James B. Nicholson, Trustee vs. Harmon

THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

OFFICE OF THE U.S. TRUSTEE

David C. Farmer, Successor Trustee
vs.
Bobby N. Harmon

(Formerly Mary Lou Woo vs. Harmon and James Nicholson vs. Harmon)

CV05-00030 DAE/KSC

United States District Court, District of Hawaii

Judges: David A. Ezra; Kevin S. Chang

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DEFENDANT’S WITNESS

JON CORZINE

Governor (D) of New Jersey; former Chairman and CEO for Goldman Sachs.

E-Mail http://www.state.nj.us/governor/govmail.html

Web Site http://www.state.nj.us/governor/

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JULY 24, 2009

Jersey Mayors Stung in Graft Probe

By AMIR EFRATI, SUZANNE SATALINE and DIONNE SEARCEY

New Jersey has never been short of corruption scandals, but the one that unfolded yesterday was surprising even by the standards of the state that inspired "The Sopranos."

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Federal agents swept across New Jersey and New York on Thursday, charging 44 people -- including mayors, rabbis and even one alleged trafficker in human kidneys -- in a decade long investigation into public corruption and international money laundering.

The key to the investigation: a real-estate developer who became an informant after being arrested on bank-fraud charges in 2006, according to a person familiar with the case. The developer, Solomon Dwek, wore a wire for the Federal Bureau of Investigation while offering to bribe New Jersey mayors and other public officials, that person said.

A lawyer for Mr. Dwek didn't respond to requests for comment.

While the state has a long history of dirty politics -- in Newark alone, three ex-mayors have been convicted of crimes unrelated to the latest sweep -- the scale of the allegations shocked veterans of New Jersey's political crises....

The arrests place an added burden on Gov. Jon Corzine, a Democrat in his first term who is running for re-election this year. Mr. Corzine ran four years ago promising to quash corruption. "The scale of corruption we're seeing as this unfolds is simply outrageous and cannot be tolerated," he said in a statement....

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124835404608875685.html

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GOOGLING FOR JON CORZINE FROM THE CATBIRD SEAT

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GOOGLING FOR JON CORZINE & KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS

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GOOGLING FOR JON CORZINE & DIANE PLOTTS

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GOOGLING FOR JON CORZINE & HENRY PETERS

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GOOGLING FOR JON CORZINE & MATSUO TAKABUKI

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GOOGLING FOR JON CORZINE & ALOHA AIRLINES

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GOOGLING FOR JON CORZINE & COLBERT MATSUMOTO

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GOOGLING FOR JON CORZINE & HENRY KISSINGER

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GOOGLING FOR JON CORZINE & BARACK OBAMA

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GOOGLING FOR JON CORZINE & GOLDMAN SACHS

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GOOGLING FOR JON CORZINE & BILL & HILLARY CLINTON

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GOOGLING FOR JON CORZINE & CRIME & CORRUPTION

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GOOGLING FOR JON CORZINE & HENRY PAULSON

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GOOGLING FOR JON CORZINE & THE NATURE CONSERVANCY

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GOOGLING FOR JON CORZINE & ROBERT RUBIN

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GOOGLING FOR JON CORZINE & THE CHUBB GROUP

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GOOGLING FOR JON CORZINE & NORMAN BROWNSTEIN

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GOOGLING FOR JON CORZINE & AIPAC

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GOOGLING FOR JON CORZINE & AIG & HANK GREENBERG

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GOOGLING FOR JON CORZINE & AIG & ROBIN CAMPANIANO

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GOOGLING FOR JON CORZINE & TIMOTHY GEITHNER

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GOOGLING FOR JON CORZINE & JACK ABRAMOFF

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GOOGLING FOR JON CORZINE & JOSHUA GOTBAUM

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GOOGLING FOR JON CORZINE & MAUI

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GOOGLING FOR JON CORZINE & LINDA LINGLE

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GOOGLING FOR JON CORZINE & DAVID FARMER

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May 30, 2008

Corzine, Katz lose bid to keep e-mails secret

by Josh Margolin/The Star-Ledger

Union leader Carla Katz and Gov. Jon Corzine.

