Dear Mayor Zimmer:
I sincerely want to thank you for taking on the immense job of being mayor of our city. I wouldn't trade places with you in a million years. All your hard work and many battles have given us genuine change. I appreciate all you do. Thank you
Karen

And now you can expect 2 things.

Utter silence from most of the usual suspects.

The rest of the usual suspects feigning outrage as though Correa were a bad apple in an otherwise good barrel opposed to an example of the grifter's paradise Hoboken used to be. Forget about the stolen money - who the eff approved the no-bid contracts to United Textile to handle the HPU's $$$???

That wasn't that long ago, and it's completely psychotic.

And another one is gone.......

The clean up of decades of corruption continues to move forward in Hoboken City Hall, We have seen with Patrick Riccardi investigation some will go to criminal lenghts to try to obstruct the positive change.

Hoboken will no longer allow it self to be defined by the corruption of likes of Anthony Russo, Peter Cammerano and John Corea.

It was a no bid contract as I recall but the Wiley Coyote may check in and provide the exacting ugly details of the matter.

Ex-mayor David Roberts thought he needed more votes brought in from the other council slate and this was an unfortunate decision and a foolhardily one in retrospspect. Bringing someone in at a Director level with a salary just below council approval is how Mayor Roberts got Corea on board. Then he bumped up his salary to the six figures.

Roberts didn't face any longstanding opposition for that effort. But he also did not take opposition well. When faced with a hiring freeze, he just continued hiring and spending.

This is the end result of that sad legacy. Corea was banned from Wall St. for unsavory behavior and Mayor Roberts placed him right in the center of the Parking Utility piggy bank.

Very bad Mr. Roberts, very bad.

One day Mayor Zimmer will have cleaned up all the messes left to her Administration. The reality though is she can no longer reference it as it would be in bad taste to do so. But the truth is Hoboken is hardly done being cleaned up.

There's a winter and spring cleaning ahead, courtesy of the FBI and US Attorneys Office in Newark.

For more on that MSV Hoboken story past, present and future, keep close to MSV:

http://hobokenhorse.com

(An exclusive photo of John Corea and Patrick Ricciardi is available right now.)

Ten years from now people are not going to believe what Hoboken's government was like 10 years ago.

Corea pled guilty Crafty devil

Yay. More arrests. This is great! Let's celebrate. No really. This guy was corrupt as all heck. Good he is gone.

Let's hope that the State AG and the Feds remain vigilant and look into all of the CURRENT no bid contracts as well.

I am with you! Especially, that 100k contract that sitting Hola board member Raia got to build the Hola addition at the boys and girls club. Yoo-hoo.. AG and Feds! Look over there.

Maybe, while your speaking with them, you could mention that little tid-bit.

A interesting picture of both John Corea and Patrick Riccardi on a taxpayer paid junket to Israel posted on Mile Square View

Looks like dirty birds of a feather do flock together !

Good job on this one, Mayor Zimmer. Keep on cleaning up the hall!

15 tons of quarters on the wall,
15 tons of quarters,
John Corea goes down,
and 15 tons of quarters still on the wall.

Any rational person knows,
what the Old Guard did,
divvy it up,
and split the bid.

Once the collections discrepancy was found,
did they prior Administration report it on up?
No, they kept it in the family,
An old guard cover up.

Obstruction of justice,
Conspiracy to defraud,
The scope of this skullduggery,
is much more broad.

The story shouldn't end here,
and it is true that Correa was corrupt with a scowl,
but did corporate counsel appropriately handle appropriately?
it seems things were handled quite foul.

So will we see investigative reporting
finally coming out of Hoboken Patch?,
Or will we have to wait as long as that follow up on Ma Russo,
or the end of a Cricket match?

I seems the corruption in Hoboken will never end,
and that the taxpayers villains are recruiting new public scammers,
so the only true way to end it,
is too lock them all up in the slammer.

On Paula, on Attorney General, Onward FBI,
Its time the crooks got locked up and the taxpayers say bye bye!

Who on the council is friends with the united textiles folks? Gotta be a member of the minority, no doubt.
On another note, thank you, Mayor Zimmer, for doing what you have been doing for the last several years, from when you got onto the council as 4th ward councilperson through today. Those of us in favor of honest government that serves all of us, not just the friends, etc. of those in power, are all for you and what you are doing. Keep it up, your Honor! Keep it up!

The splitting of the bids was likely misconduct as well. I believe it was intentional and someone in the prior Administration under Roberts should be held accountable. Lock up em up and throw away the key!

Yoo hoo, it's the IRS! Anybody seen Lane Bajardi? He's never been on a Beth Mason ELEC! Why NOT? We want our piece of his undeclared income and we want it NOW.

F.B.I. Tip Line here: http://www.fbi.gov/news/videos/inside-the-fbis-internet-tip-line
Rep

Why doesn't the perp have to make full restitution to the city?
Getting off easy.

Karen- He does. Its in the article: "She also announced that he must pay $300,000 in restitution to the City of Hoboken and will never be allowed to have public employment in the state of New Jersey."

Wasn't it 4 million quarters taken?

300k is a pittance.

Does this fat POS keep his pension? Common sense says no, but this is Jersey after all.

You get vested into a pension that fast? Whoa