Councilwoman Beth Mason and husband Richard Mason of Wachtell, Lipton hammered with $40,000 campaign fines

Beth and Richard G. Mason debut together on popular legal publication “Above the Law”

Slammed with fines in the tens of thousands of dollars, Richard G. Mason of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz along with his notorious ethically challenged litigious wife, Hoboken Councilwoman Beth Mason scored duo detrimental plaudits in their billing on the legal beagle website “Above the Law.”

In contrast, the Hudson Reporter kept the breaking story off the front page even as tens of thousands of dollars in campaign fines assessed by NJ ELEC paid last month by Beth and Richard Mason is being covered by media extensively elsewhere.

The Hudson Reporter’s buried story diametrically differs with the lengthy stories on Council President Ravi Bhalla who saw a $100 technical state violation waived in a long running battle with ethics complainant and Hoboken politico Perry Belfiore going back to 2010.

NJ ELEC named Richard Mason in the first sentence in its issued final decision.

The popular legal website “Above the Law,” which covers legal news and the less than savory actions of attorneys in the legal profession reported on the breaking Mason family news and published the actual NJ ELEC final decision.

Additionally, Beth Mason saw further notoriety last week on PolitickerNJ, New Jersey’s most influential statewide political website getting a double whammy of dishonor there to ring in the New Year.

First PolitickerNJ debuted the breaking statewide story detailing Beth Mason and Richard Mason’s $44,000 in fines assessed by the State of NJ campaign watchdog NJ ELEC (Election Law Enforcement Commission).

In a separate follow-up piece, PolitickerNJ named Hoboken Councilwoman Beth Mason a top loser of the week for all of New Jersey to kick off 2015 writing:

Beth Mason
The wealthy Hoboken councilwoman – a key northern ally of Senate President Steve Sweeney (D-3) – ate more than $40,000 dollars in ELEC fines for election finance reporting violations in two of the city’s municipal elections, according to reports New Jersey’s Election Law Enforcement Commission released this week.
Beth Mason along with her campaign treasuer husband, Richard G. Mason of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz got their bells rung in the New Year but the Hudson Reporter looks like it’s doing its best to keep a lid on the problem for long time advertisers or is it something more? No story appeared in the Hudson Reporter unlike the Jersey Journal when NJ ELEC issued a complaint against Beth and Richard Mason containing hundreds of alleged violations potentially totaling over two million dollars last year.

Some rumors suggest the magazine “07030” published by the Hudson Reporter may be a business venture between the pro-Old Guard paper, the Mason family and possibly their political operative not residing in Hoboken.

Across the river, the NYC legal grapevine says whispers in the hallways and conference rooms at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, known for its highly successful mergers and acquisitions practice have had enough of Beth Mason’s antics finding their way into their board room. Richard Mason who leads its humdrum bankruptcy division may be hearing more unhappiness that division is bleeding into the other areas. Bankruptcy - be it business, moral, ethical and of the politically depraved variety in Hoboken doesn’t mix well with a legal mergers and acquisitions business.

Is the tony white-shoed midtown law firm about to see more problems exploding in its midst courtesy of the Masons?

See all the details in the exclusive feature at the link.