The 2 election issues are that Ms. Lee is the chairperson for the Red Bank Borough Council related to affordable Housing. Ms. Horgan is the chairperson for the Red Bank Borough Council related to selecting website providers for the borough. Both are currently seeking re-election. The Borough of Red Bank according to Ms. Horgan is paying $2k per month for the C3 website. Here is a link that shows Old Tappan could have the same service for $1500 per month and they felt that was too much. Why is there a $500 monthly difference for the same product? Here is an article related to the C3 Holdings investigation related to the Joseph Ferriero September 2013 75 page indictment. It was originally published by The Record in Bergen County.
Any name seem familiar to readers? Hint: towards the end of the article…
Feds probe web firm’s dealings with Ferriero
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Last updated: Wednesday October 15, 2008, EDT 10:04 PM
BY SERDAR TUMGOREN
STAFF WRITER
The Record
Federal officials have subpoenaed at least six North Jersey towns seeking records related to a Web developer with ties to indicted Bergen County Democratic leader Joseph Ferriero, according to documents and local officials.
The U.S. Attorney’s office also sent a subpoena to the Bergen County Improvement Authority, in addition to Clifton, Demarest, Dumont, Nutley, Saddle Brook and Teaneck.
Local officials said contracts, correspondence, and other records were requested for:
• Web and emergency notification services provided by John Carrino and his Nutley firms – C3/Citizen Communications and Xquizit Technologies.
• Carrino’s firm Braveside Capital LLC.
• Ferriero and S.J.C. Consulting LLC. The firm is registered in Ferriero’s name in Las Vegas, according to the Nevada Secretary of State office.
The county Democratic chairman was indicted last month on eight felony counts for his alleged involvement in a grants consulting scheme that authorities say defrauded Bergenfield taxpayers.
Ferriero, who has taken a leave of absence from his leadership role, was indicted with former Democratic Party counsel Dennis Oury. Both pleaded not guilty to the charges in September.
Calls to Ferriero’s attorney Joseph Hayden weren’t returned Wednesday.
Carrino, who denied having any financial relationship with Ferriero, said he also received a subpoena.
“We’re working with the U.S. Attorney’s office and cooperating fully,” Carrino said Wednesday.
The Ferriero-Carrino relationship dates back to at least 2007, when public records show that Carrino began developing websites for county Democrats.
Carrino’s firm, which set up the county Democratic Web site (votebergen.com), received $15,500 in December from Ferriero for County Chairman – the third biggest payout since 2004 from Ferriero’s leadership fund-raising committee, according to IRS records.
Carrino and his firms have secured $400,000 in government contracts since 2007, including a $150,000 deal to provide county emergency notification services.
Carrino’s ties to Ferriero and county Democrats is the focus of a bitter partisan fight in Dumont.
Republican council candidates have focused their attacks on Xquizit. The firm contributed $5,000 worth of in-kind Web services — listed as a loan on campaign finance reports — to the failed 2007 state Assembly bid of Democratic Councilman Carl Manna.
The councilman voted in January to award C3 a no-bid contract in Dumont worth $36,000. State officials said Manna and C3 did not violate state pay-to-play laws because the contribution went to a state-level committee, whereas the contract was awarded at the local level.
“I knew that they had done work for us,” said Manna, referring to his assembly campaign. “However, I didn’t see it as any kind of violation of laws. If I had seen it as such, I would have recused myself.”
In subsequent interviews, Carrino and Manna said the Web developer never did the work on the state Assembly Web site. Instead, the job was referred to an associate Angela Hayford, of Cornerstone Strategies LLC, in Bloomfield, Carrino said.
Hayford declined to comment, but is listed on state records as contributing $2,500 worth of unspecified in-kind services to Manna’s Assembly campaign. An invoice provided by Manna campaign treasurer Matthew McCarter, describes Hayford’s contribution as an “online website campaign for District 39.”
Manna blamed the controversy on a bookkeeping error.
