Superior & Municipal Courts in cohoots in Traffic Ticket Quota in Union County

by: davemakkar

Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 05:27:16 PM EDT

Second time Officer Cavallo followed the Defendant for more than 15 minutes and gave him a parking ticket with his blinkers still on without issuing any Summons to other vehicles belonging to Whites parked there for hours eating inside the bakery. Defendant was still outside the Blue Ribbon Bakery holding its door to get in just to pick up a big pie kept ready for him. When the Defendant took pictures of other parked vehicles in loading zone Cavallo made a obscene gesture to the Defendant F*** You
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Judge Stuart Piem of Superior Court of Union County & Judge Jeffery Angelo of Roselle Park both found Officer Cavallo very credible who had all the help of a Racist Prosecutor Robert Donovan who made the remarks inside the Court room, ""It is a free country you can raise the issue of Racial Profiling or Racial Bias at any place but not in my Court. Every one with traffic violation ticket raises these questions. I am not concerned what happened to you or in the case in the last 1 year.

This Prosecutor Donovan intentionally created commotion and havoc in the Court of Judge Angelo by taking away his Copy of Motion & Photographs as well as of the Defendant despite the fact he had his own copy of the Motion and Photographs. The Court Transcripts are proof of this commotion & havoc by Racist Robert Donovan.

Under Home Rule of NJ rather Gang Rule Judge Stuart Piem also denied oral arguments to the defendant. Judge Piem & Angelo both found the testimony of a liar Anthony Cavallo credible and found nothing wrong in his making F*** You gesture to the victim of Racial Profiling & Selective Enforcement of Law.

It looks like Judge Piem, Judge Angelo and Prosecutor Donovan are still living in the past and do not understood the meaning of the comments made by our first African American Attorney General Eric Holder, "We are a nation of cowards when it comes to race matters". Judge Piem & Angelo have failed in their legal duties in addressing the issue of Racial Discrimination and illegal Traffic Summons Quota practiced by Union Police initiated by Union Twp & legalized by Union Municipal Court.

Home Rule=GANG RULE County Superior Court in cahoots with Municipal Courts in legalizing Traffic Summons Quota, Racial Profiling & Selective Enforcement of Law initiated by Politicians to raise revenue for the comforts of largest elected more than 1 scoundrel & over 50 employees per square mile in the world in Banana Republic of New Jersey. To protect them there are more than 10 Attorneys per square miles majority of the times with Tax Payers money.

Important Statements made by Union PD, Twp Officers

Officer Rad Sangster while parked illegally outside Marina News he made a remark, "they are under pressure to write Summons because they have to fill their Traffic Summons Quota".

Sgt. Fenton of Springfield PD while processing Bail Papers for arrest warrants issued & executed in 5 days by Union MC on fictitious grounds, "Although we are not supposed to have it but Springfield also has a Traffic Summons Quota."
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Sgt. Elliott: it has been a long time since any Cultural or Racial Sensitivity Training has been conducted for Union PD. Officer Cavallo who is in the force for last 31/2 yrs only never had any such training!

Officer Jovic's unprovoked voluntary statement after writing a Summons on the intersection knowingly that NJDOT has made it unsafe & inconvenient, "Do not pay the fine, make sure you come to court on Oct. 23rd & talk to the prosecutor. If you send the fine you will have 1 point on your license. We hate to do what we are doing but we are being forced by our Bosses to do it."

Town Administrator James Bradley: "it has been the position of the township since reconfiguration of the intersection, that the State of New Jersey returns the intersection to its original design." The complainant should take up this matter with NJDOT. He further added, "We will forward a copy of your letter and concerns to NJDOT so that they may take your recommendations into considerations."
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Sgt. Rego of Union PD while conducting a sham internal affair investigation without any complaint, "I know that it is a bad system and traffic is backing up to Springfield . City was against it and still the State implemented it. State can do whatever they want to do. NJDOT I believe is going to make changes to this pattern. You know how the State works; it will take a while for them to do any thing."

Dave Makkar

How Did Chris Christie Get Off The List?

by: huntsu

Fri May 18, 2007 at 12:37:42 PM EDT

The irony here is thick. We know now that Christie was almost fired by his fellow Republicans at the same time Democrats were criticizing him as a partisan hack -- during the 2006 election season.

Democrats were angry then because Christie had issued a subpoena seeking information on a real estate deal of Sen. Robert Menendez. His Republican opponent, state Sen. Tom Kean Jr., made that subpoena the centerpiece of his campaign. ...

The near-firing helps inoculate Christie against charges that he is a political servant of the White House. But his critics could just as easily argue that his friends in the White House protected him in the end.

