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Reported this afternoon on Hudson County View:
Hoboken 1st Ward Councilman Mike DeFusco says that the identities of the five suspects involved in distributing the “terrorism” flyer days before the mayoral race have been forwarded to the police department.Whoa! That's "alleged" identities, right? Nothing is conclusive until the police corroborate the "identities" DeFusco gave them.
Moreover, why did DeFusco issue a press release?
Assuming the alleged suspects are not yet in police custody, broadcasting to the media that they've been identified could only compromise, complicate and hinder the HPD's efforts going forward.
Isn't it obvious? DeFusco's media tour is completely self-serving, and counterproductive to solving the crime. Did he really intend to give the suspects a heads up? Enough notice to threaten witnesses? Time to get out of town?
Of course, if DeFusco's parallel, private investigation correctly identified the "terrorism" flyer distribution team, and they haven't fled town, then we are one step closer to find out who hired them.
That would be great news. Because the sooner Hoboken puts this in its rear view mirror, the better.
As reported on Hudson County View, HPD Chief Ken Ferrante responded to the DeFusco statement:
Pardon GA's skepticism, but there has been so much politicization of this bias crime by the DeFusco camp, aided and abetted by Sybil the Horse (who keeps asking "when did you stop beating your wife?" questions, inferring that Ravi, his supporters, and Stronger Foundations Inc have dirty hands.)
In fact, the volume of screaming, grandstanding, Face-booking and "resistance" blogging about the police investigation and presumed guilt of Hoboken politicos may just be Hoboken politics as usual or else... ?
GA trusts the Hoboken Police Department will cut through the smoke and fog.
If DeFusco is pushing a political agenda or trying to set up a political foe, the cops will sniff that out.
One thing is clear: our HPD is operating under huge pressure; literally the eyes of the world are on this Hoboken whodunnit. When criminal complaints get filed or arrests made, we'll know.
The fact that DeFusco put out this release does not bode well for the credibility of his information.
ReplyDeleteReal information developed by someone seriously interested in assisting the police would be provided confidentially without fan fair.
Unlike DeFusco, the police require actual evidence, and DeFusco putting this out there may have made gathering actual evidence more difficult.
Kudos to Mike if he has actually provided the police with credible information. Shame on him for grandstanding to get his name in the paper instead of letting the police do their jobs.
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ReplyDeletefreudian slip in the HR story about it: "The identities of those distributing the flyers could be traced to whichever campaign or political group hired them -- which means it could bring down a mayor player."
ReplyDeletehmm, wonder whose side they're on...
Wow, DeFusco's really milking his tip for publicity like a swollen cow's udder... not exactly what one who really wants to assist a criminal investigation would do. According to the HR, DeFusco has a "spokesman"- Phil Swibinski. That's funny, I thought the election was over. How many council members have a spokesman? Who's paying for him? Is that where the rest of the GoFundMe $ is going?
DeleteMeanwhile, had an interesting conversation with a friend who practiced criminal law at one time. He told me that the criminal culpability was in the distribution of the flyers; in other words, these kids are on the hook, not the person or people that provided them with the flyers. I had assumed the opposite. So, these kids will be prosecuted, whether or not they knew what the flyers said, and the S.O.B. who gave them the flyers wont.
Maybe not prosecuted, but whoever it links back to should be facing a recall. They made the town look like shit and will have to pay for it by being run out of public life permanently.
DeleteYou're assuming that the police will either be able to independently tie this back to a campaign / politician or that the perps will give up the real culprit. I'm not convinced that these people, if apprehended, will tell the truth.
DeleteKey words: "if apprehended". A big if, now that DeFusco has given them a running start. Now why'd he wanna go and do a thing like that?
Delete@oracle, maybe i'm missing something but this and some of your other comments seem to imply that you believe MDF's campaign is actually responsible for the flyer. can you clarify? do we really think mike's people would leave his own name on a racist flyer, in some sophisticated four-dimensional chess-type move to gain votes by gaining sympathy for supposedly "being set up" by another campaign? call me naive, but i don't buy it.
