keep shilling realtor - your desperation is as obvious as the defects in the product your are trying to push
you know the developer is tied to the jersey mafia
Praise from Mocco for ‘mobster’ who later copped plea | MAFIA TODAY
you know the developer has a history of bankruptcies and failed developments
EX-MAYOR FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION | Article from The Record (Bergen County, NJ) | HighBeam Research
you know the developer was a corrupt hudson county pol
The Hudson Reporter - Hudson County's culture of corruptionIts local roots and prospects for change
"A trip to the dark side in North Bergen
Another man who witnessed political corruption was an aide in the late 1980s to Joe Mocco, the North Bergen town clerk at the time. In 1987, Mocco was indicted for racketeering, specifically for facilitating illegal garbage-dumping in the Meadowlands.
The former aide, who says "I've been in politics since I'm ten years old," recounted how he saw Mocco's downfall up close.
"Mocco gave a man named George Hurtuk a job weighing trucks for the town," he said. "Hurtuk started to weigh the trucks, but the truck drivers started to give Hurtuk twenty bucks to leave them alone. After a while, Hurtuk said, 'If you give me a hundred bucks, you can dump the garbage right off of West Side Avenue near the Meadowlands and not even bring it to the dump.' I used to say to Hurtuk, 'Don't tell Joe about it, because Joe Mocco would steal a hot stove.'"
The way that Hurtuk eventually got caught was shocking.
"The pile of garbage got so high that one of the truck drivers drove up to the top, lifted the lid of the truck, hit an electric wire, and fried himself," the former aide said. "That's how the investigation started."
To the former aide, Mocco and Hurtuk's motivation was simple:
"Straight-up greed," he said. "Money in their pockets gets them girls, gets them drugs, and makes them happy." Ultimately the former aide tried to tell Mocco about Hurtuk's activities. Mocco's answer to his aide was succinct: Mind your own business.
"He said it would be even better if I helped him," the former aide said. "But that's not me. That's why I'm still here."
The way under-the-table business is done has changed, according to the former aide.
"They no longer take the envelope full of cash," he said. "The methodology is to give the contracts to friends. Meanwhile, you've got a secret share in the friend's business. But now, with all the different jobs these political guys give themselves, what do you need to take envelopes for? How are they doing the job? It's impossible." From his North Bergen base, the man had some thoughts about why the cycle of corruption in Hudson County politics keeps repeating itself.
"Lazy people who don't want to work for a living have found out that if you can get yourself elected, you can make a lot of money, without doing a lot of work," he said. "People living in brownstones in Jersey City and Hoboken making a million dollars a year allow somebody to run their towns that wouldn't be able to work in the mailroom of where they work. Maybe they are lazy too."
With a jaundiced squint, the North Bergen man noted the two things that might change Hudson County: "Death and (U.S. Attorney) Chris Christie."
check it out - and he doesn't have enough cash left to repair all the shoddy shlt fake woodframe "brownstones" in liberty squalor
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