A resident of Englewood Cliffs had a party one night and six of her guests were ticketed for overnight parking in violation of a borough ordinance. This particular resident had contributed to the mayor’s election campaign.
In response to the issuance of six valid tickets the campaign contributor called her mayor. The mayor contacted the chief of police about the issue, the police chief asked (or directed) the officer who wrote the tickets to facilitate dismissing the tickets.
An officer facing a “request” from his chief does not have many options. Predictably the officer “agreed” to the chief’s request and sought dismissal of all 6 parking tickets.
What kind of leader forces his subordinate into such an uncomfortable position? Once the mayor, the chief and the officer were in “agreement”; the municipal prosecutor and the municipal court judge were brought in to have the tickets dismissed. These tickets were dismissed without any defendant ever making an appearance in court.
Rather than have the defendants enter a plea and make their appearance; the police, the prosecutor and the judge relied on a false statement and dismissed all six tickets. The false statement relied upon read “resident called”. That false statement was relevant because in Englewood Cliffs overnight parking tickets are not issued when a resident calls and alerts police that there will be guests parking overnight in the borough.
The resident never called anyone to alert the police that she would have overnight guests. The document claimed that she did; the court based its dismissal on that document. Our system of justice is not supposed to accept falsehoods as a basis for determinations.
A phone call made by a contributor to the mayor’s campaign activated the entire governmental chain of command; including the court and the prosecutor. If any of this strikes you as unethical or unlawful you are not alone.
Lieutenant Scott Mura (a 21 year veteran) learned of this conspiracy and commenced an investigation. In a brazen abuse of authority, the chief ordered his lieutenant to cease an investigation in which the chief himself was implicated.
The State of New Jersey has an ethics standard that forbids official action raising an appearance of impropriety. At this point in the story 5 official actions appear improper.
1. The mayor calling the chief to get tickets dismissed
2. The chief approaching his subordinate to get tickets dismissed.
3. The officer offering the court a false statement in order to get the tickets dismissed.
4. The court dismissing every ticket without a single defendant making an appearance.
5. The chief ordering a lieutenant to cease and desist from investigating a crime in which the chief was a participant.
These five actions not only appear improper they are improper.
The sixth and most outrageous impropriety comes in the form of disciplinary charges brought against the only person involved who insisted that law be adhered to. In true Jersey fashion the chief of police brought a slew of charges against a whistleblower and the taxpayers are funding another witch hunt.
The highest ranking law enforcement officer in Bergen County was supposed to step in and investigate the 5 improprieties that Lieutenant was investigating. The fact that the highest ranking officer (Molinelli) in the county is suspected of taking bribes, implicated in a mob hit, vacationed with criminals and has a vicious streak a mile wide may have something to do with his lack of interest in a ticket fixing scandal.
Lieutenant Scott Mura did exactly what the law required of him. The county prosecutor should have investigated this matter. Dereliction of duty is the order of the day in Bergen County and it will remain the order every day until Molinelli is replaced by a person of integrity.
As a consequence of having a criminal occupy the prosecutor’s office, police officers must rely on the civil justice system for protection. The disciplinary hearing that exposed these issues is a taxpayer funded exercise in futility. The prosecutor and hearing officer were hired by the very people involved in the ticket fixing.
No matter what the outcome of this process happens to be, Lieutenant Mura is entitled to a fair hearing before a Superior Court Judge. Lieutenant Mura is also entitled to bring his own charges in the form of a whistleblower action against the Borough of Englewood Cliffs. The financial consequences of this conspiracy are incalculable.
Englewood Cliffs residents are exposed to liability in the millions over six parking tickets issued to someone who gave money to the mayor in order to help him get elected. All of this fraud, waste and abuse could have been avoided had integrity occupied the office that festers with Molinelli’s corruption.
The time it takes to demand accountability is less expensive than the money required to compensate victims of predators in high office. In my view this patter will repeat itself again and again unless the voters decide to target the elected officials who sit silently while scandals pile up and costs cripple communities.
Sunday, September 20, 2015
Saturday, August 22, 2015
All along the watchtower....
Let us not
talk falsely now, the hour is getting late…
When Mobster
Frank Lagano and his Division of Criminal Justice handler were unlawfully
wiretapped, Judge Marilyn Clarke dismissed scores of indictments due to
Molinelli’s misconduct. When Judge Clarke suppressed thousands of man-hours
worth of wiretap evidence (gathered at a tremendous cost to taxpayers); many in
the legal community believed that her admonition, coupled with the squandering
of over three hundred thousand dollars in law enforcement resources would
encourage Molinelli to clean up his act.
When it came
out that Lagano was likely cooperating in a case against Molinelli’s Chief of
Detectives (Mike Mordaga), the law enforcement community expected both Mordaga
and Molinelli to be out of their positions.
When Mike
Mordaga (Molinelli’s Chief of Detectives) handed Lagano an attorney’s business
card and stated “use this lawyer and 90% of your legal problems will go away”
Bergen County insiders suspected that card belonged to Robert Galantucci. In the paragraphs that follow you will
read about subsequent events that support the view of these insiders.
When
Confidential Informant and Luchese Crime Family “Soldier” Frank Lagano was killed
by a single gunshot to the head, his handler (DCJ Detective James Sweeney)
implicated Molinelli and Mordaga in the murder. It was widely believed that
Sweeney’s complaint, the lies Mordaga was caught telling with respect to his
relationship to Lagano along with the illegal wiretaps that Molinelli concealed
from Judge Clarke would cause Federal Authorities to arrest Mordaga and
Molinelli.
When criminal defense attorney Walter Lesnevich proved that
the Bergen County Prosecutor illegally wiretapped an attorney/client phone call
and then attempted to conceal the misconduct many believed that Judge Clarke
would cease and desist issuing Bergen County any wire tap warrants in order to
avoid any further lawlessness by Molinelli’s office.
When the US
Attorney for the District of New Jersey released evidence that Dr. Ragi
funneled over a half million dollars through Galantucci and Ferriero as
payment for “influence” that enabled him to enter PTI (twice) after sexually
assaulting over a dozen patients; the majority view was that Molinelli was so
tarnished by this revelation that his position was untenable even in Bergen
County.
When State
Senator Nicholas Scutari confirmed that Molinelli threatened the Presiding
Judge of Bergen County’s Criminal Division (Liliana Silebi) right out of the
county; lawyers and judges expected a demand for Molinelli’s removal.
When $860,000
in parking meter change was stolen from the Village of Ridgewood no one
expected that Thomas Rica’s confession would allow him to pay back a mere
$250,000 and avoid spending any time in jail whatsoever. When
it turned out that Robert Galantucci negotiated that sweetheart deal directly
with Molinelli Bergen’s Bar Association members believed bribery was involved. As
of today Rica has paid back less than $100,000 of the $860,000 that went
missing and he will never serve a day in jail for his crime.
