Senator Bob Loves Xanadu!

June 12, 2009 at 4:34 P.M. I am denied access to the Internet from my home computer (shared with my child), I believe, as a result of these posts criticizing New Jersey's mafia-controlled government and the activities of Senator "Bob." ("Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends.")

I will do my best to regain access to the Internet while struggling against censorship. If there are any alterations or defacements of these writings, they should be understood to be part of the censorship and harassment designed to harm me. ("What is it like to be tortured?")

I am sure that Senator Menendez joins the community of nations in congratulating Cuba upon the lifting of the prohibition on membership in the Organization of American States (OAS). There are conditions attached to this invitation to Cuba concerning "democracy" and the freeing of "political prisoners." I also favor freeing political prisoners in all of the member states, including the United States of America where Mumia Abu-Jamal is still incarcerated. ("Freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal.")

Mr Menendez can prove his commitment to human rights by speaking out for the release of Mumia Abu-Jamal and by using his good offices to assist in this effort to win a pardon for a tortured dissident intellectual, Mr. Abu-Jamal.

I am afraid that further censorship efforts and defacements of this essay must now be expected despite America's commitment to freedom of speech. This may be aimed at hurting me and (even more) at embarassing President Obama, who is the leading advocate of freedom of speech in the world. I urge President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton to avoid appearances with Senator Bob, if at all possible, until the grand juries looking into Bob's "shenanigans" hand down their decisions.

June 7, 2009 Television news broadcasts anounced that "construction is scheduled to begin on a rail link" between the Xanadu mall (that doesn't exist) and New York city "from the Meadowlands." The rail link is "scheduled for completion in 2017." The same authorities stated in 2006 that Xanadu and the rail link would open in August, 2009. In 2017, they will anounce completion by 2030. The hope is that everybody will be dead by 2030.

April 22, 2009 at 2:33 P.M. Obstructions of access to these sites, blocking of Google and MSN makes it very difficult to reach my work today. No italics or bold script could be used when this article was first posted. The uncovering of a CIA conspiracy and linkage to harsh interrogations aimed at establishing an association between Al Qaeda and Iraq -- an association which was known by intelligence agents not to exist when they were trying to prove to Congress that it did exist -- this intelligence effort was made in order to provide "cover," allegedly, for the U.S. military venture in Iraq. More "Weapons of Mass Deception." A new Senate report of these matters has just been made public. Many young Americans will lose their lives as a result of this "cover."

No italics or bold script were available due to hacking into my computer when I first posted this essay. "Errors" were inserted, again, in the text. I have struggled to make corrections. More vandalism must be expected.

See "Report Links CIA to Harsh Military Interrogations," http://www.msnbc.MSN.com/id/30343776/ (April 22, 2009) and Peter Baker & Scott Shane, "Pressure Grows to Investigate Interrogations," The New York Times, April 21, 2009, at p. A1. Scott Shane, "Waterboarding Used 266 Times on 2 Suspects," The New York Times, April 20, 2009, at p. A1.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is rumored to be contemplating a secret trip to Cuba for undisclosed negotiations, has called on countries (including Cuba) to respect human rights. Revelations of torture, cover-ups, censorship, suppression of speech, tainted judges and courts in New Jersey and other American human rights catastrophes -- for which the U.S. is held responsible under principles of international law -- will not help with Secretary Clinton's efforts.

I suspect that Cuban-American Right-wingers (who have demonized Ms. Clinton in the past) are behind attempts to depict her as incompetent in the media, while making it appear that President Obama is behind such "shenanigans."

I urge the U.S. Justice Department to act on evidence of New Jersey's crimes and tortures by U.S. officials in order to preserve the appearance of integrity in our efforts to strengthen human rights everywhere in the world. Someday, even in New Jersey, torture will be a thing of the past. See Assata Shakur, "Prisoner in the United States," in "Still Black, Still Strong" (New York: Columbia University-Semiotexte, 1993), pp. 205-220. (Testimony of Assata Shakur, whose torture may be compared with what I have described BEFORE my discovery of this book, possibly at the hands of some of the same officials.)

April 19, 2009 at 11:56 A.M. Harassment and computer warfare continues.

March 24, 2009 at 8:45 A.M. Attacks on these writings are a daily reality, emanating from Trenton government computers, defacements, alterations, obstructions will be a routine phenomenon. Access to MSN is still a problem. Anne Milgram is rumored to be on her way out.

