New Jersey Man Is Accused Organized Crime Leader.

Kareem Fahim, "New Jersey Man Is Accused As Organized Crime Leader," in The New York Times, May 24, 2007, at p. B4.


"ELIZABETH, N.J., May 23 -- From his base on a work site underneath the Goethels Bridge, a member of the Gambino crime family gained influence in the affairs of two state unions, ran gambling rings in northern New Jersey and New York and collected a salary from a no-show construction job, prosecutors said yesterday."

"The man, ANDREW MEROLA, 40, was arrested during a vehicle stop in East Hanover, N.J., where he lives, the authorities said. He faces charges including being a leader of organized crime, racketeering and theft by extortion. Two union officials were also arrested this week, along with more than twenty other people who prosecutors said played roles in Mr. Merola's various criminal schemes."

The feds seem to have worked out a method of "sharing" information - "selective leaks" -- with some New Jersey prosecutors and law enforcement people, perhaps unofficially, while bypassing the Trenton Syndicate's players in the legal system as much as possible. I suggest that they avoid sharing information with the notoriously corrupt Office of Attorney Ethics (OAE) or with New Jersey's baby attorney general, Anne Milgram.

This arrest is only the beginning since such a massive criminal network, allegedly, could not operate in New Jersey and other states without the cooperation of government and other officials. In New Jersey, this probably includes judges and maybe Supreme Court justices.

"Wada-ya, kidding? Naaa ... " How many federal Grand Juries are hearing matters pertaining to New Jersey "events" and "personalities"? Several -- allegedly. Besides the one or more concerned with Senator Menendez, of course, who claims to have "absented" himself from Hudson County politics, allowing the "barons" to do what they like. See Raymond Hernandez & David W. Chen, "In Immigration Debate, Menendez Sees an Opportunity," in The New York Times, June 25, 2007, at p. B1. (Menendez is very good at seeing opportunities.)

"The authorities said that Mr. Merola, working with associates, inserted himself into the financial affairs of two unions: Local 825 of the International Union of Operating Engineers, based in Springfield, which Mr. Merola belonged to, prosecutors said; and Local 1153 of the Laborers' International Union of North America, based in Newark."

I think it is becoming clearer why $187 million was spent in New Brunswick and no high school was built. Many of these alleged criminal organizations have judges and state employees, at the Department of Labor, perhaps, on the payroll. Traditionally, in New Jersey, "nothing happened" is the only response to such criminality. Union County Prosecutor Theodore J. Romankow is brave (and unusual) in following through on these matters. Mr. Romankow seems like a good candidate for New Jersey Attorney General, or someone to fill a vacancy on the state Supreme Court, whatever his party affiliation. The same may be said for Monmouth Prosecutor Luis A. Valentin. Other prosecutors and judges are doing an exceptionally good job under difficult circumstances in New Jersey. It may not be wise to name them. You know who you are. Several good prosecutors in Hudson and Essex are doing excellent work right now.

"Working with a member of the rival Luchese family, Mr. Merola solicited a $20,000 bribe from a construction company that did not want to hire workers from Local 825, the authorities said. Another associate of Mr. Merola approved pay raises and was involved in other employment matters regarding workers in Local 1153, they said."

Mr. Merola, is (apparently) not Italian-American, having changed his name some time ago. I am sure that, among his alleged associates there are Latinos and members of other ethnic groups in New Jersey. (See Al Pacino's great performance in "Scarface.") Those members of the Cuban-American community who are under the impression that all persons in our ethnic community are lawyers, doctors, dentists and accountants are in for a disappointment.

Former Chief Justice Zazzali specialized in labor law when he was in private practice, right? I wonder whether he had occasion to "encounter" any of these fine "gentlemen" or to represent these labor unions or other "allied organizations" in the Labor sector of the economy? When it comes to New Jersey's legal corruption, nothing surprises me. You don't get to the New Jersey judiciary by staying away from the state's corrupt politics.

"Prosecutors said Mr. Merola and his lieutenants used a web site called Topbettors.com in their operations" -- I wonder why I have so many computer troubles? -- "but they did not detail exactly how the site was used. The site bills itself as an offshore facilitator of betting operations, providing 'an offshore call center and accounting services' for land-based sports wagering interests. A man who answered a phone number listed on the web site and who would identify himself only as Frank said no one was available to answer immediately."

"The gambling operations led to loan sharking, the authorities said, and Mr. Merola, using two enforcers, 'resorted to violence or threats of violence to collect his debts,' according to a statement released by prosecutors."

Allegedly, the preferred method used by organized crime in the Garden State is to arrange for the arrest of someone -- for a minor traffic offense, like not wearing a seat belt perhaps -- and then to have that person assaulted or killed in jail. It is rumored that judges, cops, newspaper people (including some on the best periodicals) -- are all at the service of these organizations, that also employ highly "ethical" attorneys, who are usually asked to serve on ethics committees before rising to a Superior Court judgeship, or higher. How you doing there, Jaynee?

"Don't forget to plan your New Jersey vacation!"

More Corruption and Unethical Conduct Among New Jersey Judges.

Hackers have damaged this text and others which I will attempt to correct over time. June 22, 2007 at 3:10 P.M.

I believe that the true number of visitors to my blogs and to the site where my books are available is not being reported accurately. Numerous copies of my first book have been sold recently, but the listed number of visitors to my page did not change for about week. This is intended to discourage or insult me, possibly, but since new copies are being sold all the time and interest is expressed from many quarters, I am not discouraged.

I have been told that I am "retarded," that my "book is shit," that a woman I love is a "filthy whore" or a "fat pig" by people concerned to "improve" my ethics. You can help to disseminate my work by visiting the Lulu site (a link is provided at the conclusion of this paragraph), so that the failure to record your presence will make it obvious that "something is wrong" in the "cyberstate of Denmark." http://www.lulu.com/content/48831

I have uploaded a second book to lulu http://www.lulu.com/JuanG. Due to spyware and other obstacles, I cannot access my own book as I write these words. I can't purchase a copy of it or even an ISBN number. I cannot know whether the upload was successful. I will revise it again, before making it more widely available. I will also look for an alternative publication site or sites. I will continue to put this work "out there," somehow, doing my best to make it available, through the major distributors. (See "Eduardo Galeano Against Censorship" and "On Sending My Book to a Publisher.")

I cannot be certain whether these continuing difficulties -- hackers, viruses and other obstructions -- will prevent me from posting new essays. I will continue to write them and to struggle to publish them, if necessary from a public computer. If I am unable to write, this will not be voluntary. I will continue to shout and broadcast my protest in some fashion, somehow, somewhere. An Open Letter to the American Medical and Psychiatric Associations and Physicians for Human Rights as well as the American Civil Liberties Union is next.

May 22, 2007 at 11:15 A.M. I am blocking http://view.atdmt.com/AVE/iview/msnnkcoo00300...

"The former fire marshal of Monmouth County was sentenced yesterday to six months in prison and five months of house arrest for having taken a bribe while in office. Under a plea deal in United States District Court, the fire marshal, Patsy R. Townsend, 59, of Neptune admitted in March that he accepted $1,000 from an agent posing as a developer seeking help in obtaining emergency demolition contracts, said the United States Attorney, Christopher J. Christie. Mr. Townsend was also fined $2,000."

John Holl, "Newark: Ex-Fire Marshall Sentenced," The New York Times, August 2, 2006, at p. B6.

Sending someone to prison in New Jersey for taking bribes is like punishing an eskimo for wearing a coat in the wintertime. What do you expect? It is commonly assumed that all major players in the legal system -- probably including the state's tainted Supreme Court justices -- are subject to ... "influence." Sometimes this is a matter of cash payoffs, more often players in the legal system are involved in a game of favors. I do one for you, then you take care of me.

"Patsy," the aptly named and now disgraced official, is "alleged" to have asked: "What did I do wrong? Geez ... I don't know from nothing!" Get this:

"A state trooper was indicted yesterday on charges that he stole drugs that had been seized by the police and sold them."

Evidently, this trooper did not share the loot with New Jersey's Supreme Court justices:

"The trooper, Brian Holmes, 41, of Elizabeth, faces 12 charges, including official misconduct, theft and drug trafficking, prosecutors said."

Yes, he did not share with New Jersey's judges or politicians.

"Trooper Holmes has been suspended without pay since May, 2006, shortly after his partner, Moises Hernandez, pleaded guilty to aiding members of a drug ring. Mr. Hernandez is serving a 24-year prison sentence."

"Elizabeth: Trooper Charged With Stealing Drugs," in The New York Times, June 22, 2007 at p. B6.

The subtle, mostly behind-the-back machinations ("Anonymous" is always busy) concerning cable and telephone company rights as well as the (possibly related) shenanigans over the merger of big power companies -- not to mention (allegedly) judicially "protected" prostitution rings in Atlantic City -- hint at the thirsty evil slithering through the darkened corridors of power in the Garden State. The prize is billions of dollars, this time, so that the crooks are out in force. They've got company. If it weren't for the feds, they'd have it made in Jersey.

Needless to say, it was not state authorities who caught up with Patsy. In fact, New Jersey would probably appoint Patsy to an ethics committee in recognition of his restraint in stealing only a thousand dollars. If he shared his thousand dollars with colleagues, then he'd get a judgeship. Eventually, he might wind up on the New Jersey Supreme Court, posing for his portrait.

The thousand smackers is what he was "caught" stealing, of course, so that Patsy (like any true artist), would not wish to be judged by such a theft. I am sure that he can do better, as it were. No doubt he will. After all, many New Jersey crooks point out, "everybody in New Jersey politics does the same." Perhaps Patsy's mistake was in not taking enough money. After all, $1,000 is not a big enough bribe to become a player among New Jersey's politicos or judges.

