Elwell Reports to Prison
Former Secucus Mayor Dennis Elwell reported to federal prison in North Carolina Monday morning (June 18) to start serving a two-and-a-half-year term.
Elwell’s request to remain free during the appeal of his conviction was denied June 12 and he was required to surrender to authorities by June 18.
Elwell had his prison arrival date pushed back from June 4 to June 18 last month while a judge reviews his request to remain free during the appeal of his conviction.
Elwell, who filed his appeal on April 24, sought to remain out of jail until the appeal was decided. U.S. District Judge Jose L. Linares had signed the order to delay his prison arrival while his request is considered.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office opposed Elwell’s attempt to stay out of jail.
Elwell was sentenced to 30 months in prison last month for accepting a $10,000 bribe from an FBI informant through Ronald Manzo, who testified against him.
He will serve his time at the Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, N.C.
Poor Denny don’t want to go to prison.
When is Elwell going to realize that he’s not above the law? How can he look at himself, his family and the residents of Secaucus and say: I did nothing wrong. He needs to accept responsibly and do his time. I’m really getting tired of seeing his picture in the papers. Maybe the next picture we see, will be with him hold his inmate number.
Send him to the federal lockup in Texas. He needs to be far away from Secaucus.
Awesome! Set a precedence! You are not above the law! No more getting away with criminal acts! Politicians could learn a lot from gonnelli! He is by far the BEST secaucus has ever seen. The most caring and down to earth regular guy that truly has our interest at heart……. Not to mention he is SUPER involved in our community and the betterment of it!
Cindy,
Amen to that. Of course there will be the 3 or 4 critics that will come back with nasty comments disguised as 15 or 20 people, but there is no disputing that Mayor Gonnelli is the best Secaucus has seen, bar none. He has brought a real sense of community to our town and is more concerned about the residents than he is about himself. I hope we are lucky enough to have hiim as our Mayor for many years to come.
What a turnaround the town has taken in the last 2 plus years. Parades, movies in the park, street fairs, ect. The best part, it’s not costing the taxpayers a dime. Why didn’t Denny do all these things? I think we all know the answer. Oh well, hope he has a good flight out of Jersey. To this administration, keep up the good work.
I saw Mr. Elwell a while back; I wished him luck.
He was always nice to me and my family.
Mr. Elwell, LOL. Guess he gave you and your family an nice town job. It’s just to bad he didn’t get 20 years.
I think Mr. Elwell did a lot of good things in Secaucus as a councilmen and Mayor, he gave 10 -15 collage scholarships every year, when he first became councilmen he was very proactive in stopping the flooding in Secaucus. When he as first elected the town spent millions of dollars each year on legal bills and he changed that saving the taxpayers a lot of money, he had the new library built on his watch, stabilized the tax rate for many years .In 2009 he held a fund raiser for a town resident with cancer and gave the family over $14,000.00, the man did a lot of good things for Secaucus and I wish him well.
Openmind, you forgot to mention the 14 million dollar Recreation Center that was not supposed to cost the taxpayers a dime. Now we will be paying for it for the next 20 years. Dennis Elwell did nothing but run our town into the ground. Thank God for Mayor Gonnelli and the council for saving us. Dennis Elwell deserves every day that he spends in jail.
Mayor Gonnelli is thanking God every day that his involvement in destroying Elwell’s life has not YET tarnished his “do-gooder” image. It is only a matter of time… apparently there is something called a “302″ that the Feds file on every witness. Did you read your 302 Mike? IT WASN”T VERY NICE– nor is it nice to tape conversations without the other party knowing. (Frank Leanza learned that the hard way).
The only thing Gonnelli is concerned with is saving himself. That ship is sinking….It is only a matter of time.
Only one person destroyed Mr. Elwell’s life and that is Mr. Elwell. He did have a little help from Anthony Iacono.
Case in point. Here we have one of the critics using one of their many screen names.
You are right MS. We all know it’s the little man Anthony.
Openmind you forget to mention the Golden Ave pump station, after the completion of the new pump station we had no flooding until someone forget to check the station before a storm. While Mr. Elwell was Mayor we no flooding in that area, since he left (2010) we were flooded on numerous occasions. I’m sure we all remember good and not so good things someone did, remember we are all human.
And how much did Elwell put in his pocket from the Rec center? Hope he had a good Fathers Day before leaving today.
Dennis Elwell, you got what you deserve! All the people that you screewed over, it came back to bite you in the a$$. LIFE IS GOOD!!!
MS you said “the Mayor is more concerned about the residents than he is about himself”, during the hurricane many sections of town were flooded and the first and only berm to get rebuilt was behind the mayor’s house that seems like he was more concerned about himself than the residents. The next time you see MR Wonderful you should ask him where our 1st ward councilmen lives,what ward does he live in,let’s see if you get the full truth.
During the hurricaine, Mayor Gonnelli was out with the fire department while his house flooded. The house directly next door to his house was knocked off it’s foundation due to the waters, which I’m lead to believe means that Mayor Gonnelli’s house was hit nearly as hard. While his home filled up with water, he was concerned about the well-being of other residents. I know this firsthand, which is more than you can say. Please tell me what you have done for your neighbor lately. People who make stupid comments sicken me. I guess maybe we can bring Mr. Elwell back once he is released from prison. We know that he was all for the people of Secaucus and not at all for himself.
Please tell me what you have done for your neighbor lately. For the past year I’ve been trying to find out here our councilman lives, most of my neighbors are asking the same question; where does our councilman live. Can someone please help find the answer? I think people in this administration know the answer, but with their form of open, honest government, (they honestly know the answer but won’t discuss it openly) they refuse to address the issue.
Go to a council meeting and ask if your so concerned. By the way this article is about Dennis in jail well
OOOH, I now understand, candycane. Please forgive me for saying you are not doing anything. How heroic of you to spend all your free time trying to “find out” where someone lives. If ever my life is in danger or I am the victim of a flood or fire, or if I have financial difficulties and require assistance I will be sure to seek you out so you can come to my rescue. Get a life.
How about an address,did you ask your hero where the councilmember lives,maybe he can move in the new housing going in by Sams Club
Good idea, Go to a council meeting and ask questions.
THIS IS MOE GREENE PROUD TO BE FROM SECAUCAS NJ…ELWELL WAS A GOOD MAN. i knew him personally..Its sad what he did but IAM behind you all the way MAYOR ELWELL…Because KONVICTS ARE PEOPLE TOO.. everyone makes that litt le mistake..and he got hes punishment for it..but// THE MONEY GREEN TEAM is behind you all the way.. FREEEE ELWELLL….hes the man. I do not care what people say about our former Mayor..Nobodys GREAT… So it is what it is and good job to the snitch who ratted you out.. I hate snintchs…In our town we stand tall and it is what it is…Atleast he didnt take the towns money.it was a bribe ..Hey times are rough you probaly would have took it too sooooo SHHHHHHH please….
This is not the end of ELWELL and yes we all make mistake and yes he did it to himself…But nobodys opioions count to me… bought my freedom 2 million dollars to get the Feds of me…Your not cool if you go to jail and do stuff like all the other mayors did.. Iam pretty sure people are gona fire back at me in the comments section…”but its okay” I speak the truth and everybody deal with it..When he was mayor everybody was all over him so ziippppp it…GOOD NIGHT
Moe Green, please don’t post when your‘re under the influence. You’re making yourself sound like a fool.