Funny, 2 news "reports" on parking in Hoboken and neither of them thought to mention Correa and the glory days of the HPU. Whatta joke.

Hoboken's Culture Of Corruption.

Anyone think that this all happened in a vacuum and only two guys were involved ?

Remember the public outcry that went out when Mayor Roberts put Corea, a guy who was banned from life from trading on Wall Street in charge of the Parking Authority ? Many think it was done as part of a deal to secure votes from Correa's friends for Roberts re-election campaign

Remember when the $1,100,000,00 in quarters went missing from the parking meters how fast Councilmembers Castellano and Russo were so very ready to accept the explination of their friend John Corea that it was just a clerical mistake ? Hmmm.

Remember when United Textiles that Corea found and hired in a no bid contract way down in south Jersey was linked to organized crime ?

AAH and another court ordered $300,000.00 fine to be paid to Hoboken....we all know by know how convicted felon and former mayor Anthony Russo is said to have delt with his $300,00.00 in fines.... he transfered his large real estate holdings to a family trust and said he gamble daway the cash he took away in Atlantic City then plead poverty to the court and put a a few bucks a month payment plan.

Bet you a quarter some take on that scenario gets played out again.

575k paid back?
Anyone every hear of the city getting 575k back from the hoboken parking quarters theft?
How deep did this corruption go?

What a douchebag. I am no HPA or Sacs fan but as far as I can tell its just his policies that cost residents not his own personal greed at the expense of the city. Lock this Corea's ass up.

Another POS that ripped the city off. Voters, wake up and vote all of these bastards out!!

Another friend of the Russos and Prosbus behind bars for political corruption. I don't think the AG and or the FBI is done yet. And Prosbus has the nerve to call Nancy Pincus unethical. Prosbus should take a good look in the mirror at his/her political friends who are going to jail before projecting his/her own behavior on others.

You can disagree with Ian Sacs on simply enforcing the pakring regs that are already there but with him at the helm the quarters stopped disappearing.

More on this story with the full details from the Office of the NJ Attorney General:

http://hobokenhorse.com

Oh and John Corea was director of the Parking Authority when Frank Raia created this Jerseylicious gem of a camaign video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mF8zeGBM2w

Frank Raia couldn't find parking then and it is hard to find it now. So what has changed? Oh yeah thats right Beth Mason bought a lot of media and got Faux News to do a hit piece on the current parking director because she doesn't like him. At least the revenue he is raising with his enforcement is staying in Hoboken and not going to some Mob outfit in Tom's River courtesy of a no bid contract.

One can also see the long sorted intertwined history of John Corea, Mayor Roberts, Hoboken First in the archives The Hoboken Reporter.

Where are all the B n R folk singing his praises now?

The Hudson Mile Square View has video of John Corea in front of the Castellano City Council.

Watch the man lie through his teeth and his Council friends nod in agreement

FInally, some perspective on why Ian Sacs is hated so much. He put a stop tot eh gravy train. "Eff those damn muni meters. If he wont quit, we will have him falsely arrested and then get hit jobs done by overpaying for political jobs on douche bag local news stations. He will have to leave and then we can re-claim what is rightfully ours! We will crush him!" Overheard at the new secret location of the Russo Civic Association. That Ma $5 a Tow was quoted by FOX is beyond ironic and just pathetic.

Am I reading this correctly? United Textile Fabricators was hired to collect and count quarters for the city? Textile fabricators? Russo Castellano and crew were ok with Textile fabricators being hired to count and collect money for the city. Really?

megato: I have no reason to agree with or doubt your speculations about why tRusso and Castallano acted the way they did but the history of the Russo family gives one pause.

nice try: We will see what kind of time Corea gets for his crimes in February.
However the judge has already set the bar high and perhaps that is to give the AG better leverage.

pied piper: Perhaps we will soon find out if anyone else got a piece of the action when people face long jail sentences they tend to be helpful.

Redrider765: When a crook gets caught and convicted for one crime it always leads to speculation as to if he/she got away with before they were caught.

I remember thinking what did Anthony Russo and Peter Cammerano get away with before they were caught by the FBI ?

How many other "lunches" Michael Russo had were not recordedby the FBI before his "lunch" with Solmon Dwek ?