The troubled "system" of that pestilent jurisdiction located west of Manhattan -- and far south of any decent morality -- now amounts to an entire culture of corruption and secrecy, where what happens "on the record," in courtrooms or legislative sessions, is a kind of theater to hide what's really going on, which is about taking care of the powerful, even as political leeches abscond with the goodies when no one's looking. In New Jersey, they also abscond with the goodies when people are looking.

In one way or another all of the players in New Jersey's legal and political spoils systems are on the take, or affected by the corruption, with the exception of this new Governor and a few key players in his administration -- maybe a few others -- who are trying to limit corruption at the margins. Some legality is better than none. We must hope that Corzine will not get on the highway again and that he will keep far away from Richard J. Codey.

Some of the most stupid and inept people that I have ever had the misfortune to know were (and no doubt still are) judges and lawyers in New Jersey. Too many were -- and probably still are -- disgusting hypocrites. I plan to devote some posts to describing a few of the morons in black robes in the Garden State, whose names and specific errors I will discuss in detail. I will analyze their "thinking." Some of them are probably behind the efforts to censor these essays now, as I write and post them.

If the New Jersey political machine and so-called "political whores and fat pigs" (one good turn deserves another, in the interests of equity!) plan to censor me, then let's give them something to censor. They already violate the Constitution, so the First Amendment won't mean much to them.

If you or a member of your family have appeared before a so-called judge in New Jersey, there is an excellent chance that the person wearing those robes is much more dishonest and corrupt than you or your family member ever could be. Dishonesty and corruption are qualities sought among New Jersey's "bench warmers." These so-called "judges" (with some exceptions granted) often deserve and receive no respect from the people whose lives are affected or even shattered by their dismally flawed rulings. Don't give them any.

Until crusading reformers are destroyed in the media or otherwise, there may be some action towards halting or limiting the theft and incompetence, nepotism and cronyism, secret torture and cover-ups, that is New Jersey's daily desecration of both the flag and U.S. Constitution.

The Jersey boys can prevent my publication efforts -- by threatening and trying to obstruct web sites with my writings -- on a daily basis, but I will keep writing. I have a feeling that others are interested in what I have to say. (See "Is New Jersey Chief Justice Deborah T. Poritz unethical or only incompetent?" A little of both?)

New Jersey is an embarassment to the nation. The state judiciary is paralyzed or incompetent, subject to control by politics or money, while law is what these men and women in black robes mostly avoid or ignore. I bet Debbie Poritz got a nice dinner on your tab at that "Bally's Hotel and Casino," where she was recently photographed before leaving the bench. Maybe there was a little "Black Jack" afterwards. No wonder my computer is under attack. Debbie's got her pension. However, you may not get yours if you work for New Jersey government.

New Jersey's new attorney general is 36 years-old, so she won't have to worry about her pension for a while. (Sacrificial lamb?) Stuart Rabner, the new Chief Justice, has never tried a case in the state system over which he will now preside. I hope he is a quick study.

Hey, I wonder if Bally's -- or any of the Casinos -- have cases pending before those same judges having a nice meal at their place? Does this image of Debbie at Bally's suggest a lack of judicial bearing or the appearance of impropriety? How can the same judges having a "chow-down" at Bally's, then doing a little gambling, perhaps, presume to judge the casinos when they appear before their courts? "What the hell?" Anyway, that guy in the picture with "Chief Justice" Poritz sure has a nice suit, huh? I wonder if it's rented? Let's give them a roll of quarters for the slot machines.

Ethics? Whose ethics? In New Jersey?

Beyond anger and a sense of outrage at years of flagrant illegality and blatant cruelty by hoods, usually operating with the blessings of New Jersey law enforcement -- sometimes as members of law enforcement agencies, where it is also true that one finds many honest and good cops -- one feels overwhelming disgust and sadness. Picture the state's Supreme Court justices and remember the old saying: "A fish stinks from the head."

The ethical opinions of the sold-out or incompetent persons wielding power in the vicinity of the "old Raritan" river are discredited at the outset. They should not trouble anyone too much, for we must take them for what they are -- either attempts to change the subject, in what is now the most corrupt jurisdiction in the nation, or hypocrisy and self-justification. (See "There comes a time when silence is betrayal.")

A comedian gets a laugh these days merely by saying "New Jersey." New Jersey is to legality and ethics what a three dollar bill is to U.S. currency.

How to Execute the Innocent in New Jersey.

May 18, 2007 at 1:44 P.M. a new virus has struck my computer. I am running a scan. I will do my best to keep writing. This means typos and other defacements are to be expected.

Tina Kelley, "DNA in Murders Frees Inmate After 19 Years," in The New York Times, May 16, 2007, at p. B1.
Tina Kelley, "East Orange: Ex-Clerk is Sentenced," in The New York Times, May 17, 2007, at p. B4.

"ELIZABETH, N.J., May 15 -- A man who served 19 years in prison for the sadistic murders of his companion's two children walked out of the Union County Courthouse flanked by his family members after a judge vacated his convictions on Tuesday."

"Prosecutors contended that DNA evidence in the case would probably change the mind of the jury that convicted the man, Byron Halsey, 46. [Halsey is African-American.] They also said that the DNA evidence pointed instead to Cliff Hall, a neighbor who testified against Mr. Halsey at his 1988 trial and who is currently in prison for three sexual assaults."

Prosecutors are reluctant to allow even the innocent to walk away from legal proceedings -- unless the accused is a member of New Jersey's political caudillo -- so that charges have not been dismissed in their entirety. Mr. Halsey is not (yet) out of the woods. However, he is reluctant to speak freely or express his emotions in a society whose foundational documents guarantee his right to do both. After all, he may be framed for something else. I know how he feels. Hey, are they keeping you and Diana busy, Terry? A lot of torture work these days? How are things in Ridgewood, New Jersey? Did you interrogate this victim of New Jersey legal incompetence and racism, Terry? Did you subject him to hypnosis, then steal his money as "therapy"?

"Asked about his emotional state, he smiled and said, 'I don't want to get into more trouble.' He added, 'What was done to me was criminal at best.' ..."

I agree with that observation. It was criminal all right. In New Jersey, the real criminals engage in framing defendants or hampering litigants in civil ethics litigation -- by making use of Stalin-like psychological pressures or torture techniques -- and these criminals, very often, happen to be prosecutors or judges, or other government officials.

I suspect that some prominent New Jersey attorneys may be involved in hacks against my computer and in all the troubles I experienced at "The Philosophy Cafe" at MSN. These are people entrusted with protecting Constitutional rights.

"... Mr. Halsey signed a confession after 30 hours of interrogation, [interrogators probably made use of torture techniques developed by 'behavioral scientists,'] Mr. Scheck said. Mr. Halsey's lawyers said he had a sixth-grade education and severe learning disabilities."

"Barry Scheck, co-director of the Innocence Project, the Manhattan legal clinic that revived the case, said: 'It's a miracle that Byron is here with us, because if ever there was a risk of executing an innocent man, it was this case. [This is] because the facts of the case were so horrible."

Reliance on flawed human determinations in making death penalty decisions in a society still burdened with vicious racism and gross disparities of opportunity in education as well as denials of access to legal representation guarantees that such horrible tragedies will continue to occur. At least 50% of New Jersey Superior Court judges, in my opnion, are racists or close to it. Most court psychobabblers are vicious racists.

Who will give this man his life back? If Mumia Abu Jamal is freed, then what will society do about restoring what has been taken from Mumia, or about the lingering effects of his torments? "Let's pretend that nothing happened."

Anyone who believes that, in New Jersey, race is irrelevant to these facts is not living in the real world. Anyone who believes that the incompetence and corruption detailed in more than a hundred essays and articles that I alone have written (against a barrage of computer attacks, including those experienced today) is insignificant in assessing these unfortunate incidents is deluded.

New Jersey is America's legal cesspool. New Jersey is a toilet of corruption and criminality in high places that needs to be cleaned out. At the bottom of that toilet, we will find torturers like Terry Tuchin and Diana Lisa Riccioli, or New Jersey's Agency of Torture (OAE).

State Supreme Court justices will be posing for portraits again this year. Perhaps this conviction of an innocent man (one of many victims of the legal system, which includes women framed or abused, even raped, every day) is a truer depiction of what they have become than their official portraits bearing their gleaming smiles and oily insincerity.

"A former clerk at the State Motor Vehicle Commission office in East Orange has been sentenced to five years in state prison for selling drivers' licenses to unauthorized people, Attorney General Stuart Rabner announced yesterday."

It is possible that this convicted official got greedy and refused to "kick upstairs" a portion of the loot that he was collecting -- which is how many of his predecessors managed to avoid being captured or prosecuted in the past -- "allegedly." It isn't enough to go after token "small fry" in the most corrupt and feces-stained legal system in the nation, Stuart. ("Stuart Rabner and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")

Typically, friends or business buddies of people in New Jersey government were said to "make the approach" -- that is, to deliver cash, usually in a lunch bag -- without uttering a word that might be captured on tape. Rumors suggest the same methods are highly effective with judges "connected" to the big political machines. Right, Jaynee? ("Organized crime group in New Jersey's state police.")

Isn't that unethical? No, wait ... those are the people deciding on the ethics of others. Makes a lot of sense to have such people judge YOUR ethics. Ethics? In New Jersey? Forget about it. ("New Jersey's Office of Attorney Ethics.")

"The clerk, Lawrence McCross, 29, of East Orange, pleaded guilty last June to conspiring to commit official misconduct. He admitted to issuing about 25 licenses to people who did not present any of the required identification documents, for the average fee of $2,500."

The best way of being found "unethical" in the Garden State is by refusing to play these games or to genuflect to powerful "bosses." Be prepared for behind-the-back smear attacks if you challenge the system. Be ready to have your writings destroyed before your eyes with impunity, to be threatened and insulted or abused, under hypnosis or some other impaired state, to be questioned in violation of your most fundamental human rights by persons who will then comment on your ethics. These human monsters tend to diminish substantially when they are required to step out from behind one's back.