When Molinelli
attempted to intimidate a civil attorney (Robert Tandy) with a contempt of
court charge that he had no standing to bring – it was common knowledge that
Molinelli was being a thug and abusing the power of his office in an attempt to
conceal the truth. When Judge Doyne
called that move “deeply troubling”
and ordered Molinelli to withdraw the charge, seasoned legal veterans believed
that the Attorney General would be superseding Molinelli in Bergen County.
When Molinelli
threatened to go after another attorney (William Buckman) in the same “deeply
troubling” fashion that he did Tandy, it was obvious that because Tandy and
Buckman were both alleging criminal acts by Molinelli that he was abusing his office to them keep from being heard.
When William
Buckman (attorney representing the family of Frank Lagano in their wrongful
death suit against Mordaga and Molinelli) was found shot to death on the same
day the Lagano Estate’s civil case was reinstated by the Third Circuit Court of
Appeals, people speculated that it was murder rather than suicide as reported.
When three
retired detectives testified that Molinelli maintained a “burn box” for
evidence that he wished to keep from defendants a lazy legal community took
notice but not action.
When
Hackensack Police Chief was acquitted of all charges because the taint of
“improper, prejudicial, inappropriate and highly prejudicial” misconduct was created by
Molinelli’s trial team. Chief Zisa
publically declared:
"It's my opinion that (Bergen County Prosecutor)
John Molinelli is the most corrupt prosecutor I've ever seen, and I believe
that every day he continues to serve in that position he makes a mockery of the
criminal justice system."
When another
three million dollars on a vindictive prosecution was squandered by Molinelli’s
office; seizure and forfeiture attorneys anticipated an increase in business.
When WPIX
reported that Molinelli had sold counterfeit sports memorabilia at a county
auction (after being put on notice that the items had no value) folks expected
that he’d issue refunds and apologize.
When WPIX went
on to report that Molinelli made false statements in connection with a public
contract so that $10,000 tax dollars would go to someone without a public bid (Drew
Max), they further reported that Drew Max had certified counterfeit and
forgeries as genuine. Legal scholars
believed that Molinelli would face consequences over the fraud, perjury and
other crimes that were uncovered by the investigation.
When former
Bergen County Prosecutor John Fahy was found shot to death people speculated
that he too was murdered rather than suicide as reported.
When Molinelli’s failed attempt to frame two Bergen County
Police officers uncovered the fact that he once again concealed exculpatory
evidence from defendants; Attorney Charles Sciarra publicly declared that
Molinelli is:
“corrupt, and his corruption is now on display
here, and that is his legacy.”
When this
entire politically motivated prosecution ended up costing Bergen County
taxpayers over three million dollars; fiscal watchdogs began to notice a trend.
When an
employee of the BCPO (Barbara Harrington) was taken to a psychiatric facility
for a forced examination on nothing more than the say so of John Molinelli,
those who knew the facts were enraged and believed that he must answer for his
abuse.
When the
Supreme Court of New Jersey found a “plain, patent and gross abuse of
discretion” on the part of John Molinelli it was widely reported and openly
discussed by everyone involved in the justice system or politics. The uniform consensus was mass incredulousness
at the fact that this man continued to occupy that office.
When you
started reading this column you assumed you knew all about the crimes,
misconduct and malicious infliction of harm that John Molinelli has engaged in
for over a decade. I can assure you, now
that you have read this column – you still don’t know all about the crimes,
misconduct and malicious infliction of harm that John Molinelli has engaged in
for over a decade. I’m interested in
your stories of waste fraud and abuse in New Jersey Government – if you have
something that needs to be examined in the light of day please send it to BillBrennan@BergenDispatch.com
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allegations, #improper remarks,
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Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Molinelli lies matter
There are quite a few people making noise about police officers who violate the rights of civilians.
There are almost as many people getting loud about government policies that discriminate against women.
There is another contingent demanding equal rights for the LGBT community.
The state has a robust contingent of activists lobbying for the legalization of marijuana. The argument that having arbitrary enforcement and capricious penalties for a harmless plant applies equally to a prosecutor with an arsenal of petty infractions that he uses as a weapon rather than a legitimate tool for the supervision of police departments.
For some reason these voices are silent when it comes to the manner in which the Prosecutor of Bergen County violates the rights of police officers.
The sooner we demand that everyone have their rights protected the sooner that will happen. I expect the police to respect my rights and I demand that those violating my rights be held accountable. I also expect the rights of police officers to be respected and I demand that John Molinelli be held accountable for violating the rights of police officers. They call it a social contract and the people demanding that the police hold up their end of that bargain are not holding up their own end by demanding that the police have their rights honored.
During the second trial of Officer Anthony Castronova, Molinelli was caught using an Internal Affairs "investigation" as leverage against a police chief who was set to testify truthfully (despite pressure from the BCPO). When the trial judge found out that Molinelli had left open a nonsense investigation for 3 years he ordered Molinelli to close it before the chief took the stand.
If you are a "Black Lives Matter" activist and you aren't concerned because this chief was white you are part of the problem. If you are a leader in the women's movement and you shrugged off this abuse because the abused was male than you too have harmed your favorite cause. If your rainbow flag flies only in order to protect the LGBT community then you are not as enlightened as you give yourself credit for. If you agitate for legalization of marijuana and laugh when you hear that cops are being harassed over meaningless rules - you might want to look at the bigger picture and see that the same thing is happening to cops - if they didn't live in fear they might be more open about their views.
Expecting people who live under the thumb of a thug-like prosecutor to protect your rights while they themselves are subjected to severe harassment and coercion is simply stupid. The Bergen prosecutor is so ethically bankrupt that a federal judge inferred he took bribes and let a doctor get off on charges that he got off sexually while molesting his patients.
Rights are rights - we all have them or none of us have them.
Clearly the system is broken,
The other side of the coin is Molinelli's leniency toward cops who have no business in law enforcement. One such cop (Ben Ramos) beat his girlfriend so severely that her eye closed over. Former Prosecutor Schmidt gave Ramos PTI with a valid condition "a lifetime ban on law enforcement work." Molinelli came into office and rescinded that lifetime ban. Within 6 years of returning to duty Ramos rose from patrolman to chief. This is the same prosecutor who took Castronova to trial (and lost) twice over an incomplete job application.
Beat a woman to a pulp while carrying a badge and gun - become chief of police. Fill out a job application in a manner that displeases the "gross abuser of discretion" and you will spend your family's entire life savings on 2 jury trials.
Insert your finger in the vagina of female patients, grope their breasts for perverse sexual gratification - become the first and only defendant in the history of New Jersey to receive PTI twice (after giving Ferriero $500,000).
Wear all the pink you want, fight on behalf of planned parenthood till you have nothing left to give but if you won't said anything about the sexual abuse of female patients or the beating of a defenseless woman by a cop who became chief then you are a hypocrite a coward or both. John Molinelli aided and abetted bot of those crimes and he did it with authority that he should never have been vested with.
Find out that Carlstadt clerical staff inadvertently failed to remove your ex-wife from the boro health insurance plan, report it immediately and demand that the mistake be corrected - the "gross abuser of discretion will charge you criminally and then obstruct your entry into the PTI program all the way to the Supreme Court of NJ.
