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  • Priest who stole $2 Million trades parish for prison Judge rejects leniency orders a 5-year term

    06/05/2006 8:08:56 PM PDT · by Coleus · 7 replies · 541+ views
    Star Ledger ^ | 06.03.06 | TOM FEENEY
    The Catholic priest who lived the high life on money he stole from his well-to-do Rumson parish has spent his first night behind bars. The Rev. Joseph W. Hughes was locked up in the Monmouth County Jail yesterday afternoon after a Superior Court judge turned aside his pleas for leniency and sentenced him to five years in prison. Hughes soon will be moved to state custody, and the judge likely will recommend incarceration in a minimum security prison. Superior Court Judge Bette E. Uhrmacher disagreed. She told Hughes that his theft of church money had eroded the trust parishioners have...
  • Sentimental Springsteen won't rock the boat [It's no Rock the Casbah]

    08/23/2002 6:47:49 AM PDT · by Incorrigible · 36 replies · 959+ views
    Newark Star Ledger ^ | 8/20/02 | Paul Mulshine
    <p>People have been asking me what I think of the new Bruce Springsteen CD.</p> <p>It's got a good beat. The tunes are catchy.</p> <p>But it fails the Jersey guy test.</p> <p>Tommy Moore is one Jersey guy I'm thinking of. He lives in Belmar, not far from E Street. Back when Bruce was becoming a rock star, Moore was becoming a Port Authority cop.</p>