SIX DEGREES OF ETHICAL CONFLICT

SIX DEGREES OF ETHICAL CONFLICT 

Reformer?  -  Valerie Huttle - Frank Huttle - DeCottis Law Firm - ENCAP - Ethical Conflict 

It has been said that nearly everyone has six degrees of separation from each other.    Interestingly enough, the same pattern exists for a “reform” Democratic District 37 politician, but from a different end point.     Valerie Huttle and her District 37 team has been portraying themselves as reform politicians, but the historical facts say otherwise.

Valerie Huttle is the wife of Frank Huttle.  Frank Huttle is a partner of DeCottis, FitzPatrick, Cole & Wisle, LLP, a law firm which is the epitome of everything that is wrong with the out-of-control Pay-to-Play conflict-of-interest problems in New Jersey.

It has been repeatedly reported in the Bergen Record that Assemblywoman Valerie Huttle’s husband’s law firm billed over 12 Million dollars on government contracts in New Jersey in 2006.   The law firm won many of these contracts as her husband’s law firm donated over $190,000 to various campaigns throughout New Jersey.

Although Ms. Huttle campaigned as a reformer against the Ferriero machine in 2005, her husband Frank and his law partners donated $14,569 to the Ferriero’s county campaign in 2006 to get Boss Ferriero’s Pay-to-Play team re-elected to the Freeholder Board.    During Ms. Huttle’s tenure on the Freeholder Board, the DeCottis law firm billed hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Bergen County government, of which the Freeholder Board overseas.

Which brings us to EnCap - a disastrous, boondoggle, pork-barrel project, a taxpayer nightmare, which has failed miserably in every possible way.    Because of EnCap, property taxes in North Arlington, Lyndhurst and Rutherford have already skyrocketed.    Although taxpayers are reeling, the DeCottis law firm is doing just fine.  EnCap Golf, the daddy-warbucks developer, has already paid about eight and an half million dollars to the DeCottis law firm to represent them.

It is hard to believe that incumbent Assemblywoman Huttle had no knowledge of her husband’s involvement with EnCap.  What did incumbent Assemblywoman Huttle know about EnCap and when did she find out?

But don’t take our word for it.  Take Ms. Huttle’s running mate, incumbent Senator Loretta Weinberg, who said “When a North Carolina firm is contributing to a local entity, one would have to be pretty dense not to think that there is some sort of ulterior motive there. It’s the only conclusion that you can draw.”

EnCap represents just about everything that is wrong with the dysfunctional mess called New Jersey government. It is ludicrous that while our bridges and infrastructure are crumbling, our District 37 schools are under-funded, and our Governor is thinking of selling our Garden State Parkway and New Jersey Turnpike, so that he can raise our tolls, that the Democrats think that the government should be spending millions of taxpayer dollars to build two golf courses.

We need new representation in District 37!

We have No Family Members on the Public Dime!

We are the 100% non-Ethically Challenged Candidates!

We are the independent Taxpayer Advocates who stand up to corruption, waste, fraud and abuse!

It’s time for a change in New Jersey!  The time is now!

Contact Persons:

Frank Cifarelli

(201) 489-6790

Wojciech Siemaszkiewicz

(201) 638-8100