The price has gone up some for drivers' licenses. Otherwise, it is business as usual in New Jersey. Birth certificates $3,000; death certificates are about the same, right boys?

Let's Ask Jaynee La Vecchia About Corruption in New Jersey.

"Four men [have been] charged ... with operating a corrupt $4.6 million enterprise to harvest human tissue from funeral homes and sell it for use in transplants and research." The matter was brought before State Supreme Court in Brooklyn. Justice John P. Walsh set bail of $1.5 million for the former Dentist, Michael Mastromarino of Fort Lee, New Jersey, described by prosecutors as the ring leader, and lesser bail amounts for [four] other men."

Michael Brick, "4 Men Charged in What Officials Call a $4.6 Million Trade in Human Body Parts," in The New York Times, Friday, February 24, 2006, at p. B4.

Such an enterprise could only thrive on the basis of contacts between these traders in (possibly "diseased") body parts and officials in local medical facilities in at least one state in which the group operated, probably New Jersey. Criminals no doubt acted together with New Jersey's battalions of corrupt political and judicial figures. Diseased body parts is a fitting metaphor for New Jersey's role in the United States. New Jersey is America's cancerous organ. New Jersey's legal cancer must be removed by a skilled surgeon from the U.S. Justice Department.

It is highly plausible to infer the existence of a relationship between this investigation and other on-going inquiries involving "medical facilities" in New Jersey. So why did the case wind up in Brooklyn? Probably because the feds want to avoid New Jersey like the plague, which it may be.
This indictment may be viewed as part of a continuing effort by the Feds to "connect the dots." (See "Same Old, Same Old," "Cement is Gold," and "Da Jersey Code.") Such a criminal enterprise must have involved the cooperation of legal officials or the indifference, at best, of the legal system of at least one state. Guess which one?

Elected officials and judges in New Jersey are believed by many to have been in on this caper, probably sharing in the lucrative proceeds. Until now, only the federal authorities have pursued vigorously these matters involving alleged Medicaire and Medicaid fraud in New Jersey to the extent of $70-100 million or more. Perhaps this is merely a coincidence, but I doubt it.

Another charming local custom affecting judges in the Garden State concerns the overly broad power to seize property for public purposes. By "seizure" is meant giving the property to friends -- who are usually developers -- at below market prices, and getting a kickback under the table. Politically connected developers are good at getting spouses appointed to the bench, for example, who will then "judge" such seizures to be entirely appropriate and in the public interest, which looks a lot like their interest. How about it Jaynee? Any real estate developers and construction people close to your heart? Anybody seen Bob Torricelli?

Jaynee is notoriously stupid and abrasive on the bench, adding to her reputation for corrupt associations, rarely displaying a minimal awareness of the issues under discussion. Jaynee probably does not read much of what comes across her desk. This is not unusual for New Jersey judges. A friend who drives a cab in north Jersey said, with a weary sigh: "They [judges and politicians] think we're stupid." As a matter of fact, yes they do. See David W. Chen, "New Jersey Public Advocate Says Power to Seize Land is Too Broad," in The New York Times, May 19, 2006, at p. B1.

Responsibility for pervasive and repugnant corruption must be placed at the doorstep of the highest tribunal in New Jersey, whose energies and efforts seem "misdirected" at best. Take another look at the portrait of Justice "Jaynee" LaVecchia (that's how she spells her name, folks) accompanying this post, unless the image is blocked by Jersey hoods. So many expensive portraits of judges have been provided to the residents of New Jersey -- delighting one and all -- making recent tax increases worthwhile.

It isn't only citizens who detest that state's highest court. "Off the record" members of the bar can't stand the "justices" who are seen as living in an unreal world, often failing to appreciate the problems of small firms and solo practitioners. I concur. "Jaynee" is one of the worst offenders, who is said to insist on one of her law clerks following her every movement, then unrolling a red carpet whenever she walks into a room.

No price is too high to pay for citizens to be enriched by owning wonderful portraits of these distinguished jurists. Curiously, however, corruption only increases every day within the legal profession and among politicians in New Jersey -- most of whom are lawyers -- whose shenanigans escape the eagle-eyed attention of the OAE, while disciplinary efforts by that agency are directed at minority and other solo practioners, especially if they refuse to "play ball" with the official and unofficial powers that be. It is important to bribe the right people in New Jersey in order to be a successful lawyer or judge -- preferably legally; if necessary, illegally. (See the films "The Verdict" and "Bullworth.")

I appreciate readers' concerns for my welfare. However, I am past the point of such concerns for myself. Time to speak a little truth to power. One Latino professional, Dr. Oscar Sandoval, refused to "play ball" with the hoods, opting instead to cooperate with the FBI in order to put away the former Hudson County Executive and several of his goons, only to find alleged cronies of the disgraced and jailed politician suing him. (See "More Problems for Menendez -- Tapes!")

For some reason, it was never the State authorities who went after the crooked Hudson County Executive, until it became academic. In other words, New Jersey only does so when it no longer matters. I wonder why? Dr. Sandoval has also refused to "play ball" with County bosses by going public with allegations of "murder and/or criminal negligence" in Hudson County's jail, where "torture" may have gotten a little out of hand. The Hoboken Community Activist reports that: "Dr. Sandoval was silenced regarding the death of a prisoner he thought might have been a homicide." http://www.edmecka.com/articles/86/1/Sandoval:-jail-cover-up

Dr. Sandoval is represented by a Dominican-born, brave, intellectual and highly ethical attorney, Thomas Espinoza, Esq. It is likely that reprisals by the powers that be in Hudson County or New Jersey state government will also get him, eventually. At the very least, he will probably be investigated, secretly. Most things done to people selected for harassment or destruction in New Jersey are done secretly in violation of basic Constitutional principles.

I fear that Mr. Espinoza may also be questioned some day, under hypnosis, by torturers and/or psychiatrists affiliated with the authorities in that dismal jurisdiction. Maybe he won't be tortured and raped, however, since these are horrors reserved, for those insisting publicly, as I do, that their rights be respected and that corruption be punished. If Mr. Espinoza is indeed interrogated under hypnosis, then he may never know it:

"... light dosages of drugs coupled with hypnosis ... to induce a complete hypnotic trance. This trance was held for approximately one hour and forty minutes of interrogation with a subsequent total amnesia produced by post-hypnotic suggestion."

Alfred W. McCoy, A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror (New York: Henry Holt, 2006), p. 27. (Ridgewood, New Jersey's Terry Tuchin's specialty is such methods of interrogation, while Clifton's Diana Lisa Riccioli relishes abusing people in that condition -- "allegedly.")

Nearly two hours of interrogation of a person in a highly suggestible, weakened and impaired state should do the trick. Damaging information can be extracted, then the entire ordeal can be erased from the victim's memory. Most of the events will be unprovable anyway. The authorities will always deny these crimes publicly, happily lying about it, then they speak of "ethics" to others. New Jersey's OAE and Supreme Court will demand truth, in other words, only after lying about what they've done to victims of such methods of inquiry or saying nothing at all. The life-long psychological harm that may result for victims is also not a source of concern because most victims are minorities anyway. Right, Jaynee? Who cares about them? Jaynee doesn't.

What does your schedule indicate, Terry? Can you accomodate one more victim this month? You like to put drugs in a person's Diet Coke, I believe? Does your family know what you do, Terry? Are you really a Jew, as you said you were? And if so, then how did you become "Dr. Mengele"? How about Diana? Is she "booked" yet? How's the torture business these days? How are things in "white man's" territory? You said: "We can learn from you." I hope you will, Terry. Face-to-face. Where are those videos? Reports? You don't want to hide them from me, right Terry? Are you planning to make money off of them, Terry? Or to use such records for your professional "enhancement"? Is that "ethical," Terry? Who are you, Terry, to judge me?

How does it feel to be addressed in these terms, Jaynee? You like it? No, right. It's a lot better when people say, "your Honor." But I don't see too much "honor" in 200 convictions and a lot more on the way. I don't see too much honor in questioning people under hypnosis about matters that could expose them or others to liability -- right, Terry? -- in the presence of unidentified adversaries and in violation of basic Constitutional and human rights. You betrayed your oath as a physician and therapist, Terry. I don't see too much honor in the cover-up of these atrocities by New Jersey's cowardly and corrupt legal establishment. Talk to me about ethics. Go ahead.

Did you have sex with Marilyn while she was unconscious, by the way, Terry? Or was that only Diana? Is that a perk? Sex with unconscious victims? Is that part of being a "connected" forensic psychiatrist-torturer in the Garden State? (See "An Open Letter to My Torturers Terry Tuchin and Diana Lisa Riccioli.") How about it "Jaynee"? Is torture hunky-dory with you? Or is it only O.K. when victims are members of despised minority groups? One more time! Where are those reports secretly "filed with the court," Terry? I bet they were a million laughs for Jaynee, huh?

I know what the response will be: 1) Hackers will alter the spelling of words in this post or otherwise attack my computer; 2) Mumia Abu Jamal's picture was blocked in my msn group. So was Barack Obama's photo. Coincidence? KKK? Swastikas? Ethics? 3) A smear campaign will be directed against me, preferably anonymously. (See my essay on "Censorship and Chomsky's Turkish Publisher.")

Michael J. Garcia of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York was quoted in the Times anouncing indictments of 32 persons charged with racketering. Julia Preston, "32 Indicted on Racketering Charges in Manhattan," in The New York Times, February 24, 2006, at p. B3.

The persons indicted on these charges were active, allegedly, in the Bronx and Westchester, but may also have acted "elsewhere." It is suggested by some observers, regrettably, that the U.S. Attorney's Office wishes to avoid actions brought in any New Jersey state forum or contacts requiring information-sharing with New Jersey state agencies, together with a reluctance to appear in ANY New Jersey courtroom. It is anticipated that there will be further developments in these, possibly related stories, also in investigations still taking place "elsewhere." (See "The U.S. Attorney and the Jersey Boys.")

