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.

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!

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:

"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.pdf 

One 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-1.1211201

If 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.

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.

“I did not agree with what was done. … It went against everything I stood for as a prosecutor.”          Former Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Patricia Baglivi

Our 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!

Absence of ethics, presence of conflicts

Imagine a world where the mayor of your town could:

• incorporate his own energy company, 
• appoint himself president of that energy company, 
• negotiate with himself as municipal mayor and company president, 
• agree (with himself on your behalf) that solar electric grants awarded to your town would be assigned to his company,
• agree (with himself on your behalf) that your town purchase electricity generated with your solar panels from his company,
• give up a 2.3 million dollar grant and free electricity when the State called him out on these conflicts of interest.
• run for State Assembly without disclosing to the Election Commission that he was president of an energy corporation,
• conceal his conflicts of interest from the Office of Attorney General

In case your imagination is not that vivid this was covered by Channel 12 five years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGI4uxriTZI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buUOhtxfjN0

Now imagine a world where all of these facts are:

• not disputed
• well documented 
• a clear violation of the law
• brought before two ethics panels
• unresolved after five years

If your imagination is still not that vivid then by all means contact the Local Government Finance Board and ask them about the status of the Rumana complaint.

Let's assume that at some point in the distant future some ethics panel actually holds a hearing on these allegations, what if the same official was involved in a criminal conspiracy to affect an election via the use of public authority and nothing was done about it?  If you are feeling inquisitive you may want to call US Attorney Paul Fishman and ask: 

Jerry Speziale was a very popular Sheriff for the County of Passaic who was considered impossible to unseat in a fair election.  Scott Rumana dreamed up what he considered a tremendous way to use the Port Authority as an incentive to remove Jerry Speziale from office without winning an election. In most places a quid pro quo designed to give anyone an election advantage is a criminal act.  Here in Jersey it is something the governor does for a party boss.

http://politickernj.com/2010/09/passaic-democrats-call-for-investigation-of-circumstances-surrounding-sheriff-abandoning-his-candidacy-in-return-for-a-republican-sponsored-job/

The only strings attached to Speziale's Port Authority job were his resignation from the Office of County Sheriff and the donation of all his accrued political campaign contributions to charity rather than the successor candidate of the democratic party.

When the governor was confronted about all of this his spokesperson (Drewniak) said the following to the Bergen Record:

"It was a Port Authority hire," Drewniak said. "Certainly we were aware of the hire, but from all that we knew at the time and from what we learned from the Port Authority since, Speziale had a solid law enforcement background and is highly qualified for the post. That's what matters most."

As it turns out the governor was aware of the hire because he arranged for it to happen:

http://www.njlawjournal.com/id=1202728714121/Wildstein-Alleges-Christie-Violated-Grand-Jury-Secrecy?slreturn=20150512155047

"Christie told Wildstein and the others that he wanted to get Speziale to drop his re-election bid to help Republicans win the post," Wildstein said in his statement. "Christie also told Wildstein and the others that he knew Cifelli from his service as U.S. Attorney because Cifelli had perjured himself during his testimony in the grand jury related to John Lynch and that his office had considered prosecuting Cifelli for perjury. Christie made it clear that he would not have Cifelli working for his administration."
Federal law generally prohibits officials from discussing who has testified before grand juries.

The system is so corrupt that Speziale is now suing the Port Authority because they retaliated against when he tried to hold people accountable for criminal misconduct.

The common denominator in the Rumana, Ferriero and Molinelli corruption?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh2cv-3EZ1w 

In the State of NJ the governor wield more power that any governor does in any other state - virtually everything is within the governor's control.

We are faced with rampant criminality within the justice system, the legislative branch and municipal government.  When there is trouble on a ship - look to the Bridge.  Chris Christie is governing the State of NJ like a mafia don overseeing his family rackets.  

Enough is enough.

Misconduct is Official

Seven years ago Hunterdon County Undersheriff Michael Russo admitted that he and a Sheriff's Investigator used Official Sheriff's Department Equipment to fabricate false law enforcement credentials. Russo also admitted that he provided a false law enforcement ID card to Robert Hariri of Bernardsville, NJ.  

Leaving aside matters of National Security, officer safety, community relations, common sense and general honest behavior - 

Undersheriff Russo confessed to crimes:

2C:21-2.1 Offenses involving false government documents, degree of crime. 

