Angelo Genova

In Fairfield Township, where Democratic Township Committeeman Albert Beverly lost re-election to Republican Patrick Conahey by just five votes, lawyers for both sides will be before a Cumberland County Superior Court Judge this month to discuss the legal merits of a recount.  Clearly, Beverly wants a recount and Conahey does not. 

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Bergen Democrats say the status of the 37th district "changes hourly," but to expect State Senator Loretta Weinberg to run for re-election on the organization line.  Last Friday, the state Attorney General's office granted Weinberg, Assemblyman Gordon Johnson and Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle approval to move to the BCDO line, as requested by their attorney, Angelo Genova.  But confusion remains, with Weinberg expected to go to court on Friday as part of a suit to be bracketed with her Freeholder candidates.  Ninteen days ago, Weinberg appeared at a news conference with County Chairman Joseph Ferriero to declare a peace treaty; the Ferriero-backed opponent to Weinberg, Englewood Mayor Michael Wildes, dropped out of the race. 

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Angelo Genova is intimidating in cross-examination.

When he asked the nervous clerk from the state Division of Elections Office whether or not she would certify the petitions again were she to review them "sitting here today," she stammered, "No."

Judge Joseph Paone released the tension in the courtroom with a joke.

"Because you don't want to sit here again," he told her with a smile and she smiled back, relieved.

The judge repeatedly interrupted both attorneys during their closing statements, trying to get them to refine their respective arguments - and hitting them where he thought they were stretching the facts.

When Stephen Edelstein said everyone -- "clerks, candidates, voters� -- knew Sandra Cunningham was running as a Democrat in the primary and not the general election, Paone pursued clarity.

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In a combative political state, it figures that it would come down to Jersey City and Bayonne and the 31st district that incorporates pieces of both those two-fisted towns, where Sandra Bolden Cunningham and Assemblyman Louis Manzo both want to be State Senator.

First the two rivals need to slog across that Normandy Beach of mayhem and doom otherwise known as a Hudson County Democratic Party Primary. But whether or not Cunningham will even be able to participate in the action now hinges on Judge Joseph Paone of the state Office of Administrative Law, who today said he needed more time to reach a decision in the case of Manzo v. Cunningham.

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Two of New Jerseys most prominent election law experts, Angelo Genova and John Carbone, will face off in a Morristown courtroom on January 8 to decide the November 2005 race for Mayor of Parsippany. Republican Rosemarie Agostini, who lost to Democrat Michael Luther by 39 votes, alleges that as many as 124 voters were either illegally turned away from the polls or voted improperly.

The expedited trial was scheduled after a state appellate panel overturned a Superior Court Judge's denial of Agostini's challenge. Genova, Luther's attorney, has asked the state Supreme Court to issue a stay of the appellate decision. Genova is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that permits elections to be challenged. In that effort, he will be opposed by state Attorney General Stuart Rabner.

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CORZINE ADMINISTRATION NAMES ATTORNEYS REPRESENTING
NEW JERSEY IN STATE EMPLOYEE CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS

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- The Corzine Administration today announced that Angelo Genova and James McGovern will represent the administration in state employee contract negotiations with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). The announcement came as negotiations commenced today. Read More >

Frank Lautenberg and his Chief of Staff, Tim Yehl, sit before a desk, behind which sits lawyer Angelo Genova, who has a large list in front of him, from which he's reading. Lautenberg looks nervous, while Yehl is tapping at a soda can, looking bored. They are discussing whether Lautenberg will seek re-election to the United States Senate in 2008.

GENOVA: Situation number four. You're breathing on your own, you're conscious, but with no muscular function.

LAUTENERG: Well, would I be able to communicate?

GENOVA: I don't see how.

YEHL: Ach, I don't like the sound of this one.

LAUTENBERG: Huhh, yeah, let's pull the cord.

YEHL: Yank it like (pops open soda can) you're starting a mower.

GENOVA: Moving on. You have liver, kidneys and gall bladder, but no central nervous system.

Lautenberg looks at Yehl, who gives a double thumbs-down.

LAUTENBERG: Well, I gotta have a central nervous system.

GENOVA: Okay. One lung, blind and you're eating through a tube.

LAUTENBERG: Naw, that's not my style.

YEHL: Bore-ing.

GENOVA: Alright, you can eat. But machines do everything else.

LAUTENBERG: (hesitant) Uhm...

Lautenberg looks to Yehl, who nods.

YEHL: I'd stick.

LAUTENBERG: Yeah, yeah. Stick. (to Yehl) 'Cos I could still ride the Senators Only elevator.

YEHL: (points to Lautenberg and smiles in agreement) That's right.

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The results of two North Jersey mayoral elections are being challenged in court, even though the certified winners will take office on January 1. In Parsippany, a suit alleging voting irregularities filed by Republican Rosemarie Agostini will be heard in Superior Court on January 4. Agostini, a Councilwoman who has run for Mayor four times, lost to Democrat Michael Luther by 40 votes. The case has attracted two high-profile lawyers: John Carbone will represent Agostini and Angelo Genova is Luther's attorney. Former Edison Councilman William Stephens, a Democrat who ran for Mayor as an Independent, say his 270 vote loss to Democrat Jun Choi was also a result of irregularities and campaign finance fraud. A Middlesex County Judge has not yet decided whether to hear Stephens' complaint.

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