A New Jersey man was killed when a tree fell on his family's tent while camping. His wife was injured and airlifted to the hospital. The man, 46-year-old William Arias of Bound Brook, was enjoying a camping trip with his family at Bull's Island Recreation Area in Hunterdon County when the accident occurred. A 30-year study from Sweden found that mammography screenings reduce breast cancer deaths by at least 30%, helping to prevent deaths.

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Enterprise
zones grow
Life of lies catches up to a Jersey con man
FBI informant Dwek corruption sting Dwek’s name. But sometimes, it seems,
beyond all in New Jersey enough is enough. • Former Secaucus mayor testifies
heads to prison for history. “He has proven to be a consummate he took money for a friend. Page 4
But yesterday, defrauder and an extremely cunning
trying to mislead feds
intentions By Ted Sherman
a federal judge
in Newark threw
the book at the
liar,” said U.S. District Judge Jose Lin-
ares, who revoked Dwek’s $10 mil-
lion bail and sent him to jail to await
Dwek’s attorney, Michael Himmel,
had no comment.
Rebekah Carmichael, a spokes-
Star-Ledger review: sTAR-LeDgeR sTAFF disgraced real sentencing, ruling Dwek had violated woman for the U.S. attorney, said, “the
Solomon Dwek finally told one too estate investor terms of his cooperation agreement court’s ruling was entirely reasonable.
Spending exceeds many lies. SOLOMON DWEK for lying to the with the government. This was not an easy call.”
plan’s original scope There had been the $400 million FBI, this time Federal prosecutors said Dwek tried Dwek, 38, had been free since plead-
Ponzi scheme. The $25 million bogus about a rental car that had not been re- to mislead the FBI after being charged ing guilty in October 2009 to an un-
By Jarrett Renshaw check at a bank drive-through window. turned on time. with car theft, and then filed a false af- related $50 million bank fraud that
and Megan DeMarco And the lies upon lies told to those A simple offense compared to the fidavit with Hertz regarding the inci- led to his role as an undercover FBI
sTATehouse BuReAu
he ensnared in the biggest federal portfolio of misdeeds attached to dent last month in Baltimore. SEE Dwek, PAGE 4
With Camden’s barren wa-
terfront as a backdrop, Gov.
Thomas H. Kean signed a bill
in 1983 that created one of the
nation’s first Urban Enter-
prise Zone programs, calling “We can’t believe it. He was always happy. He was a great person.”
it “the most significant step to- Julieth Arias, niece of victim
ward the economic revitaliza-
A horrific end
tion of our cities in our state’s
history.”
The plan: To attract com-
merce and reduce blight, al-
low businesses to charge half
to a family’s
the sales tax to entice shop-
pers, and offer companies tax
breaks if they agree to build
and hire workers. Then return
camping trip
the remaining sales tax rev-
enue to the zones so they can
be turned into attractive com-
mercial strips and spark the
local economy.
But what began as a modest
effort grew into a big bucks
enterprise for the 37 cities and
towns that now host Urban
Enterprise Zones. When fully
funded, they split $90 million
each year, part of the $952.8
million in sales tax dollars di-
verted to the program since it
started.
Now the very fate of the Ur-
ban Enterprise Zone program
is part of a tug of war between
Gov. Chris Christie and Demo-
cratic lawmakers that will play
out in today’s budget votes.
SEE ueZ, PAGE 4
30-year study:
Breast cancer
screenings a
big lifesaver
By Thomas H. Maugh II
Los AngeLes Times
The longest study yet to ex-
amine women who undergo
mammography shows that
it reduces death from breast
cancer by at least 30 percent
— a finding that many doctors
say may help ease the recent
controversy surrounding the
procedure. Jerry McCrea/The STar-Ledger
The three-decade study in At top, a photo from William Arias’ Facebook page shows him with his daughter Carmen, 12; nephew Pedro, 9; and son William, 10. William Arias
Sweden showed that a breast was killed and his wife injured when a tree, shown above, fell on the family’s tent at Bull’s Island Recreation Area in Hunterdon County.
cancer death is prevented for
every 414 to 519 women who
are screened, a much lower
number than the 1,000 to 1,500
Tree smashes through tent, killing a Bound Brook father footage
from the
that had been projected in pre- By Eunice Lee and Julia Terruso onto the tent the Arias family was condition, authorities said. scene
vious studies. sTAR-LeDgeR sTAFF sleeping in at a campground at the The couple’s 12-year-old daughter Watch a
“What this tells us is that, in For William Arias, camping was Delaware Raritan Canal State Park and 10-year-old son and a 9-year-old video by
the long term, screening for a way of bonding with the family he in the Hunterdon County borough of nephew were unharmed, but the The Star-Ledger’s
breast cancer is a very good in- held so dear. Stockton. family will remain forever scarred by Jerry McCrea
vestment,” said epidemiologist But the serenity and tranquillity of Arias, 46, of Bound Brook, was how such a calamitous event could from the scene of
Robert A. Smith, director of sunrise on the Delaware River gave killed instantly. His wife, Elcetia, happen so randomly while Arias was the accident at
cancer screening at the Ameri- way to an unthinkable tragedy yester- suffered multiple broken bones and doing something he loved. Bull’s Island
can Cancer Society and a co- day morning. needed to be freed from beneath the Julieth Arias, William’s niece, said Recreation Area
author of the paper appearing A sycamore tree weighing several fallen tree. She was airlifted to Capital the family would go camping at least in Hunterdon
in the journal Radiology. thousand pounds fell for no appar- Health System, Fuld Campus in Tren- three times per summer. There are County, only at
Critics had argued that over- ent reason, authorities said, crashing ton, where she remains in guarded SEE camper, PAGE 8 nj.com/videos.
use of the procedure produced
SEE cancer, PAGE 8
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