I've wondered why NJ doesn't have, at least to my knowledge, the secret society pedophile rings that I did battle with over a decade ago. It seems that those government officials in the secret societies aggregate power in Delaware (Du Ponts), the wealthy counties in the Eastern District of PA, and in counties in the southern parts of NY.
Maybe this article explains that conundrum--NJ is so steeped in corruption that the secret societies never took root.
They do. Years ago. a family court judge in Camden County was caught going to Eastern Europe to have sex with underage boys. He resigned from the bench. He was found guilty of child sexual abuse. But, I don't think he spent much jail time. He was saved by the big name law firms that represented him. We just don't hear about a lot of pedophile polliticians and judges in NJ because he NJ media is bought and paid for. Every now and then, it slips out.
The Gahhh-den state id above reproach. A high portion of NJ politicians’ careers include a tour of public housing at the invitation of the Attorney General.
I remember when New Jersey was on a big push to jail fathers who owed child support (many couldn't pay and survive with the onerous orders not based on any reality), I was involved in politicians touring the local county jails. Several of us asked the politicians that if they want to get a real "flavor" of the conditions of the jails and those being "jailed on unconstitutional civil child support DEBT matters" (VIOLATION AGAINST NJ CONSTITUTION Prohibition Against Imprisonment for Debt and 13th Amendment) where NO 4th Amendment Probable Cause exists to jail anyone, that the politicians should spend a weekend in the county prison behind bars. What an uproar that caused. But, the point was made.
I lived in New Jersey through the era of Chris "Crispy Creme" Christie as USDA and Republican Governor in a Democrat state. Christie's claim to fame was to humiliate and berate other politicians, on both sides, as well as members of the press and public when it came time to answer the hard questions. Governor Christie called me a "bigot" because, as a Divorce Reform Activist and Fathers' Rights advocate, I attacked a Judge in NJ Family Court, who happened to be a Muslim, for jailing a father for alimony, when the alimony award was more than his gross pay, and his ex-wife is/was an attorney who claimed to have a debilitating disease, but was the Editor for a legal periodical a/k/a "Verdict". Governor Christie's insane bloviations were to personally attack me for going after this judge--who by the way was being fast-tracked through the judiciary to be the first Muslim judge on the NJ Supreme Court (he has made it to the appellate division on his anti-male gender bias and lack of reality when it comes to alimony, child support and custody when it involves fathers).
I expected nothing less from the narcissistic, loud-mouthed, ignorant pig of a Governor, even though I had voted for him twice. After watching Christie from 2015 to present, when he began railing and whining like a petulant Yenta against Trump for out-insulting him and berating him when Christie ran against Trump for President; and afterwards, not appointing him to his administration, the wheels have fallen off for the ex-Governor. Christie showed his true cards as a neo-con and RINO looking out for himself and those he surrounds himself with. Christie is nothing more than Democrat-Communist LITE. The former Governor is an angry little man who never met a buffet table he didn't like. To show what a weak person he really is, Christie had laproscopic surgery that reduced his weight to something in the normal range. After seeing him a few years later, he's back to "whale size". The man has no ability to control himself, let alone others, including the public at large. Governor "Crispy Creme" is nothing more than a corrupt, extortionate, New Jersey lawyer who has the motto "you wash my back, and I'll wash your back".
As a post-script to the Chris Christie subterfuge, I will always remember when former NJ Governor Christine Todd Whitman (interesting that her name is CHRIStine, and her middle name is TODD) was running for her 2nd term as Governor. She wanted to get political help from some in Congress in D.C. The D.C. politicians were told to stay away from New Jersey, or the "DIRT might rub off".
New Jersey politics has always run on a special kind of math—where influence multiplies opportunity and accountability somehow divides itself away. The Christie story reads like a textbook case of how power networks actually function in America. Wall Street windfalls, regulatory investigations that mysteriously stop short of criminal charges, and lucrative government appointments flowing to well-connected insiders—none of it technically illegal, perhaps, but the optics scream insider privilege. When the same small circle of prosecutors, politicians, and power brokers keep landing on their feet, the public starts asking hard questions. In the Garden State, the line between coincidence and patronage often looks suspiciously thin.
Thank you for this lucid and morally focused article. I must admit that when I finished reading this item I experienced great sadness of
heart. You should be honored for bringing these real but elusive matters to the public’s attention.
Grifters and thieves have to grift and steal.
Thank you for another excellent article. Have you done one on the Pritzger’s?
