"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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