Big New Jersey Political Rumor Going Around

[patcox2]

Involves a certain Golan Cipel going public with something. Will be very, very interesting if true.

[Racenut20]

1. Golan Cipel is ???????

[displacedtexan]

2. Mysterious adviser to the governor...?

resigned in 2002 and went to work for a PR firm?

http://tinyurl.com/6e3c5

[chiburb]

3. Cipel

TRENTON -- Golan Cipel, the controversial and highly paid adviser to Gov. James E. McGreevey, has resigned for personal reasons, the Governor's Office said yesterday.

Cipel, 33, an Israeli citizen, was originally hired as McGreevey's lead security adviser in February. He resigned in March after questions about his background, but was kept on the government payroll at $110,000 a year.

McGreevey has said he met Cipel on a trip to Israel in 2000 and decided to bring him to the United States. Cipel was first hired by the Democratic State Committee, which also paid his $1,100 registration fee with the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Cipel landed a second job with developer Charles Kushner, a top McGreevey campaign contributor, after McGreevey recommended him, a Kushner spokesman said.

Following McGreevey's election, he announced Cipel would focus on homeland security though Cipel couldn't get a federal security clearance because he is not an American.

Lawmakers were angry that McGreevey's top security aide was not subjected to a background check required for all Cabinet members and major nominations. When members of the Senate Judiciary Committee demanded that Cipel testify before them, McGreevey reassigned him to a job as "counselor to the governor" with no specified duties.

http://www.thnt.com/thnt/story/0%2C21282%2C602598%2C00.html

[patcox2]

4. More interesting than mere corruption or kickbacks, if its Golan.

lots of rumors about him going back years.

[ObaMania]

5. Man..

.. hope it isn't something bad about McGreevy!

[NewJeffCT]

6. going public with what, may I ask?

something regarding wolfowitz and/or perle?

[RobertSeattle]

7. Can't he just say "I was just joking" and move on?

Works for Republicans.

[John BigBootay]

8. McGreevy may resign...

http://www.wnbc.com/politics/3648220/detail.html

[liberalpragmatist]

9. Discussing this here too:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2203395#

[papau]

10. Gov replaced by Dem state Senate President Richard Codey

Dem Gov has resigned.