Ferriero law firm says FBI search was unrelated to firm business

Perhaps they are investigating Monmouth GOP Chairman Joe Oxley, he works there as well.

"The FBI search warrant was for Ferriero’s personal files." According to the Record, the FBI took 8 huge boxes of files from the office. I am surprised that the boss Ferriero could still keep his personal files there. Does he know about a shredder?

That in a state where pay to play (legalized BRIBERY) is the "norm"; that all levels of government will be corrupted.

I dare say that nary a penny is spent or a person is hired that isn't, in some way shape or form, influenced by illegitimate factors.

Of course, all this illegitimacy breeds "malcontents" and "disgruntled employees" and "whistle blowers" that need to be "dealt with".  After all, even corrupt de facto criminal organizations that are widespread and systemic do manage to disturb some people to the point where they "buck" the system.

Well, the "system" bucks back.

This is THE law firm for "bucking back".

Now I'm sure they must have some legitimate clients defending/pursuing legitimate aims (note I am using the word "legitimate" in the broader moral sense here); but it sure seems fishy that these "personal" files were only sought after by the feds on the property of this very well connected law firm....and not in Ferriero's home or truly personal space?

And EIGHT Boxes???   I can see that some personal records might find their way into your desk at work.....but EIGHT BOXES!!!

Color me cynical but, unless Christie is seriously going to utilize RICO statutes to really "connect all the dots"; this "investigation" will likely go nowhere.

This is just Christie providing more superficial window dressing so he can act like he's some kind of "gangbuster" when he runs for governor.

It's my best guess that if the truth, the whole truth...and nothing but the truth were fully known/revealed about every single elected and appointed official in NJ AND everyone in high positions employed by NJ governance; that the majority would be in violation of law.  (And I'm not talking about minor infractions or slightly fudged tax returns ;-)

That's how dirty I believe this state is.

It's the SYSTEM, stupid.

I don't mean to demonize this law firm in particular though it is clearly filling a "market niche" in terms of defending the, defacto and de jure, corrupt status quo......that's what laywers are paid to do.   Their primary "ethic" is to WIN! And of course to make as much money as possible in the process.

From the POV of the defense attorney, putting a child rapist murderer back out on the streets after "getting him off" is an unfortunate byproduct of "the justice system" that couldn't get a conviction.   (There are also corrupt prosecutors who would rather see the innocent remain incarcerated than admit their own errors/prejudices.)

The effects of living in a state where corruption saturates virtually every aspect of life are difficult to measure.  From schools to police to fire departments to homeless shelters to banking/insurance laws to the way hospitals are run to the way roads are built and maintained to the way toxics are allowed to exist and a THOUSAND other elements of everyones life are all negatively impacted by the cumualtive effects of corruption.   This shit has a cost associated with it in terms of the overall quality of life and for some people those effects are devastating and even life threatening.

There are good and decent people who have lost their jobs, pensions, families and health for simply trying to honestly do their jobs...and law firms that serve the corrupt interests that dominate NJ have served as the instrument of their undoing (all, "strictly legal", of course).

The attorneys who make their livings defending the interests of people that they must know to be corrupt evil bastards can claim that they are simply "doing their jobs" and that the downstream consequences of their "success" are not their legal resposiblility. 

And in a "strictly legal" sense; that may be correct.....however, I put it to you that there is more to human existence than that which is "strictly legal"...there is the sphere of morality and Conscience.....and even, for some, there is the consideration of Spiritual realities and consequences that trump "man made law".

The moral/ethical dilemma of defending people you know to be "guilty as sin" is one that I don't "have all the answers" to. 

We, all of us, are imperfect and we all are, to some degree or other, compromised creatures...but we do have the possibility of making choices. 

We can choose to deaden our Selves to the capacity to experience a connection to the whole....let's call that experience Conscience.

Or we can choose to, let the sun shine in, and deal with whatever truths that light confronts us with.

To actually see ourselves as we are can bring on a kind of suffering that is difficult to bear.  It's much "easier" to keep on swallowing the mind/consiousness numbing "sleeping pills" that take the form of money, power, and all the "rewards" and "trappings" of "success".  

Here's a snippet from an old movie that I suggest should be part of the coursework of all law schools; and that all attorneys  (and, frankly, the rest of us) should review at least one a year.  

It will be a few minutes well spent, and the punchline is cuttingly sublime. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOfUGixqV0A&feature=related

From Frederick Douglass

If there is no struggle there is no progress......Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

I have to say that I actually agree with much of what Nick Lento has to say. It is just too bad that there aren't more progressives on the inside who honestly believe that corruption is always a bad thing regardless of who is behind it, instead of rationalizing and justifying it with the sad excuse that some "greater good" is being served because somehow a particular agenda is perceived, incorrectly, as advancing forward as a result.

However, you really have to ask, what precisely is Christie trying to accomplish, by making this move so late in the game?

Many on the left will interpret this as Christie overplaying his hand, while the clock is running out, and that he now has committed the strategic error of painting himself into a corner.

Those who view things through the prism of strict partisanship need to understand that things are not always as they appear.

It appears that Christie has adversely impacted his career by going out on a limb like he has with such little time to build a case, then again; maybe it only appears that way.

Maybe it isn't about Christie this time around.

Maybe the earth is about to shake.

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