If the fact was that Christie was placed on the list on November 1, 2006, then there might be two ways to look at it.  In fact, on a cursory look it might even be more likely that this would blunt suggestions that Christie acts in partisan ways while in a non-partisan office.

But today we find out that long before Christie dropped the subpoena on the North Hudson Community Corporation he was on the list to be fired.

Sources yesterday identified four other current or former U.S. attorneys included on a Jan. 1 list that grouped a dozen prosecutors into three tiers. They include current U.S. Attorneys Matthew Mead of Wyoming and Eric Melgren of Kansas and former prosecutors James K. Vines of Nashville and Michael G. Heavican of Nebraska. ...

The same Jan. 1 list includes U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie of New Jersey, who also appears on a Nov. 1 list, sources said.

Chris Christie's No Comment Policy That Isn't

by: huntsu

Tue May 08, 2007 at 08:15:18 PM EDT

At a presentation arranged and sponsored by three Republican legislators -- including Joe Kyrillos, a family friend and as State GOP Chair the recipient of hundreds of thousands of dollars from Christie's family -- Christie was asked if his presence at the event meant that the sponsors were not being investigated.  He responded:

Asked if his appearance with the three GOP legislators up for election this year could be construed as a signal that Kyrillos, Handlin and Thompson are uninvolved in the current probe of state legislators receiving personal financial gain through state budget items, Christie said he would not comment on any investigations, as a matter of policy.

We noted that Christie actually does comment on investigations [2], basically when it strikes his fancy.  And now today there is yet another example.

Despite evidence suggesting that the administration of former Gov. James E. McGreevey might have put pressure on the state Parole Board to release Prisco, Christie waited for Harvey. But after a two-year investigation, Harvey closed the case in 2005.

"I felt like I got burned by backing off," Christie told members of the Asbury Park Press editorial board. ?

When the time is right, Christie said, he might take another look into the case. Prisco had been serving a 12-year sentence for arson and racketeering stemming from a fire at Mud Shots Bar in Garfield.

Christie explained that he was intrigued by the settlement last month between the state and the Parole Board's former director, Kenneth Connolly, who sued, contending he was demoted and transferred to a position at a state prison for speaking up against Prisco's release.

Huh.  This looks an awful lot like the US Attorney commenting on an investigation.  Anyone else?

Chris Christie Won't Comment, Except When He Comments

by: huntsu

Fri Apr 27, 2007 at 09:15:19 PM EDT

We've noted twice -- here and here -- that Christie has been attending quite a few induction ceremonies for and town meetings sponsored by Republican elected officials and called for New Jersey to vote out elected officials who are corrupt or don't keep their campaign promises. 

The implication being that the Republican elected officials whose invitation he accepted, who introduced him glowingly, and who he thanked heartily are not the corrupt pols Christie is talking about.

Apparently we are not the only ones who think this, as the following from PoliticsNJ.com indicates:

Asked if his appearance with the three GOP legislators up for election this year could be construed as a signal that Kyrillos, Handlin and Thompson are uninvolved in the current probe of state legislators receiving personal financial gain through state budget items, Christie said he would not comment on any investigations, as a matter of policy.

How forthright!  How upstanding!  How honorable!

How silly, considering he does comment on investigations when he feels like it.  As in this instance from 2002:

The two Democrats seeking their party's nomination for Essex County Executive in next week's primary continue to trade barbs over a letter by the United States Attorney saying that Freeholder President Joseph DiVincenzo was not a target of the federal grand jury investigation into corruption in the Essex County government. ...

On Friday, U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie sent a two-sentence letter to DiVincenzo's personal attorney, Nicholas Grieco, saying that the Freeholder "is not a subject or target of the grand jury investigation."

But, huntsu, you say, that's from 2002!  That's pretty weak.  Can't you find anything from a more recent time?

Well, we love to deliver, so here is another comment from ... this week!

Federal prosecutors served subpoenas on three more state legislators today as part of their expanding criminal investigation of the secret grant-making process in Trenton.

On the receiving end of the subpoenas this time were Sen. Paul Sarlo and Assembly members Robert Gordon and Joan Voss, all Bergen County Democrats. ...

Sarlo's chief of staff, Christopher Eilert, said his office is "fully cooperating...I called the U.S. Attorney's Office and they specifically told me Sen. Sarlo is not a target of any investigation."

So what we can gather from Christie's comment that he won't comment is either that one of the three Republicans who sponsored his talk -- Senator Kyrillos and Assembly members Handlin and Thompson -- is under investigation for corruption, or that Christie wanted to duck the question because there was just a little bit of truth in it.

