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: : HUDSON COUNTY CAMPAIGN BEGINS IN EARNEST WITH SMEAR CAMPAIGN

: : Urban Times News
: : April 11-April 17, 2003

: : UTN NEWS ANALYSIS

: :     JERSEY CITY "I would like 
: : nothing better than for the so-called organi-
: : zation to come at us with everything they 
: : think they have," said Mayor Glenn 
: : Cunningham is response to a press release 
: : from the Hudson County Democratic 
: : Organization hinting at irregularities in his
: : campaign fundraising.
: :     "The best thing that could happen 
: : is for a state investigation of the campaign 
: : finance of Cunningham for Mayor and 
: : other committees," said Cunningham. 
: : "This is a farce. Just look what we have 
: : here. Just the stationary is hysterical. The 
: : list of committee officers reads like the 
: : Hudson County payroll and the Hudson 
: : County Improvement Authority. This is 
: : exactly what I have been talking about. 
: : Most of the persons who have obstructed 
: : the operation of good government in Jersey 
: : City are listed as some officer, and almost 
: : without exception, they all have jobs as well
: : with the County of Hudson or The Hudson 
: : County Improvement Authority. That is the 
: : 'organization.' "Please note who is 'treasur-
: : er' " said Cunningham, pointing to the name 
: : of Donald Scarinci.
: :    Scarinci was recently implicated 
: : in the scandal involving the State Parole 
: : Board's release of Genovese crime family 
: : Capo Angelo Prisco. Prisco was denied 
: : parole twice, but then hired Scarinci and 
: : was then paroled and released shortly after 
: : retaining Scarinci's legal services. Scarinci
: : denied that there was any impropriety or 
: : undue influence involved in the Parole 
: : Board's decision. But the office of US 
: : Attorney Christopher Christie has begun an 
: : investigation into charges that the Parole 
: : board was pressured by Governor 
: : McGreevey's office to grant the parole after 
: : Prisco retained Scarinci to represent him. 
: : State Senator Robert Martin R-Morris said 
: : that there had not only been interference 
: : from the Governor's office in the Parole 
: : Board's decision on Prisco's parole, but in 
: : other cases as well.
: :    Scarinici is an attorney who is 
: : paired with Congressman Bob Menendez 
: : D- 13 and is also Treasurer of Menendez for 
: : Congress. Together the two are sometimes 
: : referred to as the Don and the Donald, hav- 
: : ing risen ranidlv together over the last 15
: : years through Hudson County politics to 
: : become power figures on the state and 
: : national level. Scarinci founded his law 
: : firm at the same time Menendez began his 
: : political career and has grown his shop to 
: : one of the top law firms in the state in a phe-
: : nomenally short time, and now including 46 
: : attorneys with annual billings in excess of 
: : $20 Million. Menendez followed a parallel 
: : track simultaneously mirroring the ascen- 
: : dancy of his high school pal in public life 
: : and is now considered the third ranking 
: : democrat in the House of Representatives. 
: : "I wonder if either of them could have done 
: : so much in so short a time with out a little 
: : help from the other, one hand washing the 
: : other."
: :   Ed Cheatham is the supposed 
: : source of all the comments in the so-called 
: : release from the HCDO. It is doubtful that 
: : Cheatham has had as much to say in his 
: : entire public life as is quoted in the release.
: : The normally taciturn Board of Education 
: : member happens to be African American 
: : and can disparage Cunningham at will with- 
: : out risk of even the appearance of racism 
: : from the white-dominated Hudson County 
: : Democratic Organization. Cunningham's con-
: : stituency is widely diverse, but centered in the pre-
: : dominantly African American Ward F of 
: : Jersey City at the center of the 31 st District 
: : Senate Race. "By using Cheatham, it's like 
: : they use Uncle Harvey, trying to make it 
: : look like different members of the commu- 
: : nity are against Glenn," said Cunningham's 
: : advisors. "It is exactly like Harvey-another 
: : case of biting the hand that fed you. 
: : Cheatham may have forgotten but we did 
: : not. Maybe this would be a good opportu- 
: : nity to remind him of the real reason that he 
: : "resigned," from the Port Authority."
: :    The real reason Cheatham left the 
: : Port Authority was that a locker search 
: : turned up a quantity of contraband, accord- 
: : ing to those unimpeachable sources, who in 
: : fact advised Cheatham at the time of the 
: : incident. Cheatham was given the opportu- 
: : nity to resign with benefits and without 
: : scandal, or if he chose to fight, he would 
: : risk termination, loss of all benefits, and 
: : even prosecution on drug charges. 
: : Cheatham wisely took the deal and left the 
: : Port Authority without a commotion but had 
: : always remained guarded about his true rea- 
: : son for leaving


: Angelo Prisco is a great grandfather and Dad, leave the guy alone, he is innoccent of any wrong doing, he served his time. He was denied parole twice and was a model prisoner,  has diabetes and had a triple bypass in jail, he is 63 years old. He has 4 children, 6 grand children and the only thing he is the boss of is his family, THE PRISCO FAMILY


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