More NJ Corruption
What a week it has been. On the heels of former Senate president John Lynch admitting to corruption charges and disgraced former Governor McGreevey releasing his kiss-and-tell memoir comes another report about the embattled University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
The first report told us about $243 million in fraud and abuse. This report told us about state senator Wayne Bryant. Bryant seems to have coaxed the corrupt officials at the university to create a no-show job for an annual salary of $35,000. That job was one of several that Bryant held.
Bryant lobbied on behalf of the school in the state Senate. After the no-show job was created, the amount of aid from the state coffers increased dramtically.
The corruption in our state is past epidemic levels. It seems to be what political life is.
Wally Edge ran a blurb about this latest scandal today. I do not understand the following, however:
But this latest news, one Democratic insider says, may be enough to attract some competition for Bryant’s fifth district Senate seat.
Huh? Shouldn’t Bryant be jailed for this? There is no may about it. If what is charged in the independent report is true, Bryant should be indicted, tried, and convicted. If we do not make examples out of these corrupt officials, we will keep paying them not to work.
Also blogged on this date . . .
- Time for a Non-High Quality Cache to Go Away - 2005
- Bashaw's Favortism - 2005
- No ped x-ing - 2005
- Beaver Hunt - 2005
- Animal Lovers: "It's All Happening At… - 2005
- Dissed Again - 2005
Tags: Bryant, corruption, New Jersey, Politics
By Carl M Johnson on Aug 7, 2007
Speaking of corruption what about DYFS, this is without a doubt the most corrupt and inept agency a State could possibly find. They lie,cheat and anything else they want and just try to get Kevin Ryan(commissioner) to answer any questions,forget it. He won’t even get on the phone, Kevin is Mcgreevy’s hand picked boy and just collects a fat paycheck while doing NOTHING AT ALL.