Non Partisan? Not These Chris Christie Events

by: huntsu

Fri Apr 20, 2007 at 09:20:32 PM EDT

Now, which party do you think he means when he says that?

And now, via PoliticsNJ, there's more evidence that this effort is slanted toward helping Republicans as Christie attends a town meetings sponsored by some state legislators, all belonging to the party with a pachyderm as it's mascot.

U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie will join Republican legislators in the 13th district for a Town Meeting on April 26 in Middletown.  The non-political event will allow the federal prosecutor to "discuss the actions his office has taken to protect our children and neighborhoods from drugs and gang violence; to combat terrorism and ensure homeland security; to fight white collar crime; and to once and for all show that the people of New Jersey will no longer stand for public corruption," according to a press release issued by State Sen. Joseph Kyrillos' office. 

Assemblyman Samuel Thompson and Assemblywoman Amy Handlin will join Christie and Kyrillos at the forum, to be held at 7:30 PM at Middletown High School North.

So we have Senator Kyrillos, a former Republican State Chair, and two Republican Assembly members inviting the US Attorney to speak.  And this US Attorney - a former Republican freeholder, state campaign attorney for the Bush campaign, $100,000 plus fundraiser for Bush -- and his immediate family just happened to donate $94,000 to Kyrillos' as party chair in the six months before the prosecutor was nominated New Jersey's US Attorney in 2001. 

Now we have a US Attorney investigating almost exclusively Democrats for well over a year, going to speaking events sponsored by Republican legislators he's donated tons of money to, and calling for corrupt politicians to be kicked out of office.

Nah, no politics there!  Just look away and keep moving.  Nothing to see!

Of course, this could be a unique situation for Christie.  Except that in February this happened.

"The people who are going to change the behavior of public officials are sitting in this room," he said. "I'm not going to fix the problem for you. The problem is going to be fixed by you when you finally decide you've had enough and when you decide you are going to elect better people." ?

Christie also answered general questions about his office and advised the crowd to "be patient" in waiting for the light of day to shine on corruption.

"We can't solve this tomorrow, it's going to be a day-by-day process," he said. "Our office has now shined the light on it and hopefully the light we have shined on it will keep the conversation going."

The town meeting was sponsored by Sen. Peter Inverso and Assemblyman Bill Baroni, both Hamilton Republicans who have lobbied for extensive campaign finance reform.

Again Christie is accepting invitations to attend "non-political" town meetings sponsored exclusively by Republican legislators and calling for the crowd to elect "better people."  No one in the crowd thought he was talking about Republicans like Inverso or Baroni, since the sponsored the event. 

And in  January 2006 Christie called for voters to "kick [politicians] out of office" while speaking at the Westfield reorganization meeting at the invitation of newly elected Mayor Andy Skibitsky.  Skibitsky is, of course, a Republican

But there's nothing political going on here.

UPDATE: 50 points to anyone who can find more examples of Republican sponsored events Christie spoke at this year when he called for kicking elected officials out of office.  100 points if you can find a Democratic sponsored event Christie spoke at.  You can write bjhuntsu@gmail.com or put a link in the comments.

Chris Christie's Unethical Speaking Tour

by: huntsu

Sun Apr 15, 2007 at 10:39:29 AM EDT

We are not saying that Christie is wrongly convicting anyone.  We are not saying that Christie is cutting off investigations when he finds dirty Republicans.  We are not saying that Christie should not be convicting the Wayne Bryants, Craig Calloways, John Lynch's or other Democrats he's nailed.  Frankly, we kind of like that. 

What we are saying is that the timing of subpoenas, the publicity for investigations and Christie's own statewide speaking tours are having a positive influence on future electoral prospects for himself and the Republican party, and a negative influence on the prospects for Democrats.

We can argue over whether this is intentional, or a natural outgrowth of the corruption of the state.  But we cannot argue that the influence is there, and that Christie's public actions extend that influence in a manner most likely improper for a United States Attorney.

Take for instance the flurry of subpoenas issued to Democratic office holders and party organs in the "Christmas Tree" investigation.  The investigation itself is limited to 2002 - 2006, during Democratic control of the legislature and Governor's office.  The Republicans had control of the same for the previous eight years, while sharing control of the Senate in 2001, but are not being investigated. 

Christmas Tree items are those items tacked on to the state budget at the last minute, which legislators have used for generations to bring pork back to their districts.  These have increased during Democratic control, but much of the increase is taken up by things like $6.9 million for a southern campus of the Cancer Institute of New Jersey.  This is not to say the Christmas Tree process is good budgeting or ethical, but to note that the increase is not a reason to exclude Republican control from the investigation.

