| New York's New Co-op Queen (The New York Observer) |
| “You can’t make somebody buy something. You just can’t make them. They’re not handing out shotguns to brokers yet,” the tall, blond, Georgia-bred, 47-year-old real estate broker Leighton Candler complained earlier this month. She was sitting in the wood-paneled library of a 14-room duplex penthouse at 1020 Fifth Avenue. “And to push is wrong, to be controversial is wrong, to be ... |
| 11/25/2008 |
| Ex-official cleared of wrongdoing (Asbury Park Press) |
| Paul J. Abrams, a former borough official embroiled in a 30-month criminal investigation, has been cleared of wrongdoing by the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office, and a civil lawsuit accusing him of impropriety has been dismissed. |
| 11/11/2008 |
| Defense Firm Accused of Botching Case Received Through Political Connection (Law.com) |
| In a rare malpractice complaint against a defense firm, an insurer charges that Cleary, Alfieri & Jones was appointed to a personal injury case against Monmouth County, N.J., through political connections and botched it, causing a $250,000 loss. The complaint states that the case "required skillful defense counsel rather than political appointees." The insurer alleges that the firm's ... |
| 11/03/2008 |
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