Roger Stone tells real stories better than anyone. I think often about the corrupt Bush family, told so well in Roger’s excellent book on Jeb Bush.
Excellent article.
I've wondered why NJ doesn't have, at least to my knowledge, the secret society pedophile rings that I did battle with over a decade ago. It seems that those government officials in the secret societies aggregate power in Delaware (Du Ponts), the wealthy counties in the Eastern District of PA, and in counties in the southern parts of NY.
Maybe this article explains that conundrum--NJ is so steeped in corruption that the secret societies never took root.
They do. Years ago. a family court judge in Camden County was caught going to Eastern Europe to have sex with underage boys. He resigned from the bench. He was found guilty of child sexual abuse. But, I don't think he spent much jail time. He was saved by the big name law firms that represented him. We just don't hear about a lot of pedophile polliticians and judges in NJ because he NJ media is bought and paid for. Every now and then, it slips out.
The Gahhh-den state id above reproach. A high portion of NJ politicians’ careers include a tour of public housing at the invitation of the Attorney General.
I remember when New Jersey was on a big push to jail fathers who owed child support (many couldn't pay and survive with the onerous orders not based on any reality), I was involved in politicians touring the local county jails. Several of us asked the politicians that if they want to get a real "flavor" of the conditions of the jails and those being "jailed on unconstitutional civil child support DEBT matters" (VIOLATION AGAINST NJ CONSTITUTION Prohibition Against Imprisonment for Debt and 13th Amendment) where NO 4th Amendment Probable Cause exists to jail anyone, that the politicians should spend a weekend in the county prison behind bars. What an uproar that caused. But, the point was made.
Good point
I lived in New Jersey through the era of Chris "Crispy Creme" Christie as USDA and Republican Governor in a Democrat state. Christie's claim to fame was to humiliate and berate other politicians, on both sides, as well as members of the press and public when it came time to answer the hard questions. Governor Christie called me a "bigot" because, as a Divorce Reform Activist and Fathers' Rights advocate, I attacked a Judge in NJ Family Court, who happened to be a Muslim, for jailing a father for alimony, when the alimony award was more than his gross pay, and his ex-wife is/was an attorney who claimed to have a debilitating disease, but was the Editor for a legal periodical a/k/a "Verdict". Governor Christie's insane bloviations were to personally attack me for going after this judge--who by the way was being fast-tracked through the judiciary to be the first Muslim judge on the NJ Supreme Court (he has made it to the appellate division on his anti-male gender bias and lack of reality when it comes to alimony, child support and custody when it involves fathers).
I expected nothing less from the narcissistic, loud-mouthed, ignorant pig of a Governor, even though I had voted for him twice. After watching Christie from 2015 to present, when he began railing and whining like a petulant Yenta against Trump for out-insulting him and berating him when Christie ran against Trump for President; and afterwards, not appointing him to his administration, the wheels have fallen off for the ex-Governor. Christie showed his true cards as a neo-con and RINO looking out for himself and those he surrounds himself with. Christie is nothing more than Democrat-Communist LITE. The former Governor is an angry little man who never met a buffet table he didn't like. To show what a weak person he really is, Christie had laproscopic surgery that reduced his weight to something in the normal range. After seeing him a few years later, he's back to "whale size". The man has no ability to control himself, let alone others, including the public at large. Governor "Crispy Creme" is nothing more than a corrupt, extortionate, New Jersey lawyer who has the motto "you wash my back, and I'll wash your back".
As a post-script to the Chris Christie subterfuge, I will always remember when former NJ Governor Christine Todd Whitman (interesting that her name is CHRIStine, and her middle name is TODD) was running for her 2nd term as Governor. She wanted to get political help from some in Congress in D.C. The D.C. politicians were told to stay away from New Jersey, or the "DIRT might rub off".
New Jersey politics has always run on a special kind of math—where influence multiplies opportunity and accountability somehow divides itself away. The Christie story reads like a textbook case of how power networks actually function in America. Wall Street windfalls, regulatory investigations that mysteriously stop short of criminal charges, and lucrative government appointments flowing to well-connected insiders—none of it technically illegal, perhaps, but the optics scream insider privilege. When the same small circle of prosecutors, politicians, and power brokers keep landing on their feet, the public starts asking hard questions. In the Garden State, the line between coincidence and patronage often looks suspiciously thin.
I covered some ot this here:
https://luthmann.substack.com/p/todd-christies-indecent-proposal