1. a. A person who knowingly sells, offers or exposes for sale, or otherwise transfers, or possesses with the intent to sell, offer or expose for sale, or otherwise transfer, a document, printed form or other writing which falsely purports to be a driver's license, birth certificate or other document issued by a governmental agency and which could be used as a means of verifying a person's identity or age or any other personal identifying information is guilty of a crime of the second degree.

2C:21-2. Criminal simulation

A person commits a crime of the fourth degree if, with purpose to defraud anyone or with knowledge that he is facilitating a fraud to be perpetrated by anyone, he makes, alters or utters any object so that it appears to have value because of antiquity, rarity, source, or authorship which it does not possess

2C:21-4. Falsifying or tampering with records

a. Except as provided in subsection b. of this section, a person commits a crime of the fourth degree if he falsifies, destroys, removes, conceals any writing or record, or utters any writing or record knowing that it contains a false statement or information, with purpose to deceive or injure anyone or to conceal any wrongdoing.

2C:30-2. Official misconduct

A public servant is guilty of official misconduct when, with purpose to obtain a benefit for himself or another or to injure or to deprive another of a benefit: He commits an act relating to his office but constituting an unauthorized exercise of his official functions, knowing that such act is unauthorized or he is committing such act in an unauthorized manner;

Fortunately the Hunterdon County Prosecutor's Office (HCPO) investigated this matter (along with many other crimes committed by Undersheriff Michael Russo and Sheriff Deborah Trout), gathered evidence and recorded Russo's startling admission.  

The HCPO arrested Russo and presented evidence to a Grand Jury that returned a 26 count indictment against Russo for misconduct in office.  Most people facing a 10 year mandatory minimum jail sentence would be concerned by such an indictment. 

Russo (a political ally of Chris Christie) had no such fear, in fact shortly after his indictment was unsealed, Russo bragged to the press that Christie "would step in and have this whole thing thrown out."   

Unfortunately Russo wasn't kidding, Attorney General Paula Dow appointed Deputy Attorney General Dermot O'Grady as "Acting" Hunterdon County Prosecutor and swore in every Assistant Prosecutor as a "Special Deputy Attorney General" so that she could exercise complete control over the HCPO.

(Is this weird enough for you yet?)

Thereafter Dow ordered all of the original records and case files regarding the Trout/Russo indictments be sent to Trenton. Then on August 09, 2010 Dow ordered that a motion to dismiss all of the indictments against Undersheriff Russo and Sheriff Deborah Trout be made by her Trenton underlings. 

The legal reason for moving to dismiss (a defense motion for anyone except these two) was purported misstatements regarding "the facts of the case and the law applicable to the case" that were "designed to mislead the court and the public."  

Nowhere in that motion did anyone identify a single misstated fact or legal principle relied upon by the HCPO in support of the indictments.  At no time since has Dow or anyone else proffered a basis beyond the vague and unspecified gibberish of August 09, 2010.

The State has been fighting to keep the Grand Jury Transcripts (that they allege contain these factual and legal misstatements) out of the hands of a former Hunterdon Prosecutor who is suing because he was fired in retaliation for indicting prominent republican criminals.

It seems to me that a great way to defend against such a suit would be to release the transcripts and show the jury exactly where the HCPO misstated facts or law when they indicted Michael Russo for handing out law enforcement ID made with official sheriff's department equipment. 

It also seems to me that the transcripts are going to show that the Assistant Prosecutor had enough evidence to convict Russo and that the state's motion to seal those transcripts is an attempt to conceal their complicity in a series of crimes. 

At some point this matter of public concern must be aired in the light of day.  Real cops sometimes risk their careers and jail time abusing legitimate law enforcement credentials - handing out credentials to people with nothing to lose (at least while Christie is Governor) is a recipe for disaster.  

The Attorney General fights the release of inmates who prove their innocence via DNA evidence on a regular basis - it never supersedes a county prosecutor and dismisses indictments on unspecified grounds.  I notice that neither Russo nor Trout are suing the HCPO for false arrest, if their indictments were based on misstatements of fact and law they'd have a great case and a fair opportunity to clear their "good name".      

