Did you know the Los Angeles Times has better journalists than the Jersey City Desk?

It would appear they do. While Johnny has been ringing the alarm bells and chiming in with news analysis on the embarrassment that the Trump/Kushner alliance (Think MODERN DAY Orthanc and Barad-Dur) around Jersey City and the many many messes they have created since they felt they had some advantage to be pressed after Trump's beyond stupid comments thousands upon thousands of Jersey City residents turned 9/11 into the national anthem at the old Chicago Stadium before Blackhawk games. What a shitgibbon.

So, yes, this does the best job encompassing ALL of the mess made that of course has engulfed Mayor Steve Fulop. Note spokesperson Jennifer Morrill coming behind the mayor with mop and bucket after his no contributions from Kushner claim is followed up on later in the article about the fact YES, 100K of Kushner do-re-mi wound up in his SuperPAC.

Read it. Learn it. Know it.

Mayor Fulop running away from a real reporter with real questions

First off, what a fantastic article in the long form by Terrence T. McDonald. He digs deep and tells the entire story of how Mayor Fulop was once great pals with Jared Kushner and now how that relationship must either be broken or put in a back drawer somewhere with the White House acting as they do and Fulop running for reelection. Drink that good writing up.

Note too at the end the mayor simply can't handle real questions, unfiltered being asked of him. All your reporter questions must go through my spokesperson now.

Yeah, Semper Fi Marine.

Fulop forced to admit the Kushner/Journal Square abatements tainted

On both Twitter and Facebook this past weekend, Mayor Steve Fulop was forced (in part by yours truly who was first out of the box in criticisms over the burgeoning EB-5 scandal in JSQ last week, of course along with other watchdog groups) to openly admit the city would not be backing the Kushner abatement after video and still images came out of China of Jared Kushner relatives dropping his name to get funding for Journal Square properties (and according to CBS News the Trump buildings on Bay St. as well) where a large buy in gets an EB-5 visa to get a green card. Yeah, the Trump Administration is all about keeping people out, unless they can give him money.

So, good for Mayor Fulop for announcing this but it's too bad it took an outcry to get his announcement made public.

Ever vigilant Jersey City, we must always all be ever vigilant with our money.

Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, loses big in court to Jersey City

YUGE, GIANT, loss to Jersey City. Seems you can't swing a bankruptcied Trump property in New Jersey without hitting someone trying to claim something that's not theirs or trying to stiff someone just because its easier not to pay than live up to your obligations.

Jersey City in a state appeals court won $2.1 million dollars from Kushner's KABR Group who basically saw some money out there that was defaulted on by the previous owner of the current Bay St. Towers (dba Trump Towers) and started saying it was theirs. Terrence T. McDonald breaks it down better than Johnny:

The city had promised to repay the $2.1 million to Vector Urban Renewal, the original developer, but it kept the cash after Vector defaulted on its mortgage and walked away from the project, according to the Aug. 30 appellate court decision.

Morgan Street, which bought the property in a sheriff's sale in April 2011, argued in court that it inherited the $2.1 million credit the city owed Vector, but the appellate court on Monday ruled against the developers, saying they had no right to be reimbursed for money Vector paid the city.

The decision reverses a lower-court ruling in the developers' favor. A request for comment from Morgan Street's attorney was not immediately returned.

Basically since KABR had made changes to the original plan which means it's then not the same plan and KABR will get nothing and Jersey City rightly pockets $2.1 million. Hands off Johnny's taxpayer money Jared Kushner, that's a bad Jared Kushner!

Also today Jersey City resident Chuck U. Farley won the name the Bay St. Towers (dba Trump Towers) contest. The contest arose when Donald Trump rented out his name on the ugliest building he could find then his trusty Jared in law decided he wanted another ugly-ass building next to daddums' uninspired POS. Chuck named them "Butt" and "Ugly" which is spot on. So Butt and Ugly they are and so they shall be called. The original eyesore is Butt and the new hovel is Ugly, and truer words have never been spoken.

(L to R, Ugly & Butt, Jersey City Desk file photo)