Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Before FBI agents raided the office a South Florida eye doctor accused of paying for young prostitutes for Sen. Bob Menendez, the Democratic senator from New Jersey helped used his influence to advocate for a $1 billion business for the doctor, the Miami Herald reports. The Herald wrote that Menendez was urging…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Prominent New Jersey attorney Paul Bergrin, who is accused of using his law firm to commit crimes, including drug trafficking, prostitution and the murder of an FBI informant, is on trial in Newark federal court, Reuters reports. The trial began Tuesday and is the prosecution’s second attempt at landing a conviction against…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Trenton, N.J. housing projects started under former Mayor Douglas Palmer are the subject of an FBI corruption investigation, the Trenton Times reports. Developer Robert Kahan, who was involved in all five projects, is named in the subpoena obtained by the Trenton Times. Palmer, who often used Kahan as a developer, told the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Eight New Jersey residents will share $295,000 as part of a settlement in a lawsuit that alleges their homes were raided without warrants, the Associated Press reports U.S. citizen Ana Galindo said officers pointed a gun at her 9-year-old son during the pre-dawn raids. The residents filed a lawsuit in 2008 against…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Trenton Mayor Tony Mack, who was arrested in September for allegedly extorting bribes from a parking garage developer, is now under fire for carpeting contracts in former city libraries, the Trenton Times reports. The FBI became suspicious of the carpeting contract after questions were raised in newspapers about Mack’s decision to bypass…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com What’s a little exaggeration among friends? The Newark Star-Ledger and PolitiFact called ex-U.S. Attorney turned N.J. Gov. Chris Christie on his exaggeration the other day. Christie said at a town hall meeting that as Newark U.S. Attorney he put behind bars 10 percent of the state legislature for various crimes. The…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Reasons to ‘Recall Roque’, the Mayor of West New York, N.J., seem to be apparent without visiting the website by that name. For starters, Felix Roque and his 22 year old son Joseph were arrested by the FBI Thursday for allegedly hacking GoDaddy.com, where the anti-Roque website’s domain was registered, reports…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT –– The federal trial involving a Michigan militia known as the Hutaree has raised questions about the right of free speech and what constitutes talk versus reality. Defense attorneys claim the government has overstepped on the case. The government insists there was serious talk of killing a cop and…