A judge today ruled against Gov. Jon Corzine's bid to keep secret the e-mail traffic between the governor and state-worker union leader Carla Katz, his ex-girlfriend, over the first 18 months of his administration. The Attorney General's office said it would appeal the decision.

A day shy of the one-year anniversary of the filing of a Republican lawsuit against the governor, state Superior Court Judge Paul Innes ruled that hundreds of e-mails must be released because they are not merely the private correspondence between two people who once had a relationship.

In a clear and strongly worded ruling issued this afternoon, the judge said the e-mails are public documents under the state's Open Public Records Act.

"The relationship created a clear potential for conflict," Innes wrote. "These types of communications would be the sort of communications the Supreme Court felt the public had the right of access to understand and evaluate the reasonableness of the public body's actions."

"The public," Innes wrote, "has a right to know whether the relationship between the governor and Ms. Katz had any improper influence on the governor's paramount obligation to serve the interest of the citizens of New Jersey first."

Attorney General Anne Milgram said at a news conference later this afternoon, "We are disappointed by the decision. ... We intend to appeal." She said her team would go to the Supreme Court if necessary.

Milgram said the administration disagrees with Innes' narrow interpretation of the executive privilege, which allows governors to have candid discussions with his advisers. Corzine's chief counsel, Ed McBride, issued a statement saying the governor has to be able to "communicate freely - and privately, if he or she chooses - with people inside and outside of government, including those who may be viewed as adversaries, in furtherance of the state's business."

Corzine's former romance with Katz is the governor's most persistent political problem. It first caused him headaches during his 2005 campaign.

State Republican Chairman Tom Wilson sued for the e-mails, saying the public needs to have the right to judge whether the Corzine-Katz relationship "is inappropriately influencing him as governor," particularly in regard to last year's contract negotiations with the Communications Workers of America. Katz is president of CWA Local 1034.

In a news conference on the Statehouse steps following the ruling, Wilson called on Corzine to give up the fight and release the documents. "With the legal issues now settled, the only thing standing between Jon Corzine and accountability is Jon Corzine," Wilson said. "He doesn't have the law to hide behind anymore. Let people decide for themselves whether or not he acted appropriately or inappropriately."

An earlier review of some of the e-mails by the governor's Ethics Advisory Panel determined "no actual conflict of interest arising from the governor's personal relationship with Ms. Katz infected the bargaining process." But the two-member committee did say the governor and Katz engaged in "inadvisable . . . personal conversations" early in the negotiations, and warned such interaction could create an "appearance of a conflict of interest."

After the Republicans sued the governor, Katz intervened in the lawsuit disagreeing with the governor's arguments that the e-mails were private communications and protected by executive privilege. She argued that the e-mails were confidential for a different reason: that they were part of the union negotiations. That position led to a nasty public split between Katz and the national leadership of CWA, which told the court that Katz had no right to conduct "back-channel" conversations with the governor while union negotiators were at the bargaining table.

The judge rebuffed Katz's arguments entirely and agreed to keep a fraction of the e-mails private because of executive privilege. But he ordered the rest must be released.

Katz's attorney, Sidney Lehmann, said she also would appeal the ruling. He issued a statement saying: "This entire lawsuit has always been motivated by the Republican Party's and Tom Wilson's desire to misuse the court system to embarrass the governor for political gain. We continue to believe that these emails, sent with the expectation of privacy, should rightfully remain private."

The Star-Ledger

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April 25, 2008

Center run by Corzine's friends
wins state contract

Newsday

TRENTON, N.J. - Friends of Governor Jon. S. Corzine have been awarded a $2 million crime prevention contract.

But Corzine says he played no role in the decision.

The Star-Ledger of Newark reports the Children and Families Department is close to signing a deal with New York University's Child Study Center.

The center would develop strategies to keep children from committing crimes in Essex County.

Corzine is a founding board member of the center, is now an ex-officio member and donated $2 million to endow a professorship. His friend Dan Neidich is on the board and Neidich's wife is the chairwoman.

Corzine and Dan Neidich worked together at Goldman Sachs.