Posted on 08/31/2003 5:24:47 PM PDT by Liz
Edited on 07/06/2004 6:39:07 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The call came before 7 a.m. on Tuesday. Former Sen. Robert Torricelli was on the line, and Sen. Jon Corzine was not pleased.
For days prior to that call, news reports blared word that Corzine, along with developer Charles Kushner, wanted a $100 million public subsidy to purchase the YankeeNets, and that Torricelli was the broker for the deal.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Charles Kushner, a multimillionaire real estate magnate and top donor to New Jersey Gov McGreevey, faces federal and state inquiries on his campaign donations and business activities.
Federal prosecutors are reviewing allegations that Kushner siphoned company funds for personal and political use, at times making campaign contributions in others' names without their knowledge.
Kushner, his family, employees and companies have contributed $433,550 to McGreevey over the years and $773,000 more to the Democratic State Committee.
Federal law enforcement sources say that investigation continues and that they have interviewed Kushner's former employees and reviewed his accounting records.
The New Jersey attorney general in February also launched an inquiry into whether Kushner violated state law by making contributions to state and local candidates while controlling a small Livingston bank. Majority owners of banks are prohibited by state law from making contributions to state political candidates and political committees. Kushner has denied the allegations.
McGreevey had appointed Kushner to be chair of the post/911 Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, but just as he was poised to become chairman, the wealthy developer stepped down amid controversy about his business and political activities and the apprehension that he would use his inside position to profit himself and McGreevey.
Must be tough to broker sports deals from a pay phone with 300 other inmates standing behind you waiting their turn.
I've been trying not to make light of the very real crime of prison rape lately, not even in jest. Other posters have convinced me that it is not a fit topic for humor.
Gawd I wish that was true. Bobby got off easy. It shouldn't be that way.
Of course, this story is a plant to get Corzine off the hook with taxpayers who must be sick of bailing out politicians.
Who among us doesn't remember Sen Corzine standing shoulder to shoulder with Torricelli as the NJ Supreme Court mangled the law to usher Torch out of the Senate race to be replaced with Lautenberg?
Looks like the party is over for the Torch.
Heheh.......I guess Tori misses the days when all the Dims came to the Senate's "Godfather" to get their campaigns blessed with dirty money. Nobody, and I mean nobody, could raise the filthy campaign luchre like the Torch could.
...let's hope one party ends..and another begins (300 friends in prison). :)
Not by a long shot.
A federal judge recently named the Torch "Special Master" of a court-ordered $400 million toxic site clean up in Jersey City.
That's $400 million dollars that Torricelli can hand out to unions, contractors, politicians, and sopranos (all the same group really.) The only entity that will have oversight over Toricelli's spending decisions will be Bob Torricelli's conscience.
Torricelli, Hudson County, New Jersey, and hundreds of millions of dollars. They'll be driving garbage trucks full of cash away from that site every day.
Eerie, isn't it?
Moreover, Cavanaugh's wife is a longtime Torricelli donor who also served as finance chairman for onetime Torricelli protégé Sen Jon Corzine.
Even more outrageous, Honeywell International, the company Torricelli supposedly will be supervising gave $15,000 to Tori's re-election campaign.
And Judge Cavanugh will be the one who sets Torricelli's hourly fee. Talk about cozy.
....and they should all be politicians........
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