Republican council candidate Matthew H. Kruger said Manna’s vote creates a “horrible perception.”
“It’s just another example of the culture of fast-and-loose, pay-to play politics that’s gone on in Bergen County under the direction of Joseph Ferriero,” Kruger said.
Other than the $5,000 for Manna’s state assembly race, a review of campaign finance records found no contributions by Carrino or his companies.
Carrino did not list the $5,000 on a state-required form that must be submitted to the municipality before the contract is awarded. The form is used for all no-bid contracts in excess of $17,500. Dumont officials did not obtain the document until Sept. 25, something Borough Attorney Gregg Paster labeled as an “oversight.”
In Teaneck, where Carrino received a $100,000 contract last December, he filed the form 10 days before receiving his deal.
“It all seems very cloak and dagger, but it’s really much ado about nothing,” Paster said.
Dumont Democrats accuse Republicans of a smear campaign sparked by a disgruntled contractor. The town’s former Web developer, Carmine DeMarco and his firm, VirtualTownPages.com, was fired in January with nearly a year remaining on its $399 per month contract.
DeMarco is now providing paid Web hosting services to Republican challengers. He claims that the town ignored his request to submit a counter-bid against C3. DeMarco is the brother of Jerry DeMarco, digital news editor at North Jersey Media Group, which publishes The Record.
In May, Carrino filed a police report in Nutley claiming that DeMarco threatened to kill him during a heated phone conversation about a “shared business interest.” The report asks for police not to take action and states that Carrino’s intent is to “get the incident on record.”
DeMarco called the report “a bunch of lies” and said that employees who overheard the conversation could refute the allegations. “I’m disgusted that they would stoop so low as to pull this kind of garbage,” DeMarco said.
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Bergen County residents need to rid themselves of the pervasive corruption that has permeated every town. In November I will be rejecting every candidate the Bergen County machine has bolstered into candidacy. Instead I will be writing in my choice of people who are honest and care more about residents than their own personal agenda.
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Old Tappan next to receive subpoena in Ferriero case
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Last updated: Thursday October 16, 2008, EDT 6:50 PM
BY SERDAR TUMGOREN
STAFF WRITER
The Record
OLD TAPPAN – Federal authorities have subpoenaed Old Tappan for records related to a Nutley Web developer and indicted Bergen County Democratic Party leader Joseph Ferriero.
Old Tappan is the seventh municipality to receive a subpoena in the last week related to web developer John Carrino and three of his firms. The subpoenas have also requested information on Ferriero and a business entity registered under his name in Nevada. An eighth subpoena was sent to the Bergen County Improvement Authority.
Ferriero’s attorney Joseph Hayden has not returned calls for comment since Wednesday.
Carrino has denied having any financial relationship with Ferriero, and has said that he is “cooperating fully” with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
The county Democratic chairman was indicted last month on eight felony counts for his alleged involvement in a grants consulting scheme that authorities say defrauded Bergenfield taxpayers. Ferriero, who has taken a leave of absence from his leadership role, was indicted with former Democratic Party counsel Dennis Oury. Both pleaded not guilty to the charges in September.
The Ferriero-Carrino relationship dates back to at least 2007, when public records show that Carrino began developing websites for county Democrats. Carrino’s firm, which set up the county Democratic Web site (votebergen.com), received $15,500 in December from Ferriero for County Chairman – the third biggest payout since 2004 from Ferriero’s leadership fund-raising committee, according to IRS records.
Carrino and his firms have secured $400,000 in government contracts since 2007, including a $150,000 deal to provide county emergency notification services. That figure also includes roughly $100,000 in potential earnings in Teaneck, where the town’s web site is financed on a yearly basis by a grant from Holy Name Hospital.
Staff Writer Michael Gartland contributed reporting to this story.
