2/2/02 Media Reports
McGreevey Project Labor Agreements Are A “Sweetheart Deal for
Unions/Bad Deal For Everyone Else” - - McGreevey’s 1st
Executive Order “At Taxpayers’ Expense, Will Effectively
Eliminate All Competition From Nonunion Firms”
2/5/02 Media Reports McGreevey Issuing
Gag Orders To All Public Information Officers -- All Information
Given To Media Must Be Approved By The Front Office
2/11/02 McGreevey Announces Plan To Close
FY '02 Budget Gap -- Plans to Shift $327 Million Retired Teachers And State
Employees Health Benefits Fund; Plans to Shift $325 Million From The
Unemployment Insurance Fund; Plans to Take $740 Million From The Budgeted
Year-End Surplus
Media Reports Joseph
Santiago's Shady Past -- While Newark
Police Chief, Santiago Assaulted A Corrections Officer, Ran an "Off The Books"
Security Firm, And Failed To Pay $33,000 In
Taxes
2/13/02 Standard &
Poors Says McGreevey's Budget Maneuvers Cause "Severe Concern" --
McGreevey Budget Relies Heavily On One-Time Actions To Support Ongoing
Spending"
Media Reports Joseph
Santiago's Tax Dereliction Would Disqualify Him From Becoming A State
Trooper
2/14/02 McGreevey
Appoints His Top Campaign Donor, Charles Kushner, To Port Authority Of
NY/NJ
2/20/02 Prior
To Confirmation Hearings, McGreevey Slides Santiago On State
Payroll -- (Appoints Santiago To High
Salary: Special Assistant To The Attorney
General)
2/21/02 Media
Reports Golan Cipel Appointed As Advisor On Counter- Terrorism With $110,000 A
Year Salary-- Cipel Was Not
Subject To Background Checks Required To Receive Information From FBI,
CIA or New Jersey State
Police
2/23/02 McGreevey
Refuses To Have A Detailed Background Check Of Golan Cipel
Performed
2/27/02 McGreevey's
Hand-Picked Choice For Commerce Commissioner, Keeps His
Day-Job -- Reverend William Watley
to Serve as Both Chief Pastor Of A Newark Church and Commissioner --
Media Raises Concerns Of Possible
Conflict
2/28/02 Kushner,
Key McGreevey Campaign Donor, Had Two Key McGreevey Aids On His Payroll
(Gary Taffet and Golan Cipel) -- Facts
Not Disclosed By McGreevey; Questions Raised About Possible Conflict Of
Interest
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