12/2/02 McGreevey Announces The
Democratic State Committee Will Reimburse The State Over $18,000 For 14
Private Trips He Took In The State-Owned
Helicopter
12/3/02 Media
Reports McGreevey's Top Aides, Taffet And Levinsohn, May Have Used Their
Power To Override A Local Billboard Ban -- Allowing Them To Make Millions
In Profit -- FBI
Investigates
12/4/02 McGreevey
Announces State Layoffs Possible In
2003
12/5/02 McGreevey
Dismisses Claims of Selling Access to Lobbyists
Top McGreevey Campaign Donor and
McGreevey-Appointed Port Authority Chairman (Charles Kushner) Sued By
Former Employee For Allegedly Diverting Cash to Politicians-- $3
Million Missing From
Accounts
McGreevey Admits His
Budget Deficit May Be $4 Billion and Some State Employees May Have To Be Laid
Off
12/6/02 McGreevey Top
Campaign Donor Charles Kushner Donates $1 Million Check to National
Democratic Party Two-Weeks Prior to Federal Law Banning Such Soft Money
Contributions
12/8/02 Media
Reports McGreevey Administration Hiring of Politically- Connected, Private Law
Firms in South Jersey Rail Probe Questioned By
Ex-Prosecutor
12/11/02 Quinnipiac
Poll Released Showing McGreevey's Approval Rating At Lowest Since Taking
Office -- 42% Polled Disappove Of His Job Performance, 37% Approve And
21% Undecided
12/12/02 Media Reports That
Five New Jersey Auto Insurers Were Granted Rate Hikes -- Saying
McGreevey "Quietly Approved Rate Increases" In
November
12/14/02 Media Reports A Fort
Lee Real-Estate Developer Is Suing A Top McGreevey Aide Over Lease With
Newark School
District
12/15/02 McGreevey
Administration Eyes New Hotel Tax To Help Fill Budget
Gap
12/22/02 McGreevey
Floats Imposing New Tax On Saltwater
Fisherman
Media Reports McGreevey's
Use Of Private Law Firms Opens State To
Questions -- With The Department Of
Law And Public Safety Employing 723 Lawyers, McGreevey Still Contracts
With Outside Firms -- This Year Alone, The State Has Retained 157 Outside
Firms To Handle 260 Legal Matters, NOT Counting Bond
Work
Media Reports
That McGreevey Letter To INS About Cipel Called Misleading By Israeli
Military Expert
12/25/02 Media Reports That
McGreevey Changed Grant Rules, Allowing Democrats In The Legislature To Have
"Secret Santa" List For $32 Million In State Budget
12/31/02 McGreevey’s Chief Counsel
Paul Levinsohn Resigns, Claims It Has Nothing to Do With Billboard Scandal
-- 4th Top Aid To Quit As Poll Numbers Decline (37%); Levinsohn’s
Resignation Follows Resignations Of Chief Of Staff Gary Taffet, Chief Of Policy
And Communications Jo Astrid Glading, And Communications Director Paul
ArohnsonProspect
of Income Tax Hike Is Raised --
Assembly Speaker Announces He Favors Tax Hike For
Rich