Whenever you read about the U.S. Attorney's Office alleging that criminal actions took place "elsewhere," it is likely that they mean New Jersey. They may want to change the name of the Garden State soon to "elsewhere." It could only improve the image of that unforgettable territory of marshes and aromatic swamplands, surrounded by industrial parks. The most offensive stench in New Jersey is the smell of moral corruption escaping from the Supreme Court's chambers. Whenever you see one of those portraits of New Jersey's Supreme Court justices, remember the blood that is on their hands -- smile, like they do -- then hold on to your wallet.

Now the "justices" are (allegedly) secretly arranging ethics complaints against each other. That is called "civility" and "collegiality" -- both of which are mandated by New Jersey's Rules of Ethics -- only in Trenton are exceptions allowed for Supreme Court justices acting secretly to damage one another professionally. Of course, rules apply only to some people in the Garden State, not everyone. "Hey, whadda-ya want? You a trouble maker?" I hope so.

"Governor Jon S. Corzine ... selected Bruce C. Vladek, a national health care policy expert, to be interim president [of the university of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark, New Jersey] ... The university [is still] under scrutiny in an investigation of alleged Medicare and Medicaid fraud." The New York Times, February 28, 2006, at p. B6.

Two university presidents and $100 million later, U.M.D.N.J. is still called the "cash cow" of organized crime and corrupt politics in New Jersey. Yes, these are overlapping categories: "... prosecutors [state?] want a former administrator at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey who was convicted of witness tampering in a pollution case to go to jail." Guy Sterling, "State Seeking Jail Time for ex-UMDNJ Administrator," Star Ledger, March 4, 2006, http://www.nj.com/printer.ssf?/base/news-2/114145241051910.xml&coll=1

Perhaps the presence of so much medical waste in New Jersey waters is somehow related to events under investigation. Traditionally, organized crime and corrupt politics in New Jersey meet at the point where medical and other hazardous waste needed "to be disappeared," cheaply, in violation of federal anti-pollution legislation. It appears that, in Hudson County, people can also be "disappeared." Cheaply? Be especially careful around Bradley Beach, which is only ethically (not geographically) located in Hudson County, which is home base for the mob in America.

One is reminded of Argentina's reign of terror under the Generals. Yes, I know that I should be careful. "Disappear" has become both a transitive and an intransitive verb in New Jersey. It is both something that one does and that is done to one, often against one's will, especially in the Hudson County jail. I worry for Mr. Espinoza because I no longer worry for myself.

Is it a coincidence that some areas of New Jersey lead the country in the incidence of cancer? Perhaps not. The residents of "cancer alley," however, need not fret over the circumventing of safety laws by some local medical facilities -- with the possible cooperation of New Jersey's politicians and legal officials, right Jaynee? -- since there are all of these lovely portraits of judges for people to admire from a suitable distance, which makes any financial or health sacrifice worthwhile for working people.

If you disagree and wish to express your concerns about corruption in New Jersey, feel free to contact the courts and tell them what you think. Give 'em a buzz. I'm sure they'd love to hear from you. After all, this is still a free country.

http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/supreme/images/soto.jpg (How you doing with the ethics charges, amigo? You should think twice about turning your back on your colleagues at the New Jersey Supreme Court, especially Jaynee.)

New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court.

One of my books at Lulu seems to have disappeared from my storefront or to be boobytrapped, so that an attempt at a download this morning resulted in freezing my computer and may have damaged my system. I will struggle against this computer attack. I do not know whether I will be able to continue writing. I'll be running scans at least once a day. July 11, 2007 at 10:04 A.M. my Norton Security system's capacity to detect and identify intruders has been irreperably damaged by hackers. I can still run scans. I will do my best to keep writing.


May 15, 2007 by 9:34 A.M. there were 362 intrusion attempts against my computer. My primary attacker was 24.192.174.68. (NJ)

April 21, 2007 at 6:57 P.M., there were 10 intrusion attempts and other attacks against my computer. Primary attacker 24.7.164.155. (NJ)

Once again on March 9, 2007 at 9: 00 A.M., I was denied access to this site and was obstructed by a "security risk" that my Norton System cannot resolve. I am still working on it. I am blocking http://adq.nextag.com./buyer/dyad/160x600s.jsp I am unable to change the image in my blog profile.

On March 11, 2007 at 11:45:08 A.M. illegal connections and obstruction efforts continue: http://b.rad.msn.com/ (207.68.178.61); http: (80); 17145 bytes sent; 20502 bytes received; 1:30.600 elapsed time. Many other connections, intrusions, violations of privacy are routine. Hackers alter and deface these texts on a regular basis.

After being blocked from this group and struggling against a major attack against my computer on February 18, 2007, I am able today -- February 20, 2007 at 12:12 P.M., for a while -- to access the site and try to post items. I am unable to print essays, receiving only a blank page with the following address at the bottom: http://view.atdmt.com/MSN/iview/msnnkhac00172x90xWBCBRB00110msn/direct/01

For any state legal system and its operatives to be complicit in criminal conspiracies to violate fundamental U.S. Constitutional rights, like the right to free speech, then for those same people to judge the ethics of others, is a foul and disgusting corruption and betrayal of the very idea of law. This is what I object to, among other things, in New Jersey's legal and political cesspool.

Just as any self-described "physician," who serves as a torturer and information-gatherer for powerful interests is no longer a therapist, only a Mengele-like servant of evil (Terry Tuchin, Diana Riccioli), so legal functionaries in black robes can no longer be called judges -- much less "justices" -- when they disregard violations of fundamnetal rights and conspiracies to violate rights taking place under their auspices and in their name. As I read these words, hackers have made it necessary for me to revise this text yet again. July 8, 2007 at 10:11 P.M.

After forty-five minutes of struggling against viruses, I am in the mood to re-post this angry comment on the New Jersey Supreme Court. I am still unable to see my blogs on a regular basis, but I hope that they are available for others to see. I will keep running scans. The effort not to give in to anger at the moment is exhausting, leaving little energy to write. I continue to make the same corrections numerous times. Readers may experience difficulties in viewing this item, as a result of viruses and spyware problems. I will continue to transfer the essay here from other sources/sites.


David Kocieniewski, "Report Finds Patronage Rife At a University," in The New York Times, April 4, 2006, at p. B1:

"Patronage hiring was so pervasive at New Jersey's state medical school that job applications were marked with a numeral indicating the potency of the applicant's political connections, according to a report released on Monday by a federal monitor."

Many citizens "have reason to believe" that the same system of political and other biases exists in the state's courtrooms. It is simply not the same experience for a politically connected lawyer walking into a New Jersey courtroom as it is for, say, a solo practitioner, who is challenging the system or wants no part of the political clubhouse.

Judges in New Jersey Superior Court are usually (almost always) products of the same politically connected firms from which those influential lawyers, mostly representing banks and insurance companies and/or organized crime, slither out every morning. Thus, judges will be inclined to "take care" of former colleagues. "What do you need, Joe?"

When a judge greets your adversary by his -- and it is usually "his" -- first name and mentions a recent golf outing, you should worry about your chances of winning your motion, whatever the law and facts happen to be. None of this is spoken, or even hinted at by lawyers. It was left out of my law school experience. They usually can't say these things. "Remember, you'll see that judge again." Yet everyone knows what's going on. This is demonstrated by their public denials of these truths, even as they secretly cheer for me to "give 'em hell."

I was told that "taking shit from judges is part of being a lawyer." It seems that the lawyers who are asked to "take shit" fall into the "politically powerless" category and rarely look like -- or socialize with -- the sort of judges who delight in abusing them, usually publicly. An exception is the sold out minority attorney who makes the Faustian bargain of trading his or her identity for professional and political success. http://www.nj.gov/oag/images/ag-ph-act-gov-7-04.jpg (swearing in ceremony for former N.J. Attorney General Peter C. Harvey.)

Tried and true responses to independence in New Jersey will always include anonymous smears, preferably disseminated by "domesticated" minority attorneys willing to lend themselves to such loathsome violations of colleagues' or anyone's rights to due process, typically in a behind-the-back, cowardly fashion. "Anonymity" in a smear campaign is a sure sign that you are dealing with the lowest level of hoodlums or some prominent members of New Jersey's Bar Association. Are these overlapping categories? (See my essay "Chomsky Publisher Jailed in Turkey.")

"While political appointees had received favorable treatment at the school for decades, the report says, the practice became so ingrained by late 2004 that it had evolved into a formal ranking system. Candidates who were recommended by then-United States Representative Robert Menendez, State Senator Raymond Lesniak or a handful of others received the highest ranking: 1."

I wonder whether those grateful recipients of favors found a way to show their appreciation? "A little kickback for the boys who brung ya to the party, eh? Whadda-ya say?"

Maybe there are tapes with such statements on them. Stay tuned to this station.

Those referred by less powerful officials, like members of the medical system's board, would receive a 2 or 3."This revelation -- which does not come as a shock to anyone who has experienced life in the flower-fragant neighborhoods of the Garden State -- makes explicit a system of "favors" which transforms power and law into something that really happens in dirty backrooms, filled with smoke, from which public and litigants are mostly excluded. (See "Psychological Torture in the American Legal System.")

For such foul purposes, dangerous idiots and sadists -- like Terry Tuchin and Diana Riccioli -- will always be available at the drop of a fee. Perhaps lawyers in New Jersey should be assigned a similar number on the basis of their political clout or unofficial "access" to judges, based on their political friendships, so litigants would know which lawyers are in a better position to "take care of things" for them, officially or unofficially. Many lawyers in New Jersey walk around with envelopes filled with cash. They usually win their cases. It may be that some of the recipients of that cash are behind the smear campaign against Jon S. Corzine or the earlier one against Zulima Farber.

Secrecy is the enemy of freedom and always undermines legality. A system of secrecy is preserved only through intimidation and social pressure in the legal profession or government, usually "legitimated" by token minority group members used as frontpersons for a corrupt system. Refuse to play that role. Decide not to be a flunky.

