Joe Donohue, Author at New Jersey Globe

Opinion: Bloomberg Self-financing in Recent Presidential Campaign Makes Past NJ Mega-Spenders Look Like Skinflints

April 1, 2020 11:53 am

OPINION In any other election year, it would have been major news when billionaire Tom Steyer dropped out of the Democratic primary campaign on February 29, 2020. After all, he had just spent $267 million of his personal wealth on...

The Story of the Alleged $3 Million Campaign Contribution Bribe and Why ELEC Matters

November 2, 2018 4:35 pmNovember 2, 2018 4:36 pm

Abner “Longie” Zwillman once dated actress Jean Harlow and was dubbed the “Al Capone of New Jersey”. He was born in Newark and lived in West Orange when he died of suicide in 1959. While he tried to go “legit,”...