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THE ATLANTIC CITY PRESS VENDETTA

AGAINST LANGFORD & MARSH ...

AND, IT GOES BEYOND JUST THE LOCAL PRESS

The Atlantic City Press has viciously and brutally attacked Mayor Lorenzo Langford and Atlantic City Council President William "Spedy Marsh" for too many years to count.

Their regular attacks include: Repetitive attack articles whereby they recast the same story ... again, and again, and again.

Whenever possible they include very detailed timeline graphs, to make their case look nefarious and disturbing.

All the while, the real story is either completely omitted, or, dramatically under-reported.

Time for a little truth in broadcasting:

First, make no mistake about it, Langford and Marsh were retaliated against by Jim Whelan, a political scoundrel of the lowest order. This fact is not, nor ever has been in dispute. What the local media has skillfully managed to do is to change the subject.

They turned Langford and Marsh's clear victim status, into a side story about the process by which they handled the settlement issue of their worthy and demonstrated case.

For Marsh's part, he has ben ridiculed and down right emasculated by the vicious Atlantic City Press. Marsh wasn't even a member of city council when his settlement was reached.

The only mistake Langford and Marsh made is that they and their attorneys were entitled to more than $ 1-million dollars. They should have never, ever agreed to a second settlement offer of less money ($ 850,000).

had they taken the bigger award, the present controversy would have never arisen.

Regarding the obvious bias of The Atlantic City Press whenever it comes to anything "Langhford" I point you to today's example. Please note that there is a timeline that usually is reserved for some kind of serial killer spree.

However, note that when The Atlantic City Press finally admits after all these years that Langford and Marsh did receive a larger award by the siting Jim Whelan City Council ... The Atlantic City Press doesn't have the date this took place. They only can report that it occurred in "December, 2001."

Every other point in their elaborate timeline has the exact month, date and year the event occurred. Except for the date that Langford and Marsh were awarded more than $ 1-million dollars by the Whelan City Council, which fully recognized that Whelan had retaliated against Langford and Marsh.

The reason The Atlantic City Press doesn't have this date, is because this date and crucial event has never ben a part of their repeated harrassment of Langford and Marsh. They don't want to know about this date. It's one of the oddest things I've ever seen in a supposedly legitimate timeline story.

It is revealing, yet, most people won't even catch this.

The New Jersey Supreme Court handed down a very unjust decision. One that didn't take into account the hundreds of thousands of dollars paid to lawyers, and the six figures in state and federal taxes.

Somehow, the state's high court believed it was just to bring all the weight to bear on this on just Langford and Marsh.

The whole thing is a disgrace. This is America. And, in America, victims should not be victimized a second time by the system.

In this case, that's exactly what has happened to Langford and Marsh.

For her part in this, Judge Val Armstrong has been very fair in trying to craft a remedy for repayment, that reflects the reality of the true facts ... and, not the political myths.

A proper repayment schedule should take into account, the monies paid to the lawyers and the taxes paid. Anything short of this, is blatantly unfair.

Addtionally, Langford and Marsh should be granted access to the federal courts in order to purpose the legitimate merits of their case, which had been readily established ... and, ultimately led to a fair and just settlement.

the only complicating issues here were:

That Langford became Mayor and Marsh a member of City Council.

And, the supreme dirty politics. This was demonstrated as recently as yesterday when New Jersey office of Government integrity staffer Ron Epstein threw in a bogus "criminal intent" comment at yesterday's hearing. He embarrassed himself and the state with this dirty circus stunt.