Such a tainted system is designed to teach a single lesson: "You gotta go along to get along." It will work until that day when you decide not to "get along."If you are a young lawyer or police officer in New Jersey -- or anywhere -- make today the day when you decide "not to get along." Don't do anything other than the right thing because it is the right thing. Given recent allegations of torture and murder in New Jersey jails, make it a point to treat people with decency and respect no matter what your superiors tell you to do.

"The document is a kind of Rosetta Stone of New Jersey politics, offering a vivid glimpse into a way of doing business ['it's nothing personal'] that is widely assumed but rarely confirmed."

"But the report also details a broad range of financial irregularities that it said plague the university, including influence-peddling, abuse of expense accounts, and sweetheart deals to steer contracts to politically powerful vendors."

Those "politically powerful vendors" will then (probably) kickback some of the loot to their political patrons, right before they are appointed to serve on an ethics committee. Eventually, those "vendors" may also become elected officials and/or judges. Eighteenth century British judges and lawyers wore robes with a discreet pocket in the rear of the garment for convenient depositing of bribes. Perhaps this is a practice that will soon make a come back in New Jersey? Maybe it already has?

The New York Times, May 31, 2006, at p. B4:

"Paul A. Coughlin, the former mayor of Hazlet, admitted in Federal District Court yesterday that he took a $3,000 bribe to help a vendor obtain a town contract, federal prosecutors said."

This is known in New Jersey legal and political circles as "business as usual." Somehow the state authorities missed this situation. There are many ways of bribing judges, including some that are probably legal or difficult to establish as illegal. When the litigant in a case is in a position, someday, to nominate the judge to higher office or to arrange other goodies for him or her, it has an amazing way of focusing a judge's attention on the merits of his or her argument -- even when that argument lacks or has no merit.

It must be a comfort to the citizens of New Jersey, at a time when the "gimmicks" (Gov. Jon S. Corzine's term) of the past have resulted in the disappearance of millions -- or even billions -- of public dollars, to provide oil paintings of judges at public expense, as schools in poor districts are asked to make sacrifices. Despite the expense, these paintings are not exactly "museum quality." Luckily, we also have nice large color photographs of these distinguished jurists, both individual and collective photos (also paid for with your tax dollars), that we can all treasure.

Posting "Anonymous" and false Internet smears about me, inserting "errors" in my essays, will not change the anger many residents of New Jersey feel towards their corrupt institutions and the sold out persons inhabitting them, like maggotts growing in a moldy piece of cheese. "What goes around comes around," is another bit of Jersey wisdom.

I wish to be just as fair in my comments -- indeed, more so -- as "others" in the past, acting for the state of New Jersey have been to their adversaries, or to me. I realize that I am making myself a target for reprisals and that most people in the system are intimidated. No doubt additional "anonymous" smears will be next. It is possible that I will experience an "unfortunate accident" after saying this. I seem to be blocking, every day, something called http://www.doubleclick.org/ ?

I may be accused of violating the "Wildlife and Hunting Act of 1735" by stepping on a centipede, so as to be prosecuted accordingly, only to suffer another unfortunate accident while incarcerated. (Has anyone seen Zulima Farber, Esq.?) I may be accused of urinating in public. If so, I won't say where I hope that will be. I may have to put up with continuing insults and threats directed at family members and friends, or at me. Daily obstructions and virus troubles are a feature of my writing experience.

These are standard methods for dealing with critics in the Garden State, violence or frame ups. Nothing surprises me when it comes to New Jersey's power-structure, official and unofficial. The fawning acquiescence in oppression by some minority and other attorneys concerned for their prospects is understandable, if sickening. Somebody has to say these things, in other words, and I am well beyond being intimidated at this point in my life.

I have experienced great difficulties in accessing this blog/group today, yet again, changing my password several times to do so. The format may be defaced by "cyber attacks" on my blog, so that my profile will be moved to the bottom of the page. I fully expect more such difficulties in the days and weeks ahead. An effort will be made to deny me an audience or prevent publication my work. (See the "Publish America" episode in the Literature section at Critique.) The number of my books' readers is not being reported accurately. I can not think of a better confirmation of what I am saying about the need to remove the thugs who now control so much of New Jersey government and law than these sophomoric antics, harassment efforts and censorship.

Why are you afraid of ideas, if you have confidence in your own?

It is impossible to respect any person or institution -- especially a U.S. tribunal -- capable of remaining indifferent (at best) to the continuing violation of any human being's rights taking place under their noses -- especially the right to freedom of expression and/or physical safety -- while hypocritically invoking the same Constitution, which is violated by them or their agents, on a daily basis, to judge the actions of others. (See "There comes a time when silence is betrayal.")

"Last week ... a final draft of the report was given to the United States Attorney Christopher J. Christie [ -- who must be the busiest federal prosecutor in the country. Mr. Christie, who has already earned a place in heaven,] ... said he may prosecute some school employees for abusing taxpayer funds, two high-level officials of the school resigned: one an administrator who is accused in the report of using an expense account to pay for personal travel, the other Dean of the School of Osteopathic Medicine, whom the report accused of misallocating tens of thousands of dollars for personal gain."

There is more:

"University officials dole out HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS in no-bid contracts each year, and the monitor is still investigating reports that millions went to firms that were POLITICALLY CONNECTED, had questionable qualifications and -- in some cases -- DO NOT APPEAR TO HAVE PERFORMED ANY TANGIBLE WORK."

Mysteriously, these law firms that do no work for their huge fees, paid for with public funds -- and not because they are prevented from doing it through license suspensions -- or that bill hundreds of thousands of dollars (allegedly) for copying a file, do not concern the Office of Attorney Ethics (OAE), which prefers to "solicit" grievances (usually secretly) against apolitical solo practioners, preferably those with few resources. As they probably whisper with a smile in Trenton, "What the hell, it's only our old law firm. After all, aren't they taking us all out to lunch later? Who cares if they overbill?" (See "Is New Jersey Chief Justice Deborah T. Porritz unethical or only incompetent?" Both?)

Ronald Smothers reports in "Group Sues Over Security Records," The New York Times, May 5, 2006, at p. B4:

"The American Civil Liberties Union's New Jersey office filed a public records law suit yesterday to discover how municipalities determined potential political threats in their applications for federal Homeland Security grants. The A.C.L.U. wants to know whether anyone was singled out because of legitimate political activity. The group also accuses former Attorney General Peter C. Harvey of misleading them in his response to an earlier law suit seeking the information. ..." (emphasis added).

Isn't "misleading" an adversary in sworn pleadings "unethical"? How shocking that the OAE is not concerned about this. I wonder why? Maybe this publicity will force them to take an interest in Mr. Harvey's actions. Who is selected for SECRET harassment in New Jersey? Is the OAE being used as a weapon against "controversial" or overly "independent" attorneys? Is the OAE a private army against legal professionals who "don't play ball" with the powers that be? Is there a secret "enemies-of-the-boys-downtown-list"? Who is secretly selecting these "enemies" to be "monitored"? What is the secret role of "therapists" (like Terry Tuchin and Diana Lisa Riccioli, or has she married and changed her name, despite her self-proclaimed gay life-style?) in these clandestine "operations"?

Are people being questioned under hypnosis and in an otherwise impaired state -- what drugs are they being given? -- and are they questioned by paid forensic psychiatrists, on behalf of the OAE or other state agencies or entities, about matters that could expose them or others to liability? Is it possible that the OAE participates in or is aware of such criminal inquiries, in violation of the subject's rights to silence, to counsel, and not to testify against him- or herself? What do you say, John? Does the OAE engage in cover-ups of such illegalities? Does the OAE engage in criminal conspiracies to violate federal civil rights, disregarding federal civil rights law? What does the "E" stand for in that acronym? Perhaps it is a "means and ends" kind of a thing.

The time for cover-ups and threats is over. Victims of psychological torture in New Jersey now stand before that state's tainted and sold out tribunals, demanding the truth about what has been done to them and by whom -- along with the right to face their tormentors -- while insisting on justice.

How many others sitting in New Jersey prisons, with damaged or destroyed lives have been secretly questioned by good old Terry and Diana, or even sexually violated by those two pillars of the community? I am asking this question on all victims' behalf as well as my own, publicly. The judiciary's lingering silence is only further proof of a cover-up of what can no longer be concealed -- the feces-stained New Jersey Court that presides over the lives of Garden State residents is corrupt.

Have you no decency? Do you still call yourselves "justices"?

Surprise, surprise ... "Karen Golding, 36, the former state lobbyist and campaign aide to Gov. Jon S. Corzine who was charged with stalking Joseph Cryan, ... will not be prosecuted by being admitted to a Pretrial Intervention Program (PTI), which will have the effect of keeping the truth in this case, whatever it may be, out of the public record." John Holl, "Trenton: Lobbyist Will Not be Prosecuted," The New York Times, May 5, 2006, at p. B4.

This will ensure that the public will never know what was really going on or who was behind this little episode of possible political spying, or worse. Who will be the next attorney, politician, or judge victimized by use of these tactics? Who is behind them? Mayor Healy, Ms. Farber, Governor Corzine and now allegations against a New Jersey Supreme Court justice, finally, whose tap dance is wearing a little thin. Will Corzine be next? Or will it be a federal judge? I guess Corzine was next. Federal judges may be future targets. N.J.'s U.S. Attorney better wear his seat belt.

"According to John Inglesino, Esq., an attorney working with federal monitor and former federal judge, Herbert Stern, Esq.: 'The auditing and compliance were grossly deficient, and that aided in creating an environment where U.M.D.N.J. has been used as a political patronage machine.' ..."

Get this:

"The most pointed findings in the 80 page report concern the use of the school and its $1.6 billion budget as a 'vehicle of patronage and favor-peddling.' ..." (How much went to judges?)

