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Fate of former Wall schools boss heads to jury

assetContentFREEHOLD – After nine weeks of legal proceedings, the prosecution and defense in the trial of former Wall Township public schools Superintendent James Habel each delivered their closing arguments Wednesday. Habel, 58, was indicted in June 2013 on several charges, including second-degree official misconduct, theft by deception, financial facilitation of criminal activity, theft by failure to…

Posted: March 4th, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Crime, Crime and Punishment, Education, Monmouth County, Monmouth County Court, Monmouth County Prosecutor, Wall Township | Tags: , , , , , | 3 Comments »

3 Comments on “Fate of former Wall schools boss heads to jury”

  1. Jim Granelli said at 11:28 pm on March 4th, 2015:

    There are many hoping he gets the book thrown at him. He helped ruin a pretty good school system.

  2. Astraea said at 10:09 am on March 5th, 2015:

    The people who serve on any sort of board or organization’s leadership need to feel a much greater sense of personal responsibility for “doing the right thing”. The good of the organization must always be put ahead of personal preferences, and they need to see themselves as bosses & auditors, rather than wanting to be “buddies,” and afraid to ask probing questions that might be seen as “politically incorrect”.

  3. Sancho Panza said at 12:27 pm on March 5th, 2015:

    @”they need to see themselves as bosses & auditors, rather than wanting to be “buddies,” ”
    Tell that to the press that sleeps in the same beds with all those crooked school and other officials for so many years.