If the trial judge (Silebi) happens to have integrity and grants PTI over the "gross abuser's" wishes - throw that judge out of Bergen County with the help of fellow thug Paul Sarlo.
If you get caught in Molinelli's web of criminal coercion, official misconduct or petty vendettas who will you turn to for protection? Cops are afraid, judges get run out of the county, the defense bar is either corrupted or fearful- that leaves you, me and other like minded people who understand that violence to our system of justice is a danger to everyone of any age, race, orientation, creed or color.
Individual victories are a cure for symptoms - the disease (Molinelli) must be dealt with. State Senator Paul Sarlo is aiding and abetting Molinelli in his crime spree - he can be challenged with a recall petition. Governor Chris Christie is running for President - he can be challenged at Town Hall meetings in any state where his protection unit lacks jurisdiction.
One thing is for certain, a call to action is brewing - decide now what your answer will be when that call comes. The characters who lurk in the shadows and support a criminal racket known as the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office must be challenged from the ground up - obviously this fish is rotting from the head down.
SHAME ON THE POLITICIANS WHO LET THESE THINGS HAPPEN
If you are not a part of the solution then you are part of the corruption.
There are almost as many people getting loud about government policies that discriminate against women.
There is another contingent demanding equal rights for the LGBT community.
The state has a robust contingent of activists lobbying for the legalization of marijuana. The argument that having arbitrary enforcement and capricious penalties for a harmless plant applies equally to a prosecutor with an arsenal of petty infractions that he uses as a weapon rather than a legitimate tool for the supervision of police departments.
For some reason these voices are silent when it comes to the manner in which the Prosecutor of Bergen County violates the rights of police officers.
The sooner we demand that everyone have their rights protected the sooner that will happen. I expect the police to respect my rights and I demand that those violating my rights be held accountable. I also expect the rights of police officers to be respected and I demand that John Molinelli be held accountable for violating the rights of police officers. They call it a social contract and the people demanding that the police hold up their end of that bargain are not holding up their own end by demanding that the police have their rights honored.
During the second trial of Officer Anthony Castronova, Molinelli was caught using an Internal Affairs "investigation" as leverage against a police chief who was set to testify truthfully (despite pressure from the BCPO). When the trial judge found out that Molinelli had left open a nonsense investigation for 3 years he ordered Molinelli to close it before the chief took the stand.
If you are a "Black Lives Matter" activist and you aren't concerned because this chief was white you are part of the problem. If you are a leader in the women's movement and you shrugged off this abuse because the abused was male than you too have harmed your favorite cause. If your rainbow flag flies only in order to protect the LGBT community then you are not as enlightened as you give yourself credit for. If you agitate for legalization of marijuana and laugh when you hear that cops are being harassed over meaningless rules - you might want to look at the bigger picture and see that the same thing is happening to cops - if they didn't live in fear they might be more open about their views.
Expecting people who live under the thumb of a thug-like prosecutor to protect your rights while they themselves are subjected to severe harassment and coercion is simply stupid. The Bergen prosecutor is so ethically bankrupt that a federal judge inferred he took bribes and let a doctor get off on charges that he got off sexually while molesting his patients.
Rights are rights - we all have them or none of us have them.
Clearly the system is broken,
- Molinelli attempted to frame a pair of Bergen County cops,
- he held an Internal Affairs charge over the head of a police chief in order to tamper with the chief's testimony
- He burned evidence in a trial against a different police chief
- He brought a cop to trial twice on a vendetta all while using PTI with political conditions to achieve a desired outcome in other cases.
The other side of the coin is Molinelli's leniency toward cops who have no business in law enforcement. One such cop (Ben Ramos) beat his girlfriend so severely that her eye closed over. Former Prosecutor Schmidt gave Ramos PTI with a valid condition "a lifetime ban on law enforcement work." Molinelli came into office and rescinded that lifetime ban. Within 6 years of returning to duty Ramos rose from patrolman to chief. This is the same prosecutor who took Castronova to trial (and lost) twice over an incomplete job application.
Beat a woman to a pulp while carrying a badge and gun - become chief of police. Fill out a job application in a manner that displeases the "gross abuser of discretion" and you will spend your family's entire life savings on 2 jury trials.
Insert your finger in the vagina of female patients, grope their breasts for perverse sexual gratification - become the first and only defendant in the history of New Jersey to receive PTI twice (after giving Ferriero $500,000).
Wear all the pink you want, fight on behalf of planned parenthood till you have nothing left to give but if you won't said anything about the sexual abuse of female patients or the beating of a defenseless woman by a cop who became chief then you are a hypocrite a coward or both. John Molinelli aided and abetted bot of those crimes and he did it with authority that he should never have been vested with.
Find out that Carlstadt clerical staff inadvertently failed to remove your ex-wife from the boro health insurance plan, report it immediately and demand that the mistake be corrected - the "gross abuser of discretion will charge you criminally and then obstruct your entry into the PTI program all the way to the Supreme Court of NJ.
If the trial judge (Silebi) happens to have integrity and grants PTI over the "gross abuser's" wishes - throw that judge out of Bergen County with the help of fellow thug Paul Sarlo.
If you get caught in Molinelli's web of criminal coercion, official misconduct or petty vendettas who will you turn to for protection? Cops are afraid, judges get run out of the county, the defense bar is either corrupted or fearful- that leaves you, me and other like minded people who understand that violence to our system of justice is a danger to everyone of any age, race, orientation, creed or color.
Individual victories are a cure for symptoms - the disease (Molinelli) must be dealt with. State Senator Paul Sarlo is aiding and abetting Molinelli in his crime spree - he can be challenged with a recall petition. Governor Chris Christie is running for President - he can be challenged at Town Hall meetings in any state where his protection unit lacks jurisdiction.
One thing is for certain, a call to action is brewing - decide now what your answer will be when that call comes. The characters who lurk in the shadows and support a criminal racket known as the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office must be challenged from the ground up - obviously this fish is rotting from the head down.
SHAME ON THE POLITICIANS WHO LET THESE THINGS HAPPEN
If you are not a part of the solution then you are part of the corruption.
Saturday, August 8, 2015
When they come for you.....
The following facts were taken from the Opinion of a United States District Court Judge denying Molinelli's motion to dismiss Barbara Harrington's lawsuit. How much of the public treasury will be used to protect the brazen and lawless misconduct that runs rampant in Bergen County NJ? How long will State Senator Paul Sarlo use "courtesy" to obstruct Molinelli's removal? How far does Molinelli have to go before our elected officials honor the oaths they swore?
In 1980, Plaintiff began her employment at the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office (“BCPO”), where she would then work for approximately thirty years. She served most recently as a data programmer for the BCPO, and her performance evaluations were positive.
During her employment, Plaintiff worked with and befriended David Martin. Mr. Martin is legally married to Defendant Speake-Martin, but the two have been separated since 2005. In 2012, Plaintiff moved into Mr. Martin’s home, where two of his and Speake-Martin’s children also lived. Speake-Martin was upset that Plaintiff moved in with Mr. Martin.