$1.6 billion is what I call stealing. The report suggests to many readers that an "unholy alliance" existed (or exists?) among psychologists, mental health facilities, as well as official and unofficial political-criminal power structures in New Jersey. Psychologists play "Igor" to the politicians' "Dr. Frankenstein," probably even providing torture services for a small fee. Maybe supplying sexual victims under hypnosis or drugging.

Of course, this is only speculation -- at this point -- but continue to check this blog (assuming viruses and other attempts to silence me fail!) for more revelations in the days and weeks ahead, based on anticipated news accounts:

"... investigators found evidence that the school's mental health clinic may have inflated costs and received as much as $70 million in unwarranted reimbursement [for what? torture?] from the state and federal government." (See "Tuchin, Riccioli and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "An Open Letter to My Torturers: Terry Tuchin and Diana Riccioli.") Nina Bernstein, "9/11 Detainees Describe Abuse Involving Dogs," The New York Times, April 3, 2006, at pp. B1-B2 (allegations of psychological and physical torture in New Jersey jails equal to the horrors at Abu Gharib and Guantanamo, of persons awaiting trial).

Where did the $70 million go? How do you live with yourselves or call yourselves judges? How come no one noticed anything "amiss" for years in New Jersey law enforcement? Am I capturing your likeness Chief Justice Poritz? I think so.

Well, intelligence had a way of leaking out or getting to politicians ahead of time, so Governor Corzine who will also make it to heaven -- especially if he gets on the Parkway again and is driven by a state trooper or Richard J. Codey -- has sought to remedy this problem by creating a Homeland Security Czar (HSC) with real power.

Whoever is appointed to that position has my sympathy and should expect to put in a little overtime. Wisely, Mr. Corzine has selected a person for that position without ties to the criminal-political organization that has secretly "run" things in New Jersey for decades, by claiming an affiliation with the Democrats. (See "Same Old, Same Old," "Let's see what he's got under his fingernails.")

This may be a moment of truth for New Jersey Democrats. Where do they stand? With the political machines and the boys in the smoke-filled rooms? Or with the advocates of much-needed reforms that will benefit the people of New Jersey? "On the one hand; but on the other hand ..." Bob Menendez said.

"Corzine created the $141, 000-a-year post in the wake of an acrimonious turf war between state police and the Office of Counter-Terrorism over control of New Jersey's anti-terrorism efforts. Corzine signed an executive Order designed to put an end to lingering jurisdictional disputes." See Michael Maddux, "Corzine Names Homeland Security Czar," March 17, 2006, North Jersey.com http://www.begen.com/print.php

A follow-up piece by David Kocieniewski is pretty blunt, "New Jersey Medical School Gives Blatant Lesson in Spoils System," The New York Times, April 5, 2006, at p. B1:

"... Ross Baker, a political science professor at Rutgers, said that even in New Jersey's checkered political history, it was shocking to find that government officials had 'taken an institution of higher learning, and a source of health care for thousands of people, and filled it with hacks.' ..."

"In New Jersey," a Hudson County politician explained to me: "Everybody's on the government tit." Except for minority people and poor residents in need of services, of course.

"When asked whether the current investigation would provide the school with lasting insulation from political influence, Mr. Baker replied: 'I'm always hopeful. But I always end up disappointed.' "

Guess what just happened at U.M.D.N.J.?

"Computer hackers gained access to the social security numbers and other confidential financial information of almost 2000 students and alumni of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, university officials say. The breach first reported by the Star Ledger yesterday, was discovered on February 24, although university officials did not say when the hacking occurred. ... the information included aid and loan data for about 700 students and 1,150 alumni." The New York Times, April 10, 2006, at p. B4.

If federal officials come to the door asking for financial information to prove that students, who were allegedly receiving financial aid, actually got the money they were due based on paperwork -- as opposed to having that money go in someone else's pocket -- it may now be impossible to "verify" all records. These are very convenient "hackers." I wonder what other records "disappeared" and why it took two months for the university to mention this strange theft of financial information.

A new surprise has been provided to us by Ronald Smothers, in "Reports of Shredding Lead to Subpoenas for University," The New York Times, May 19, 2006, at p. B4:

"Federal prosecutors subpoenaed a wide range of documents on Thursday from the southern campus of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey as part of their investigation into allegations of corruption and patronage at the institution, a lawyer for the university said."

Get this next move:

"... FBI agents raided the state university ... to stop the shredding of documents in the office of Warren S. Wallace, the senior Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs at the School of Osteopathic Medicine."

I wonder who gave them a "heads up" on which documents to shred? A hot line has been installed by the feds to encourage phone calls any time further destruction of prospective evidence is about to take place or new information of bribery, corruption and theft in New Jersey is available. In other words, they expect daily calls on that number, some (I hope!) concerning the state's well-fed and well-paid judges, who even now are pondering the need for life-size statues of each of them to be placed in state buildings. Maybe equestrian statues.

It is anyone's guess how much of this loot that disappears from the state's coffers gets back to specific judges or elected officials under the table. The feds seem to be turning over a lot of governmental rocks in New Jersey, with all sorts of disgusting and slimy things turning up in the process. And there is said to be MUCH MORE still to come!

I wonder what's up with the pension funds? In fact, I wonder they're still in existence?

Tina Kelley, "Dismissed Chief Accused of Breaching Ethics," in The New York Times, June 6, 2006, at p. B4:

"... Mr. Wallace arranged for a friend to receive a catering contract outside the required bidding process. He also ordered some of his employees to report about $2,500.00 of his expenses as theirs then reimburse him later, [allowing] him to approve his own expenses and make them look smaller than they were."

Everything from arranging medical school admissions to falsifying records to get bonuses took place at the school, with the protection (I believe) of New Jersey judges and politicians, who probably shared in the loot. In a follow-up piece by David Kocieniewski, "Medical School Chief Starts With Triage for Its Image," The New York Times, April 23, 2006, at METRO Section, N p. 36, the new President of U.M.D.N.J. seemingly admits that:

"Medicaid fraud might actually have involved $70 million. Since that money would have to be repaid, [guess who gets to pay it back?] it could mean that the school will face a budget crisis along with its legal, organizational and public relations problem."

New Jersey politicians not only "misappropriate" (is that kind of like stealing?) public money, apparently, but they get the public to reimburse the institutions they took it from, so they can "misappropriate" it again. That's what I call "moxy," among other things. Appointed judges, for some reason, never see a thing. They have parties to attend. Their law clerks are busy. We must not ask too much of them. They want a raise. And their pensions. How about this year's portrait?

I urge New Jersey's current elected or former officials and judges -- especially those who happen to be Catholics, but who have not attended confession in a while -- to think of your sins and pray, since the feds seem to be pretty serious this time about rounding up the usual suspects. For once -- at least so far -- it appears that "the fix is not in," which is an unprecedented situation in New Jersey litigation.

If you live in New Jersey and wish to see this sickening corruption and hypocrisy finally halted and punished, then please provide any assistance that you can to FEDERAL authorities investigating political and legal corruption in your state.

Also, let the judges and courts know how you feel about them. Tell them that you think that torture is unethical and so are many of them. Tell them how repugnant their hypocrisy and imbecility is to you. Tell them that you would like them to reflect a little more on their moral responsibilities before they judge others. Tell them to have the decency to provide victims with the truth concerning the tortures to which those victims have been subjected.

Give 'em a call in Trenton. Don't let them feel lonely.

New Jersey Forced to Divert Billions Endangering Pension Fund.

Mary Williams Walsh, "New Jersey Diverts Billions Endangering Pension Fund," in The New York Times, April 4, 2007, at p. A1.
Ronald Smothers, "With Corzine's Signature, Taxpayers' Burden Lightens," in The New York Times, April 4, 2007, at p. B3.
David W. Chen & Jo Craven McGinty, "Senators' Pensions Draw Fire in Trenton," in The New York Times, April 4, 2007, at p. B5.
Richard G. Jones, "New Jersey Lawmaker Makes First Court Appearance on Fraud Charges," in The New York Times, April 4, 2007, at p. B5.
Winnie Hu, "$187 Million Public School, Under a Cloud in New Jersey," in The New York Times, April 8, 2007, at p. B27.

"In 2005, New Jersey put either $551 million, $56 million or nothing into its pension fund for teachers. All three figures appeared in various state documents -- though the state now says that the actual amount was zero."

That's probably because the $551 million that should have gone into the account, or which they "mistakenly" listed as in the account, was split up among a bunch of hoodlums through several intermediary entities created to "address social issues" -- like who's getting a new Mercedes Benz and an addition to the house at taxpayers' expense.

If you were to empty the prisons in New Jersey and put the politicians in jail, then let the inmates run the state, you'd probably get better and more honest government. The inmates would feel obligated to leave something for the people. The politicians in New Jersey are greedier -- they steal everything.

These shenanigans take place in a state where kids shoplifiting merchandise worth one hundred dollars, routinely, are sent to jail. Preferably, by a minority group member appointed to the "bench" and proud of it, who will lend him- or herself to the dirty work in order "to show we're tough on crime." Isn't it time to get tough on New Jersey politicians' crimes? I think so.

None of these public officials -- until recently -- have been arrested for, say, drawing five salaries and seeking inflated pensions from a pension fund that has been "played with" for years by the organized crime family that really runs the state and its feces-smeared courts, where moronic judges are obsessed with procedural niceties -- as politicians and/or criminals steal everything -- so that judges may depart the judicial bench in their undergarments, but wearing a lovely corsage and smiling for newspaper cameras. (See "Is New Jersey Chief Justice Deborah T. Poritz unethical or only incompetent?") An "error" was inserted in this sentence since my last reading of this essay. I have now corrected it.

"The phantom contribution is just one indication that New Jersey has been diverting billions of dollars from its pension fund for state and local workers into other [alleged] 'government' purposes over the last fifteen years, using a variety of unorthodox transactions authorized by the Legislature and by governors from both political parties."