New attacks today make it very difficult to edit these writings, spacing has been affected, again, and (so far) all attempts to get rid of these obstructions have been unsuccessful. I will do my best to continue writing, even under these conditions. The following article appeared recently in New Jersey:

Once upon a time, at a news conference that now seems long, long ago, there was word that a dazzling paradise would rise from the SWAMPS of New Jersey.

There would be a 16-story indoor snow slope, where residents could ski on the sultriest of summer days. They would build the tallest Ferris wheel in America, an Egyptian-themed movie theater, a skydiving simulation tunnel, a candy dreamland with a chocolate waterfall and a 1,000-gallon jellyfish aquarium that would light up like a lava lamp. They called it: Xanadu.

Five years later, the 2.3 million-square-foot complex at the Meadowlands stands as a cautionary tale of the parochial politics awaiting the $787 BILLION federal stimulus plan. The same regional authorities behind a troubled train line to Xanadu are now preparing one of the biggest "shovel ready" projects in the nation -- a $9 BILLION rail tunnel under the Hudson River.

[The $9 BILLION will disappear and nothing will be built.]

As stimulus money begins to flow to state and local governments, the Obama administration last week warned state auditors and budget officers that a lot is riding on how responsibly they handle the infusion of taxpayer dollars.

[In New Jersey, most of the money will be stolen by the mafia. $1 BILLION in tax increases has been approved for New Jersey residents in 2009-2010.]

"If the verdict on this effort is that we've wasted the money, we built things that were unnecessary, or we've done things that are legal but make no sense, then, folks, don't look for any help from the federal government for a long while," Vice President Joe Biden said.

It won't be an easy task. Though most of the money will flow through states, some of the projects will be managed by local and regional authorities that have proliferated in recent decades but get little scrutiny. Obscure federal agencies that have mismanaged funds in the past will now have billions to spend. And relentlessly, fraud experts say, the common huckster will try to make a buck by rigging a bid or overbilling the government.

Xanadu is slated to open in August, [2009] but some have their doubts. The development and its publicly-financed rail link have faced delays, increased costs and recurring controversy ever since ground broke.

[In March, 2010 construction has halted and no one can say, in Governor Christie's words, "if and when" Xanadu will open for business.]

Conflict-of-interest allegations pervaded the project. Losing bidders sued. The developer endured a securities investigation and nearly went bankrupt. The train line was routed through toxic lagoons where an oil company dumped chemicals for decades.

[New Jersey is called: "Cancer Alley."]

The stimulus package allocates $350 MILLION for oversight, with plans to hire dozens of new auditors and investigators.

[A lot of that oversight money will also be stolen.]

The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners has estimated that U.S. organizations lose 7 percent of annual revenues to fraud. Should it hold true for the stimulus plan, that's $55 BILLION -- roughly the state budget of Ohio.

[New Jersey's losses due to fraud far exceed this percentage because politicians, like Senator Bob, get a piece of every pie -- including the Xanadu pie.]

"If there's money to be had, someone will come along and try to find a way to deprive you of it," said Allan Bachman, the association's education manager. "The government resources are stretched right now in terms of accountability. To add this task to them is going to be a huge burden."

I. Unprecedented Cascade of Cash.

With spending spread far and wide, the stimulus package signed by President Obama in mid-February reads like a Nano version of the federal budget. Everything from lead abatement in public housing to space exploration gets money. Some will be doled out to states and some to federal contractors, some by formula and some by grant.

The various tentacles have public interest groups on edge, given the billions of dollars wasted and abused in the reconstruction of Iraq and after Hurricane Katrina.

"It's monumental," said Craig Jennings of the open government group OMB Watch. "I don't want to be too hyperbolic, but this is something that hasn't been done before and it's a lot of money."

Some small agencies will see their budgets balloon. Take the Rural Utilities Service, an Agriculture Department bureau started in the 1930s to bring electricity to the heartland. Its broadband loan program, which in the 2009 budget had $300 million, will now administer grants and loans worth $2.5 billion.

In 2005, the inspector general found problems with a quarter of the funds the program had received in its first four years. The service spent $45 million, intended to bring Internet service to underserved rural areas, to wire 19 affluent subdivisions in the Houston suburbs. One of those, the Sienna Plantation, is built around a golf course within five miles of the city limits. Another, River Park West, is just outside Sugar Land, which has a median household income of $95,000 -- one of the highest in Texas.

