for breakfast. The utter arrogance and lawlessness is appalling.
As I posted above, it appears there might be a new climate out there. Could be it's now OK to criticize wrongdoing committed by protected classes---to criticize without being characterized as a "right wing-religious zealot who is rigidly judgemental."
I think Bubba's breakdown on FOX is also an indication that things might be changing---WJC went ballistic at the thought that he and Hillary might actually have to take the blame for something. This is unprecedented for free-wheeling liberals protected by PC. They may now have to take responsibility----yikes.
Now, McGreevey wrote his tell-all under the mantle of political correctness---figuring his 'I'm a Gay American' protection speech gave him carte blanche to say or do anything without fear of criticism, and, least of all, without fear of prosecution.
McGay made statements in the book that now appear to place him in legal jeopardy (as the posted article suggests).
As they say----what goes around, comes around.
You know, it's just never worked that way when it comes to the Clintons or the liberals. There is never any price to pay. If you are correct and we are watching the end of the culture of predator as victim and charlatan as freedom fighter it would, indeed, restore my faith in the US electorate. The day they drag Sandy Berger off to jail and relegate Bill and Hillary Clinton to some political Leper colony is the day that I celebrate.
You notice, by the way, that the second that they return to the public stage all hell breaks loose again? After that interview with WJC it's the same old, same old. Deja Vu all over again. Lying, drama queen Bill and shrill, self-righteous Hillary. I wonder how the US could ever tolerate going back to that time. I say, "never again".
I certainly understand the cynicism.
BTW, you nailed it beautifully with your comment about the liberal-fomented "culture of predator as victim and charlatan as freedom fighter."
Sums up liberals' sick obsession with disestablishmentarianism---tearing down the culture to feed their sick mindset.
They've chipped away at Western civilization, they've toiled to eradicate the rule of law, they've gleefully smashed our cultural mores.
Anything that reminds them of Christianity and Christian-based principles is to be destroyed.
Shows how disturbed these sicko liberals are---they actually "feel more comfortable" in the present, in a culture adrift, without moral moorings. a culture that is rife with unspeakable crimes against individuals, against nature.
How deranged are they, to legalize abortion and infanticide on demand with the governement picking up the tab?
In sum, consvertives must create a new dialogue---to snatch the terms of debate from the wild beasts of Liberal Land. I am very confident this will be accomplished.
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