Segment 1A serves as an introduction. Lou briefly discusses growing up in Jersey City and his early interest in environmental issues and politics. He served at one time as a Hudson County Freeholder and later as a member of the New Jersey State Assembly. He ran unsuccessfully a number of times for City Council and Mayor in Jersey City.

Lou's brother Allen Manzo actually ran against him in one notable campaign for Mayor of Jersey City. That was the year that Republican Brett Schundler was elected.

Lou also describes his political interaction with Glenn Cunningham, Joseph Doria, and Anthony Chiappone.

This segment also has an audio static problem that becomes noticable around the two-minute mark and clears up about 30 seconds later.

In segment 1B Lou discusses losing to Sandra Cunningham in a race for a seat in the New Jersey Senate. While out of office he maintained a service for public advocacy at his own expense.

In 2008, a judgement that required Newark City Councilwoman Dana Rone to forfeit her public office came to Lou's attention. He realized that this same standard should apply to Mayor Healy for his drunken abuse of office and his obstruction of justice arrest in Bradley Beach on June 16, 2006.

Lou's pusuit of justice in that matter turned up indications of apparent corruption in the office of the Monmouth County Prosecutor. At the time of Lou's lawsuit, the prosecutor's office was cooperating in the Christie/Dwek sting operation.

(Additional Note:
Forfeiture of Office by public officials for public offenses is a matter of strict liability. If the prosecutor believes that the public official in question should be forgiven for their infraction, he or she may make that recommendation. He or she is not permitted to simply put the matter aside. The decision is to be made by the Judge. We don't know if the Assistant Monmouth County Prosecutor, Mary Juliano, was aware of that requirement, but we do know that Monmouth County Chief Prosecutor, Luis Valentin, was.

Mr. Valentin, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney under Chris Christie, and a former Assistant Prosecutor in Mayor Healy's Hudson County, was described as something of a micromanager. At any rate, the matter in the case of Healy's infraction was never introduced in court.)

The Monmouth County Prosecutor appeared to shield Healy on the state level while Christie and his subordinates at the U. S. Attorney's Office appeared to shield Healy on the federal level. Meanwhile Manzo lost another election for Mayor of Jersey City.

One would think, if the goal was to fight public corruption, then Healy would have been required to forfeight his office for the state charges and would have been charged with extortion under color of official right by Christie's cohorts. Instead he was shielded. It makes me wonder what purpose Christie has in mind for Healy.

On July 23rd, 2009 Manzo got a call on his cell phone directing him to report to Newark to be arrested in the Operation Bid Rig III sweep.

The federal government is supposed to operate under a strict requirement for a speedy trial. They have 100 days from the date of arrest to the date of the trial. In Bid Rig III the federal government endeavored to be excused from giving the citizens a right to a speedy trial. While Ralph Marra was holding a press conference describing the open and shut case he had against these defendents, his agents were meeting in private with those same defendents to get them to sign a waiver to allow them more time to make their case.

Leona Beldini refused to sign. Christie's feds appealed to the Judge, who in the early days gave them every benefit of every doubt. He granted their multiple requests for multiple delays. The letter submitted by Ms. Beldini's lawyer arguing against the delay seems to become increasingly relevant with the passage of time.

Obviously the date of arrest was chosen for the sake of the Christie campaign for governor, not for the sake of justice.

Lou also gives us some background on Christopher Christie and his ignoble political beginnings including charges against him for libeling his opponents which he settled out of court.

Christie’s alienation of the Republican party and his use of political contributions to purchase his U.S. Attorney’s position through Karl Rove;

The abuses by Christie and by the current U.S. Attorney are made possible by the fact that the current system has no real accountability;

Those who would have the responsibility for oversight have all been compromised;

Christie had a gang of co-conspirators operating in the U.S. Justice Department;

Christie targeted New Jersey Democratic leaders who would be key to the success of his political opponent in the race for governor;

Christie paid off friends with lucrative no-bid contracts costing millions in taxpayer dollars. Herb Stern is mentioned in that regard.

Christie used “monitoring contracts” as means to funnel millions of taxpayer dollars to people who had helped him. This included former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and David Kelly, the former New York Prosecutor who allowed the Governor’s brother, Todd Christie, to walk away from prosecution for stock fraud;

Christie targeted and convicted the leading Democrat in Bergen County on charges of “theft of honest services”. This person was later cleared, but after Christie was elected Governor.

We get some background on Solomon Dwek the confidential witness and his multimillion dollar Ponzi scheme. Under oath in one of the first sting trials, Dwek stated that he had bribed plenty of politicians in the Republican stronghold of Monmouth County. Christie and his crew decided not to go after any of the politicians that Dwek had already bribed.

Christie sent Dwek to Hudson County to manufacture crime and target prominent Democrats in that county;

Had the Manzo reforms been in place, Chris Christie would have had no desire to be appointed as U.S. Attorney;

The feds used Dwek for the sting instead of specially trained FBI agents. They did this in order to circumvent required procedures and to operate outside the law;

Christie put Marra in charge of getting prominent Hudson County pols to take bribes. Marra failed. Marra went to Plan B. He decided to offer campaign contributions and then disguise them as bribes. (See The Jersey Sting p250-251 where Marra begs the judge in Dwek's bankruptcy case for more time. In April, 2009 he still needed time to come up with something that looked like a crime. Meanwhile, Marra saw to it that his extremely accomplished liar was given a monthly stipend and freedom of movement until that matter was taken out of his hands.)

