--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dfsavgny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> U.S. Attorney subpoenas Neptune planning records
> Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 11/17/06
> BY BILL BOWMAN
> STAFF WRITER
>
>
Good, take them all down.
NEPTUNE Six years' worth of Planning Board records on the failed
> Garden State Hi-Tech Park were subpoenaed Thursday by federal
> officials.
>
> The subpoena also demanded records dealing with Michael Gohar, Ken
> Carey and Victor Chemtob, three of the partners involved in the
> project that was planned for 180 acres at Routes 18 and 66.
>
> The subpoena also demands the personnel file and time and
attendance
> sheets for Robert Lee, a former Planning Board member.
>
> Specifically, the subpoena demands documents relating to the
> business park project such as "correspondence, memoranda, notes,
> reports, plans, agendas, resolutions, meeting minutes" among others.
>
> Township Administrator Philip Huhn, who is in Atlantic City with
> other officials attending the League of Municipalities convention,
> said he instructed township personnel to copy the pertinent files
> and send them to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Newark.
>
> Huhn said he knew nothing more about the subpoena.
>
> The business park was projected to offer 4 million square feet of
> office space in up to 19 buildings. It was expected to generate
> about $7.2 million in property taxes yearly.
>
> Gohar was indicted earlier this year by federal authorities who
> charged him with paying a $50,000 bribe to Terrance Weldon, the
> former Asbury Park city manager and Ocean Township mayor, for his
> help in securing zoning approvals for a project that was never
built.
>
> Gohar has pleaded not guilty to the charges and is awaiting trial.
>
> Gohar has developed The Renaissance on the Ocean, 87 townhouses and
> single-family homes in Long Branch, and the Hillel School Yeshiva
in
> Ocean Township. He has also developed about 20 hotel projects in
New
> Jersey, New York and Connecticut.
>
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