Jim Florio, Esq., and the Mafia in Atlantic City.

January 14, 2010 at 12:16 P.M. Censorship and "error" insertions continue. I have made all necessary corrections. Keep it up, fellas. You're helping me.

Jim Florio was photographed with "Dapper" Freeholder and Democrat enforcer David Ganz. Geez. New "errors" were inserted in this essay overnight. I will now correct them and reemphasize the contents of this work. April 28, 2009 at 2:08 P.M.

July 7, 2008 at 8:26 A.M. obstructions to backing up files were resolved late last night. June 30, 2008 at 10:42 A.M. calls received: On June 29, at 1:54 P.M. from 720-214-0440; June 28, at 11:50 A.M. from 435-294-2516; June 28, 11:50 A.M. 435-294-2316; June 28, 10:02 A.M. from 702-520-1131; June 27, at 6:20 P.M. from 615-886-7224; June 27, 6:40 P.M. 800-214-3143.

January 24, 2008 at 1:52 P.M. I am running new scans. Blocking:

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On May 10, 2007 at 12:01 P.M., I am blocking:

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On May 11, 2007 at 10:04 A.M. several attempts to post the finished version of a new essay have been obstructed by hackers. I am blocking:

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I will keep trying throughout the day to reach my msn group. I still cannot post new essays. I will do my best to correct "errors" inserted into this essay, regularly and repeatedly. I cannot say at this point how many times I have made the same corrections to this essay.

I will devote special research and writing time to the "exploits" of individual judges and justices in New Jersey in the forthcoming year. I will begin with SYBIL R. MOSES. I will discuss other judges in the Garden State. I will compile a "dirty dozen" of the New Jersey judiciary, then I will publish those essays separately. Every one of the judges I have selected has said or done things prohibited under New Jersey's Canons of Judicial Ethics. All of them should be sanctioned or removed from the bench.

The hypocrisy and mendacity of the New Jersey legal ethics process should be obvious once these essays are read. The presence of such persons in the N.J. judiciary -- as well as newspaper accounts of continuing thievery among government lawyers and politicians in Trenton -- illustrates the fraud at the very heart of New Jersey's legal system, a "legal" system which is responsible for criminal censorship efforts and far worse offenses committed against me and many others.

I was working on a memoir in the form of a novel at my home computer, but hackers inserting "errors" in that work frustrated all efforts to write the book. I have decided to write a first draft -- by hand -- then to type the text on to a computer, somewhere. Writings in a Torture Chamber (forthcoming, 2010). I will publish that book -- if necessary, at my own expense. I will dedicate the book to New Jersey's "Mafia-Political Machine and the Judges Owned by that Family-Like Organization."

Bob Ingle & Sandy McClure, The Soprano State: New Jersey's Culture of Corruption (New York: St. Martin's, 2008).

The Florio govenorship marked the end of what remained of honest government in New Jersey. It was widely believed that organized crime was influential in unprecedented ways during the Florio years. Things may be worse now. Persons close to the former governor from the Camden area have since had their own legal troubles. (A profile of George E. Norcross, III is coming up.)

Often these legal troubles have only concerned the feds because N.J. law enforcement (Rabner, Milgram) has usually protected shady political-underworld figures, allegedly. A close look at Atlantic City's sordid history and the flow of funds to Florio may well be illuminating on these matters.

William Brennan, III, son of former Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, said that "crooks had infiltrated numerous New Jersey industries and labor unions," he added: "Too many local governments are responsive more to the mob than to the electorate that put them in office." (p. 226.)

Elected officials and judges as well as state Supreme Court justices, like Stuart Rabner, are simply intimidated and unable to comply with their duties. The criminals and mafia bosses "run" politics and courts in the Garden State. These are the people -- "made men" -- who judge the ethics of others, especially in coopted areas of professional endeavor such as the legal profession.

Let's begin with Florio's former chief of staff, Joe Salema, who "was sentenced to a halfway house, home detention, and a $10,000 fine for a role in a $200,000-plus kickback scheme involving a Camden County authority." (p. 3.)

Nefarious activities, together with alleged underworld affiliations, landed Mr. Salema in some trouble in Florida. Florida provides many New Jersey mobsters with "connections" and sources. The mafia feeds off the lucrative tourist trade and makes use of local morons and wanna-be gangsters. Florio ...

"... and his longtime friends and business associates gave taxpayers an example of the ultimate in New Jersey patronage -- helping yourself through your public position and boosting the fortune of your friends."

"Using sources deep inside the Florio administration and poring over state nursing home records for five months, McClure compiled a five-part series on how Florio aides used their jobs to get rich." (pp. 20-21.)

"State health policies developed under Gov. Florio will put thousands -- and perhaps MILLIONS -- of dollars in the pockets of two of Florio's closest and highest ranking aides. ... Florio chief of staff Joe Salema and chief of management and planning Brenda Bacon" -- who is aptly named! -- "stand to profit from policies and administrative decisions that will boost their extensive investment in proposed and existing nursing homes for the elderly." (p. 21. )

Bruno and Genovese family members and these organizations have always been rumored to be "affiliated" with Florio. This is neither confirmed nor denied by New Jersey's baby attorney general Anne Milgram who reportedly said: "The mafia is, like, really bad."

