| The Feds are closing in on Mr. Pay to Play - see yesterday's Record:
http://www.northjersey.com/new...
Dennis Oury is the poster child for pay to play.
And here are the posters:
Do you like my little clipart of Dennis on the second page? (even looks like him) I drew him on the side with Boss Joe, because these two have their hands everywhere and I didn't want to clutter my flow chart up.
For those who need a refresher on The Ubiquitous Mr. Oury here are two of my dairies on him:
http://www.bluejersey.com/show...
http://www.bluejersey.com/show...
A column by Thurman:
http://blog.nj.com/njv_thurman...
The time Mr. Oury tried to defend his gravy train and was stopped by the Real Bergen Dems and Senator Weinberg
http://www.theenglewoodreport....
For some more information on the Shadow Governments - which are also being asked to show their records - here is my diary on that from last year when the LD37 legislators unveiled their plan to Clean Up Government here in NJ. It explains all about the BCIA where Oury and Ferriero rake in millions. The very same "authorities" that spend taxpayer money with no oversight. Well they are about to get some oversight. By the FBI no less.
http://www.bluejersey.com/show...
A refresher on how lucrative Pay to Play is for the participants - and how costly for the taxpayers:
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.d...
They get $345 in contracts on each DOLLAR invested in Political coffers. That's a 34,500% return on investment, folks! How's your IRA doing??
In Tenafly just recently, our Borough engineer came up with a plan to fix our drainage problems. The cost would be over a million dollars. Instead of just accepting it, I asked for a second opinion and actually got THREE bids just to get another firm to review the engineer's work. For $6,000 we were able to determine that most of the work advised by our Borough engineer, not only would be uneccessary, it would exacerbate the problem, something I already suspected. $6,000 in oversight probably just saved the Borough half a million $$$ and gave us a better, cheaper solution.
It is ALWAYS a good idea to debate ANY capital expenditure and to have oversight. These firms have seen the money made by the Halliburton crowd and they want a cut just as big from the government, no matter how much that government is in debt.
It is time we end the Pay to Play Cycle and break the Corruption machine. Dennis is only one cog, Joe Ferriero is another, but we have guys like these all over the state.
I want NJ to be known for ethics reform, not corruption. Thank you, FBI for a good start. |