She expressed her displeasure to her good friend and former colleague, Defendant John Molinelli, who is also the Bergen County Prosecutor. On September 21, 2012, what would later be referred to as “the text-message incident” took place. While waiting in line at a supermarket, Plaintiff tried to send Mr. Martin’s children a text message by using the cellphone’s voice-dictation feature. Plaintiff wanted to ask the children where Mr. Martin was, but the cell phone also picked up the voice of another person waiting in line. As a result, the message referred to Mr. Martin and an “accident.” Plaintiff quickly sent a follow-up message to Mr. Martin’s children and spoke with them by phone; she apologized and assured them that Mr. Martin was fine. Speake-Martin read Plaintiff’s message on one of her kid’s phones. The next day, Plaintiff apologized to Speake-Martin for her error, explaining that it had been an accident. Speake-Martin, however, remained angry at Plaintiff, and she threatened to get her fired. Speake-Martin later spoke with Defendant Molinelli and insisted that he carry out her threat.
A few days later, on September 24th, Defendant Ardizzone, BCPO’s Chief Information Officer, instructed Plaintiff and Mr. Martin to attend a meeting. Various individuals were present in the office conference room, including Defendants Molinelli and Ardizzone, as well as David Nathanson (the Deputy Executive Prosecutor), Frank Puccio (the Executive Assistant Prosecutor), and Michael Trahey (from the Executive Office) (collectively “Defendants”). They instructed Mr. Martin to enter the room and told Plaintiff to wait outside in the hall. Defendants asked Mr. Martin about the text-message incident, and Mr. Martin explained what had happened. Defendants told Mr. Martin that Plaintiff was ill and potentially dangerous, and they informed him that Plaintiff was going to be taken to a psychiatric facility for seventytwo hours. Mr. Martin responded that Plaintiff did not pose any danger. Defendant Nathanson told Mr. Martin that if he defended Plaintiff, they would claim that Mr. Martin was himself delusional. Defendants soon instructed Mr. Martin to leave and send in Plaintiff. Plaintiff entered.
Defendants asked Plaintiff about the text-message incident, and she explained. Defendants then told Plaintiff to leave again and have Mr. Martin return. Mr. Martin reentered the conference room, and Defendants told him to inform Plaintiff that she was to be admitted to a psychiatric facility; they said the news would be better coming from him. Mr. Martin left and told Plaintiff about Defendants’ plan; she began to cry. Detective Patricia DeSimone escorted Plaintiff to the office library. Plaintiff was not permitted to leave the library, except to use the restroom once. While Plaintiff waited, Defendants drafted a letter addressed to her, which stated that she was being suspended from work with pay, and which informed her that she was to be transported to a psychiatric facility for evaluation. Approximately one hour later, Defendant Puccio gave Plaintiff the letter. That document is entitled “Suspension with Pay,” and it reads in part as follows: [E]ffective today, you are suspended with pay pending a psychiatric evaluation. The basis for this action is a concern for whether you are capable of functioning in this workplace without posing a danger to yourself or others in light of the events that [the named Defendants] and I discussed with you this morning. At the time of this writing, preparations are being made to have you transported to . . . a psychiatric facility for an evaluation in consultation with your private physician. (Compl., Ex. A). The letter is dated September 24, 2012, and it is signed by Defendant Molinelli. Detective DeSimone then drove Plaintiff to the Bergen Regional Medical Center (“the hospital”).
Mr. Martin met Plaintiff there. It was at this time, shortly before 1:00PM, that Plaintiff underwent an unwanted psychiatric evaluation. At the hospital, several people interviewed Plaintiff. A doctor spoke with Plaintiff and was surprised to learn that she had been brought there apparently due to sending an accidental text message. The doctor concluded that Plaintiff was not psychotic, posed no danger, and that she should be discharged. The hospital accordingly discharged Plaintiff shortly after 4:00PM that day. Plaintiff resigned from her employment with the BCPO effective May 1, 2013; she claims that she was forced to do so.The festering sore in Bergen County has infected the limb - it is time for an amputation.
Thursday, August 6, 2015
Framed in Bergen County - Just another day
If you were watching a TV show where the County Prosecutor was caught attempting to frame police officers for crimes and the show ended with that prosecutor avoiding jail and keeping his job, you would probably consider the show "over the top" and outlandish.
John Molinelli was caught trying to frame Officers Saheed Baksh and Jeffrey Roberts on charges of evidence tampering. After a high speed chase, Officer Baksh fired two shots at a suspect. Upon investigation, Molinelli determined that no crime was committed and the incident was a disciplinary matter. Months later (in the midst of a contentious police merger) - Molinelli did an about face and decided he would charge these officers criminally. One of the charges he tried to frame around these innocent officers was "evidence tampering". He alleged that after everyone left the shooting scene these officers doubled back and under cover of night removed shell casings.
Molinelli has GPS records on each car purportedly used by these cops to "doubleback." Rather than use those records to support his case - he hid them from the defense.
After the charges were reported in the Bergen Record a Sergeant with the Bogota Police Department contacted Molinelli's office and explained that a Bogota Detective had collected the shell casings and that the casings were in a desk drawer at Bogota Police Headquarters.
The GPS clearing the cops and the information provided by the Bogota Sergeant should have ended "evidence tampering" as a charge against the two cops - in Molinelli-land the charges were carried and brought to trial without anyone ever informing the defendants that this exculpatory evidence existed. Let that sink in a moment, a prosecutor who tries to convict people of things he knows never happened is a very dangerous person with whom to entrust power. The Governor who put that ill motivated man in his current position wants the power to choose an Attorney General for the United States and is one of the top ten republican candidates for president. Let that sink in too!
Molinelli had GPS establishing the that the defendants never returned to the scene (as he had charged in the indictment) and he had a police sergeant explaining to him that the casings he claimed were "tampered" with were actually held for safekeeping by a detective in Bogota.
He concealed both those facts and brought two innocent men to trial on charges he knew were false. The two innocent men he tried to frame happened to be cops, they happened to have a legal defense fund and they happened to have additional money to pay for an expensive legal defense.
Cops were nearly framed for serious charges by a psychopathic prosecutor and not a single union leader stepped up to demand that the perpetrator be brought down. What were the PBA and FOP doing for their dues money while cops were being framed?
This is a prosecutor who took Officer AJ Castronova to trial twice (and lost twice) on a petty ante false swearing charge simply because he didn't like the way a mayor from Haworth spoke to him.
This is a prosecutor who made a name for himself at the Supreme Court of NJ as a Patent and Gross Abuser of Discretion.
This is a prosecutor who enabled a sexual predator to violate innocent women for his own gratification.
This is a prosecutor who auctioned off counterfeit as authentic sports memorabilia by using the imprimatur of his office to dupe civilians.
This is a prosecutor who is implicated in the mob hit on Luchese Crime Soldier Frank Lagano.
This is a prosecutor who took an Italian vacation with an indicted (and subsequently convicted) State Senator while that criminal was under indictment.
