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Former Bergen Democrat leader’s prison surrender date delayed while judge considers bail motion

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JANUARY 29, 2016, 12:18 PM    LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 2016, 12:33 PM
BY PETER J. SAMPSON
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD

Joseph A. Ferriero, the former leader of the Bergen County Democratic Organization, has been given another two weeks of freedom as a judge considers whether to grant him bail pending appeal of his racketeering conviction.

The 58-year-old Hackensack lawyer had been scheduled to report to prison authorities next Tuesday to begin serving a nearly three-year sentence imposed last month by U.S. District Judge Esther Salas.

But Salas on Thursday pushed back Ferriero’s surrender date to Feb. 16 as she continues to review his motion to remain free on bail while he challenges his conviction for racketeering and fraud.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/former-bergen-dem-leader-s-prison-surrender-date-delayed-while-judge-considers-bail-motion-1.1502141

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Witness in Ferriero trial tells of ‘threat’

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Witness in Ferriero trial tells of ‘threat’

March 12, 2015, 5:53 PM    Last updated: Friday, March 13, 2015, 10:50 AM
By Peter J. Sampson
staff writer |
The Record

Teaneck lawyer M. Robert DeCotiis testified on Thursday that he “took it as a threat” when one of Joseph A. Ferriero’s law partners said that Hartz Mountain Industries wanted to hire Ferriero’s firm to go “scorched earth” against the Mills Corp., the DeCotiis firm’s biggest client.

DeCotiis took the stand on Thursday as a prosecution witness testifying under a grant of immunity in the federal racketeering trial of Ferriero, a former Bergen County Democratic leader.

As Bergen County’s powerful Democratic Party chairman in 2002, Ferriero was in a position to sabotage Mills’ billion-dollar shopping and entertainment center, then known as Xanadu, by going to work for the rival company, DeCotiis said.

At the time, Mills, a Virginia-based mall developer, was competing against Hartz Mountain for the right to develop state land at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/witness-in-ferriero-trial-tells-of-threat-1.1288022