new jersey corruption

>Authority misbehavior a symptom of oversight, says Stockton report

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Authority misbehavior a symptom of oversight, says Stockton report The headline-making stories of abuse and scandal at the state’s authorities shouldn’t be a surprise, according to a new report issued by the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at Stockton College. According to David [...]

>Port Authority reforms leave critics skeptical

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Port Authority reforms leave critics skeptical At the end of the Port Authority’s March meeting, after passing reforms about how public information is shared and trimming nonunion worker compensation and benefits, vice chairman Scott Rechler proclaimed “the days of doing business as usual at the [...]

>Controversy surrounding South Jersey legislator’s traffic stop leads to internal police investigation

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Controversy surrounding South Jersey legislator’s traffic stop leads to internal police investigation If there was a soap opera about Trenton, one episode may go something like this: A State Police trooper pulls over a South Jersey assemblyman one day in February. The lawmaker tries to get out of [...]

>Bill to end big cash-outs advances

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Bill to end big cash-outs advances New Jersey’s Republican governor and Democratic-controlled Legislature have long agreed that it’s time to stop large end-of-career payouts to government employees for unused sick days, but there’s been less agreement on how to legislate away what Gov. Christie [...]

>Watchdogs target insurance brokers cashing in on lucrative government work

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Watchdogs target insurance brokers cashing in on lucrative government work To State Comptroller Matthew Boxer and Citizens Campaign Chairman Harry Pozycki, it’s a simple question: Why are New Jersey’s county and municipal governments and school districts spending tens of millions of property tax [...]

>Port Authority transparency: Politics or progress?

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Port Authority transparency: Politics or progress? The deputy director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said politics is at the heart of a bill that cleared the Senate Transportation Committee today. A co-sponsor of the bill, however, said that the bill has accomplished one of [...]

>Is the clean energy fund suffering from a surplus of cash?

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Is the clean energy fund suffering from a surplus of cash? When asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton famously replied because that is where the money is. Perhaps that same rationale applies to New Jersey’s clean energy program, an apparently golden pot of money that legislators and governors [...]

>Paterson City Council probe finds wide abuse of overtime in hurricane emergency

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Paterson City Council probe finds wide abuse of overtime in hurricane emergencyWednesday, February 22, 2012   BY RICHARD COWENSTAFF WRITERThe Record An investigation by the Paterson City Council has found rampant abuse of overtime payments during Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee, led by Mayor [...]

>Christie calls Assemblyman Reed Gusciora ‘numbnuts’

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Christie calls Assemblyman Reed Gusciora ‘numbnuts’As he attempted to clarify a controversial comment he made last week about same-sex marriage and civil rights, Gov. Chris Christie Monday called openly gay Assemblyman Reed Gusciora (D-Mercer) “numbnuts.”The name-calling came as the governor tried [...]

>Audit: N.J. daycare program could be wasting millions of dollars

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Audit: N.J. daycare program could be wasting millions of dollars New Jersey could be wasting millions of dollars a year on its subsidized child care program for thousands of working poor families by overpaying day care providers and failing to catch parents lying about their income, according to [...]

>Schumer brother-in-law judge nod stuns New Jersey

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Schumer brother-in-law judge nod stuns New JerseyBy JOSH MARGOLINLast Updated: 2:53 AM, December 26, 2011Posted: 12:37 AM, December 26, 2011 Sen. Charles Schumer’s brother-in-law was quietly nominated this month to a federal judgeship in New Jersey — a move that has some in the Garden State crying [...]

>NJ senator: All public contracts warrant review

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NJ senator: All public contracts warrant review A state senator says she’ll reintroduce legislation requiring review of all public contracts after data from a watchdog agency showed consistent errors in the agreements entered into by local governments. Sen. Barbara Buono, a Democrat from Edison, [...]

>Sentencing delayed on loan scam conviction of Ronald J. O’Malley, the onetime chief of Bergen County’s public financing agency

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Sentencing delayed on loan scam conviction of Ronald J. O’Malley, the onetime chief of Bergen County’s public financing agency MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2011THE RECORD Next week’s sentencing of Ronald J. O’Malley, the onetime chief of Bergen County’s public financing agency convicted of brokering [...]

>Christie, GOP leaders name no one to the quorumless salary review panel

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Christie, GOP leaders name no one to the quorumless salary review panel Gov. Chris Christie and the two Republican leaders in the state Legislature said Wednesday they won’t make any appointments to the commission that’s supposed to meet this fall to recommend whether high-level government [...]

>Christie calls on legislative Democrats to act on his government ethics proposals

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Christie calls on legislative Democrats to act on his government ethics proposals Gov. Chris Christie on Monday urged the Democratic-controlled Legislature to act on ethics legislation he has proposed last September. It was last September when the governor outlined his agenda to overhaul state [...]

>Candidate William Connolly calls for superintendent’s ouster

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Candidate William Connolly calls for superintendent’s ouster A GOP state Assembly candidate has called for the ouster of Paterson school Superintendent Donnie W. Evans, alleging that he is running a “job mill” for Passaic County Democrats. William Connolly, a retired Passaic County employee, [...]

>Audit finds Port Authority could have saved $22M yearly, service contracts lack oversight

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Audit finds Port Authority could have saved $22M yearly, service contracts lack oversight In a rare rebuke of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey by another public entity, an audit by the New York State Comptroller’s office found the bi-state agency lacked documentation to justify [...]
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