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Why *did* Gov. Corzine fund Ferriero’s corruption for so long?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 22nd, 2009 at 10:30 PM  | 

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I mean, I know that the Governor’s rich, thanks to Goldman-Sachs – so donating a mere $440,000 or so to former Bergen County chair Joe Ferriero (and yet another convicted Democratic politician) over the years may have been a mere lark. A minor duty. He just did what they told him to. Still, you’d have thought that Corzine might have noticed all the dirty dealing going on. Or cared.

Because the legal system did b0th:

Former Bergen County Democratic Chairman Joseph Ferriero, who was one of New Jersey’s most powerful political leaders for a decade, was convicted of federal corruption charges today. A jury found Ferriero guilty of one count of conspiracy – the most serious charge – and two counts of mail fraud. He was acquitted on five other mail fraud charges.

Ferriero was accused of defrauding Bergenfield after he and Borough Attorney Dennis Oury obtained a contract for a grants writing company they owned. Oury, who was Ferriero’s co-defendant, pleaded guilty days before the trial was set to start, and testified against the former party leader. The jury found that Ferriero defrauded the borough of Oury’s “honest services.”

“This case is a glaring example of someone who used his power and influence to corrupt a public official, and we are gratified that the jury saw it that way,” said U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman. “This office will continue its tradition of aggressively investigating and prosecuting those who think that they can enrich themselves and their friends at the public’s expense.”

So, two questions: what does this say about Corzine’s own ethics? And if you want to say that it shouldn’t say anything, fine. What does this say about Corzine’s ability to notice things?

Moe Lane

PS: Chris Christie had some comments about Corzine’s willingness to fund Ferriero. Not to mention some questions that Corzine won’t – or possibly can’t – answer. Chris Christie for Governor.

PPS: Note: this has nothing to do with the Hudson County Democratic extortion/money laundering/organ trafficking story. Except, of course, for the bit about how all of these people know each other.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • proudgop

    Because Corzine has bought and paid for every election he has won in NJ whether its buying Jersey politician support, union support, etc

    Starting to think people in Jersey deserve the crap they are getting

    viapolitickernj
    During his 2000 U.S. Senate race, Corzine avoided questions about his foundation until political pressure forced him to reveal his contributions. The foundation had donated more than $250,000 to future supporters, including Rev. Reginald Jackson’s church, Stephen Adubato’s North Ward Cultural Center, Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Operation Rainbow/PUSH, and Planned Parenthood. All helped him secure the Democratic nomination in a heated primary with former Gov. Jim Florio.

  • http://www.jeannie-ology.com jeannieology

    but he moved out of Chicago so he decided to pick another crook to support.
    www.jeannie-ology.com

  • The_Gadfly

    deserve what they’ve been getting. And if they’d just stop exporting their toxic waste to the rest of us, I be happy to leave them there.

  • Scope

    This couldn’t have come at a better time. Even the leftie controlled NJ newspapers can’t ignore this story.

    As said above, the New Jersians absolutely do deserve what they get. My in-laws live in NJ, and they are die hard Democrats. Mother-in Law worked for the state for more than 25 years before retiring. Both of them keep compaining about “the corrupt politicians” over and over and over, and they faithfully go to vote for everything that has a D behind their name. Hahahahaha.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    My immediate family’s (and my wife’s) there, a bunch of my friends are there, not a few locations that I remember fondly, and I think that we even have at least one Contributor who lives there. The fact that its state government has been corrupt since the time of O. Henry doesn’t push into nonexistence some of NJ’s actual charms.

    Besides, it’s not like they elect Democrats with 100% of the vote. :)

  • WarEagle01

    I grew up in PA, but spent some of the happiest times of my childhood on summer vacation in Cape May. I think the people of the Garden State deserve a decent, conservative, non-criminal chief executive for a change.

    BTW, I really hope Christie’s people are putting together a new ad highlighting the Corzine-Ferriero connection to put on heavy rotation for the next couple weeks.

  • treeofliberty

    I’ve lived in NJ all my life and have seen us morph from a moderately Republican state to a hard-left Massachusetts state.