E-mail: tumgoren@northjersey.com
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Here is an article related to the Ferriero indictment and the Red Bank website provider
Ferriero’s racketeering case has Nutley tie
Thursday, September 19, 2013
BY HASIME KUKAJ
STAFF WRITER
Nutley Sun
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The indictment against former Bergen County Democratic leader Joseph A. Ferriero includes his dealings with web development firm Xquizit Technologies and C3 Holdings LLC, a business that provided citizen notification services to municipalities, each owned and operated by a Nutley attorney.
Nutley attorney John Carrino owns Xquizit Technologies and C3 Holdings LLC, according to state records.
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Nutley attorney John Carrino owns Xquizit Technologies and C3 Holdings LLC, according to state records.
The indictment does not name the attorney/software developer. However, a March 21, 2009, article in The Record and state business registration records name John Carrino as the owner of both companies, and the Xquizit Technologies’ website identifies Carrino as its president.
Carrino could not be reached for comment. According to the aforementioned news article, he had denied any improper relationship with Ferriero and had said he was cooperating fully with authorities. The indictment gives no indication that John Carrino or anyone affiliated with his companies has been charged with any wrongdoing.
“The software developer agreed to pay Ferriero one-quarter to one-third of the gross receipts from any contract obtained as a result of Ferriero’s efforts,” according to a press release from Attorney General Paul J. Fishman’s office. The indictment describes those efforts as Ferriero providing favorable opinion of, and recommending, the software developer, Xquizit and C3, and the products and services provided by Xquizit and C3 to local government officials, without Ferriero disclosing that he would profit financially if the companies were retained.
Beginning about August 2007, Ferriero recommended C3 and Xquizit to several officials in Bergen County municipalities without disclosing his financial interest, according to the indictment. Dumont, Teaneck, Saddle Brook and Cliffside Park retained C3.
Ferriero’s financial interest in the public contracts was “hidden using two shell companies, one of which was created and incorporated in Nevada for the sole purpose of contracting with and accepting payments from another shell company controlled by the software developer,” according to the attorney general’s press release.
The indictment states that the software developer used a third company which he owned, Braveside Capital LLC, to “secretly pay concealed bribes and kickbacks” to Ferriero in connection with contracts between C3 and various Bergen County municipalities. The indictment does not charge Braveside Capital LLC with any wrongdoing.
Meanwhile, Ferriero created SJC Consulting LLC to “secretly receive concealed bribes and kickbacks” from the software developer in connection to contracts between C3 and various Bergen County municipalities, the indictment states.
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On Sept. 11, a federal grand jury indicted Ferriero, the former chairman of the Bergen County Democratic Organization, charging him with a racketeering scheme involving kickbacks paid to a public official, soliciting and accepting bribes as a party official and extortion, Fishman announced.
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c3 holdings was chosen behind closed doors and did not include a Republican councilperson on the committee
CANGEMI BLASTS CLOSED-DOOR DECISIONS
CangemiGrace Cangemi at her final appearance as a council member last night.
Republican Grace Cangemi closed out her 21-month tenure on the Red Bank Council last night with pointed attacks on Democratics for “behind the curtain” decision-making.
In her final appearance before the council goes all-Democrat on January 1, Cangemi criticized the majority for pulling from the December 8 agenda an ordinance she wanted to introduce. The measure which she did not describe in detail but said might have saved the town $36,000 was yanked, she says she was told, because it had not been discussed in the “workshop” portion of any prior meeting.
The requirement that a bill be workshopped, or discussed informally, “apparently was not the case when our water rates were raised 10 percent” last March, she said. She added that an ordinance to increase the number of taxi licenses in the borough was also introduced without a word of mention in any workshop sessions.
In fact, no member of the governing body has publicly taken responsibility for sponsoring the taxi bill, which was withdrawn after an outcry by taxi owners. Officials claimed the bill had been drafted by borough Attorney Tom Hall at the request of borough Clerk Carol Vivona.