Deleteme, not suggesting anything other than a pretty weird set of motivations on MDF's part, and no doubt the HPD are probably looking at all potential perpetrators. The midnight flier that has everyone clutching their pearls and losing their shit was SOP back in the day, and the way they were handled was that someone connected to a candidate would do these things but not tell the candidate, or not tell them much, affording them some deniability. New team, old playbook.
DeleteThe cops must be breathing a sigh of relief that he wasn't elected. Trying to hire a PI right out of the shoot was deeply disrespectful and unhelpful. He was too full of himself to see that Bhalla, as mayor, could never support such a stunt. And now he doesn't know to keep his mouth shut in the midst of the investigation. If his reward helped get the names, he could have taken that victory lap later. There was no reason to do it now, save for his bottomless immaturity and disrespect for the cops.
ReplyDeleteOr perhaps to give the suspects a heads up? Any idiot with half a brain could figure out one doesn't notify suspects of a crime that the police are on their way. Something is not making sense.
DeleteHope you're ready to get embarrassed AGAIN, because I just got a look at our write-up on the REAL story and it kills, kills, kills yours. Have a taste and see how it's done in the big leagues, losers!
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To the average observer who only looks at the surface reality, it would appear that the dragnet is closing in on the noose around the neck of the emptying hourglass of freedom for the so-called guilty parties in FlierGate.
Zimmer lackey and race traitor Chief Ken Ferrante is ready to announce positive IDs on the oh so conveniently video-taped so-called suspects. At last our international disgrace would be at an end, and Unelectable would waltz into City Hall as our next mayor, despite the firm belief of most people that he created and distributed the fliers.
Yes, that's how it would look to the average observer of surface details. But our work takes us far below the surface to the truth! Our subscribers demand a product that is well below "average", and we make sure they get it! When you have as many as four readers to think of, below average just becomes your DNA!
So we asked reform toady Ferrante what he is basing his so-called case on. Ready for this? Video tape, fingerprints, and signed confessions. Talk about mailing it in!
It was time for us to do the so-called Chief's job for him.
Tell us, so-called Chief, did you ask the so-called suspects if Unelectable was secretly paying them to confess and name a different candidate as the mastermind? No? Did you ask if Unelectable was paying the other candidate to take the fall in exchange for building him a giant NJ Transit tower on the waterfront? No? In other words, so-called Chief, you didn't bother to investigate the obvious conclusion that most people have already reached for themselves? Connect the dots much?
We didn't bother to ask him how much he was being paid under the table by Unelectable to hush the whole thing up. We'd heard enough lies for one day.
So, although the evidence clearly indicates that Unelectable had nothing whatever to do with FlierGate we stand by our story that Unelectable was responsible for FlierGate. We also stand by our story that Unelectable has selected Russo as City Council president, although Unelectable has not selected Russo as City Council president. And as always, we stand behind our story that PizzaGate is real, although everyone involved has retracted and the only other guy who believed it is going to numbnutz prison.
And so as the days turn colder and only the last dying embers of the smoldering constitution are all that's left to warm the citizenry in a country where sharia law will soon make it a capital offense to say Merry Christmas....
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And so on! It's got those three important qualities our as many as four readers can't live without. Unsupported wild accusations. Self-aggrandizement. An impenetrable adolescent gloom because the world must be ending now that we have lost.
Don't pretend you're not jealous.
Issuing a press release about the flier distributors is another example of how DeFusco lacks the emotional maturity to be in government in any capacity.
ReplyDeleteBut his overreaction at the time, and his knee-jerk reaction now, does not pass the smell test.
What a twerp.
I don't think its a maturity issue. It's a dumb political strategy. It's so dumb that its almost like he has expanded his small council (GofT reference) to include Roman Brice. Doubling down on stupid and crazy doesn't seem like the best strategy for future success but perhaps its easier than accepting that you lost the election because more voters cast their votes for Ravi.
Deletesomeone put (or left) mike's name on the flyer, so i can understand how he'd be royally pissed to be publicly set up as a racist and aggressively continue to try and clear his name. i'd do the same thing.
ReplyDeletebut it's the public showboating that's dumb, as well as his undermining the police department and essentially getting them to hate him moving forward. that's the dumb part. if he were smarter and more mature, he would "help" the investigation in a more appropriately discreet way that would probably get the police on his side. let the cops do their job and let them get the spotlight. but no, mike has to hog the spotlight.