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: The JJ has embargoed the ongoing story of the apparent obstruction of justice in the investigation of the State Parole Board.  This story appears everywhere throughout the State except here locally which is the seat of power of the Hudson County Democratic Organization and the home of Rep. Robert Menendez and, more importantly, attorney Donald Scarinci.  A post referring to and linking to the story by Gannett State House reporter Sandy McClure appeared briefly this morning on the Hudson County forum of nj.com, but was then censored by deletion.  

: Scarinci and Menendez control local politics here in Hudson County and Scarinci's influence extends to the State government as a result of his help in getting McGreevey elected.  Scarinci is suspected of using his influence with McGreevey to win a parole for admitted Mafia Capo, Angelo Prisco. Governor James McGreevey's choice for Attorney General, Peter Harvey, acting Attorney General, is charged with the investigation of those alleged irregularites regarding the State's Parole Board. It appears that Scarinci's influence extends, through McGreevey, to acting Attorney General Harvey.  In effect, Scarinci may be able to "investigate" himself by proxy. 

: The story follows:

: http://www.injersey.com/gsbr/story/0,21421,731676,00.html

: By SANDY MCCLURE
: GANNETT STATE BUREAU

: TRENTON -- Employees at the state Parole Board and the Attorney General's Office are talking about how state investigators, who are looking into whether the governor's office was involved in the parole of reputed mobster Angelo Prisco, damaged a computer believed to contain evidence in the case, sources have told the Gannett State Bureau.

: "They dropped or damaged the (computer) server," one law enforcement source said. "It's either very bad luck or incompetence."

: When two state investigators picked up the computer server, believed to contain e-mails and other documents related to the case, from the Parole Board the week of April 7, they dropped it into a vehicle so hard that parts flew off, sources said. Investigators reported the following day that nothing could be retrieved from the computer server, sources said.

: Investigative sources, familiar with the ability of investigators to retrieve information from damaged computers, said if the information that Parole Board personnel believed was on the computer was there, dropping it should not have prevented retrieval of the information.

: Questions also have been raised about the handling of another source of 2002 Parole Board e-mails potentially critical to the issue of whether the governor's office was involved in the case.

: The e-mail messages were initially found by investigators on a main frame computer for the Department of Corrections. The e-mail messages were printed out, reviewed by investigators and returned to the Parole Board where they were thrown away by Executive Director Michael Dowling, sources said.

: When it was discovered that the e-mails could not be obtained again because they had been automatically erased from the main frame computer, investigators were informed that the Parole Board was in possession of an old computer server, believed to contain copies of the e-mails and other documents related to the case, sources said.

: That's when investigators showed up at the Parole Board for the computer server and dropped it, sources said.


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