In case you forgot - Russo admitted that he used Official Sheriff's Department Equipment to fabricate false Law Enforcement credentials and also admitted that he gave at least one of those forged credentials to one of Chris Christie's campaign contributors.  Dow aided and abetted these crimes while serving as Attorney General for the State of New Jersey.  She has since been appointed to the Judiciary where she serves as a Superior Court Judge - who she serves is a fair question.  Why Paul Fishman hasn't charged anyone with obstruction of justice is another fair question. 

No reasonable person believes that these indictments were dismissed for a lawful purpose.  

How long will this charade go on before someone who cares about their own reputation says "no I will not" to the lawless thugs infesting our criminal justice system?

The days of quietly sweeping things under the rug are over, there are consequences for each and every member of the conspiracy.      

Checks and Balances/Cash and Connections

If you were watching a TV crime drama and the lead detective ordered subordinates to burn any notes that conflicted with earlier testimony you might shrug it off as Hollywood depicting dirty cops. 

When the Bergen Record reported that three retired detectives (from the Bergen County Prosecutors Office) testified to exactly that - the Attorney General turned his attention to Hunterdon County where he fired honest Assistant Prosecutors because they indicted Christie's political allies.  To be clear, a detective who destroys notes that conflict with the prosecution's case is committing a crime, even in New Jersey.  

What follows is a direct quote from the Record coverage of Ken Zisa's trial.

After Haviland left the witness stand, three retired investigators from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office testified that they were ordered to destroy their notes on the Zisa investigation, which did not correspond to earlier testimony from Haviland, their former supervisor. 

Retired Detectives Robert Pasquariello, Dave Rodgers and Gary Robinson successively testified on May 8, each remembering the same event in October 2010.  Close to the time Zisa was indicted for alleged official misconduct, insurance fraud and other crimes, Haviland told the detectives that Zisa’s attorney had requested their case notes, and that they should be destroyed. All three detectives testified that they were surprised by Haviland’s request.

"I just thought it was peculiar that we were told to shred our notes, and he said this to everybody, in open air in the office," Pasquariello said.

http://www.northjersey.com/news/last-days-of-testimony-center-on-prosecutor-s-investigation-1.351513?page=all

When three investigators swear under penalty of perjury that they were ordered by the Lieutenant in charge of special investigations to commit a crime - the Office of Attorney General is supposed to supersede that Prosecutor's Office and investigate. 

Instead of superseding in Bergen where actual crimes were committed by the prosecutor's office, the AG went to Hunterdon County and superseded that prosecutor's office as a favor to Chris Christie's indicted campaign contributor. If a movie opened with a plot line this horrific you might find the whole thing implausible. 

In one county the AG is protecting a corrupt prosecutor's office and in another he is retaliating against a prosecutor's office for having indicted the corrupt sheriff who happened to be friends with the governor. One of the indicted "friends" actually bragged that Christie would get the whole indictment thrown out. 

When the charges became public, the indicted undersheriff, Michael Russo, shrugged it off. Governor Christie, he assured an aide, would “have this whole thing thrown out,” according to  The Hunterdon County Democrat. That sounded like bluster. Then the state killed the case. On the day the indictment was unsealed, the state attorney general, a Christie appointee, took over the Hunterdon prosecutor’s office. Within a few months, three of its most respected veterans lost their jobs there, including the one who led the case.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/11/nyregion/43-count-indictment-of-a-christie-ally-quashed.html?_r=0

We are not watching a TV crime drama, these are true stories that depict wholesale corruption as it pertains to every level of criminal prosecution in the State of New Jersey.  The Governor of our State is using the tremendous power of his Office to maintain a corrupt system that protects his interests.  

Yesterday the Bergen Record confirmed that the Presiding Judge of the Criminal Division in Bergen County transferred to Passaic County due to a dispute with John Molinelli.  The people who we entrusted with administering the criminal justice system have lost their way. Judges don't get run out of town by corrupt prosectors unless those that investigate the investigators are equally compromised.

