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44 Are Arrested in New Jersey-Focused Corruption Inquiry (Name that Party!)
NY Times ^ | July 24, 2009 | DAVID M. HALBFINGER

Posted on 07/23/2009 3:34:26 PM PDT by bobsunshine

A two-year corruption and international money-laundering investigation stretching from the Jersey Shore to Brooklyn to Israel and Switzerland culminated in the arrests of 44 people on Thursday, including three New Jersey mayors, two state assemblymen and five rabbis, the authorities said.

The case apparently began with bank fraud charges against a member of an insular Syrian Jewish enclave centered in the seaside town of Deal, N.J. Eventually, stemming from that arrest, a federal informant posed as a crooked real estate developer offering cash bribes to obtain government approvals — and the case mushroomed into a political scandal that could rival any of the most explosive and sleazy episodes in New Jersey’s recent past.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: corruption; corzine; cultureofcorruption; democrats; mayors
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To: mountainlion

Onama should man up and apologize for the greed, lack of morals and criminal actions of his party.

Don’t you have to be a man, to “man up” ?


21 posted on 07/23/2009 4:07:31 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Coming to You From the Front Lines of Occupied America)
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To: bobsunshine
New Jersey corrupt?

No way!

Pure as driven snow it is!

Why, if we all mimicked the New Jersey way.... /s

22 posted on 07/23/2009 4:08:59 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: SECURE AMERICA
Don’t you have to be a man, to “man up” ?

I been listening to the propaganda too much. Of course you are right, A wimp like Boama could never man up, without a transplant of course.

23 posted on 07/23/2009 4:11:31 PM PDT by mountainlion (concerned conservative.)
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To: Dallas59
It’s stupid racism.

It's politicism and it's Bushes fault!

Democrat's are being politically oppressed.

They are the politically oppressed majority party in power.

24 posted on 07/23/2009 4:12:19 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: bobsunshine
You hear about Obama’s buddy in law school got a black eye, from chasing a parked ambulance!
25 posted on 07/23/2009 4:13:47 PM PDT by mountainlion (concerned conservative.)
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To: bobsunshine
do I really have to say it???

26 posted on 07/23/2009 4:21:34 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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To: novemberslady

Talk now of Corzine stepping down.

Here we go with another illegal candidate swap in this corrupt state.


27 posted on 07/23/2009 4:22:33 PM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: ml/nj

Three repubs. All the rest dems.


28 posted on 07/23/2009 4:23:05 PM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: bobsunshine

Once we are able to, the wife, daughter, and I are out of this east germany wanna be state.


29 posted on 07/23/2009 4:35:07 PM PDT by mrmeyer ("When brute force is on the march, compromise is the red carpet." Ayn Rand)
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To: bobsunshine

Who’s Who in New Jersey Corruption Probe:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2299632/posts


30 posted on 07/23/2009 4:37:31 PM PDT by GVnana (Sarah for America)
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To: Chode
"...do I really have to say it???"

You left out the classic line..."round up the usual [Democrats]suspects."

31 posted on 07/23/2009 4:38:55 PM PDT by SloopJohnB (FEDGOV.SYS corrupted...Revolt, Re-boot, Abort, Washington D.C?)
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To: MARTIAL MONK
... political scandal that could rival any of the most explosive and sleazy episodes in New Jersey’s recent past. -> "Recent past" Is that weeks or months?

Oh so true especially since it is hard to differentiate New Jersey from a RICO.

My prime example is 2002 when Sen. Robert Torricelli became an obviously lame duck because of scandal. The state Democratic Party pulls a real slick one to 'save' the state from the shame of a GOP victory. They got the NJ State Supreme Court to throw out an inconvenient election law, dubbed ex-Sen. Frank Lautenburg without a primary and allowed Frank to spend more of his personal fortune (ADP) to flood the zone and get elected by the Jersey Sheeple.

New Jersey has a real inclination recently to elect very rich Wall Street types like Lautenberg and Jon Corzine (current Gov.). The odd thing is that they are both Democrats, not the well-known (media myth) GOP a.k.a. "Party of the Rich".

32 posted on 07/23/2009 4:39:10 PM PDT by SES1066 (Cycling to conserve, Conservative to save, Saving to Retire, will Retire to Cycle.)
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To: ml/nj

Would it be offensive to point out the irony of Syrian Jews living in a town named “Deal” ?


33 posted on 07/23/2009 4:40:07 PM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: Carley
Why would corzine step down?
He did look nervous commenting on the arrests today, but I haven't heard anything implicating him.
34 posted on 07/23/2009 4:42:57 PM PDT by novemberslady
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To: SloopJohnB
i heard that... Round up the usual RATS!!!
35 posted on 07/23/2009 4:46:28 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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To: unixfox

Maybe it’s because they can’t find an honest one to wear the wire.


36 posted on 07/23/2009 4:50:32 PM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: bobsunshine
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37 posted on 07/23/2009 4:50:50 PM PDT by mojitojoe (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: Carley
Here we go with another illegal candidate swap in this corrupt state.

Does the NJ Democrat Party Chair still have the NJ State Supreme Court Chief Justice on speed-dial? I take it that the Court is still in the hip pocket of the Dems., right? After all the last elected GOP Governor was RINO "Christie" Whitman who was a useless 'go-along to get-along' and still put Lib/Dems into the Court.

I take from your entry that JonC is too unpopular and 'weary' to continue to raise taxes any more. Who are the 'likely suspects'? Please tell me that Lautenberg isn't one of them, PLEASE!

38 posted on 07/23/2009 4:57:38 PM PDT by SES1066 (Cycling to conserve, Conservative to save, Saving to Retire, will Retire to Cycle.)
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To: SES1066

As of yesterday, before roundup, C was 15 pts. behind Christie.


39 posted on 07/23/2009 5:00:22 PM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: bobsunshine; All

These people were selling HUMAN KIDNEYS for a $150,000 each!!

Paying ‘troubled’ people 10,000 each, then making a profit of 140,000!!!

Why am I only seeing this mentioned in a VERY FEW articles???


40 posted on 07/23/2009 5:15:48 PM PDT by tcrlaf ("Hope" is the most Evil of all Evils"-Neitzsche)
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