Government watchdogs also might have a hard time stopping crooked contractors from getting stimulus money. One of their main shields against fraud, a database of banned contractors, is riddled with holes, according to a Government Accountability Office report last month. Companies that have defrauded the government continued to receive contracts by simply changing their addresses or because officials failed to check the system, the GAO found.

[N.J. officials are usually paid off to look the other way. Are you concerned about government corruption, Senator Bob?]

In one case, a computer-services company convicted of falsifying records received a new contract because, when searching the database, procurement officers left out a comma. In another, the owner of a medical equipment firm evaded a five-year ban for Medicare fraud by transferring the company to a neighbor, who transferred it back to the owner's wife, who used her maiden name to avoid detection.

Political thorns also await the stimulus as state and local officials fight over how to spend it.

In Texas, the stimulus dredged up an old political quarrel when the initial project list devoted money to repairing toll roads. That inflamed critics who say people shouldn't have to pay to use a road that is also built with tax dollars.

"The stimulus package came into play after all these years of battling," said Terri Hall, director of the anti-toll group Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom. "It brings up the double-tax open wound and just puts salt in it."

Complicating the politics and oversight is a maze of local and regional authorities that will be conduits for large chunks of stimulus money. ("Big Pappa and New Jersey's Third World Ethics" and "More Problems for Menendez -- Tapes!")

In the 1950s, the U.S. Census counted 12,000 such districts, which develop everything from water supplies to railroads to housing, sometimes mixing public money in partnership with private developers. By 2007, they proliferated to more than 37,000.

The original idea behind such districts was to cut through red tape and reform a patronage-driven system of public works. But more recently, appointments to these special district boards have been dominated by campaign contributors and developers, creating potential conflicts of interest that can raise suspicions about who benefits.

“Those authorities were created in response to the shortcomings of the political system and multitude of municipal boundaries,” said James Hughes, dean of the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. “In creating those instruments to solve a problem, they added additional problems.”

II. Rail Link a Critical Link.

Perhaps no place shows the potential for conflicts more than northeast New Jersey.

[No, you don't say? Dem guys think we ain't honest!]

That is where two authorities involved in helping Xanadu get rail service -- the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and NJ Transit – are hoping to land $3 BILLION from the stimulus for the Hudson River tunnel. As recently as January, local officials talked about landing stimulus money for a second rail line to Xanadu.

Xanadu was conceived in 2002 as a way to redevelop the Meadowlands, a series of wetlands in northeast New Jersey best known as the home of Giants Stadium and the Nets basketball arena. The $2.3 BILLION project has relied on hundreds of millions of dollars in public spending for transportation improvements and environmental cleanup. But as with many aspects of Xanadu, precisely how much the public has invested is in dispute.

[Wait, somebody get a calculator. No wonder they want to censor me. They don't want you to discover these facts.]

The New Jersey Sierra Club estimates the public contribution exceeds $900 MILLION [that's your money!] when property tax breaks, financing and other types of subsidies are counted. But John Samerjan, a spokesman for the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, disputes that. He said the developers have so far spent $260 MILLION for lease payments to the state and for transportation and environmental cleanup costs.

[Oh, is that all? What the hell then ...]

Inside Xanadu, workers are laying tile and installing wires. The structure itself is nearly finished, but much work remains for the tenants. Two years behind schedule, the carnival-colored complex looms over the highway as a vibrant monument to economic revitalization or a gaudy albatross, depending on whom you ask. Local newspapers have exhaustively chronicled the project’s many ups and downs.

[Any public project in New Jersey will always be "2 years behind schedule with massive cost overruns."]

In 2003, The New York Times reported that Earle Mack, who sat on the board of one of Xanadu’s developers, Mack-Cali Realty Corp., provided a private jet to then-New York Gov. George Pataki for a Caribbean trip. A month later, Pataki and New Jersey Gov. James ["You gotta pay-to-play"] McGreevey agreed to have the Port Authority finance the $150 MILLION NJ Transit rail link. Aides said at the time that Pataki wasn’t lobbied by Mack and had repaid him for the flight.

Costs of the rail line have since ballooned to nearly $200 MILLION. The connection was critical: Xanadu’s promotional materials say the train is capable of bringing 10,000 people an hour to the complex. The 2.3-mile link also would cut traffic congestion and fulfill a long plan to connect the Meadowlands to New York City by rail, benefiting not only Xanadu but the stadiums, racetrack and concert hall.

[How successful will a shopping mall be during a long-term recession? There are 5 other shopping malls within 15 minutes driving distance of Xanadu.]

