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Sacco kills sentencing reform bill https://twitter.com/MattFriedmanNJ/status/1311820773997383681
I think it's worth noting here that Sacco's own argument for wanting to go easier on people convicted of official misconduct revolves around a case that landed two ex-North Bergen DPW workers in jail. Sacco controls North Bergen. What did we find out during that trial? Well ...
The two guys assigned public workers to perform household chores at the home of a city official & work on political campaigns while on the clock (thank you, North Bergen taxpayers!) https://hudsoncountyview.com/state-ags-office-says-nb-dpw-trial-is-about-theft-defense-says-clients-followed-orders/ ...
A DPW worker testified that he voted in North Bergen (not where he lives) at the direction of the DPW director https://hudsoncountyview.com/north-bergen-dpw-worker-james-wiley-forced-me-to-commit-voter-fraud/ ...
A brother of one of the defendants said he worked on personal vehicles at the North Bergen DPW garage, including one belonging to a councilman's relative https://hudsoncountyview.com/michael-bunero-i-worked-on-car-of-gargiulos-relative-at-nb-dpw-garage/ ...
Another DPW worker said they were ordered to fill potholes on private property at a deli owned by relatives of the same councilman https://hudsoncountyview.com/witness-nb-dpw-filled-potholes-for-business-owned-by-relative-of-gargiulo/ ...
We know all this because @HudsonCoView covered the trial. All pretty dirty shit and not at all what people think of when they say we should address, as Sacco told Matt Friedman, "disparities in our criminal justice system."
this is unrelated to the DPW trial, but the councilman mentioned in the above tweets is Frank Gargiulo, who was ALSO superintendent of the Hudson County school district & spent a whole year getting paid $280K to not work https://www.nj.com/hudson/2019/03/only-in-hudson-county-2-school-superintendents-getting-paid-200k-to-sit-at-home.html Def a normal, noncorrupt thing
