Milgram

CODEY CALLS FOR CRACKDOWN AND INVESTIGATION ON “DIPLOMA MILL” INCIDENTS  

Asks School Supts to Return Taxpayer Dollars for Questionable Degrees

            TRENTON – Senate President Richard J. Codey (D-Essex) today sent letters to both Attorney General Anne Milgram and Department of Education (DOE) Commissioner Lucille Davy requesting an investigation and crackdown on school administrators who obtain degrees from unaccredited and questionable colleges and universities.  Codey made the request in light of recent reports that various school superintendents and administrators have received pay raises and tuition reimbursements for degrees they received from unaccredited online universities.

December 17, 2007

Honorable Anne Milgram

Attorney General,

State of New Jersey

Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex

Market & Warren Streets

Post office Box 080

Trenton, New Jersey 08625

Dear General Milgram:

            I am writing to request that you conduct an investigation into allegations that Governor Jon Corzine or members of his staff may have promised a state appointment to Mr. Sami Mehri in return for dropping out of a race for the office of Passaic County Freeholder.

Taxpayers On The Hook For $51 Million Environmental Disaster.

            Senator Gerald Cardinale, (R-Bergen), today expressed dismay that the Legislative leadership is delaying hearings on the financial and environmentally troubled Encap project until after the election. Cardinale wants to know why New Jersey officials provided a politically connected developer with $300 million in public money to build a golf course and condominiums on sealed landfills despite warnings that the developer lacked the financial, managerial and technical resources to complete the project.

ROBERTS LAUDS CORZINE ANTI-CRIME PLAN
Speaker Says Three-Prong Initiative Will Help Counteract
Plague of Violent Crime, Street Gang Activity in Camden, Other Cities

CODEY PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR CRACK DOWN ON GUN VIOLENCE, PRAISES CHIEF JUSTICE’S INVESTIGATION

   TRENTON  –  Senate President Richard J. Codey (D-Essex) praised the comprehensive approach unveiled in Newark today to combat the rising tide of gun violence and pledged his support to help eviscerate guns from New Jersey’s streets.

CODEY REQUEST PROMPTS STATE PROBE OF JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN NEWARK MURDER SPREE

            TRENTON  –  Senate President Richard J. Codey (D-Essex) today expressed outrage that two of the alleged suspects in last week’s Newark murders were allowed to remain free on previous charges, enabling them to reportedly commit these latest atrocities.  Calling these reports “unacceptable,” Sen. Codey asked State Attorney General Anne Milgram to investigate the system that allowed these suspects to continue roaming the streets and later claim the lives of three innocent college students.

 CODEY:  LOOKING FORWARD TO SWIFT CONFIRMATION OF RABNER AND MILGRAM NOMINATIONS  

            TRENTON  –  Senate President Richard J. Codey (D-Essex) today released the following statement on the nominations of Stuart Rabner for State Supreme Court Chief Justice and Anne Milgram for Attorney General: