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REGION Friday, March 30, 2007 C6 HERALD NEWS TRENTON BRIEFS WAYNE R. BRYANT BIO State lawmaker, ex-dean indicted ment Authority. Private jobs: Lawyer, director at Eguity Bank Family: Wife, Cheryl Spicer, is assistant general manager of the PATCO High-Speed Line at the Delaware River Port Authority; Son, Wayne Bryant who died in 2006, was a producer at state-owned NJN radio and television network; Brother Mark Bryant is mayor of Lawnside and president of the Camden nonprofit health center CAMcare; brother Isaac Bryant is an official at the state Department of Education. His grandfather, Horace Bryant, was the first black calendar clerk in the Assembly; uncle Horace Bryant Jr. was the state commissioner of banking and insurance in the 1960s the first black Cabinet member.

Age: 59 Hometown: Lawnside Education: B.A., Howard University; J.D., Rutgers University School of Law-Camden Elected office: State senator Key political positions: Deputy majority leader of the state Senate; was also chairman of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee until he left the position in September. Other public jobs: Bryant has served as a consultant and lecturer for Rutgers University's Camden campus, as lawyer for the Gloucester County Board of Social Services, program coordinator for the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, lawyer for the Lawn-side Borough and a consultant for the Camden Redevelop School board to revisit OK on construction plans RINGW00D The Board of Education has scheduled an April 16 vote that will revisit its recent approval of a referendum on a $28.8 million proposal to close E.G. Hewitt School and upgrade three other buildings. The revote was set to address concerns by some residents that the referendum question was not on the March 19 agenda when the board voted 8-0 to seek state money and approval for a referendum in September. The proposal would add classrooms to Robert Erskine Elementary School and Martin J.

Ryerson Middle School and make improvements to Peter Cooper Elementary School, while closing the district's oldest school. Before the new vote on this matter, the board will hold a public information meeting at Hewitt School at 7:30 p.m. on April 11, with tours of the building's problem areas conducted before and after the meeting, said board President Gary Sheehan. The first tour starts at 6:45 p.m. Jan Barry Former Newark mayor is target of subpoena TRENTON Federal investigators have issued subpoenas seeking documents on dealings between state Sen.

Sharpe James, who served as Newark mayor for 20 years, and a Newark businesswoman whose company purchased city-owned lots and sold them for a substantial profit while James was Newark's mayor. The subpoenas were served on Senate Democratic and Republican offices, and seek records related to James and Tamika Riley, a former store operator in Newark. The Associated Press and that he showed up only one morning per week at most and did little more than read newspapers, yet was paid $35,000 per year. Over four years, Bryant helped bring $12.8 million in state money to the school through his role as the Senate budget chairman. "Today, one of New Jersey's most powerful politicians has been charged with placing his own personal greed ahead of the interests of the good people of the state of New Jersey," Christie said in a prepared statement.

"No officeholder, no matter how powerful and entrenched, will be permitted to turn public service into self-service in violation of the law." Messages left at Bryant's offices were not immediately returned. Prosecutors said he was apparently on vacation. Bryant who represents Camden, the nation's poorest city called the monitor's report inaccurate last year, saying he performed duties "consistent with my job description." By TOM HESTER Jr. The Associated Press TRENTON A once-powerful New Jersey lawmaker was indicted Thursday on corruption charges tied to a state medical school job that a federal monitor said paid him $35,000 a year to do little more than read the newspaper. State Sen.

Wayne Bryant, a former chairman of the budget committee, was named in a 20-count indictment released by U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie. Also indicted was R. Michael Gallagher, former dean at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey's School of Osteopathic Medicine in Stratford. The charges stem from a federal monitor's report in September that looked into alleged corruption at the state medical school, which promotes itself as the nation's largest health sciences university.

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