    It’s hard to get more cynical and pessimistic about NJ politics than someone like myself. I think Corzine will win simply because there is so much corruption, so much fraud in the inner cities, so many dependent on the welfare state, and yes so many “regular” New Jerseyans who vote Democrat as if it is their religion.

    I hope I’m wrong. And if Christie despite his sub-par campaigning (apparently this is ceremonial for a NJ GOP candidate to run a lousy campaign) manages to eek out a victory few will be happier.

    I plan on taking my family to Florida in the near-future but will vote for Christie with the hope that still, despite everything, there is some small, some tiny bit of sanity left in the people of New Jersey. I have my doubts but will look forward to being proven wrong on election night. A Corzine re-election victory only would cement our desire to leave the state and never look back.

  • Read Chesterton

    Starting to think people in Jersey deserve the crap they are getting

    Did the people of NJ deserve the 2005 media assassination of Republican candidate Bret Schundler – a Conservative mayor elected in a majority Democrat city – after he beat the hand picked NJ Republican machine candidate in the primary? Did the people of NJ deserve it when Bush administration sweetheart Christie Whitman publicly came out against Schundler as “misguided” and “dangerous?” Did anybody notice the same treatment of 2009 candidate Lonergan over the Trenton bottom feeder.. Christie? Am I even allowed to say that here about an anointed R candidate?

    Everyone is all over athe Scozzafava affair like white on rice. But this crap has been going on since the days of Goldwater. It’s only when it’s you who feel betrayed that there’s suddenly something wrong with it. When it’s happening to someone else, they must somehow deserve it. In addition to “stunning ignorance,” I call “stunning selfishness” stooping to a level more suitable to a union thug than a thinking conservative.

    This attitude from those of you from actual Red States of “I got mine Jack, forget you” is, to say the least, unproductive. At worst, it’s unworthy of anyone who calls themselves a Conservative.

    So I’ll hold my nose and vote for Christie as RS recommends. Will I be back here next year still reading that I “got what I deserved” after he sends state money to Planned Parenthood or accedes to whatever the O administration sends his way? Probably.

  • proudgop

    that in tongue and cheek sorta a way

    I just can’t believe the election is so close when Jersey has the highest property taxes in the nation. Jersey is still a middle class state where many people live to save money from living in NYC and yet they still may re-elect this guy cause he is labor’s guy.

    Jersey is prime example of what happens when unions control it all

  • Read Chesterton

    also responsible for the damage aer the politically correct upper middle class liberals who fled the cities in the first place, only to bring their wrong-headed social liberalism along to infect the suburban landscape. When I sat on the board of a county non-profit it was the “well-to-do white ladies” brimming with liberal guilt who would vote to deny the 40 hour per week office volunteers a part time minimum wage salary while approving grants to buy laptop computers for the homeless illiterate. These were the retired teachers and bubble-headed wives of corporate executives looking to “make their mark on society.” From what I’ve seen of the typical corporate officer, everything he knows about executing or influencing social policy or corporate culture he learned from his liberal, high society, do-gooder wife. These guys obviously do not have control over their own manly equipment.

  • Read Chesterton

    the New Jersians absolutely do deserve what they get.

    Then I assume you believe that you, personally, deserve Obama, what with being an American citizen and all.

    We all get it. You only elect gold standard conservatives. Those ignorant “Jersians,” or Californians are all deceived, brainwashed, cool aid drinking liberals. We are the problem and you are the… what? The solution? Not with bigoted finger pointing you’re not.

    It’s a lot easier to insult than to consider the possibility that the Blue States are, for the most part, just Red States being held hostage by their tax addicted, welfare sucking urban population centers.

  • persiflage

    as my brain-mate, because I’m thinking it would almost be worth it to have Corzine win again, just to see what he will try to do with a state budget that needs to be trimmed by literally 25% to be in balance with expected revenue.
    He would deserve that. Of course, we will enjoy that budgetary spectacle whoever wins in November…note to self: have salty snacks and adult beverages on hand.