I just learned that the court date scheduled for the second week in December has been pushed back to January 6, 2012.
Taping a two-hour interview in October gave me enough cable broadcasts to last three months. That's the good part.
However, during that three-month period, while I've been waiting for my shows to be presented, there have been other developments.
Not only did I learn that Lou's right to a speedy trail has been further trampled upon, I've learned that he's uncovered further evidence of prosecutorial misconduct.
This misbehavior by Christie's feds will have an effect on the Manzo case.
It will also affect other criminal cases that have already been to court and have been decided based upon fraudulant submissions by Christie's feds.

Christie is responsible for the election of a crook in Hoboken because of the “sting” contributions to that campaign;

Under the supervision of his government handlers, Dwek set up a bounty system whereby he paid crooks to bring him victims. He gave those intermediaries incentive to lie to him about having passed along his bribes;

Charges against Richard Greene were dropped just prior to the prosecutors’ decision to use him to testify against Harvey Smith. Greene was on tape agreeing to a crime. Harvey Smith was not. With the charges dropped there was no requirement for Greene to have a written cooperation agreement. Therefore any promises or threats made to Greene by the federal authorities would not be documented:

On a different topic I asked why Greene would be fired from his county position, while Harold Demellier’s actions were excused by his Hudson County employer.

Thousands of cell phone text messages with instructions to Dwek were destroyed by the feds. This was done in the time frame when Michele Brown was stonewalling requests for public information;

One of the texts that they forget to delete instructed Dwek to, “dirty him up if you can”. Dwek responded, “Yeah, like I did the last time”;

I asked why the FBI would cooperate with Christie’s partners in this corruption.

The obvious answer is that they did not know any better.

In 2011 Dwek was arrested by Maryland cops while he was under the protection and supervision of the prosecuting feds;
The attitude in the U.S. Attorney’s office is that any Hudson County politician is a crook.
Manzo mentioned a report by Glen Fine, Inspector General of the U.S. Justice Department. Fine found that the violation of proper investigative procedures was a pervasive pattern in the FBI and U.S. Attorneys’ offices.
I pointed out that the feds are able to rely on a jury’s presumption of guilt when it comes to politicians. The feds make multiple-count indictments. If the defendant is found not guilty of five counts and guilty of one, the feds declare that they’ve won a victory against crime. In reality, the jury is merely giving them a conviction out of pity.
The Beldini conviction was on two counts of passing bribes to Healy. Healy was never even charged.
I asked why Manzo chose to go on the offensive against the feds rather than just offer a defense for his charges.

We cover the cost to Manzo for merely being accused. Besides the expense of his defense, the feds have seen to it that Lou cannot earn a living. He is fighting to prevent this type of abuse from happening to others. The prosecution by the U.S. Attorney has become personal at this point.

After the initial indictment there were two superseding indictments. Lou enumerates the charges in each of the three.

We discuss the intent of the Travel Act and Mail Fraud laws and the way the laws were abused by the feds to charge Manzo and others.

In the third set of charges Lou is charged with not reporting a crime “Misprision of a Felony”. We incorrectly referred to this as “Misfeasance”. Apparently, though, the charge of misfeasance has largely replaced the charge of misprision when the accused is a public official. Manzo is not. The feds do all they can to find something to charge him with and to find ways to delay the actual trial.

Lou points out that there would be a legitimate case of mail fraud against Chris and Todd Christie, but that Marra would never want to pursue that.

Ralph Marra stayed in the U.S. Attorney’s office long enough to stage the July 2009 perp walk for Christie’s campaign. After he resigned, Christie appointed him to a state position.

The new U.S. Attorney came in and saw the mess left by Christie and hoped that he could close his eyes to it. Due to his failure to correct what was wrong, Fishman became part of the problem. He needs to attack Manzo to protect himself.

We talk about the Office of Professional Responsibility, mistakenly referring to it as the Office of Public Responsibility. Either way, it is a joke. It is a means by which a brotherhood imitates discipline among its members.

Many people in the U.S. Attorney’s office contributed to Christie’s campaign, pursued arrests and convictions in Bid Rig III and then resigned to go work at state jobs appointed by Christie.

Marra even brought press photographers to publicize the raid on Doria’s home while knowing that Doria had done nothing wrong.

We discuss the obvious delay tactics by the prosecution during the appeal process. They are still dragging out the court proceedings hoping to reach a point where Manzo can no longer sustain a defense.

We discuss the fed’s use of entrapment in order to apply the Travel Act. This act was invoked because Manzo had lunch with Dwek and others at Perkins in Staten Island. They needed to make Lou have lunch in New York so they could make it look like he committed a federal offense.

We mentioned how the member of the press are not doing a proper job of examining and reporting Christie’s abuses.

Near the end, I mentioned Drewniak, the arrogant disinformation specialist that Christie brought from the U.S. Attorney’s office and installed in the state capital.

The Jersey Journal story on today's hearing on Manzo's motion to dismiss was filed by Mike Conte. The story is unfortunately incomplete because the public and the press do not have access to the federal files that show that Christie's people took steps to shield prominent Republicans who offered themselves up for sale. Those same non-public federal records seem to show the continued conflict of interest in the U.S. Attorney's office.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Kanefsky correctly states that Christie, and the Christie feds who abused their offices to get Christie elected, have all left federal service and are now working in Christie-appointed postitions in New Jersey Government. However, he ingores the fact that those same federal records show a pattern of inaction and failure on the part of the current U.S. Attorney to halt the persecutions commenced by Christie and his henchmen.

The current conflict of interest by the office of the U.S.Attorney is the attempt to cover for Fishman's official misfeasance.