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At the Monday City Council meeting, public portion became a gold mine, a fount of information for the keen observer of MORTe on the question of their single minded determinedness to make public tens of thousands of emails from the mayor’s office last spring.
The FBI came to Hoboken in late May and scooped up all the data including what was coming and going to the Mayor’s office – a key element of what’s on tap is nothing short of a full blown racketeering conspiracy – RICO in legal parlance.
The latest saga of MORTe sabotage is being resisted by the State of NJ. According to a letter discussed on Hoboken Now:
The state Director of Local Government Service Thomas Neff urged Hoboken to call for a special meeting in a letter to the city council.
The council minority, re: MORTe – Beth Mason, Tim Occhipinti, Michael Russo and Terry Castellano have resisted efforts to shift available funds, about 2% of the City’s annual budget in an effort to force Mayor Dawn Zimmer into a corner.
MSV was looking at some internal data and just discovered it passed 1,000,000 hits! That’s a million votes of approval from satisfied customers.
This is an unexpected milestone in the two plus years MSV has been in existence.
We’ve done it with no advertising budget, no staff and no one but readers who are looking to find a deeper understanding on the important issues facing the mile square town we love and call home.
While we consider this website reform minded advancing good governance, this milestone would not be possible without reaching an audience much beyond the activist base in town.
It wasn’t going to come up in the last City Council meeting but the question was raised and it stands: what was the impetus behind the witch hunt for emails by Council members Michael Russo and Beth Mason last April?
At that time there was no FBI investigation into the massive conspiracy of looting going on in the Mayor’s office communications but a massive conspiracy was well underway. The FBI’s criminal complaint stated Patrick Ricciardi had set up an automated computer script capturing all the emails coming and going between two senior members of the mayor’s staff plus the mayor herself going back to early 2010.
Mayor Dawn Zimmer presents her letter to the State of NJ on the failure of MORTe to approve simple financial line items move putting the City of Hoboken into a financial crisis and unable to pay the City Firemen at the end of November.
Mayor Dawn Zimmer is interfacing with the State to find a remedy to last night’s latest MORTe sabotage. Last night, Councilwoman Beth Mason attempted to make an argument there was no interference by her and Morte with the FBI’s ongoing investigation into a data breach in City Hall. Here’s the original video from June 14th showing the discussion where the lame duck council majority headed by Beth Mason consisting of MORTe and the soon to be departing Councilman Nino Giacchi does exactly that. Note early in the discussion where the Corporation Counsel Mark Tabakin says their attempts to jeopardize an FBI investigation will be on their heads: Here’s a segment from last night’s meeting exposing MORTe showing their sabotage in full throe: Talking Ed Note: This is the “discussion” leading into a straight forward refinance of the midtown garage. The fix is in and Tim Occhipinti exhibits his usual petulant behavior joined by Councilman Michael Russo. It’s a travesty and a cryan shame. Last night in public portion, the sabotage of Hoboken was reignited. So there was no reason not to highlight the elephant in the room – the outrageous systematic looting of Hoboken’s communications in the mayor’s office. Councilman Michael Russo made a decision to leave the dais and not return during comments by MSV. He wisely avoided the spotlight and publicly addressing the question of his role (The councilman quietly was standing at the back of the room near the door as MSV exited the council chambers.) |