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year my case drug on with dozens of motions, judge changes and headlines. They would run me front
page of the Sunday Star Ledger with some ridiculous headline and sell out, so the next week they would
do the same...4 weeks total I made the front page of the Sunday Star Ledger, one of the largest circulation newspapers in the country. I even anonymously protested the ridiculousness in a letter to their
editor when one week my “story” was featured ABOVE 41 killed in Iraq...really? That particular story
was an interview with one of my runner-ups at Mrs. NJ; real investigative journalism there, shocking she
would have any sour grapes.
I moved to Florida to escape the reporters jumping out at me and my kids from my bushes (seriously)
in June of 2008. The state I loved, that I represented with honor and good will and had freely given so
much of my time to, had made me into a cartoon character villain in the media and I could no longer
allow my kids to be in school there...it had become too heartbreaking for my family. I traveled back and
forth for ridiculous motion after motion. From Florida to NJ. All the while believing my day of justice
would come. Never once giving an interview; never once stooping to their level to address their ridiculous behavior. In December of 2008 I travelled up on a Sunday night for one such motion on Monday
morning. The prosecutor continued to Tuesday as he wasn’t ready. I stayed another night. In a hotel,
away from my sons then 4 and 7. On Tuesday the judge called out. On Wednesday there was a snow
storm that closed the courts Wednesday AND Thursday. On Friday I went to court fo