Those council efforts at outreach were apparently put out of their misery late yesterday with a shot across the bow by Hoboken City Council President Ruben Ramos.

The Council President took square aim at new Hoboken mayor Ravi Bhalla as details of his law firm employment contract with Lavery Selvaggi Abromitis & Cohen emerged.  He’s less than pleased with it, to put it mildly.

Ramos all but called the contract dirty and an outright bribe stating “it’s basically a 60K no show job… the only thing that’s missing is Solomon Dwek and the FedEx envelope,” in a story appearing late yesterday on Hudson County View. Read More...

Official release:

So the question is will you join the fight and support at a minimum government accountability?

The stakes are nothing less. With the latest Hoboken City Hall “sham” revealed, Hoboken stands on the precipice of seeing City Hall reduced to a Hudco bad government principality in practice at best or at worst, an outright banana republic.

Many are calling the law firm arrangement seen in the broken promise of Mayor Bhalla’s law firm contract unprecedented in the Mile Square City’s history. Read More...