By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog
One of the few downsides of New Jersey’s proximity to NYC?
Besides New Yorkers generally?
Scumbag limousine liberals from Wall Street living in our communities and flaunting the rules for their own selfish benefit. Jon “M-F’n Global” Corzine is, of course, the most infamous example in recent memory, Save Jerseyans, but there are plenty more out there in most of the 21 counties.
For starters?
David Barnett, the newly-minted Democrat Mayor of Union County’s Springfield Township. He’s been on council for a full 2-year term prior to council voting 3-2 to make him the top man at this January’s reorganization, but the catch is that we only just now discovered an SEC investigation. After his election to mayor.
The SEC accused Barnett of defrauding investors a company co-owned by him.
“Alwine and Barnett used crooked tactics, Ashman ignored basic accounting rules, and TheStreet failed to put controls in place to spot the wrongdoing,” opined Andrew M. Calamari, Director of the SEC’s New York Regional Office.
Barrett avoided further complications (and presumably more negative publicity) by agreeing to accept a $130,000 fine and a 10-year prohibition on serving as an officer or director for publicly-traded companies.
Circulators of an online petition aren’t impressed and now seek his ouster.
“In 2012, he ran for office and he and his party hid the fact that he was under investigation for 4 years! A month after his election, two days before he took office, it was revealed by the press that he was charged with accounting fraud and an investor manipulation scheme – our own local Bernie Madoff,” the petition, hosted at Change.org, exclaims in its description. “He had to pay a fine of $130,000, reimburse what was “stolen”, and could not be in charge of a public company for 10 years. It should not be ok for him to be the Mayor. He is also in charge of the town Finance committee responsible for the budget, investments and our taxes.”
Republican Committeeman Ziad Andrew Shehady was blunt in his support of the movement expressed directly to Facebook followers.
“The people have spoken,” Ziad said in a post sharing a story about the scandal. “It’s simple, Mr. Barnett should resign.”
Springfield residents need to come to their own conclusions but hell, for whatever it’s worth to you, Save Jerseyans, I sure wouldn’t trust a man accused of ignoring accounting rules manage my tax dollars!
Bulls make money, bears make money, and pigs…
But cor zine on an island unscathed?