This is a prosecutor who made false statements in connection with a public contract and swore false statements under oath for a handwriting analyst (who authenticated counterfeit that the prosecutor sold).
This is a prosecutor who intercepted phone calls between a confidential informant and his handler at the DCJ without informing the judge who issued that warrant that he had listened to an informant illegally.
This is a prosecutor who was law partner to Dennis Maycher - Maycher was structuring deposits for his clients in order to avoid reporting financial transactions in excess of $10,000 (Maycher met a sudden and unexpected death).
This is a prosecutor who threatened a Presiding Judge right out of the County.
The PBA and the FOP have been quiet long enough. The Governor declared war on working people and the unions sat down to negotiate the terms of surrender - How did that work out brothers and sisters? When the hell do you people plan on fighting back?
This corrupt Christie puppet is as good a target for exposing Governor Lies-all-the-time for what he is as you can ever get. Christie is weak with this guy lurking at the courthouse, New Hampshire voters aren't as callous and indifferent to mobbed up criminals running the justice system as a typical Jersey cop. Every day in every way the public needs to know what kind of criminals Christie has placed in positions of public trust. There is simply no excuse for keeping that thug in his position. So far no one is demanding that Christie give a reason - can you imagine if he had to explain this situation to voters in New Hampshire?
You don't need a poll or a focus group to tell you that Chris Christie is associating with and enabling a grossly unethical and underhanded person in Office of Bergen County Prosecutor. Enough is enough, you don't frame cops and get a free pass. You don't take bribes to let sexual predators violate our daughters and you sure as hell don't get a free pass to use PTI as leverage to take out Sarlo's political opponents.
LET'S ROLL!
John Molinelli was caught trying to frame Officers Saheed Baksh and Jeffrey Roberts on charges of evidence tampering. After a high speed chase, Officer Baksh fired two shots at a suspect. Upon investigation, Molinelli determined that no crime was committed and the incident was a disciplinary matter. Months later (in the midst of a contentious police merger) - Molinelli did an about face and decided he would charge these officers criminally. One of the charges he tried to frame around these innocent officers was "evidence tampering". He alleged that after everyone left the shooting scene these officers doubled back and under cover of night removed shell casings.
Molinelli has GPS records on each car purportedly used by these cops to "doubleback." Rather than use those records to support his case - he hid them from the defense.
After the charges were reported in the Bergen Record a Sergeant with the Bogota Police Department contacted Molinelli's office and explained that a Bogota Detective had collected the shell casings and that the casings were in a desk drawer at Bogota Police Headquarters.
The GPS clearing the cops and the information provided by the Bogota Sergeant should have ended "evidence tampering" as a charge against the two cops - in Molinelli-land the charges were carried and brought to trial without anyone ever informing the defendants that this exculpatory evidence existed. Let that sink in a moment, a prosecutor who tries to convict people of things he knows never happened is a very dangerous person with whom to entrust power. The Governor who put that ill motivated man in his current position wants the power to choose an Attorney General for the United States and is one of the top ten republican candidates for president. Let that sink in too!
Molinelli had GPS establishing the that the defendants never returned to the scene (as he had charged in the indictment) and he had a police sergeant explaining to him that the casings he claimed were "tampered" with were actually held for safekeeping by a detective in Bogota.
He concealed both those facts and brought two innocent men to trial on charges he knew were false. The two innocent men he tried to frame happened to be cops, they happened to have a legal defense fund and they happened to have additional money to pay for an expensive legal defense.
Cops were nearly framed for serious charges by a psychopathic prosecutor and not a single union leader stepped up to demand that the perpetrator be brought down. What were the PBA and FOP doing for their dues money while cops were being framed?
This is a prosecutor who took Officer AJ Castronova to trial twice (and lost twice) on a petty ante false swearing charge simply because he didn't like the way a mayor from Haworth spoke to him.
This is a prosecutor who made a name for himself at the Supreme Court of NJ as a Patent and Gross Abuser of Discretion.
This is a prosecutor who enabled a sexual predator to violate innocent women for his own gratification.
This is a prosecutor who auctioned off counterfeit as authentic sports memorabilia by using the imprimatur of his office to dupe civilians.
This is a prosecutor who is implicated in the mob hit on Luchese Crime Soldier Frank Lagano.
This is a prosecutor who took an Italian vacation with an indicted (and subsequently convicted) State Senator while that criminal was under indictment.
This is a prosecutor who made false statements in connection with a public contract and swore false statements under oath for a handwriting analyst (who authenticated counterfeit that the prosecutor sold).
This is a prosecutor who intercepted phone calls between a confidential informant and his handler at the DCJ without informing the judge who issued that warrant that he had listened to an informant illegally.
This is a prosecutor who was law partner to Dennis Maycher - Maycher was structuring deposits for his clients in order to avoid reporting financial transactions in excess of $10,000 (Maycher met a sudden and unexpected death).
This is a prosecutor who threatened a Presiding Judge right out of the County.
The PBA and the FOP have been quiet long enough. The Governor declared war on working people and the unions sat down to negotiate the terms of surrender - How did that work out brothers and sisters? When the hell do you people plan on fighting back?
This corrupt Christie puppet is as good a target for exposing Governor Lies-all-the-time for what he is as you can ever get. Christie is weak with this guy lurking at the courthouse, New Hampshire voters aren't as callous and indifferent to mobbed up criminals running the justice system as a typical Jersey cop. Every day in every way the public needs to know what kind of criminals Christie has placed in positions of public trust. There is simply no excuse for keeping that thug in his position. So far no one is demanding that Christie give a reason - can you imagine if he had to explain this situation to voters in New Hampshire?
You don't need a poll or a focus group to tell you that Chris Christie is associating with and enabling a grossly unethical and underhanded person in Office of Bergen County Prosecutor. Enough is enough, you don't frame cops and get a free pass. You don't take bribes to let sexual predators violate our daughters and you sure as hell don't get a free pass to use PTI as leverage to take out Sarlo's political opponents.
LET'S ROLL!
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Sharp disapproval or criticism - Rebuke
The Appellate Division of Superior Court is the latest body to voice sharp criticism in the ongoing series of public rebukes directed at John Molinelli. The Court was compelled to "remind" Molinelli that:
They made that admission years ago in open court yet no one sounded an alarm.
SARLO AND CHRISTIE ARE PROTECTING BERGEN'S CRIME SYNDICATE
Smoke from "bergen's burn box" should have activated judicial, criminal and social alarms the very moment detectives admitted they were destroying evidence. "Seeing that justice is done" requires honest prosecutors who preserve admissible evidence and disclose such evidence to the defense even if that makes obtaining a conviction more difficult. Sarlo and Christie made sure that anyone who might question the integrity of a prosecutor with a burn box was intimidated into silence.
On one hand, a series of politically motivated, weak cases have been brought (and lost) by Molinelli while on the other he was selling PTI and probation to criminals who confessed in "slam dunk - dead to rights" cases of serious crime. The US Attorney has evidence that Ferriero got $500,000 from Dr. Ragi (via Galantucci and DeCotis) as part of Ragi's double stint in PTI. Galantucci also represented Thomas Rica who kept nearly half of the $860,000 he stole in loose quarters and received probation with no jail term.