By 2006, when it came time for a Port Authority vote to formally approve the rail spur, four of the 10 commissioners present had to recuse themselves. The chairman, Anthony Coscia, works for a law firm that represents the Sports Authority, [Bill 'em, Cheat 'um, and How, Esqs.] the board overseeing the Xanadu project. Another commissioner was David Mack, Earle’s brother and a director at Mack-Cali.

Xanadu’s main developer, Mills Corp., disclosed in 2006 that the Securities and Exchange Commission had opened a formal investigation into the company and that it would restate its earnings because of accounting errors.

[Jose, you got company. Several more legal eagles in Hudson County are heading for a big fall. Accounting errors? Dipping in the trust account, boys? I never did that, but they said I was "unethical." Please see "Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System."]

With Mills teetering toward bankruptcy, New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine’s economic development chief, Gary Rose, helped find new investors for Xanadu – Colony Capital and Dune Real Estate, The Record of Bergen County reported.

At the time, Rose had an equity interest in Dune, The Record said, citing public disclosure forms. Rose also held stock and mutual funds in Goldman Sachs, which stood to lose more than $1 BILLION in loans if Xanadu went under, the newspaper said.

In an interview, Rose disputed The Record account and said he was only trying to help the players work together. He said he disposed of his interests in Dune as soon as he was advised they were joining Colony in an effort to rescue Xanadu.

The close connections feed skepticism nonetheless.

[Skepticism? Whatta-ya talking about? I love people. Right, Cheech?]

“If you look at who’s involved [Senator Bob?] and at what levels they’re involved,” said Jeff Tittel, director of the Sierra Club’s New Jersey chapter, “you end up seeing that this is part of this whole witch’s brew of New Jersey political insider dealings.”

[Take the canolis, Louie. Geez.]

Also raising critics’ suspicion was the decision to route the rail link through a federal Superfund site, which the Sports Authority purchased from Honeywell International for $6.2 MILLION, a price some said was unnecessarily high.

[Hey, it was worth 2 million, plus a little something for the kids. Part of the purchase price may have been coming back to the politicians under the table. Stuart Rabner was N.J. Attorney General when the project was planned. Prisco? "Stuart Rabner and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey."]

Honeywell, based in New Jersey, has donated tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions through its political action committee in recent years. The firm has hired several former political aides and state officials, including the former assistant commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection.

“You wonder, ‘Why did they pick that site over all other places?’ ” said Mayor John Hipp of Rutherford, just south of the Meadowlands. “I think that an investigation should be warranted. It’s a disaster.”

Honeywell spokeswoman Victoria Streitfeld denied that politics influenced the property deal. The company remains on the hook for remediation on the property it sold.

[Victoria Streitfeld is a New Jersey lawyer who is duty bound to speak the truth. Make her an ethics official. See "Does it Look Like I'm Negotiating?"]

Samerjan, the Sports Authority spokesman, said it’s difficult to avoid environmental problems in the Meadowlands, given its history as an industrial landfill.

["They gotta keep picking up the bodies of dead politicians," a gentleman identified as "Fat Tony" said on Monday. Mr. "Fat Tony" is a New Jersey Superior Court judge.]

Port Authority spokesman Steve Sigmund said it’s unfair [it's all relative!] to compare the Xanadu rail link with the Hudson River tunnel. “Yes, they are both rail projects that happen to start in the Meadowlands,” he said. “But beyond that they are totally different projects.”

In the past few years, he said, the Port Authority has taken steps to become more transparent – opening committee meetings to the public, allowing public comment periods before decisions and broadcasting meetings on the Internet.

III. A New Sheriff in Town.

[They went that-a-way. We'll head them off at the pass!]

Not all stimulus projects will involve as much money or murky politics.

With the fraud in Iraq and New Orleans fresh in their minds, Democratic leaders included what they say is “unprecedented” accountability and transparency in the stimulus: $350 million for oversight, or about $1 for every $2,250 in the plan.

[Lots of luck. "New Jersey's Superior and Supreme Court Whores" and "New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court."]

Spending will be overseen by the new Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, which some have dubbed the RAT board. It is composed of the inspectors general from every major federal agency receiving money.

[You won't see them no more.]

Earlier this month, Obama appointed Earl Devaney, a respected inspector general in the Interior Department, to head the board. Given the awe and praise that followed, one might have guessed that a tumbleweed had blown through the Capitol while someone cued the theme to "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly."

