NJ Republicans love corrupt Dwek money

by: Adam L

Tue Aug 17, 2010 at 08:47:54 AM EDT

Here we are one year later, and the State Republican Party is still holding onto the corrupt donations from a criminal.

And interestingly, one of Dwek's contributions during the 2000 presidential campaign went right through Chris Christie.  And as I said last year:

Follow me through this timeline of "coincidences":

• 2000: Dwek donates $500 to Bush through Christie's organization.
• 2006: Dwek gets busted for bad checks worth tens of millions
• He then becomes an informant who bribes Democratic politicians - who knows if this was going on from before mid 2006 or if it had to do with Christie's getting on and then off "the list" of US Attorneys to be fired - recall that Christie and Rove also spoke around this time about a potential run for Governor
• Dwek busts are announced in the middle of Christie's campaign for Governor, when they can do the most to build his reputation. And the timing raises objections from most in the US Attorney's office, except Michele Brown, whose relationship with Christie raises many questions including obvious conflict of interest, in her professional conduct and his.

There's a lot of smoke here. Too many coincidences and artful timing in the way Christie found Dwek, molded Dwek, and used Dwek to entrap politicians in a way that seems too carefully orchestrated to build a political reputation for a man who looks like he was using the United States Attorney's Office to build himself a political reputation, which is a thing the United States Dept. of Justice forbids expressly, because of potential miscarriage of justice.

Now, both the Democrats and Republicans pledged to donate their contributions from Dwek to various charities, and here we are over a year later with much of Dwek's corrupt $51,000 is still in the State Republican Party's coffers.  As the Asbury Park Press noted the other day, the Democratic State Committee, Republican State Senator Jennifer Beck and Democratic Senator Menendez all donated their entire amount of donations to various charities.

I guess the State Republican Party (and Governor Christie) is just a-ok with corrupt criminal money as long as it is for their benefit and as long as they can use it for their political gain.