NortonPete
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 Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:58 pm Post subject: Just another day in the corrupt NJ neighborhood. |
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With the Senate race candidate Menendez under an ethics violation, ( seems he rented one of his properties to a charity that he successfully obtained congressional money for same).
And numerous other officials getting either early release or PTI,
We now read this Star Ledger item
| Quote: | Corzine urges Bryant to step down
Gov. Jon Corzine today called for Sen. Wayne Bryant to step down as head of the powerful Budget and Appropriations Committee, amid charges the South Jersey legislator steered millions in funding to the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey after he was given a no-show job.
“Sometimes in other legislative situations, people step aside until due process follows its course. There are many precedents where people step aside while an investigation goes on,” Corzine said during a news conference in Newark. “I think I’m making a clear enough suggestion.”
Neither Bryant nor his attorney returned calls for comment.
According to the federal monitor overseeing the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Bryant pressured the state institution to create a no-work job that essentially allowed him to “lobby himself” for taxpayer funds.
After the Camden County Democrat took the job in March 2003, state funding for the university’s School of Osteopathic Medicine, near Camden, increased substantially - from $2.7 million in 2003 to $5.83 million in 2004. However, no one could document any real work Bryant did on campus, said the monitor, former federal Judge Herbert J. Stern, who was appointed in December after the university was threatened with criminal prosecution for Medicaid fraud. |
New Jersey ought to figure out how to package and export corruption.
More over at RiehlWorldView |
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