I stay out of politics because it's just so ridiculous and scary. I'll come out and say it - the town is still very mobbed up and I wouldn't feel safe speaking my mind in public. I watched one City Council meeting during budget season (a good 10-12 months after actual budget season). Roberts stood up while being questioned about budget. Q: Did you question any of the expenditures? A: I trust my directors. I told them to give me the leanest budget possible. I trust that they did that. I fell off my chair. Nobody in the room seemed shocked. They took this as a legit answer.

How many people get into business ventures with the Mafia? and why?
Sounds like somebody owed someone a big debt that HAD to be paid.
Hoboken Residents lose again.

Where is Pro-Puss? (prosbus) Why isn't he defending his friends and friendship that money couldn't buy. The little weasel with an easel supported Cammarano, and now one of his buddies from the Russo clan had pled guilty to stealing with the City of Hoboken. Earlier this year we saw Mike Russo accept a bribe from a developer only to get cold feet at the last minute or he would be behind bars too.

Talk about hitching your horse to the wrong wagon. Poor little Pro-puss. What will they come up with next. The options are running out. The FBI could be closing in. Desperate times for the Old Guard.

And we still can't find parking on Bloomfield Street!

Thank you, Mr. Corea, for finally doing the right thing and pleading guilty.

I'm sorry, greenhaven, but you are a grade A moron. Which part of the 13 words, including his name, indicate praise? Rather than dragging the taxpayers through a lengthy trial, where there's always the possibility of acquittal or a no verdict, Mr. Corea admitted to his crimes. If his wife and children haven't already abandoned him, he will spend the holidays with his family and then head off to a state penitentiary for up to 8 years. I suppose you want to return to the days of public hangings?

Mayor Roberts appointed Corea to head the parking authority knowing that he had been permanently banned on Wall Street. And then we all had to sit around and wait for the crime wave to commence.

You want me to denounce Mr. Corea? Done and done. But please hold off on the self-congratulatory "my Hudson County Dem politicos are holier than thou" bull. I happen not to trust any of you.

Math Lesson from the Jolly Green Giant:

Please note I had done this before when the initial amount of $1million dollars was reported earlier back in 2008/2009….

Question: How much does $600,000 in quarters weigh?

Answer: According to the US Mint that each quarter weighs 5.670g.

http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/?action=coin_specifications

And 1 gram = 0.00220462262 pounds

Link: http://www.asknumbers.com/GramsToPounds.aspx

So $600,000 means there are 2.4 million quarters in the John Corea public funds pirate booty.

Now with some simple multiplication this yields:

2,400,000 X 5.670g = 13,608,000g or 13,608,000 * 0.00220462262 Pounds = 30,000.50461296 pounds or 15 tons of quarters!

15 Tons of quarters!

Now I had initially joked that that wouldn’t even fit in Sybill’s Cave but it turns out they likely can.

The diameter of a quarter is 24.26 mm or radius 12.13mm

And its thickness 1.75mm

http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/?action=coin_specifications

Using the formula for area of a circle as A = πr2

We get an area of A = 462.224420411198 mm2

And with a thickness of 1.75mm yields a volume of 808.8927 mm3.

So now $600,000 in quarters takes up the following space:

808.8927 mm3 * 2,400,000 = 1,941,342,480 mm3 or cubic millimeters

1 cubic millimeter = 3.53146667 × 10-8 cubic feet.

Converted to feet we have 68.55786263 cubic feet of space taken up assuming the quarters would stack flush but they can’t. So, if you had a small den you could easily fit those quarters in since a typical small den goes 8ft by 11ft and has 9 foot ceilings or 792 cubic feet. But would your building be able to support that weight in one room. That’s 15 tons! Holy John Corea and a sea of lost quarters Batman! His condo board would not have loved him.

Maybe that is why John Corea sent the money all the way to Tom’s River.

I would think that John Corea has far bigger issues plaguing him than whether he gets 4 or 8 years behind bars or not ratting out his good friends the Russos and Castellanos. His number one issue is most certainly what are his past partners - Scarfo+Co - willing to do to limit their "exposure"?

Question for Hoboken history buffs.

Who was on the Hoboken First ticket with John Corea ?