Devaney’s resume includes taking down powerful lobbyist Jack Abramoff. He exposed sex, cocaine and corruption in the government’s oil-and-gas royalty program. He once caught someone taking a bribe with a camera hidden in the mouth of a shellacked alligator’s head. “Earl is not one for sweeping things under the rug,” said Joseph Hungate, chief deputy to the Treasury inspector general for tax administration.

[They won't like that guy in New Jersey.]

In a few weeks, the stimulus board will take over Recovery.gov, the Web site where President Obama has promised that the public can track "every dime" of spending. But the president's Office of Management and Budget issued reporting guidelines that some critics say contradict his pledge.

Recipients of funds -- states, federal contractors and regional transit and housing authorities -- are required to report how they spend the money and to whom they award contracts. Those who receive funds from the recipients, such as cities and community college districts, will not. “All State A has to do is report the subgrant to City B, but City B has no requirement to report anything,” Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said at a recent hearing. “So how to do we get to the contracts?”

Robert Nabors, OMB deputy director, responded that the Obama administration was trying to balance the desire for transparency with the burden on small businesses.

“I just think this guidance doesn’t match what we’ve advertised,” McCaskill shot back. Jennings’ group, OMB Watch, is urging the administration to provide detailed data in such a way that citizen watchdogs can look for political influence.

“It’s going to be very difficult to go through reams of [documents,] find one particular contractor and say, ‘Ah! This one particular contractor has gotten 500 contracts and he’s made X number of campaign contributions,’ ” he said.

[The contributions will be made by contractors through third parties and will not be detectable on the surface of transactions. Much of the money for such contributions will come from illegal transactions, mob cash in New Jersey. Political contributions provide an avenue for money laundering mafia and drug cartel profits. Right, Senator Bob?]

Pay-to-play cases draw big headlines. But the dire economy and the influx of stimulus dollars create textbook conditions for more mundane abuse, fraud examiner Bachman said. “I’m holding my breath on this,” he said. “I wouldn’t be surprised if some period of time down the line we’re still prosecuting frauds going years back because of the stimulus package.”

Bob Hennelly of public radio station WNYC in New York contributed reporting on Xanadu. This story is part of ShovelWatch, a collaboration by ProPublica and WNYC to track the $787 billion stimulus bill Congress passed in February.

Today has been a nightmare in terms of attacks against my sites, distortions of my posts and ability to edit or proofread my work. I think these examples of public censorship with the cooperation -- or deliberate inattention -- of Trenton officials send the message that: 1) censorship is routine in American public communications and the Internet, despite disclaimers and the First Amendment; 2) the feds either can not (or will not) protect persons fighting state government corruption, where the potential felons are of the same political party as federal officials; 3) allegations by Chinese and other scholars of a sharp decline in America's fortunes and values -- evidenced by efforts to move to a new global reserve currency -- are demonstrably accurate.

I live in and love the USA. However, I am baffled by the persistence of these mafia cybercrime tactics taking place before the eyes of the world. I find it hard to believe that N.J. or U.S. lawyers and law enforcement are unable to control the harassment that I face, every day, or to provide me with the documents and records to which I am entitled by law. If this is a matter of a payoff, like most things in New Jersey, maybe I can try for a lay away plan.

Do you believe that this inability to do anything about torture and censorship of a person fighting mafia corruption will encourage others to come forward or cooperate with law enforcement efforts against organized crime in New Jersey or anywhere? Has it been long since you've seen Gloria, Bob? How about the real estate twins? ("Is Senator Bob 'For' Human Rights?" and "Senator Bob Struggles to Find His Conscience.")

Senator Bob Says: "Xanadu and You Are Perfect Together!"

April 12, 2009 at 5:36 P.M. "errors" were inserted in this essay. I visited New Jersey today and made sure to relieve myself in North Bergen, New Jersey. I urge you to do the same.

New Jersey government hackers are preventing me from posting images or accessing my MSN group. I will continue to try to regain access and to write. I cannot say whether someone in that malodorous state is finally reaching out to me. Please do not pretend to be a friend. Have the decency to be honest about what you are doing and for whom you are acting if you try to contact me. I will continue to struggle for that face-to-face meeting until someone will actually "see" me.

Ms. Milgram's actions on the corruption front are too little and too late. Anne Milgram will be remembered as another tainted and questionable or corrupt N.J. public official, protecting persons sharing her sexual-orientation (Debbie, Diana), complicit in the crimes and cover-ups of the Democrat machine. Milgram is yet another disgrace for New Jersey's legal system. Maybe she'll go to work for Bernie Madoff when she leaves the Attorney General's job, which I hope will be soon.

