11/4/02 Media
Reports That Trial Lawyers Claim Betrayal By
McGreevey -- Trial Lawyers
Say McGreevey Promised Changes To The No-Fault Auto Insurance, Only To Find
Out That The Plans Had Been Shelved By
McGreevey
11/8/02 McGreevey's
Office Of Integrity Reports On Santiago, Says He Broke State And Federal Law
And A Host Of Regulations By Ordering Subordinates To Give Him All
Investigatory Files Pertaining To Him And His Senior
Staff -- Report Calls Santiago's
Actions, "A Gross Exercise In Bad
Judgement"
11/10/02 Media
Reports That Even Some Democrats And Activists Are Challenging McGreevey's
Credibility
11/12/02 Media
Reports That McGreevey Leaves Decision To Charge Santiago (After He Has Broken
State And Federal Law) Up To The Attorney
General
Media Reports That
McGreevey's Chief Of Staff, Gary Taffet, Has
Resigned
11/15/02 Media
Reports That McGreevey's Spokesman Denies Aide Profited From Billboard
Citing -- McGreevey's Chief Counsel Paul Levinsohn Did "Absolutely
Nothing Wrong"
11/17/02 Media
Reports That Billboard Deals Benefit McGreevey's
Aides -- Saying Taffet And
Levinsohn Made $2.2 Million On Billboard Sites, Prior To Taking
Office
Media Reports That
McGreevey's Borrowing Raises Concerns About State
Debt
11/19/02 McGreevey's
Attorney General Reprimands Ex-Trooper Boss Who Demanded
Files -- Saying There Was No Legal
Basis To File Criminal Charges, Despite A Report Saying Santiago Broke
Several Laws
McGreevey Announces
That The State May Freeze Municipal Aid For A Second Straight
Year
11/20/02 Media
Reports That McGreevey's Billboard Boys Were On Public
Payroll -- McGreevey's Top
Confidants Ran A Lucrative Private Business Navigating Mazes Of Local
Governments And Peddling Billboards At A Time When They Were On The
Public Payroll
11/22/02 Media
Reports McGreevey Officials Are Considering The Elimination Of NJ SAVER
Rebate For Households That Earn Over
$150,000
11/24/02 Media
Reports That McGreevey Woos Substantial Donors Using Blatant “Pay To
Play” Tactics-- Media Alleges McGreevey Willing To Give Intimate
Access For $25,000
Media Reports
That Despite Deficit, McGreevey Intends To Buy New Helicopters -- Plans
Called For The Immediate Purchase Of A Refurbished Chopper For $3.4
Million; And Additional Purchase Of 5 New Twin-Engine Helicopters At A
Cost Of About $9 Million Each
11/27/02 Media
Reports On No-Bid Contract Saying That McGreevey -- In A Virtually
Unprecedented Move -- Hired Two Politically Connected Law Firms To
Investigate The South Jersey Light Rail
System -- Questions Arise As To Why
The Taxpayers Have To Pay Hundreds Of Thousands To Outside Firms, When
Work Could Have Been Done In-House By The Attorney General's
Office
Media Reports
That McGreevey's Trip To Ireland Really Cost The Taxpayers
$105,000 -- Vouchers Prove Governor
Spared Little Expense On Trade Mission, Including Chauffeur Service For
$21, 972.50 Hotel Suites, A $16,000 Cell Phone Bill, And A $3,178.48 Family
Reunion (In July, McGreevey Said The Trip Would Cost $20,000)
11/28/02 Media Reports
McGreevey "Apologizes" For The Outrageous Cost Of His Trip To Ireland --
Democrat State Committee To Foot Most, But Not All Of The
Bill