“I am greatly disturbed when an elected council person” can’t get a bill posted for vote “because they’re in the wrong party,” yet an unelected official can, Cangemi said.
“I’m sorry it’s my last meeting that I have anything negative to say here,” she said.
But her wrath was redoubled a short while later when Councilwoman Kathleen Horgan reported that the council’s education and technology committee was recommending a vendor to build the borough’s new website. Cangemi, a member of the committee, said she had neither been consulted about the choice nor told the of any committee meetings on the topic for the past year.
HorganCouncilwoman Kathleen Horgan.
“The tech side of the committee is thrilled to report we will have a new website beginning in January,” Horgan said. With a system that enables users to sign up for email and text alerts for everything from emergencies to community events, “this will encompass what we really need for Red Bank.”
She said the committee was recommending the council hire C3 Citizen Communication Center of Nutley to build the system and maintain it for $2,000 per month. The company also built the Fair Haven and Middletown websites.
Cangemi, though, appeared surprised by the announcement, and said she had not not been been included in any discussions leading up to it.
“I’m a member of this committee,” which also included Democrat Mike DuPont, she said. “I don’t know how it happened, where it happened. I can’t stand behind this because I don’t know a damn thing about it.”
“Well, Grace, i did tell you we were working on it,” Horgan replied, before apologizing for not bringing Cangemi into the process.
Cangemi, though, was not appeased. “Let the minutes reflect that it’s not a committee recommendation. It’s a recommendation of Councilwoman Horgan, whose opinion I greatly respect,” she said.
In response to inquiries about whether the choice should be put up for bid, Horgan and borough Administrator Stanley Sickels said that the state Division of Local Government Services deems website design as exempt from bidding requirements. Sickels noted also that C3 principal John Carrino has a patent on the system.
“The proprietary nature of this is something you can’t compare” for bidding purposes, said Mayor Pasquale Menna.
“It may be a patent, but there may be other ones out there, and we never had that discussion,” Cangemi said. “It’s a little behind-the-curtain. It just doesn’t smack of being open enough.”
The council’s other Republican, Jim Giannell, said he, too, would have preferred to know what competing technology exists and how it compares to C3′s.
“Although the methodology may have been flawed, we started this one-and-a-half to two years ago,” said DuPont. “The borough residents deserve a website.”
“It’s a little bit bigger than a flawed methodolgy,” Cangemi replied. “It was a year without a meeting. I was duly appointed by this mayor to serve on this committee. We deserve an open process, and this is not an open process.”
Cangemi lost her bid for re-election in November; Giannell was appointed in August to complete the term of John Curley, who moved out of town. They’ll be replaced next month by Democrats Juanita Lewis and Ed Zipprich.
Here’s the website resolution: Download 08-265.pdf
Ms. Lee is the chairperson for affordable housing of which I have written many articles about so feel free to review those. It seems that the New Directions through Responsible Leadership PAC which was co-run between Alfred DeCotiis and John Lynch are the keys to what transpired and why out of the area people are involved in Red Bank Affordable Housing Corp. Joseph Ferriero was the Chairman of the Bergen County Democratic Organization which has received 10’s of thousands of dollars from New Directions through Responsible Leadership. Here is a list of all who have received money from this PAC including Red Bank Democrats. new directions list of funds paid
Here is an article from the Hudson Reporter stating that John Lynch was working with Joseph Ferriero and George Norcross on decisions related to the NJ Government controlled by the State’s Democratic Party.
Lynch, a power broker from Middlesex, rose to the height of power in 2001 after he allied himself with South Jersey’s Norcross and Bergen County Democratic Chairman Joe Ferriero. While Norcross rallied his troops to support Lynch’s attempt to remove McGreevey last week, he apparently called back his attack when he saw the stiff resistance put up by the McGreevey camp.
Read more: Hudson Reporter – News, Events, Classifieds, and Businesses in Hudson County, New Jersey
http://bayonnecommunitynews.com/view/full_story/2400183/matchbin