The Courts
Your constitutional rights as an American are stripped away in Judge Arnold Samuels' Court. The State law on civil service in the state of New Jersey is as worthless as used toilet tissue. Due process is denied and the truth is squash. Deals are made in private. The words are strong, but they are based on facts not emotions.
My husband and twelve other individuals formed an association called City Employees Resist Tyranny (CERT). They filed a lawsuit in federal court. However, municipal Union 246 filed their own lawsuit in the Office of Administration Law (OAL). The union attorney, Philip Feintuch, submitted everyone's name, even those individuals not in the union's case. My husband's attorney, Arnold Cohen wrote letters to Feintuch to have his and other name removed from the union's case. Cohen knew that a negative judgement would bind his case. Additionally, my husband also appeared before Judge Samuels and asked to be severed from the unions case. The Judge then dismissed him.
Lo and behold, Cohen, the attorney for CERT finds out that day before his federal court case that the Judge Samuels reversed himself and included everyone in the case!
The city used Paul Mackey, First Assistant Corporation Counsel, but when the city appeared before Judge Lechner they claimed a six figure legal bill. The city council approved outside legal council on several lawsuits. These law services went to Brian McAlindin. Early, McAlindin ran for Congress, his treasurer was Lynn Schundler, the Mayor's wife. McAlindin is employed by the same firm that employees Michael Moriatory's wife, Kathleen.
The city lied about how much legal fee went directly to CERT. But Judge Lechner used Judge Samuels ruling as a basis to have CERT members pay the legal cost or drop their case. Unemployed people were intimated by inheriting a six figure case so, as my husband said, "A gun was put to their heads!"
Judge Lechner should never have heard the case. He, then owned Jersey City coupon bonds. A negative ruling could have affected the city's ability to pay. But again, this information as well as the cost of the legal case was kept secret.
My husband and others in his group appealed because they did not have legal counsel in Judge Samuels' court. Feintuch was not their attorney. Furthermore, after hearing the court tapes, it was evident that witnesses for city: Fargo, Dealy, and Lombard lied.
Kathleen Dealy said that some people were hired during the layoffs. That is a bold face lie, many were hired. Nick Fargo stated that there has been no increase in the number of civilian employees since the layoffs, another bold face lie. Since Robert Lombard has lied many times for the city, I have given him his own section on this web site.
Paul Mackey, responded to these appeals. My husband's defense was he did not have legal council since Judge Samuels included him in this action. Mackey wrote that Arnold Cohen and Philip Feintuch were both name as attorneys. For some reason, the Appellate agreed. A lawyer who never filed a piece of paper in that court was now considered as an attorney in OAL proceedings. The appellate allowed this to happen because they covered up Judge Samuels' many errors. The justice given here is similar to the justice given to blacks citizens in the South before the Civil Rights movement.