But at the same time Christie was dropping subpoenas on Governor Corzine's office and the Senate and Assembly Democratic Offices [edited to remove NJ DSC, which did not receive a subpoena in 2007] in January and February - to great publicity and screaming press releases from the Republicans - he was going throughout the state making comments like this:

"Only you can solve the problem (of public corruption). The way you can solve the problem is by becoming more involved citizens, more involved voters. Because the one thing people in political life understand even more than a subpoena from my office is losing an election," Mr. Christie said.

"Hold people to what they tell you in campaigns. Make them tell you the truth. And if they don't, then you kick them out of office. That is what will begin to change the climate and culture in New Jersey more than any indictment that I will ever be able to bring, more than any public figure I put in jail," said Mr. Christie. 

This is, of course, demonstrably true.  And many folks in politics say it.  But the difference here is that Chris Christie is not supposed to be in politics, he is not supposed to be exhorting people to get involved.  He is supposed to be discovering and prosecuting criminals and leaving politics to others.

And since the overwhelming number of public investigations and comments by the US Attorney in the past year plus have been against Democrats, the only inference possible is that Christie is asking the voters to "kick ... out of office."

Since January 2006 an exhaustive search of Internet news sources and various news services [view in Google Docs] has discovered just four instances of an investigation, subpoena, indictment or conviction of a Republican by the US Attorney's office.  These are:

• Robert Stears, lobbyist, pled guilty to mail fraud, 12/06.
• The Assembly Minority Office, Christmas Tree Investigation, 2/07
• The Senate Minority Office, Christmas Tree Investigation, 2/07
• Emerson Mayor Steve Setteducati, cleared by a letter from the US Attorney, 3/07

In 15 months, that's one conviction, two subpoenas to party organizations during an investigation of the Democratic leadership, and a letter clearing a Republican Mayor. 

During the same time period, there have been 63 investigations, subpoenas, indictments or convictions of Democrats.  [view in Google Docs] That sounds bad, but there are all of 12 convictions with well over half of those involving John Lynch and Charles Kushner.

Of course this is necessarily unscientific, in part because the US Attorney's office has not returned repeated calls from a Blue Jersey representative seeking the list of convictions Christie regularly speaks about, or for the list of public places he's spoken at.  We cannot know - nor should we know - about all of the US Attorney's investigations, but we do know the ones that made the papers. 

And 94 percent of those are of or related to Democrats in the past 15 months.

So the US Attorney's actions in the newspapers are 94 percent against one party, and then goes on a speaking tour urging voters to get engaged and kick the corrupt politicians out of office.  People hearing him speak - at swearings-in, on 101.5 with The Jersey Guys, at colleges, and elsewhere - can't help but think he means the party he is investigating 94 percent of the time.

Perhaps 94 percent of the time is reasonable for the US Attorney, but the speaking tour is not, and improperly influences the electorate toward the Republican Party.  Note that Christe has raised and donated hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Republicans, and is the front-runner to serve as its 2009 standard bearer for New Jersey Governor.

These exhortations to get people active in politics can also be seen as an effort to build an informal grassroots base, much as Al Gore is being accused of doing with his An Inconvenient Truth tour.  By exhorting people to political action in his role as corruption buster, Christie appears to be on an influence building tour and setting himself up to run for future office.

Clearly for someone covered by the Hatch Act, which prohibits certain federal employees from engaging in politics, this speaking tour is patently unethical and should be stopped immediately.

Often the "appearance of impropriety" is enough to generate an investigation of a public official by a prosecutor.  Given how he got the job, how his investigation and conviction rates have changed, and his public speaking tour there is no way anyone can say that there is no appearance any longer.

Chris Christie's Investigations Since 2002

by: huntsu

Mon Apr 02, 2007 at 08:28:23 AM EDT

We found a total of 151 investigations, 114 of Democrats, 32 of Republicans and five for which we couldn't ID a party.

We only counted a person or an office once, even if they were investigated multiple times.  For instance, Bob Menendez popped up in both the UMDNJ investigation and the NHCAC, but we only counted him once. 

The result is that 75 percent of the people investigated are Democrats, and 21 percent are Republicans. 

There are 44 Democrats convicted or pleading guilty, 23 Republicans and 1 we can't tell. 

We have the research compiled in a PDF file for everyone to review.  If you can add anyone -- no matter what party -- please do so we can make sure to get an accurate account. 

The date on the left is the earliest date we can identify the investigation.  If you can find an earlier one, please tell us that as well!