 A hearing on the matter of the sale of Hoboken’s in limbo hospital was held on Tuesday but no reporter attended and that includes the New Jersey Star Ledger which has been critical about the circumstances of the sale. At the hearing, the judge made several blistering rulings on the controversial lawyer, Donald Scarinci who had his side of a story solely noted in a Star Ledger piece of all places. That hearing did not go as the Star Ledger story might have you believe. MSV has culled from a number of sources on background what took place in Tuesday’s Federal Court on the bankruptcy proceeding of the hospital and its numerous creditors. According to a Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman late today, Peter Cammano has been released from Lewisburg prison in Pennsylvania and will serve out the remainder of his term at an undisclosed halfway house. “Usually inmates are released near to where they have family and can obtain work,” Edmond Ross, a spokesman for the agency said adding, “The RRC (Resident -Re-entry Center) is private and we don’t provide that information.” The rules for each halfway house differ but generally they have standards on seeking work or performing in a job as part of a process to integrate back into society. 
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Tonight at 7:30 is the special City Council meeting on rescinding the ordinance for November municipal elections. It should be relatively quick but of course there will be some grandstanding from the pent up demand since the last meeting. Those who saw it will recall the Old Guard meltdown when they could not air their dirty linen with the city’s legal protections after a closed session leading into a vote on the Tim Occhipinti – Beth Mason resolution to take out Grafix Avenger for her political series of FBI letters. Timmy was so frightened by the hilarity in letter no. 4, he called the Hoboken Police Department. (This even though he couldn’t find his name or address in the same imaginary letter.) There’s some bitterness on this issue too as a bunch of kids were paid to collect signatures and stop the PATH hikes too, or so they said. Next year, the exercise can be repeated when it will really matter with a high profile November election in the mix.So we get to do it all over again possibly, but in 2012.
Post Meeting Update: The meeting held to form on rescinding November elections 7-1. Tim Occhipinti voted against his allies and former campaign manager and financial backer Frank “Pupie” Raia to approve what they were requesting: May municipal elections. Call it confused bitterness.  Michele Russo’s quest for the grail – a taxpayer position in Hudson County with pay and prized health benefits may have reached an end. This based on local sources who state confirmation will come at a board meeting later this month in the Board of Education (BoE). But it’s not the BoE here in town with the million dollar surplus she’s been haunting of late – it’s Union City!
Hudson County felt the summer heat from Hoboken when word got out Michele Russo applied and was likely to obtain a managerial housekeeping position in Jersey City. Some suspected the powers there would lie low and await a time to push her in when distractions would lead people elsewhere. 
 Two photos this evening capturing the event. Among the hundreds of spectators, local and state officials was one special guest speaker who came to represent the NJ Governor: State Attorney General Paula Dow.
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