Ingle & McClure point out that: "In addition to mob problems, ... Florio in the 1990s, ... used Atlantic City as a cash cow for the state" -- the cash was then stolen by "associates" and "contributors" to the Democrat machine -- "through the revenue it generates; for their buddies, through the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA); and for themselves, through campaign contributions from contractors who get work there." (p. 266.)

Former President of the New Jersey State Bar Association and Chairperson of the Ethics Committee, Tony "Scarface" Montana, specializes in personal injury law. How are the accounting problems, Jose? "Dipping"? You've got company? More lawyers will be disbarred soon.

The thievery and strong arm stuff is usually the aftermath of statements by politicians concerning the so-called policy of keeping the mob out of Atlantic City. Florio made such statements. People could not stop laughing even as he made them.

"... [the] Florio administration had held up work on a new convention center and other improvements worth more than $300 MILLION until they could make certain they controlled every element of the projects." (pp. 266-267.)

"A south Jersey Democrat told McClure it amounted to an unbelievable amount of power. 'The Gambinos (crime family) would envy this situation.' ..." (p. 267.)

Jaynee LaVecchia has still not come clean about the $300 MILLION that vanished like a gambler's lucky streak in the HIP deal nor has LaVecchia, to my knowledge, denied affiliations with organized crime members or "prominent" members of the construction industry with a shady past. No one alleges that either LaVecchia or Rabner has given a person a business card.

Jaynee's participation in the alleged HIP swindle may be the Gambinos revenge for the Bruno and Genovese scams in Atlantic City. Jaynee claims to be highly ethical, like Debbie Poritz. Debbie's fondness for the ladies has led to much speculation concerning "how young" she likes her sexual partners. New Jersey's unique number of child porn prosecutions may be unrelated to these proclivities. Debbie's "relationship" with Diana Lisa Riccioli has not been the subject of questioning under oath for the former Chief Justice. Only one new "error" inserted by the Luca Brazzi crew in Camden. "What's the matter, you? You no like, Jimbo?"

"Three weeks after Florio was elected in 1989, the Casino Control Commission was forced to pay an additional $15,840.00 per year, an 18 percent hike, for renting offices owned by Florio's soon-to-be chief of staff, Steven Preskie, who as a legislator authored New Jersey gaming commission legislation. The rent hike letter was mailed by Preskie's agent when Preskie was on the state payroll as head of Florio's transition team." (Ibid.)

How much was coming back to Florio? Conflict of interest? Is Preskie a lawyer? Where is the OAE?

The same Florio who teaches a course in ethics at Rutgers for 96 GRAND -- probably more than the salary of "regular" tenured faculty members who teach a full course load -- is responsible for this scam. I bet Florio teaches "Ethics in Government and Law."

Does Florio keep a straight face when he lectures on ethics? McGreevey teaches a similar course at Kean University? Amazing.

Ray ("Shyster Ray") Lesniak made over $4 MILLION for municipal "work" at Woodbridge when Jim McGreevey was mayor. How much did Shyster Ray kick-back to "Slim Jim" McGreevey to continue sucking the tit, if anything, we do not know. (Hey, another inserted "error"!) Must have been a lot. McClure discovered quite a few ties to Florio in the gaming industry:

"Democratic State Committee Chairman PHIL KEEGAN was a lobbyist for Resorts International and served as a consultant to Resorts International board chairman James Crosby, who built the first casino in Atlantic City."

"HAROLD HODES, a key advisor to the Florio committee, was president of a public relations firm that represented the Casino Association of New Jersey."

"Attorney General ROBERT DEL TUFO was a former member of the Hannoch Weisman law firm, which was hired to represent Donald Trump on gaming issues." (pp. 266-267.)

With palpable disgust, U.S. District Judge Joseph Rodriguez said: "Political corruption is really a malignancy in the bloodstream of a democracy." This was at the sentencing hearing of crooked Atlantic City politician and bribe taker, Craig Callaway, who is not too distant from Jim McGreevey supporter Charles Kushner and others. Is Mr. Callaway a lawyer?

Callaway was convicted of accepting a "$36,000.00 bribe." Callaway never discussed his alleged political friendships with Florio and McGreevey or any transaction involving all of these shady customers.

The list of atrocities and crimes goes on and on to the indifference of New Jersey's A.G. and crooked O.A.E. (Florio is a lawyer and so are most of these other "guys.") There are no ethics proceedings against these politically "connected" lawyers. (Compare "Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks" with "Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?")

The ethical judgments of such people and the feces-stained institutions in the Garden State are what may be wiped with the toilet paper rolls that Gov. Florio hoped to tax, exhorbitantly, a move that would have allowed Garden State residents to think of Mr. Florio at the most appropriate and richly symbolic moment of their day -- right before flushing.