The Waldwick resident was reassigned this month by Supreme Court Chief Justice Stuart Rabner to state Superior Court in Passaic County, and the reasons for that are not clear.....Reassignments are common, but it isn't clear exactly why DeAvila-Silebi was moved to Passaic County when she was up for tenure in Bergen. Former Bergen County Assignment Judge Peter Doyne has said DeAvila-Silebi had requested a transfer; Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Nicholas Scutari said that it stemmed from "some kind of dispute that she had with the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office."

http://www.northjersey.com/news/nj-senate-panel-oks-reappointment-of-superior-court-judge-deavila-silebi-1.1337251   

The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is aware of this, the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee is aware of this and now you are aware of this too.  There are festering sores in Bergen County that are enabled by a putrified Office of Attorney General.  This is simply unacceptable in a civilized society. Anyone seeking a vote, a campaign contribution or a lawn sign in the next election should get nothing if they cannot demonstrate that they took a firm and direct stand against the mob that has infiltrated our justice system.  As is stands the man ultimately responsible for this corruption is spending his days out of State to gain control over the most powerful office on our planet - think about that. The man he appointed as "Acting" Attorney General (John Hoffman)is acting more like a thug running a protection racket for career criminals than a respected legal authority.

What are you doing about this? Were you bribed, misled or intimidated?

Sunday morning I was informed that Judge Silebi requested a transfer from her position as Presiding Judge of the Bergen County Criminal Division to a position as a regular judge in Passaic County. It is alleged that the reason for her request was a threat from John Molinelli that he would use his political power to thwart her upcoming tenure appointment if she failed to leave the county.  

Apparently Judge Silebi is a squeaky clean jurist who Molinelli wanted out of his way.  When a man like John Molinelli can push an honest judge out of the county we are all in danger.  Prosecutors wield an extraordinary amount of power without being able to threaten judges. 

What are you doing about this?  Were you bribed, misled or intimidated?

This prosecutor has a track record that includes:

• charging police officers with a crime he was on notice that they did not commit                     http://www.northjersey.com/news/2-bergen-county-cops-acquitted-of-all-charges-in-official-misconduct-case-involving-shooting-1.1025877?page=all                                                    
• using the imprimatur of his office to sell counterfeit at a public auction http://www.nj.com/bergen/index.ssf/2014/11/bergen_county_prosecutor_sold_fake_baseball_memorabilia_report_says.html                                             
• granting probation to a man who stole over $800,000 from taxpayers                              http://www.northjersey.com/news/ex-ridgewood-inspector-apologizes-for-stealing-460-000-in-quarters-1.1048475                                                          
• making false statements in connection with a public contract http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/iteam/bergen-county-prosecutor-charged-memorabilia-cas-blog-entry-1.2207277                                                   
• violating wiretap laws to eavesdrop on a Division of Criminal Justice confidential informant and his handler     http://www.northjersey.com/news/from-a-tattered-mob-case-bitter-charges-flare-1.348596                                                                         
• bringing criminal contempt charges against a civil attorney without a reasonable basis, a move described by Judge Doyne as "Deeply troubling"                   http://www.northjersey.com/news/from-a-tattered-mob-case-bitter-charges-flare-1.348596                                                                       
• tearing up a lifetime ban on law enforcement work for a politically connected ex-cop who had beaten his girlfriend so severely her eye closed over and her lip was split                                                 http://www.northjersey.com/opinion/kelly-rise-to-chief-clouded-by-past-1.223534?page=all

What are you doing about this?  Were you bribed, misled or intimidated?

The link that follows depicts criminal misconduct in open court, not a single person charged with protecting our system had the courage to stand up and say no.  Were they misled? Bribed? Intimidated?  

Watch the video and decide for yourself.

http://launch.newsinc.com/share.html?trackingGroup=90321&siteSection=njrecord&videoId=28754836

We know without any dispute that Joe Ferriero received $500,000 from Doctor Ragi who did not represent him in any capacity.  

We know that the second half of that payment resulted in Ragi getting out of the 800 hours of community service that was imposed by his first foray into the Pre Trial Intervention program.

Ask yourself this:  

How did a second indictment for additional crimes result in Doctor Ragi getting out of the community service that was part of his first PTI requirement?  

He was rewarded for that second indictment - watch the video, you can no longer say you didn't know about it.  If you are an attorney, a police officer or a judge and you haven't said anything about this, I suggest you do some soul searching and decide whether or not you are part of this problem or part of the solution.  

If the bad actors are your friends, colleagues or acquaintances then this is a test that clarifies who you are.  It is easy to hold strangers accountable for their misconduct.  Loyalty to your acquaintances or colleagues is no excuse for violating an oath. 

Integrity is not a character trait that comes easy, it is far easier to show the world that you lack integrity. What are you doing about this?  Were you bribed, misled or intimidated?