Does N.J.'s Stephen M. Sweeney Lie to the Press?

April 24, 2011 at 11:24 A.M. Further vandalism of my Rawls essay followed upon the blocking of my cable signal this morning. Alterations in paragraph spacing are routine as well as further damage to my writings. New essays focusing on emerging corruption investigations in New Jersey will be posted mostly from public computers. A cell phone call this morning (ostensibly from a family member) is probably irrelevant to these difficulties. 551-655-1346. Ridgewood?

April 22, 2011 at 9:54 A.M. Spacing between paragraphs was altered, again, overnight. Additional attacks on several writings have resulted in further damage to these texts. My security system is disabled. My books are still suppressed. I am encouraged by the possibility that readers in many places in the world may be absorbing these works and protecting them or passing them around to friends, i.e., in Cuba. Someday, we will be able to write freely in America.

April 21, 2011 at 3:10 P.M. Continuing attacks against these writings make posting difficult. I am sorry to learn of the new troubles afflicting the Cuban American National Foundation and New Jersey's OAE. Efforts to correct the alteration of spacing between paragraphs are obstructed by New Jersey's hackers. Guilty conscience, fellas? I expect a constant war over the spacing of paragraphs in this essay and other vandalism of this text. Additional essays examining allegations of overbilling and theft by "ethical" N.J. lawyers in connection with Trenton's tunnel litigation -- along with rumored kickbacks by lawyers to public officials -- are coming up.

David M. Halbfinger, "Move on New Jersey Health Plan May Cost Towns but Helps Power Broker: Top Senator's Efforts to Limit Program Would Aid a Longtime Friend and Ally," in The New York Times, April 20, 2011, at p. A21.

"In the last three years, hundreds of cities, towns and school districts in New Jersey have saved tens of millions of dollars on health insurance by 'dumping' their private carriers and switching to a little-known benefits program run by the state."

Senator Stephen M. Sweeney -- an "ethical" member of the New Jersey Bar Association and close friend of George E. Norcross, III -- has promoted legislation that could effectively cripple the program. I am sure that Mr. Sweeney has served on the Ethics Committee of the New Jersey Bar Association. I am confident that Mr. Sweeney has visited my sites and may have not have done well in debate against me. ("Why I am not an ethical relativist.")

Would Mr. Sweeney participate in censorship and computer crime against a dissident targeted for criminal harassment? I hope not.

Mr. Norcross could make vast sums of money from the continuation of private insurance and, perhaps, some of this money would find its way back to the grateful Mr. Sweeney.

No doubt this breaking scandal in Trenton -- one of several this week -- also explains my computer troubles and continuing violations of copyright and First Amendment rights at these blogs. You are invited to witness these crimes as they are committed. ("What is it like to be censored in America?" and "Censorship and Cruelty in New Jersey.")

"Mr. Sweeney, who rose to prominence with Mr. Norcross's support, acknowledged in an interview that he had spoken with Mr. Norcross about the provision. But Mr. Sweeney said he had not introduced it at Mr. Norcross's behest." (Irony?)

Mr. Sweeney has, shockingly, misrepresented or lied about the alleged "crisis" afflicting the private insurance and falsified, or provided inaccurate statistics, allegedly, concerning the amounts "lost" by the public insurer. (Compare "Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "Jaynee LaVecchia and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")

"In fact, Mr. Sweeney's number [$216 MILLION lost] was a bookeeping device related to the complicated ways in which the program accounts for incurred medical claims and received funds. ..."

In other words, the public insurer was not losing money in the manner that Mr. Sweeney suggested and he may well have known that when he said otherwise to the press.

Furthermore, Mr. Norcross's role and the nature of the friendship between the men should have precluded Mr. Sweeney from promoting legislation with such an obvious conflict of interest for him as Mr. Norcross's friend or possible "employee" some day. Shame on you, Mr. Sweeney.

Again: Have you visited my sites, Mr. Sweeney? Have you participated in or known about violations of copyright and computer crime at my blogs by anyone, Mr. Sweeney? ("Censorship and Cruelty in New Jersey" and "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")

Is this an example of the legal ethics of distinguished members of the New Jersey Bar Association and Legislators, Mr. Rabner? Is the vandalism of my writings an example of America's commitment to freedom of speech and protection of dissidents' rights? Am I only one more victim of another sanctions regime and illicit human experimentation by the U.S. government? ("The Experiments in Guatemala" and "John Rawls and Justice.")

Sources:

Joy Gordon, Invisible War: The United States and the Iraq Sanctions (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010).

George Galloway, Mr. Galloway Goes to Washington: The Brit Who Set Congress Straight About Iraq (New York & London: The New Press, 2005).