Kudos to MSV for breaking this today, and allow GA to take a victory lap for calling it earlier: Mason's pissed-off the FBI-- royally, it seems.
Speaking to Mason through the mayor-- neither showing her the deference nor respect to contact her directly-- the F.B.I. has not only refused ALL further requests but lobs the WARNING that any further 'leaks'of information about the investigation will compromise it.
And make no mistake, this is a WARNING.
Is it a measure of the FBI's disdain for Mason's outrageous assertion of FBI oversight by calling a meeting about THEIR investigation or just proper protocol, that this communication would fly past her to the Mayor's office?
GA would say BOTH. They are demonstrably angry, perhaps livid. GA blogged earlier about the folly of calling the meeting, of challenging their authority.
Well, those chickens have come home to roost. Mason's laid quite an egg.
Now that she's pissed-off the Feds and made herself conspicuous as an obstructor, should she expect to be handled with kid gloves by them going forward? In her own mind, I expect so.
She just can't stay out of her own way.
I guess the meeting's off.
Speaking to Mason through the mayor-- neither showing her the deference nor respect to contact her directly-- the F.B.I. has not only refused ALL further requests but lobs the WARNING that any further 'leaks'of information about the investigation will compromise it.
And make no mistake, this is a WARNING.
Is it a measure of the FBI's disdain for Mason's outrageous assertion of FBI oversight by calling a meeting about THEIR investigation or just proper protocol, that this communication would fly past her to the Mayor's office?
GA would say BOTH. They are demonstrably angry, perhaps livid. GA blogged earlier about the folly of calling the meeting, of challenging their authority.
Well, those chickens have come home to roost. Mason's laid quite an egg.
Now that she's pissed-off the Feds and made herself conspicuous as an obstructor, should she expect to be handled with kid gloves by them going forward? In her own mind, I expect so.
She just can't stay out of her own way.
I guess the meeting's off.
Back in earliest childhood the cool kids never cared for Lane and Beth. They never understood this, nor why other kids thought the cool kids were cool and not themselves. By what alchemy were the cool kids cool and they themselves picked last, told last, and forgotten first.
ReplyDeleteThis has shaped their lives, particularly in the area of social tactics. They want to know what is secretly being said about them, behind them, when they are not in the room. They prefer character assassination and sneak attacks to any engagement that gives the other party a chance to respond symmetrically. Last they require the greatest of asymmetrical devices - wealth. Wealth to separate them from the pack. Wealth to make the kids who like the cool kids like them instead. Wealth to find the dirty secrets that prove the cool kids aren't so cool after all. An entirely vengeance-based persona gussied up to look like the expression of a cool mind.
It finally comes to this. This month of vengeance. The full ugliness of a deeply ugly spirit on display, desperate to give full expression to every bitter thought. Even to the point of disrupting law enforcement. Unfortunately the moat of wealth only surrounds one of them. The other could pretend while he didn't have to work and never needed to be anywhere and always looked sharp for the cameras. But it wasn't his moat nor his castle nor his wealth. He has played the game as far as he can and has fallen silent. But vengeance month goes on for Beth.
This was my worry. This is why I spoke out about Beth Russo interfering with an ongoing FBI investigation.I don't know what they will find, but Hoboken should defer to them and let the chips fall where they may. Kudos to Mayor Zimmer for taking the high road.
ReplyDeleteCan you ask Not Stempler (if you can cover her/his per diem) if the need for Rice Notices is a valid issue if we are talking about a criminal investigation being conducted by federal LE rather than a municipal investigation conducted by the mayor's office.
ReplyDeleteSure, honey. Though Not-Stempler will read your Q, I'm sure. As an unpaid consultant of mine, he reads GA to stay... um, 'informed'.
ReplyDeleteBTW, Not-Stempler's name is Larry, so-named as not to confuse him with the other lawyer named Larry- Larry Stempler, who that pulled off the NJDC smear job with Beth Mason and Lane Bajardi.
I suppose Larry Stempler has nothing to do with this whole sordid data-theft mess. Or the F.B.I. Though he DOES know a lot about Beth Mason, being her close friend and all.
I know Ms Mason has a burning desire to flesh out her resume, since she has had a distinct lack of barnburners in her career, but in light of recent events, on her resume under "Training and Special Skills" she can now add "self-immolation".
ReplyDeleteOne more council meeting and then she's back to the sidelines, where Ma$on's gavel-free hands can receive irrational bits on her crackberry from Ines of the disorganized Kreim family and Inane Blowhardy, if he resurfaces. Saw him on the street Thursday, dressed like a six-year-old out for a play date in long shorts and high, white socks. No meeting with the feds on that steamy afternoon apparently.
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