The Intrigue Under the Jersey City Hood
By Max Pizarro • 09/28/16 11:09pm
The locals saw it, and their heads turned.
At Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop’s City Hall press conference on Tuesday a recognizable local figure showed up and stood at the outskirts of the activity.
This person had shown up to “gloat,” in the words of one person familiar with the dynamics of how and why the endorsement went down. He was front and center, shaking people’s hands and saying things like “glad we are on the same team.”
Insiders knew him mostly because of a publicized row he had with the mayor going back to 2013.
It was former Police Chief Robert “Bubba” Cowen, and in the hours following Fulop’s shocking exit from the 2017 governor’s race he increasingly became the subject of considerable local speculation.
Two sources today told PolitickerNJ that Cowen possesses evidence backing up his claims in a lawsuit that Fulop tried to politicize his police duties in a mini local version of Bridgegate.
https://observer.com/2016/09/the-intrigue-under-the-jersey-city-hood/
