GA loves a good conspiracy theory as much as the next gal--ever hear the one about Ukraine hacking John Podesta's email in 2016? (Vlad Putin said so! Gosh, he has such pretty eyes... ) But, a 7-day sentencing adjournment is just that: a 7-day adjournment. A non-story.
What is more interesting is, whatever happened to the government's unnamed co-conspirators, Candidate 1 and Candidate 2, mentioned in the Matt Calicchio and William Rojas informations?
Hoboken political operatives were fetched to testify in front of a Newark grand jury, and grand juries are known to indict a ham sandwich, so where's Defendant Ham-on-Rye? Candidates 1 and 2 may be the first in a larger case with more Defendants, the subject of the grand jury probe or maybe Candidates 1 and 2 are the whole she-bang, end of story.
What about those rumored sealed indictments?
There is one more year left on the 5-year statute of limitations to prosecute alleged crimes that occurred in Hoboken's 2015 election cycle.
There are three years left to prosecute alleged crimes that occurred in Hoboken's 2017 election cycle.
And four years left to prosecute alleged crimes that occurred in Hoboken's 2018 ballot referendum to restore run-offs.
Well, don't hold your breathe, people. While I believe the Feds are not done, they work on their own excruciatingly-slow time clock. The Hoboken election is over, if that was a factor.
In the meantime, GA forgot to mention that Frank Raia's one-year indictment-versay just passed-- on Halloween. Instead of measuring this year-long saga in days and weeks, The United States of America v Francis Raia can be measured in motions, orders, letters, adjournments, etc- 70, to be exact. Looking over the Raia docket history, GA couldn't help but think what a long strange trip it's been.
RAIA DOCKET HISTORY
Whatever happens with Frank's sentencing and any potential future criminal charges, Hoboken has already won.
ReplyDeleteBut I am still interested to look at Ramis's post election ELEC to see if Ramos hired his usual 200 or so "voter/workers" since paying people to vote is the core problem, not how they vote.
Yeah, me too. I'll also post the ward/district breakdown from Hoboken City Clerk when I get it, with VBM and provisional line items.
DeleteThat should be interesting, in part because there were a lot of provisional ballots cast due to a change in the law. Apparently, voters who had voted by mail in the past automatically received a mail-in-ballot. Many were not aware and found out at the polls they couldn't vote on the machines. Idiotic to sandbag voters like that, IMO.
Re: MDF's p2p summons....the court still has it? Whens he gonna be charged?
ReplyDeleteThe courts are slammed with work and by pushing this off closer to a holiday it will be less of a public spectacle.
ReplyDeleteIs vote buying illegal, or just unethical and immoral? If it's illegal, then lobbyists and the congressmen and senators they buy should all be indicted.
If it's not illegal, expect more of same. A lack of ethics and morality is something old guard Hoboken and their new members, DeFusco, Fisher and Giattino have no problem with, just look at how they flout the ELEC laws and our pay to play ordinance.
They paid a lot to their dark forces to drag us back to the bad old days of runoffs, and I'm almost sorry we didn't have any in this past election as it would have exposed them a little more.
Holmes = Rat
ReplyDeleteYou keep posting this as if he is somehow worse than the people who used him on their campaigns. Sorry, he isn't. They are just as bad.
DeleteYou don't know just how loyal everyone was to Holmes financially and he turned his back on them.
DeleteYou don't think Camis or Calicchio or Rojas or Braxton or Frazier would have taken an immunity deal to rat out everyone else? Holmes got there first, smart move.
DeleteCheaters have no loyalty to anyone but themselves.
DeleteJust wondering whether a campaign worker who lives in the same ward as a candidate is essentially a "bought vote?" This seems to be Russo's modus operandi (he hired how many people to work for his campaign four years ago when he was the only candidate on the ballot)? Ramos (and Stick) have done the same in the past. And surprisingly this election season, even Tiffanie Fisher hired a crew of young people to do her dirty work.
ReplyDeleteGood thing 2007 4th ward race was outside the statute of limitations.
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