The resources expended on William Roseman alone were as staggering as they were absurd. The facts of the Roseman case resulted in a unanimous decision from the Supreme Court describing Molinelli's conduct as a "patent and gross abuse of discretion". In the face of that opinion Little John Molinelli beamed with the same pride he showed the first time he used the toilet all by himself.
The detention and forced psychiatric evaluation of BCPO employee Barbara Harrington (as a favor to Molinelli's friend) was so abusive, so vindictive and so malicious that the County of Bergen is likely to be bankrupted when the jury finds in her favor. Clearly Sarlo and Christie have no interest in stopping the rampage of this prosecutor drunk with power. I implore you to read the facts of her case. Ask yourself what you would do if John Molinelli sent an armed detective to escort you to a mental facility for evaluation, in order to teach you a lesson about pissing off his friends? The humiliation and indignity associated with such an abuse is intolerable. Where are our leaders? Why are they silent? As Ms. Harrington was taken off to a forced psychiatric evaluation Little John once again beamed with the pride of a young boy who just used his potty for the first time.
http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-jersey/njdce/2:2014cv05764/309194/33/
Sadly an unholy trinity consisting of Molinelli, Sarlo and Christie has subverted every check and balance in order to prop up the perpetrator and his prosecutorial paycheck. The trinity tampered with alarms to keep outrageous and damaging crimes quiet. A single disturbing issue involving Molinelli should have opened inquiries, required fact finding and resulted in consequences. The weekly barrage of wrong doing revelations that do not open any investigation, demonstrate that this cancer has spread up and down the political and judicial systems. At this point any candidate who fails to make Molinelli an issue in their campaign does not deserve a vote. Sarlo has the stench of Molinelli's feces all over his hands, Christie has it on his breath.
Little things are significant and say quite a bit about the character of people. Back in 2004, the Bergen County Police incurred over $1000.00 in overtime expense so that Joe Ferriero could be chauffeured by cops to Yankee games in an unmarked police car - someone should have looked at the mindset of these people and realized that they were bad actors abusing their authority. The Bergen County Prosecutor is the highest law enforcement officer in the county and he saw nothing wrong with sending county resources over to the Bronx on a regular basis so that a political boss didn't chance drunk driving on his way home from the game. Allowing that abuse opened the door to every abuse that followed.
When Molinelli went on vacation with an indicted State Senator (and a group of future convicts) he should have been charged with ethics violations and removed from his position. The indicted Senator (Coniglio) was working at Hackensack Hospital in a no show job as a payoff for legislative assistance. Contemporaneous with Coniglio's hospital payoff job was the employment of Molinelli's Chief of Detectives (Mordaga) as a "security consultant" who lacked a set schedule at the same hospital. When the prosecutor's chief of detectives was permitted to run a private security business in the same county as he was a sworn officer; alarms were supposed to sound. Molinelli stuffed a rag in the bell, Sarlo silenced the panel and Christie cut the wires - all for Joseph Sanzari and the gravy train of campaign contributions he drives. They were all so proud of their boy in Bergen, they did not mind the stench..
When Molinelli and Mordaga used a wiretap to eavesdrop on Luchese Soldier Frank Lagano, they failed to alert Judge Clark (who issued the warrant for a wiretap) that they were intercepting communication between a confidential informant and law enforcement officer. Nor did they tell anyone that Mordaga and Lagano were friends and business associates.
Now I don't know who you call three times on Christmas Eve but if it happens to be a soldier in the Luchese crime family you might not be a great choice for Chief of Detectives.
If you are a county prosecutor and "I'm sure Mike makes a lot of calls to a lot of people" is how you respond to evidence that your Chief Detective is mobbed up - you might not be taking a sharp enough interest in who your Chief of Detectives associates with. As to the "unnamed attorney" I give Galantucci long odds as the favorite who could make 90% of Frank Lagano's legal troubles go away.
Due to Molinelli's misconduct and his tolerance of a Chief Detective who had personal/business dealings with a mobster, dozens of indicted mobsters had their charges dismissed. Years of investigative resources, tails, wire taps and court pleadings all squandered on corrupt, incompetent crony protecting misconduct and yet there he sits all these years later acting so proud that he defecated all by himself. Sarlo and Christie are always there with perfume and paper to cover Little Johnny's messes and tell him how proud they are.
When Lagano was assassinated (bullet to the back of the head) Lagano's Criminal Justice handler (Sweeney) suspected Mordaga and Molinelli were culpable - Sweeney was promptly fired for investigating his firm belief and Judge Clark's order dismissing charges based on Molinelli's misconduct was placed under seal. Once again the alarms were tampered with and the fire continued to smolder. Since then Sweeney died unexpectedly and the lawyer suing both Mordaga and Molinelli on behalf of Lagano's estate committed suicide, Lagano's associate (Mancuso) recently drove head on into an oncoming car and another convict purportedly jumped off the roof of Hackensack Hospital's parking garage. I wonder who knows where the video cameras in that place are located? Sometimes these messes of Little Johnny's require more than perfume and paper.
At some point the Presiding Judge of the Criminal Division in Bergen County (Silebi) saw a pattern of criminal wrongdoing by Molinelli's office. When Judge Silebi sounded alarms about misconduct she was literally run out of the county by Molinelli and his Senatorial Saboteur of alarms Paul Sarlo.
A county prosecutor who chooses his own judges can crush anyone in his way. The case of Republican Mayor William Roseman is a prime example. Judge Silebi saw the malicious abuse of authority against Roseman for what it was and granted him Pre Trial Intervention. Molinelli took that grant of PTI all the way to the Supreme Court where they unanimously ruled that he (Molinelli) had engaged in "a patent and gross abuse of discretion".
When Judge Silebi was up for her tenure hearing Molinelli told her point blank that if she did not get out of Bergen County that she would not receive tenure. The consequences of such an outcome are far more severe for a judge than meets the eye. A judge who leaves the NJ bench cannot practice law in New Jersey and is relegated to service as an arbitrator or mediator. Generally a failure to achieve tenure is based on misconduct, incompetence or other serious issue. Molinelli raised no such issue when he whispered in the ear of Sarlo - that whisper was heard by judges around the state.
If intimidating a witness is a crime then intimidating the entire judiciary is a sin. The Presiding Judge of Bergen's Criminal Division was yet another warning bell removed by this unholy trinity acting as arsonists in our justice system. If you walk through the doors of the Bergen County Justice Center without any knowledge of these disturbing facts you have no way of knowing that you are wallowing in a cesspool rather than receiving the justice an honest system dispenses. A unanimous NJ Supreme Court found that Molinelli engaged in a patent and gross abuse of discretion and there he sits - still proud that he can defecate all by himself.
When Doctor Gangarim Ragi fondled the breasts of his patients in order to gratify himself he should have been sentenced to a prison term and stripped of his medical license. Instead the prosecutor was bribed, the victims were stonewalled and the predator enabled so much so that he went on to vaginally penetrate the vagina of an unsuspecting patient.
