Posted on 04/30/2019 2:16:20 AM PDT by SMGFan
Caramagna, who resigned Sunday, is accused of filling out some portions of mail-in ballots and primary election ballot certifications
he Democratic mayor of a northern New Jersey town has resigned amid an election violation charge.
The Bergen County prosecutor's office said Monday that former Elmwood Park Mayor Francesco Caramagna faces a charge of interfering with the secrecy of the election process.
Caramagna, who resigned Sunday, is accused of filling out some portions of mail-in ballots and primary election ballot certifications
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnewyork.com ...
Russians?
What!!! Corruption in NJ......?
NO F’N WAY!!
FUHGEDDABOUDIT!!
Just slightly ahead of the times, I’m sure it’ll be legal in NJ as it is in California in short order; someone just got caught doing it early.
Why did I thought he was a Dem...
The party needs a name-change. It's anything but "Democratic"!
Surprising. The standard modus operandi of a Dhimmocrat is to circle the wagons til the bitter end, always a good chance to get off despite irrefutable evidence (re another NJ Dem, senator Menendez).
The corruption of our government system is so sad. Stating the obvious ...the democrats seem to be more corrupt than any other group.
Years and years ago I did some work at a Haz Waste site in NJ (Carteret). The Mayor of Carteret was involved somehow with the property, so I was sort of following the news of the area and the site. (Even got my photo taken for the big newspaper. luckily I had the foresight even as a 20-something to say “Hmm - I’d rather not say my name.”) So the caption was something like “A workman looks for buried utilities at the proposed....”
(What am I doing? Um, looking for um, um - utilities - pipes and stuff! Yeah - that’s the ticket!)
Anyway, a few weeks after that article, the Mayor of Carteret got into a fist-fight with the folks at the city council meeting suggesting improprieties with his involvement with the sale/development of the contaminated site.
Had to go see what they have done with the site. I was expecting some big development.
As of Sept. 2018 there is a lot of grading and earth-moving going on (Google Earth), and a sign on the gate that says “Keep Out. Environmental Study and Remediation.”
I was there back in 1988 or so. I’m guessing that the mayor didn’t make out too well on his property deal.
However, I did do a project on the East River of Manhatten, on the East Bank. Saw it in a TV show. Instead of the old landfill it is now a nice river walk/park.
My client knew a guy that had a restaurant near that site on the East River. So we had lunch near there once. Winded our way through through the warehouses and came upon this big building with white columns - an Italian Restaurant in the middle of all of these warehouses. A few limos around the back.
We go in and are the only ones in there at lunch hour. The place could probably seat 500 people. My client kept ordering food for all of us (”Oh - you’ll love Tony’s shrimp!”) - we were there for over two hours. Nobody ever did come in!
And the food WAS unbelievable! (I always wondered why a place like that with such great food didn’t draw more customers!?)
Interesting.
I recently served as a poll watcher in a hot mess of a very contentious local election.
(Btw, I highly recommend volunteering. You can learn A LOT!)
During a lull in early voting (nobody coming in to vote) I observed the election official labeling ballot boxes & placing mail-in ballots in them, ostensibly to be opened & counted on Election Day.
I asked her to explain the process, which she did, saying she was keeping track of how many mail-ins arrived each day.
She willingly told me how many she’d received so far & how she examined the outside signatures (without actually seeing the ballot itself) then checked names off her list to show the voter had mailed it in, & then sealed each one inside another envelope, put her own initials on THAT blank envelope & then placed it in the locked box.
As a poll watcher, I was counting walk-in early votes, so I started a separate tally of those mail-ins.
Next day —get this!— when I asked how many new mail-ins she’d received that morning, she told me Poll Watchers weren’t allowed to observe mail-ins being counted!
She said she had not been aware of that rule the previous day, and had erred in allowing me to observe & could no longer do so!
She showed me the LOCAL (i.e. locally written, as part of our City Charter) “Guide to the Conduct of Elections” with the relevant passage angrily highlighted in yellow.
IOW, the new girl, overseeing her first election, was at first trying to do things honestly, hiding nothing from the poll watchers, but somebody “upstairs” had chewed her out.
“ (I always wondered why a place like that with such great food didn’t draw more customers!?)”
Because it was a mob joint.
L
Thank Sessions for letting him off the hook.
The NYC mayor has been spending over $11 million of taxpayer money to keep himself out of jail.
Thanks SMGFan.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.