N.J.'s Finbar O'Neill Pleads Guilty to Corruption.

June 23, 2010 at 3:55 P.M. Computer attacks and cybercrime continue to obstruct writing efforts. I will struggle to continue writing.

Claire Heininger & Lisa Fleischer, "$29.4 BILLION Budget Deal Is Reached," in The Record, June 22, 2010, at p. A-1. (Great pain for N.J.'s poor and disabled in this budget.)
Leslie Brody, "Number of Retiring School Workers Nearly Doubles," in The Record, June 22, 2010, at p. A-1. (Retirees may bring N.J.'s public pension system, which is $46 BILLION "short," to bankruptcy.)
Matt Friedman, "Millionaires Tax Dies After GOP Closes Ranks," in The Record, June 22, 2010, at p. A-3. (Republican Governor Christie opposes taxes on rich people.)
"27 Years, $27 Million Fine for Financial Fraud," in The Record, June 22, 2010, at p. A-7. (Tuchin's rabbi having been sent to prison, Sholom Rubashkin -- his financial adviser -- is also pleading guilty to "non-kosher" business practices.)
Michael Gartland, "Developer Pleads Guilty of [to?] Bribery: Admits Payments to Avoid Hiring Union Workers," in The Record, June 22, 2010, at p. L-3. (Corruption in N.J. is "business as usual.")
"A Bruise on the First Amendment," (Editorial) in The New York Times, June 22, 2010, at p. A26.

"Hackensack-based developer Finbar O'Neill [Cuban-American?] has pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges, according to court records obtained Monday by The Record."

This gentleman is a supporter of Senator Menendez, allegedly. ("Is Senator Menendez a Suspect in Mafia-Political Murder in New Jersey.")

"O'Neill, a native of Northern Ireland" -- Does he claim personal friendships with Richard J. Codey and James ("Slim Jim") McGreevey? -- "and a Paramus resident, pleaded guilty last month and is scheduled for sentencing on November 19, before Judge Victor Marrero in the Southern District of New York."

Sadly, this is yet another illustration -- if any is needed -- of the corruption of money in the U.S. legal system. Corrupt businesspeople pay off corrupt politicians (like Senator Bob), and are allowed to commit their crimes of corruption with impunity, usually against persons, like me, who are deemed to pose no risk of retribution. They may have "erred" with me. This seems quite corrupt. I believe that there may be corruption "of" New Jersey. ("Manohla Dargis Strikes Again!")

The actions of wealthy criminals and their bought-and-paid-for politicians are ignored by the media, which is also bought-and-paid-for, often by the same people purchasing politicians.

More hacker-inserted "errors" have been imposed on this site today. This spectacle is simply shameful and disgraces the graves of the men and women dying for this country, every day. Have you no shame in New Jersey?

Censorship, Mr. Menendez, violates the Constitution and federal copyright laws. You attended an American law school, Bobby, and survived the bar examination -- after getting a favor perhaps or in exchange for a small fee that you paid someone -- and must understand the principle of freedom of speech. Perhaps you were absent that day from your Constitutional Law class? ("Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?")

"By preserving an extremely vague prohibition on aiding terrorist groups, the court reduced the First Amendment rights of all Americans."

Mercifully, Justice Soto-Mayor dissented from this decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. We are losing our civil liberties, risking our economy, increasing the danger to ourselves and our children in the futile quest for a mythical "security."

Mr. Obama, is this the best we can do?

"America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War."

John LeCarre, "The United States Has Gone Mad," in Not One More Death (London & New York: Verso, 2006), at p. 11.