At this point any elected official who isn't demanding Molinelli's removal is derelict in his or her duty. The man has no tenure, he is a democratic appointment holding over under a republican governor, he is reputed to have accepted bribes, he is a defendant in the wrongful death case brought by the family of a murdered mobster, he allowed a politically connected Ridgewood official (Thomas Rica) to steal $860,000 from taxpayers without serving jail time, he has abused the PTI program so badly that various courts rebuked him, he has made false sworn statements in order to obtain a public bid for Drew Max who for $10,000 in public funds authenticated forged/counterfeit baseball memorabilia. He then auctioned off that counterfeit to citizens who were naive enough to trust the Office of County Prosecutor. Caught by Channel 11 and the public records that confirm his crimes - Molinelli still sits and beams with pride over his ability to defecate all by himself.
When alarms went off Paul Sarlo and Chris Christie set about cutting power from those alarms and replacing water in suppression systems with gasoline. Hobbits, Dwarves, Elves and Humans are not going to band together on a quest to fight this evil - it's just us and time is ticking away. What are you doing about this? Do you know an elected official at any level? Call, write and e-mail them about the evil emanating from the City of Hackensack. Do it before he comes for you and turns your life upside down - a little man like John Molinelli needs to abuse authority to feel big about himself - his time is long past and his crimes are far beyond the pale. He is using the Bergen County Justice Center as a toilet and he must go!
"the primary duty of a prosecutor is not to obtain convictions, but to see that justice is done...We trust that the improprieties noted herein will not recur on remand." https://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/opinions/a0653-12.pdfOne would hope that such a basic principle of public service need no reminder. Unfortunately Molinelli displays zero interest in seeing justice done and an intense proclivity toward unlawful and retaliatory misconduct. The court issued this "reminder" in a case where it was admitted that the PROSECUTOR INTENTIONALLY DESTROYS EVIDENCE in response to defense requests for discovery. Armed agents of the government admitted under oath that Molinelli maintained a "burn box" for use in destroying evidence that criminal defendants were legally entitled use in their defense.
They made that admission years ago in open court yet no one sounded an alarm.
During the defense case, three retired former Prosecutor's detectives testified that the lead investigator on the case had directed them to destroy their handwritten investigation notes after defense counsel had filed a demand that all notes be preserved. The lead investigator denied that allegation, but in his final charge to the jury the judge instructed that they could draw a negative inference if they found that the State destroyed evidence. http://www.northjersey.com/news/retired-investigators-testify-they-were-told-to-destroy-notes-in-zisa-trial-1.1211201If you or I delete an e-mail considered to be evidence, we could be charged criminally with hindering. Either 3 former detectives for the prosecutor's office committed perjury or the lead investigator committed perjury and ordered his subordinates to destroy evidence. Miscreants with a specific box designated for the destruction of evidence have no business within our system of justice - unless they are defendants answering for their crimes. People authorized to charge others with "hindering apprehension or prosecution" admit that they routinely burned evidence in response to defense requests and ordered others to do the same. Who is protecting the crime syndicate known as the Office of Bergen County Prosecutor? I'll answer that for you.
SARLO AND CHRISTIE ARE PROTECTING BERGEN'S CRIME SYNDICATE
Smoke from "bergen's burn box" should have activated judicial, criminal and social alarms the very moment detectives admitted they were destroying evidence. "Seeing that justice is done" requires honest prosecutors who preserve admissible evidence and disclose such evidence to the defense even if that makes obtaining a conviction more difficult. Sarlo and Christie made sure that anyone who might question the integrity of a prosecutor with a burn box was intimidated into silence.
On one hand, a series of politically motivated, weak cases have been brought (and lost) by Molinelli while on the other he was selling PTI and probation to criminals who confessed in "slam dunk - dead to rights" cases of serious crime. The US Attorney has evidence that Ferriero got $500,000 from Dr. Ragi (via Galantucci and DeCotis) as part of Ragi's double stint in PTI. Galantucci also represented Thomas Rica who kept nearly half of the $860,000 he stole in loose quarters and received probation with no jail term.
The resources expended on William Roseman alone were as staggering as they were absurd. The facts of the Roseman case resulted in a unanimous decision from the Supreme Court describing Molinelli's conduct as a "patent and gross abuse of discretion". In the face of that opinion Little John Molinelli beamed with the same pride he showed the first time he used the toilet all by himself.
The detention and forced psychiatric evaluation of BCPO employee Barbara Harrington (as a favor to Molinelli's friend) was so abusive, so vindictive and so malicious that the County of Bergen is likely to be bankrupted when the jury finds in her favor. Clearly Sarlo and Christie have no interest in stopping the rampage of this prosecutor drunk with power. I implore you to read the facts of her case. Ask yourself what you would do if John Molinelli sent an armed detective to escort you to a mental facility for evaluation, in order to teach you a lesson about pissing off his friends? The humiliation and indignity associated with such an abuse is intolerable. Where are our leaders? Why are they silent? As Ms. Harrington was taken off to a forced psychiatric evaluation Little John once again beamed with the pride of a young boy who just used his potty for the first time.
http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-jersey/njdce/2:2014cv05764/309194/33/
Sadly an unholy trinity consisting of Molinelli, Sarlo and Christie has subverted every check and balance in order to prop up the perpetrator and his prosecutorial paycheck. The trinity tampered with alarms to keep outrageous and damaging crimes quiet. A single disturbing issue involving Molinelli should have opened inquiries, required fact finding and resulted in consequences. The weekly barrage of wrong doing revelations that do not open any investigation, demonstrate that this cancer has spread up and down the political and judicial systems. At this point any candidate who fails to make Molinelli an issue in their campaign does not deserve a vote. Sarlo has the stench of Molinelli's feces all over his hands, Christie has it on his breath.
Little things are significant and say quite a bit about the character of people. Back in 2004, the Bergen County Police incurred over $1000.00 in overtime expense so that Joe Ferriero could be chauffeured by cops to Yankee games in an unmarked police car - someone should have looked at the mindset of these people and realized that they were bad actors abusing their authority. The Bergen County Prosecutor is the highest law enforcement officer in the county and he saw nothing wrong with sending county resources over to the Bronx on a regular basis so that a political boss didn't chance drunk driving on his way home from the game. Allowing that abuse opened the door to every abuse that followed.
"This is an individual who, early on, turned the Bergen County Police Department into a chauffeur service to take him to Yankee games and down to Atlantic City...The attitude was there." Gordon Johnson October 2009
When Molinelli went on vacation with an indicted State Senator (and a group of future convicts) he should have been charged with ethics violations and removed from his position. The indicted Senator (Coniglio) was working at Hackensack Hospital in a no show job as a payoff for legislative assistance. Contemporaneous with Coniglio's hospital payoff job was the employment of Molinelli's Chief of Detectives (Mordaga) as a "security consultant" who lacked a set schedule at the same hospital. When the prosecutor's chief of detectives was permitted to run a private security business in the same county as he was a sworn officer; alarms were supposed to sound. Molinelli stuffed a rag in the bell, Sarlo silenced the panel and Christie cut the wires - all for Joseph Sanzari and the gravy train of campaign contributions he drives. They were all so proud of their boy in Bergen, they did not mind the stench..
