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News DateSunday, September 17, 2006 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionUMDNJ probe finds senator had phony job
Federal monitor sees no evidence Bryant did real work at university
Sunday, September 17, 2006
BY TED SHERMAN AND JOSH MARGOLIN
Star-Ledger Staff

State Sen. Wayne Bryant, chairman of the powerful Budget and Appropriations Committee, pressured the state's medical university to create a no-show job that essentially allowed him to "lobby himself" for taxpayer funds, according to two sources who have reviewed the findings of a federal monitor.

The monitor's report, which will be released tomorrow, says the $38,220-a-year job did not exist before Bryant was put on the payroll at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, according to the sources.
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