New Jersey's political and legal systems are heavily influenced by organized crime. This is usually described in county courthouses as "business as usual." What else is new?

There are unwritten rules and a network of secret alliances and loyalties. Local "bosses" often control results in courtrooms, appointments to key positions, bar committee participation and judgeships, even the private use of police officers and equipment for illicit purposes.

New Jersey's Supreme Court chooses to remain oblivious to these realities. The "justices" keep their distance from humble attorneys and their grimy world, in order to ponder deep issues and provide the rest of us with their immortal thoughts. Naturally, the "justices" do not wish to anger their political patrons or bosses. The only explanation that makes sense of legal paralysis in New Jersey in response to the crimes detailed in newspapers on a daily basis and the horrors experienced by me is corruption. ("New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court" and "One of New Jersey's Highly Ethical Attorneys Has a Problem.")

Jaynee must have been a so-called "consiglieri" (italics cannot be provided due to hackers) before finagling a judgeship by "doing a little something" for the boys. Perhaps this explains the HIP scam? What happened to those $300 MILLION, Jaynee? I am sure they'll come up with an "accounting error" type of bullshit to explain the missing money. Garcia, how are your friends in West New York's Police Department? Take a Xanax. Meanwhile, Senator Bob is juicing up the bachelor pad in Miami Beach, owned (allegedly) under another person's or a corporate name. That's a good way to use the Xanadu dough, right Bob? ("Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "Senator Bob Loves Xanadu!")

Is (or was) Ms. LiCausi a lobbyist for Xanadu developers or interests of any kind? Did she disclose, in writing, her "relationship" with the Senator? Were any fees received by Ms. LiCausi for this "lobbying," either personally or through an intermediary -- a chaperone, perhaps? -- and if so, were these fees shared in any way with the good Senator from the swamplands of Secaucus? Has Ms. LiCausi visited the "swinging scene" in Miami Beach, Bob? Have you thought of Antonio cologne, Bob? Is there any connection between Senator Bob and the censorship directed against my sites? (I experienced difficulties in reaching my blogs again this morning, letters are deleted from words, "errors" will be inserted constantly to maximize frustration and to damage the essays.)

"Secaucus" is so close in spelling to the Cuban term "Sicote," and the smell in that town is so similar to what the Cuban word describes, that persons in Hudson County tend to associate the words. Several attacks on this essay have resulted in the removal or alteration of words. I will continue to make corrections as they are needed.

How much of the $2 BILLION has been spent on the Xanadu deal? How close are we to completion of the Xanadu project, including a rail link from the Meadowlands to the city? There are enormous disparities in "accounting" for the monies expended in this public/private project to create a mall -- with the same stores found in several other malls in the area -- in the midst of a severe recession? Lots of luck.

How many law firms "billed" for services in connection with Xanadu? How politically active are the said law firms? How many contributions to political campaigns, like Senator Bob's election "efforts," have these firms made? How many lobbyists have "sold themselves" to Xanadu developers? Ms. LiCausi? Do you speak to me of "ethics," Senator? You want to give these guys in New Jersey $4 BILLION in "stimulus" money? Where's the OAE? The word "whore" in New Jersey describes a subspecialty in law. ("New Jersey's Supreme Court Whores" and "New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court.")

Ronald Smothers, "Six Police Officers Charged With Protecting a Drug Ring," The New York Times, July 12, 2006, at p. B3:

"Prosecutors say [New Jersey] police officers conspired to protect their [drug dealer] friends, and to cover-up their own efforts to shield them in order to continue living in the fast lane." ("Mafia Involvement in New Jersey's State Police" and "KKK Police Shocker in New Jersey.")

New Jersey Superior Court judges may be even more corrupt than the cops. Bribes, favors, combined with unprecedented levels of stupidity and cronyism to make New Jersey's judges the laughing stocks or worse of America's and the world's legal profession. ($15-$20,000 to buy a N.J. Superior Court judgeship, allegedly.) The response to what I say will be further illegal censorship and threats, together with the removal of a letter from one of my words in this essay. I've heard everything from $15-25,000 to grease one's way to a judgeship after the ten years in practice. How much is it these days, BobbyM?