It's mostly the Democrats -- who are Democrats in name only! -- that you have to worry about in New Jersey. If you criticize them, they just change the subject: "How about Bush and the war in Iraq?" Then they go on stealing and trying to silence Internet critics or inconvenient journalists by hacking into their pages and deleting letters from written texts. New Jersey Democrats have cybercriminals on staff to discourage criticism on-line.

"The state has long acknowledged that it has been putting less money into the pension fund than it should. But an analysis of its records by The New York Times [sic.] shows that in many cases, New Jersey has overstated even what it has claimed to be contributing, sometimes by hundreds of millions of dollars."

"The discrepancies raise questions about how much money is really in the New Jersey pension fund, which industry statistics show to be the ninth largest in the nation's public sector, with reported assets of $79 billion."

How much of that money really is "available" is anybody's guess. $46 BILLION "short" in March, 2010.

"... examination of New Jersey's pension fund showed that officials have taken questionable steps again and again. The state recorded investment gains immediately when the markets were up, for instance, then delayed recording losses when the markets were down. It reported money to pay for health care costs as contributions to the health care fund, though that money would soon flow out of the fund. It claimed it had 'excess' assets that allowed it to divert required pension contributions to other uses, like providing financial assistance to poor school districts."

Financial assistance really went to the politicians. The best financial assistance New jersey politicians can give the people of the state is for them to emigrate to another country. Let's send them to Iraq, so they can help with the war effort and show their patriotism while still criticizing Bush.

"... At least 5 of the 12 retiring [N.J.] senators have held other government jobs at the same time as their legislative posts, which currently pay $49,000 a year -- potentially qualifying them for additional pension pay."

Multiple pensions for politicians as the system faces a financial crisis. Makes sense, right?

"The most prominent is Sen. Wayne R. Bryant, a Camden County Democrat, who on Tuesday appeared for the first time in Federal District Court ... to face corruption charges. One of the charges is that he stockpiled government jobs requiring little or no work over the past three years to increase his pension to about $81,000 from $28,000."

This is in addition to his other pensions. Ethics? Mr. Bryant was beloved for years by the OAE. Is the OAE incompetent or corrupt? Most lawyers say "a little of both."

"Holding multiple government jobs is hardly uncommon in New Jersey, with its patchwork of municipal and county governments, school districts and regional authorities. And the total fiscal impact of those multiple pensions is miniscule [not to those receiving them or the citizens paying for them!] compared with the system's multibillion-dollar shortfall [SHORTFALL INDEED -- it's more like a BIG FALL!] which stems from a dearth of state contributions coupled with some questionable financial practices over the past decade."

O.K., kids. Can you say "CORRUPTION"? Yes, good. You can be a New Jersey Legislator or state Supreme Court Justice!

"... making his first public appearance since being indicted last week, Mr. Bryant said little during a 15-minute hearing before United States Magistrate Judge John J. Hughes to formalize the beginning of the federal case."

"Even as Mr. Bryant was leaving the courtroom a group of longtime friends and colleagues announced that they were planning a public show of support."

Poor people, especially African-Americans, are most hurt by the blatant criminality of many New Jersey public officials. Elected officials "representing their interests" -- between stealing sprees -- should not be fighting these efforts to reform the system. They should be helping to clean things up.

$187 MILLION and they can't finish building a high school in New Brunswick. After spending that much money, they have nothing to show for it in New Brunswick. For close to that amount of money, Trump can build a casino and hotel in Atlantic City. That's because $181 million in tax money is probably stolen, only the remaining $7 million goes towards building the school. Take that $181 million and pay it out to New Jersey teachers as a bonus. Then purchase an old building and refurbish it with the remaining $7 million. You'll have happy teachers, a new high school, and money left over.

For years, none of this questionable activity created an interest in Mr. Bryant on the part of New Jersey's tainted OAE, although Mr. Bryant is an attorney. So is Senator Bob, whose fate is still in the hands of a Grand Jury that must be hearing a lot of stuff since it is taking months and months of "factual presentation" and they have yet to reach a decision. Ethics? You're joking, right? New Jersey doesn't have any ethics. The legal culture of the state is a sewer. When you flush America's legal toilet, the refuse flows into New Jersey's legislature and courts. ("Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "New Jersey is the Home of the Living Dead.")

If you really want to ask some tough questions, how about these: Why is the lightning falling on Mr. Bryant? Why was he selected (or set up) to take the hit, while others in New Jersey politics who are probably WORSE than him are sitting this one out from behind the scenes -- probably after having secretly informed against Mr. Bryant to divert attention from their own thievery. "Freudian slip, Richard?"

Who are the other big bosses in Camden County again?

I wonder what other prominent politicians in New Jersey have "borrowed" through intermediaries, say family members working for non-profit entities receiving millions in public money and paying hundreds of thousands in "consulting fees" to political spouses for "tips" on where to put the coffee machine. Senator Bob, are you getting nervous? Inserting a spelling "error" in these essays is not much of a response, boys. Try inserting another "error."

Talk of property tax cuts is a joke under these circumstances. The money to cover-up these shenanigans will have to come from somewhere. Guess who's going to pay for these little "peccadillos" and "skullduggery"? That's right, YOU. Can anybody spell the word: "CHUMPS"? That's right, boys and girls, New Jersey's taxpayers are "chumps" -- according to the Jersey Boys, who should know. Do not remain silent about this disgusting criminality among elected officials, judges and "justices" in New Jersey. Hey, how about another inserted "error," Mr. Rabner? ("Stuart Rabner and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")

"Welcome to the Garden State!"

Another New Jersey Corruption Sweep!

I am unable to post this essay at this time at my msn group, due to hackers and other obstructions. The first posted version of this essay at "Critique" was altered. I cannot print items today. March 28, 2007 at 11:49 A.M.

I will try again to post this essay, both at "Critique" and at my blogs. These obstructions are content-based censorship efforts in violation of fundamental First Amendment rights and federal criminal laws prohibiting obstruction and violation of civil rights. I believe that such actions emanate from the corridors of power in New Jersey.

Richard G. Jones, "14 City Employees in Paterson Are Charged in Corruption Sweep," in The New York Times, March 27, 2007, at p. B1.

"NEWARK, March 26 -- one bribe was made in exchange for dismissing the complaints of a distressed tenant against a landlord. A second was to ensure a timely lead paint inspection. Another was submitted for the most basic of needs: to keep water services from being shut off."

"Those were among the allegations made by federal prosecutors on Monday as they charged 14 people in a wide-ranging public corruption scheme involving Paterson city workers, including employees of its Housing Authority, and manipulation of the federal section 8 program providing rent subsidies for the poor."

"The charges, a result of a 14-month investigation by the United States attorney for New Jersey, outlined an extensive street-level operation in which officials solicited and accepted bribes for a range of favors -- from steering tenants to landlords to expediting the city's occupancy permit process."

"According to a criminal complaint in the case, Benny Ramos, a former deputy director of the city's section 8 program admitted to investigators that he had accepted as much as $100,000 in bribes during the past 10 years."

"For the United States attorney's office in New Jersey, whose investigations have led to the arrest of more than 100 officials" -- closer to 200! -- "for public corruption in the past five years, the Paterson case represents a different kind of prosecution."

"Its targets were not public figures with household names, like John A. Lynch, the former president of the New Jersey Senate, or James W. Treffinger, the former Essex County executive, both of whom were convicted of corruption. [An on-going federal grand jury investigation into the activities of Senator Robert "Bob" Menendez has yet to be resolved.] And the largest [single] figure cited in the complaint was just under $7,000."

The total number and sum of bribes involved in all matters were not listed. My estimate is that, even in poor neighborhoods, bribes for public officials, including judges, in New Jersey amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Public "service" in the Garden State is "nice work if you can get it."

"But Christopher J. Christie, the United States attorney, said that his 'office was not swayed by the size of the catch' and that the case represented 'a pervasive culture of corruption throughout the state where even low-level players often expect something extra for performing routine duties.' ... "

Mr. Christie was quoted at a press conference saying:

"... 'I don't come here today to tell all of you that we have broken a high level major public official case,' Mr. Christie said ... 'But this is the kind of public official case that really affects the daily lives of people in New Jersey.' "

"He said that those charged were 'people who every day are shaking down folks in order to get the routine functions of government done -- things that should be done every day without much incident.' "

"When we have sat up here and talked about the culture of corruption in New Jersey, we're not just talking about people like John Lynch and Jim Treffinger,' Mr. Christie said. 'We're talking about people like Benny Ramos. We're talking about people in the lowest levels of government who exist in a governmental culture that gives them the sense that this kind of conduct is permissible.' ..."

That culture of corruption is probably more pervasive in Hudson and other urban counties than Paterson. Statewide, DMV and other state-affiliated and governmental agencies (possibly including the A.G. and the notoriously corrupt OAE), are typically as loathsome, or more so, as these city agencies in Paterson. Some of the moneys collected in this manner must "flow up" -- leaving a slimy residue among judges and legal officials -- who are part of the "organization" that runs so much of the state behind the scenes. Ethics? In New Jersey? Nah ...

Many New Jersey officials are on the take; many more are subject to influence by "made men" of the Democrat political organization that calls the shots behind the scenes in a setting that reeks of twenties-style Chicago gangsterdom. To hear the same people whining about African-American "criminals" in the inner cities, who are like Bible-wielding mormons compared the Jersey political mob, is sickening.

Jersey's political whores -- some of whom are running courtrooms -- steal billions, are involved in child porn, corruption and bribery, wielding political and legal power behind the scenes in a system where secrecy renders everything a "signal" or sign for something else. No wonder they are obstructing my writings. They prefer the darkness, like vampires and IRS agents. Overlapping categories? Perhaps.

Some of this must be traced to the "incompetence" and continuing "dereliction of duty" of New Jersey's former and current Supreme Court "justices" -- who are usually out on the town on your tab, when not posing for portraits on horseback:

"Hey, you got the widgets? 2, 000 widgets and ya get da permit. Wadda-ya-gonna-do? ... That's life in Jersey. He-he-he."

