New Jersey Land Use and Environmental Law

By Henry T. Chou, Esq.

The New Jersey NAACP has filed an ethics complaint against Senators Ray Lesniak (D-Union) and Christopher "Kip" Bateman (R-Somerset), alleging that the Senators' joint sponsorship of a new affordable housing bill that would, among other things, eliminate the New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing poses a conflict of interest because the Senators' respective firms would stand to prosper financially from the proposed legislation.

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By: Henry T. Chou, Esq.

On August 3, 2009, Governor Corzine signed Executive Order #148, “freezing state approvals for development projects in any city or town where a mayor has been charged with public corruption but refuses to step down.” See http://www.state.nj.us/infobank/circular/eojsc148.htm.

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By: Henry T. Chou, Esq.

DCA Commissioner and COAH Chairman Joseph Doria resigned on July 23, 2009 after the FBI raided his home in Bayonne and his office in Trenton in connection with an ongoing corruption probe.

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