I have received a notice suggesting that Yahoo e-mail is "closing" and MSN groups is, allegedly, "closed" and inaccessible to me. My image-posting feature has been destroyed and my book is suppressed. It is impossible to tell how many hits this blog receives. The number shown on my profile is a gross underestimate and unchanging, despite numerous "tests" indicating that visitors are not registered, even after several "visits" to the profile. I wonder why this N.J. government cyberwarfare is directed against my sites over so many years? ("What is it like to be tortured?")

It is probable that Senator Bob is behind these shenanigans. I can only hope that no U.S. Senator would assist in censorship and suppression of political speech, a crime under federal law, or in efforts to frame an Internet critic "for something." Say hello to Gloria, Bob. Any other lawyer in New Jersey would be sanctioned for ex-parte chats with a colleague's client. Cyberattacks? Planning to travel to Cuba, Senator Bob? Maybe to work on your tan with the babe?

John Holl, "New Jersey Ex-Trooper Gets 24-Year Sentence for Involvement With Drug Gang," The New York Times, July 15, 2006, at p. B5:

Former New Jersey State Trooper, Moises Hernandez, "acknowledged on Friday, he was working for a Columbia-based drug gang that the authorities say was responsible for bringing almost $6 MILLION in cocaine and heroin into the United States EVERY DAY."

This guy was a friend of Senator Bob's, allegedly. How many more N.J. cops are on the payroll? $6 million A DAY buys more than a few New Jersey judges and politicians, making the drug trade easier in the Garden State than in most other places. The Trenton Cartel regards this sort of thing as "business as usual." The hoods in blue suits must not be permitted to get away with threatening critics in the blogosphere or their family members, especially children.

Is West New York's former police chief finally out of federal prison? The only thing easier than drugs in New Jersey is prostitution, right Bob? ("New Jersey Based Prostitution Ring and New York's Pay-for-Luv-Guv.")

Was my refusal to get involved in illegal activity of any kind grounds for investigating me? 1988-today. What are the connections, if any, between Miami's Cubanoids and Colombian drug merchants? Do the Cubanoid-fascists provide a distribution network by way of their bought politicians and cops? Miami to New Jersey, only in order to get to New York and the rest of the country? We are discussing millions and billions of dollars? Is crime in America really about African-American kids? Whose crimes are we worried about? ("Driving While Black [DWB] in New Jersey" and "Mafia Participation in New Jersey Courts and Politics" then "Cubanazos Pose a Threat to National Security.")

Drugs are a lethal threat to our inner cities -- drugs are killing those African-American kids in more ways than one -- and drugs which are brought, mostly, by non-African-Americans into the cities must be opposed by all of us. Trenton politicians protect CONNECTED child molesters and distributors of child porn, many victims are minority children. ("We don't know from nothing," "Judges Protect Child Molesters in Bayonne, New Jersey" and "New Jersey Superior Court Judge is a Child Molester.")

Neil M. Cohen, Esq. is on the N.J. Legal "Ethics Committee"! Paul Bergrin? ("No Charges for Child Molester in New Jersey Assembly" and "New Jersey's Legal System is a Whore House.") Stuart Rabner, Esq? (Prisco?) Anne ("I like girls!") Milgram, Esq.? How young, Anne? Debbie Poritz? You must be joking.

This drug distribution network is not about the Italian mafia. This is Colombian and Cuban-American organized crime made possible by corrupt politicians and bribed judges in New Jersey. No amount of intimidation by hoodlums wielding public power on behalf of a criminal enterprise will silence committed critics of this evil. Such corruption and incompetence by the N.J. judiciary is what I call "unethical." Let's tell the OAE about it. Give 'em a call. Anne Milgram? Maybe you can meet women, Anne! Oh, oh ... they will remove another letter from one of my words. Isn't cybercrime illegal in New Jersey? ("How Censorship Works in America" and "Censorship and Cruelty in New Jersey.")

There are unspoken and unacknowledged legal double-standards that lead to the justified conclusion -- especially by many minority and poor litigants -- that the system is biased against them (which it is), also corrupt and inaccurate (which it also is). African-Americans are, overwhelmingly, victimized both by organized crime and by a corrupt legal system in New Jersey.

Michael Tigar and others have shown that too many people who should not be in prison are locked up; whereas, many who should be kept off the streets are set loose on an unsuspecting population. Senator Bob? Much depends on whether defendants can call on -- or become -- corrupt politicians or have plenty of money. These are overlapping categories. Money gets access. And in New Jersey, for some reason, politics makes people rich. Who knew? ("Does Senator Menendez have Mafia friends?")