When Molinelli and Mordaga used a wiretap to eavesdrop on Luchese Soldier Frank Lagano, they failed to alert Judge Clark (who issued the warrant for a wiretap) that they were intercepting communication between a confidential informant and law enforcement officer. Nor did they tell anyone that Mordaga and Lagano were friends and business associates.
"Mordaga dismissed all the claims as “bogus.”
“I have never had a personal relationship with Frank Lagano. Or a business relationship. None,” he said in a telephone interview.
Mordaga said bills for his county-issued cellphone, obtained by The Record, would support his assertions. But, in fact, those bills indicate repeated contact between the two men. When this was related to Mordaga, he called the information “surprising.”
"The records show nine brief calls to Lagano phones, starting in April 2003, months before the investigation was launched the next January. They include three calls to his home and cell on Christmas Eve of 2003.
When told about them, Mordaga offered differing explanations.
“I have no knowledge of that at all,” said Mordaga, who retired in 2007.
Later in the same interview, he added that “every conversation” he had with Lagano was “professional” and “police business.” And he said any conversations “are under seal because they’re related to the case.” He did not offer an explanation why most of the calls predated the investigation.
Molinelli said he was “unaware” of the calls but was not bothered by them. “I can’t give you an explanation for the calls,” he said, adding, “I’m sure Mike makes a lot of phone calls to a lot of people.”
The lawsuits allege that in purportedly trying to steer Lagano to an unnamed defense attorney, Mordaga told him the lawyer could make “90 percent” of his legal problems go away. Mordaga denied the allegation, saying he “never” recommended an attorney."http://www.northjersey.com/news/from-a-tattered-mob-case-bitter-charges-flare-1.348596
Now I don't know who you call three times on Christmas Eve but if it happens to be a soldier in the Luchese crime family you might not be a great choice for Chief of Detectives.
If you are a county prosecutor and "I'm sure Mike makes a lot of calls to a lot of people" is how you respond to evidence that your Chief Detective is mobbed up - you might not be taking a sharp enough interest in who your Chief of Detectives associates with. As to the "unnamed attorney" I give Galantucci long odds as the favorite who could make 90% of Frank Lagano's legal troubles go away.
Due to Molinelli's misconduct and his tolerance of a Chief Detective who had personal/business dealings with a mobster, dozens of indicted mobsters had their charges dismissed. Years of investigative resources, tails, wire taps and court pleadings all squandered on corrupt, incompetent crony protecting misconduct and yet there he sits all these years later acting so proud that he defecated all by himself. Sarlo and Christie are always there with perfume and paper to cover Little Johnny's messes and tell him how proud they are.
When Lagano was assassinated (bullet to the back of the head) Lagano's Criminal Justice handler (Sweeney) suspected Mordaga and Molinelli were culpable - Sweeney was promptly fired for investigating his firm belief and Judge Clark's order dismissing charges based on Molinelli's misconduct was placed under seal. Once again the alarms were tampered with and the fire continued to smolder. Since then Sweeney died unexpectedly and the lawyer suing both Mordaga and Molinelli on behalf of Lagano's estate committed suicide, Lagano's associate (Mancuso) recently drove head on into an oncoming car and another convict purportedly jumped off the roof of Hackensack Hospital's parking garage. I wonder who knows where the video cameras in that place are located? Sometimes these messes of Little Johnny's require more than perfume and paper.
At some point the Presiding Judge of the Criminal Division in Bergen County (Silebi) saw a pattern of criminal wrongdoing by Molinelli's office. When Judge Silebi sounded alarms about misconduct she was literally run out of the county by Molinelli and his Senatorial Saboteur of alarms Paul Sarlo.
A county prosecutor who chooses his own judges can crush anyone in his way. The case of Republican Mayor William Roseman is a prime example. Judge Silebi saw the malicious abuse of authority against Roseman for what it was and granted him Pre Trial Intervention. Molinelli took that grant of PTI all the way to the Supreme Court where they unanimously ruled that he (Molinelli) had engaged in "a patent and gross abuse of discretion".
When Judge Silebi was up for her tenure hearing Molinelli told her point blank that if she did not get out of Bergen County that she would not receive tenure. The consequences of such an outcome are far more severe for a judge than meets the eye. A judge who leaves the NJ bench cannot practice law in New Jersey and is relegated to service as an arbitrator or mediator. Generally a failure to achieve tenure is based on misconduct, incompetence or other serious issue. Molinelli raised no such issue when he whispered in the ear of Sarlo - that whisper was heard by judges around the state.
If intimidating a witness is a crime then intimidating the entire judiciary is a sin. The Presiding Judge of Bergen's Criminal Division was yet another warning bell removed by this unholy trinity acting as arsonists in our justice system. If you walk through the doors of the Bergen County Justice Center without any knowledge of these disturbing facts you have no way of knowing that you are wallowing in a cesspool rather than receiving the justice an honest system dispenses. A unanimous NJ Supreme Court found that Molinelli engaged in a patent and gross abuse of discretion and there he sits - still proud that he can defecate all by himself.
“I did not agree with what was done. … It went against everything I stood for as a prosecutor.” Former Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Patricia BagliviOur justice system promises punishment so that people do not exact revenge or otherwise take matters into their own hands. In Bergen County your wife, daughter or mother are not protected by the law and the message being sent is quite clear. The only justice Ragi will face must come from the fist of a someone who does not abide the lawlessness that surrounds Sarlo and Christie's creation.
At this point any elected official who isn't demanding Molinelli's removal is derelict in his or her duty. The man has no tenure, he is a democratic appointment holding over under a republican governor, he is reputed to have accepted bribes, he is a defendant in the wrongful death case brought by the family of a murdered mobster, he allowed a politically connected Ridgewood official (Thomas Rica) to steal $860,000 from taxpayers without serving jail time, he has abused the PTI program so badly that various courts rebuked him, he has made false sworn statements in order to obtain a public bid for Drew Max who for $10,000 in public funds authenticated forged/counterfeit baseball memorabilia. He then auctioned off that counterfeit to citizens who were naive enough to trust the Office of County Prosecutor. Caught by Channel 11 and the public records that confirm his crimes - Molinelli still sits and beams with pride over his ability to defecate all by himself.
When alarms went off Paul Sarlo and Chris Christie set about cutting power from those alarms and replacing water in suppression systems with gasoline. Hobbits, Dwarves, Elves and Humans are not going to band together on a quest to fight this evil - it's just us and time is ticking away. What are you doing about this? Do you know an elected official at any level? Call, write and e-mail them about the evil emanating from the City of Hackensack. Do it before he comes for you and turns your life upside down - a little man like John Molinelli needs to abuse authority to feel big about himself - his time is long past and his crimes are far beyond the pale. He is using the Bergen County Justice Center as a toilet and he must go!
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