5/1/02 Financial
Disclosure Reports Show McGreevey Cabinet-level Officers/Top Aides Collected
Lucrative Buyouts Before Taking Government
Posts --In Some Cases, Incoming
Officials Collected Payments From Outfits With A Stake In Policy
Decisions Of New
Administration
With Budget
Crisis Looming, Media Reports A Deal Is Close On The Newark Arena --
McGreevey Administration Has Alerted Legislators To Expect A Deal
Soon
Media Reports McGreevey's
Former Woodbridge Chief Of Staff Tim Dacey Named To A Newly-Created
$120,000 Position At New Jersey Turnpike
Authority
5/2/02 Media
Reports McGreevey's Chief Of Staff Gary Taffet Had A Lucrative Business
Relationship With McGreevey's Top Contributor Charles
Kushner -- Media Raises Concerns About
Conflict Of Interest
Media
Reports Despite McGreevey’s Claim to Have Cut the Size of State
Government, His New Hires Keep Pace With The Number Of
Layoffs
5/3/02 Media
Reports State Has Only 77 Fewer On Payroll After McGreevey’s 600
“Cuts”
McGreevey
Finally Publicly Announces An End To His Proposed South Jersey Commuter
Tax
5/5/02 Despite
Promise to “Change the Way Business Is Done in Trenton,” Media
Reports McGreevey Packed Statehouse Staff With Highly-Paid, Former Campaign
Workers -- Records Reveal That In
Just 4 Months, McGreevey Has Hired 53 People Who Helped With Campaign
Efforts For Undefined
Positions
5/8/02 McGreevey
Continues To Push For Arena Project In Newark-- Media Reports McGreevey
Ready To Unveil His Plan For Financing The Arena, "A Proposal He Hopes Gives
A Boost To Newark Mayor Sharpe James' Re-Election
Bid"
5/9/02 Five
Days Before Newark Mayor Sharpe James' Election, Media Reports McGreevey
Has Made A Deal On Newark Arena --
A Payback For James Endorsing McGreevey Two Years
Earlier
5/12/02 Continuing
To Block Access to Information, Media Reports The City Of Newark And
McGreevey's Administration Have Repeatedly Denied Requests For A List Of
Private Companies Santiago Worked For During His Tenure At Newark
Police
5/15/02 Santiago
Pictured In Newspapers Clasping Hands With James In Election
Victory -- Media Reports Criticism of
Partisan Politicking by Administration Cabinet-level
Official
5/16/02
Media Reports McGreevey
Continues His Patronage Kick--
Rewards Sea Isle Democrat James Iannone With Newly- Created
$115,000 Position At The South Jersey Transportation Authority; Atlantic
County Democrat Head Chuck Chiarello Given Top Management Post Worth $76,500
At South Jersey Transportation
Authority
Attorney
General "Gently" Scolds Santiago For A Second Time Regarding Election
Night Party, Saying In A Statement, "I
Have Communicated With The Superintendent About The Impact Of His Actions
To Ensure That Such Conduct Will Not Recur In The Future"; (First Censure
Concerned Fake Graduating
Class)
5/17/02 McGreevey Orders
The Department Of Personnel To Draft A Layoff Plan For 2,400 State
Employees -- Using People's Livelihoods As A Threat To Gain Leverage For
McGreevey State Budget Tax
Increases
5/18/02 Following the
Re-Election Of Newark Mayor Sharpe James, Media Reports McGreevey Slides
Newark Arena To The Back
Burner
5/21/02 Media Reports
McGreevey Fires Longtime Political Nemesis -- Ken Gardner Ran Against
McGreevey In Woodbridge's 1995 Mayoral Election
5/26/02 Nearly 130,000 New
Jersey Families Disqualified From Receiving NJ SAVER Property Tax Relief Under
McGreevey's Plan-- Number Provided By State Treasury
Department
5/28/02 McGreevey Appoints Joseph
Simunovich As Chairman Of The New Jersey Turnpike Authority -- Simunovich
Voted In Favor Of The Failed EZ Pass Financing Plan McGreevey Continuously
Rails
Against
5/29/02 Media
Reports McGreevey's Pick To Head The Port Authority of NY/NJ, Kushner, Is
Being Sued By His Brother/Partner Claiming McGreevey's Choice Broke
Deals
5/30/02 Media
Reports More Than 243,000 NJ Boaters May Be Hit With A Sizable Tax
Increase -- McGreevey Reportedly
Considering Hiking Boat Registration
Fees
Media Reports
Businesses Are Bracing For Impact Of $1 Billion Tax
Hike (During A
Recession)
