Bridgeaplooza: New allegations emerge from Zimmer lawsuit
HOBOKEN — Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer threatened to fire Carmelo Garcia, director of the local housing authority, unless he agreed to hire politically connected contractors, a recently filed lawsuit claims.
Zimmer’s lawyer says the claims are baseless and suggested they are retaliation engineered by Christie allies.
The strong-arm tactics alleged by Garcia, who is also a Democratic assemblyman, come two weeks after Zimmer, also a Democrat, claimed in a nationally televised interview that the Christie administration threatened to withhold Hurricane Sandy recover money for Hoboken unless she agreed to fast-track a development project the governor backed.
In the lawsuit filed last week in Superior Court in Jersey City, Garcia claims Zimmer pressured him to award contracts to her political allies. When he resisted, Zimmer and her husband, Stanley Grossbard, “began to subject Director Garcia to an unlawful pattern of harassment, threats, intimidation and extortion,” the suit claims. (Giambusso/Star-Ledger)
Uhh…I lived in Hoboken, and I can vouch that Carmilo is a scumbag, and anyone working for the HHA should be regarded with a high level of skepticism. That’s the old guard democratic machine right there. BBQs for the projects right before elections, etc. Kept Roberts in office for years with those tricks.
My guess is that Zimmer wanted to get rid of him and clean house at the HHA, regardless of what contractors he used.
You are scraping the bottom with this “scandal”.
Hudson county , not even close
I think she is now going to find out what its like to make allegations.
Karma’s a bitch
Christie’s people at work here. Discredit Zimmer so that he is taken off of the front page.
the Dems discredited them selves , with the over the top coverage of Bigdgeaplooza for what everyone knows is business as usual in NJ , Zimmerman is from Hudson County that discredits her immediately , sorry but you start screaming corruption in this state and you have over 40 years of nothing but corrupt self serving policies by Dems , it is what it is