$28,000 a year for a municipal job in the Garden State and a thrifty public servant managed to save one million dollars. Unfortunately, he passed away before spending this money that he had "saved," somehow. I should have taken a course in economics from him. I wonder how ex-Mayor of West New York Anthony DeFino saved so much money in New Jersey. Real Estate? Albio Sires seems to be doing equally well. Don't spend it all in one place, Albio. I look forward to quoting Albio's comments concerning Mr. DeFino in a future essay.

Do you speak to me of ethics, boys and girls? Congratulations on becoming a millionaire, Senator Bob, after a life in public service. Amazing. This item may interest you, Senator: "Cuba: Fidel Castro Meets With U.S. Lawmakers," in The New York Times, April 8, 2009, at p. A8. (Not bad for a man who has been "dead for years.")

The Cuban-American National Foundation's alleged support for an end to the embargo and new relations with Cuba may obscure greater hostility behind the scenes to the Cuban people's economic improvement efforts. Cubans should be wary of offers of friendship from Miami's Cubanoids. Finally, easing of trade and travel restrictions by the Obama administration may be a first step towards normalization of relations. More attacks against my writings must be expected from Cubanoid-fascists.

John Holl, "Tenafly Ex-Councilman Gets Probation for Heroin Possession," The New York Times, July 12, 2006, at p. B5:

"Jeffrey Romano, a former councilman from Tenafly, N.J., who was charged with HEROIN POSSESSION in November and who has admitted continuing to use the drug, was sentenced on Tuesday to five years probation." (emphasis added!)

"Jay Romano and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "North Bergen is the Home of La Cosa Nostra."

African-American and/or poor offenders facing similar or identical charges are routinely treated much more severely than this mysteriously "fortunate" defendant. I wonder why? There are husbands in jail because, as a result of unemployment, they could not make alimony payments, while affluent defendants get a "walk" after much more severe convictions.

Of course, child support is an important right of mothers and children, but state "get tough" policies often result in denials of child support and an increased tax payer burden.

In some New Jersey counties, Mr. Romano's situation -- or the peccadillos of other political "personages" -- would not result in an indictment at all. The matter would be returned to the local municipal court level, where the defendant would get a slap on the wrist. Maybe only a little pat on the wrist and the wish that he "have a nice day." Charges against politicos have a tendency to simply "go away," like a summer rain storm. Let's make them an offer they can't refuse.

"Mr. Romano, a real estate manager, had been arrested several times before. In 1991, he pleaded guilty to possession of narcotics in Orange County, New York, and received probation. Also, in 1991, he was arrested in Kirkwood, New York, and was fined $331.00."

Either of those original charges would have resulted in a jail sentence, that is, if Mr. Romano's skin were a little darker or if he were not "politically influential." Any minority or poor male, as I say, would be in jail for a long time on identical charges. In New Jersey, "allegedly," the "reward" for criminal activity is often a political position in local government, for the right boys. (See "Let's see what he's got under his fingernails." )

"In 1996, [Mr. Romano] pleaded guilty to petty larceny in Vestal, N.Y., and was fined $100.00." That is what I describe as official "theft." This seems much worse than knowing someone who is "alleged" not to have worn a seat belt on one occasion. These were the reduced charges, remember.

Mr. Romano's attorney Robert L. Galantucci, Esq., did a fine job. I cannot believe that dispositions on such charges in urban counties are fair. I also cannot accept that it is appropriate for a convicted defendant to have no problem (according to all indications at this time) with his professional license, if any, as a "real estate manager" (is he a licensed broker?), when others with minor civil lapses -- who are not charged with heinous crimes, until FRAMED of course -- are subjected to the maximum penalties, even when their own civil rights are violated and crimes are committed against them by so-called "ethics-enforcers" (a possible contradiction in terms in New Jersey), certainly as regards the bribe-taking and politically-tainted OAE.

Politics must be removed from professional disciplinary proceedings, even in the Garden State. For example, OAE attorneys should respect the civil rights and humanity of their "targets" by refraining from stealing or committing other crimes against them, like rapes. My saying this is "nothing personal." I hope no one will take anything personally. The biggest lowlife, lying, and otherwise unethical shysters I had the misfortune to know in New Jersey were OAE attorneys entrusted with enforcing ethics rules. Most of them are probably judges today. Has my friend "John" at the OAE been suspended?

Observers of these questionable proceedings might be overheard to whisper: "Geez. Badda-bing, badda-boom!"