This is the sort of thing one hears from public officials in New Jersey, some in judicial robes.

New Jersey Court Clerk Charged in Bribery Case.

"A Newark municipal court clerk was charged yesterday with accepting bribes in exchange for altering a criminal record to allow someone to pass a federal background check, federal prosecutors said. The clerk, Louis March, 38, was charged in a criminal complaint by the F.B.I. with extortion under color of official right, said Christopher J. Christie, the United States attorney. Mr. Christie said Mr. March accepted $4,000 in cash from an undercover agent who was posing as the boyfriend of someone with a criminal record who needed to pass a background check to work at La Guardia Airport." The New York Times, March 14, 2007, at p. B6.

Did they get the 4 bills back from this guy? Or did the "suspect" keep the cash, allegedly, like Anthony Suarez, Esq.?

The cancer of corruption has so thoroughly devoured the institutions of the Garden State that this little episode produces no shock or surprise, only a bored "so what?" kind of reaction from readers. Most New Jersey Court Clerks are subject to influence. They have their favorites, usually attorneys from the big political firms and key judges. There are many favors granted and received, which are not specified in the rule books. Some are paid off, others are rewarded politically or in different ways. "How about a fruit basket?" Whores still make house calls at the courthouse, right? It must be a matter of professional courtesy for New Jersey judges. ("Deborah T. Poritz and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "Neil M. Cohen, Esq. and Conduct Unbecoming to the Legislature in New Jersey.")

Some New Jersey Supreme Court "justices" even get a free meal at one of the Casinos or at Rutgers University, as students' tuition rises beyond the reach of working class and poor students. Why should New Jersey Supreme Court "justices" making a measly $141,000 per year pay for their lunches? Let's be fair. It's only the rest of us who have to worry about such things. As a lawyer working on retainer for Jersey City at the time once explained "everything takes longer -- a lot longer! -- when you're getting paid by the hour." Right, Alex Booth? The same lawyer explained that he "had to bribe some politicians to get the contracts he wanted." Catching up with ya, Alex? "I'll watch your back."

Many municipal bodies granting zoning variances or other permits might as well publish the amounts needed to bribe officials and give away green stamps with every application. New Jersey judges and politicians should wear price tags indicating the amount necessary to bribe them. The preferred method of extorting bribes -- a bribe is something I never paid to any of the "Jersey Boys," which is one reason why they don't like me -- is through somebody who is "known" to the goons in political office. If they know the person, then you'll have a chance of delivering "the goods." How much does a zoning variance go for in North Bergen?

Does it still cost $2,000 -- make that "widgets" -- to get a variance approved in Union City, Bob? Still $800 to $1,000 for a driver's license from NJ's DMV made out in the name of your choice? $2,000 more recently? Has the price gone up? These things were reputedly (and allegedly) "common knowledge" ten years ago. My guess is -- and by reputation -- they still are. No lawyer can say this publicly. It's probably worse now. The North Bergen office of NJ's DMV was closed twice after arrests of employees taking bribes. I am told that things are worse now. "I have reason to believe" that these suspicions are accurate.

New Jersey Judges are "somebody's cousin" who is too stupid to make big money in the rackets, so the boys make him or her a judge. No wonder I seem to have all these problems with hackers tampering with what I write. I was told that a Superior Court judgeship could cost from $15 to $25 thousand in cash, or political contributions, after you have the "ten years in." As a "successful" and "ethical" New Jersey attorney explained. "They gotta get to know ya." More if you need to finesse the "Four-Way-Check." The public and members of the bar are not supposed to know about the "Four Way Check." Hey, how much does it cost to fix a personal injury case these days, allegedly? Any ideas, Jose?

As I write this on March 15, 2007 at 10:53 A.M., I am blocked from my own group at MSN, getting a "blank screen." What is? http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N3016.networksite.w... (I still can't change my profile image.)

Since I have defended the U.S. Constitution, along with America's cinematic imagination -- which creates what goes on many of the world's blank moviescreens -- this computer attack is a way of insulting not just me, but the United States. No wonder it probably comes from lawyers in New Jersey "affiliated" with one of the "family-like" groups running things. None of them want to debate me on philosophical, legal or political issues, so destructive efforts are what is left for them. Next they'll put in a call to "Cheech."

I wonder where Stuart Rabner went? Anybody seen him lately? Oh, wait ... he "demurs." How much trial experience at the Superior Court level does good old Stu have? None? No wonder he's the Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court. Sadly, Stuart is an improvement over Debbie. Debbie likes the girls. I wonder whether there was a sexual relationship between Poritz and Riccioli? Shame on you, girls -- I mean, "women."

This particular municipal clerk is probably African-American or Latino, so they'll feed that person to the feds to show that the system is on the up-and-up (which it's not), then it's business as usual. Just ask Wayne R. Bryant, Esq. The problems in New Jersey are systemic and structural to the wider political process. Big money is the cancer in American politics. In New Jersey, money corrupting politics has become a plague.

The New Jersey Supreme Court is filled with mediocre (or worse) legal minds, indebted for their positions to a system of spoils and favors -- even Jim McGreevey says so! -- machine politics and party clubhouses, "contributions," and looking the other way. There are some notable exceptions in the state judiciary, which always caused me to wonder: "How did that person get to be a judge in New Jersey?"

I always tried not to hold a judgeship against a person I like. No matter how hard Trenton politicians try, they have been unable to fill the ranks of New Jersey's judiciary with morons. So far, only a majority of the judges may be described as less than Einstein-like in their intellects. I remember one guy who had never heard of "equitable contracts" -- admittedly, a contradictory term in New Jersey -- who liked to munch on his lunch while sitting at the bench with a bib tied around his neck. Alka-Seltzer, your Honor?

When theft of public money, hidden by the flimsiest devices, amounts to many millions -- even billions! -- of dollars and nothing happens. When nobody goes to prison for huge thefts of public money in New Jersey, people no longer take the system seriously. They shouldn't. It's a cruel joke. Busting people who accept bribes for a couple of thousand dollars is minimally effective. The ethics enforcement system in the form of the inept OAE (they only win because their proceedings are rigged), is worse, more corrupt, slimy, behind-the-scenes and off-the-record. Politics. It's all about politics. This is something else that can't be said publicly and won't be on the bar exam. You ever heard of "solicitation" of grievances being an "ethical offense" boys and girls? Nah, we're the OAE. We can do whatever we want. Debbie said so. Just supply Debbie Poritz with willing sexual partners, young women, and you can do what you like. It's probably much the same with Stuart Rabner on the job. ("Trenton's Nasty Lesbian Love-Fest!" and "Jennifer Velez is a 'Dyke Magnet!'")

To his credit, the current federal prosecutor, Chris Christie, is going after everybody, big and small, in the most disgustingly corrupt, organized crime venue in the United States -- New Jersey's legal system. Payback for speaking these truths is, usually, getting framed for something or assaulted. Not to mention the ongoing attempts to destroy my work and inflict further suffering on me. Friends say: "When the Democrats win the White House, they'll kill you!" It's possible. (Only one "error" inserted since the last time I read this essay?)

Knowing the Democrats, they'll kill the wrong person. By the way, this is not ethnically-based. There are plenty of Latinos and other ethnic groups represented in the organized crime factions controlling so much of New Jersey government and law. African-Americans are probably among the most honest people in New Jersey government because they have been denied power for so long. Big counties, like Camden, receiving millions in public money keep their records in "pencil." This makes erasing numbers easier. Next year they should try crayons.

The OAE is a joke, as I say, corrupt, idiotic and controlled by the people they should be controlling. Thank goodness, Senator Bob finally spoke out: "On the one hand," he said, "but then, on the other hand."

If you ever need to throw up, just think of New Jersey's legal system.

At a time when security is crucial, when the nation is at war and facing terrorist threats, people getting a job at an airport (with criminal records or who are in the country illegally) can get what they need in New Jersey with some cash. I know this makes me feel safer. By the way, the target is New York -- not New Jersey. We'll give them New Jersey. After a few weeks, they'll surrender and beg us to take New Jersey off their hands.

You make your way to Jersey, buy a driver's license, get a truck and visit a local K-Mart and you can drive a missile with enough explosive power to bring down a building. I hope security agencies are aware of these "options" for terrorists.

All the technology and security procedures in the world will not help with the problem of human greed, malice, corruption -- in other words, with New Jersey's legal system. What is required in New Jersey is effective law enforcement and somebody in the state system who will offer some assistance to Mr. Christie or his successors. Anne Milgram can't really offer that assistance -- unless she gets some help -- because she is totally "clueless." My question to the Dyke brigades is -- Do you really want to go out on a limb for Anne Milgram, Esq.? Anne has been lost on the Turnpike for years.

There are excellent and honest prosecutors in New Jersey, but they tend not to be the political people who get appointments to higher positions. I am expressing these opinions against a barrage of harassment and daily insults taking place before the eyes of the world. Nothing happens. (See "Chomsky Publisher Charged In Turkey" in the "politics" section and the "Publish America" episode in the "literature" section as well as all the essays in the "general" section at: http://www.Critique@groups.msn.com/ )

Any insertions of typos or other errors in this essay will only verify what I am saying, which is something the morons in New Jersey probably haven't figured out yet. If they were smart, they wouldn't be New Jersey criminals. We shouldn't be surprised at their idiocies. ("New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court." and "Psychological Torture in the American Legal System" at Critique.)

I am told that some of the morons in judicial robes in New Jersey aren't doing so well today. Good.

Do what you can to help the feds stop this horror in New Jersey. Call the U.S. Attorney's Office with any information that you can provide concerning governmental corruption in the Garden State. I am sure they will protect your privacy. Is New Jersey's unofficial system of government and judiciary by organized crime what you wish to see in your children's future? I hope not.