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Proposal never was seriously
considered, Trump administration
officials say. Page 1B

ANIMAL CRUELTY SENTENCING

JAIL FOR STUNT

THAT KILLED DOG $130M deal
reached for
Ft. Monmouth
Toms River man did doughnuts before truck
went through ice, causing pet to freeze to death town center
DAN RADEL @DANIELRADELAPP

EATONTOWN - A real estate developer has agreed

to invest $130 million into Freedom Pointe, one of the
marquee redevelopment projects at Fort Monmouth.
The terms of the deal, called a purchase and sale and
redevelopment agreement, were announced Wednes-
day at a Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Au-
thority board meeting.
As part of the agreement, developer Fort Monmouth
Parcel B Redevelopment will pay $22.1 million for the
89-acre tract that it plans to redevelop into a mixed-use
town center that it hopes will draw top-shelf retail
stores
The real estate group is an affiliate of Paramount
Realty Service based in Lakewood and has committed
to investing $130 million into building Freedom Pointe.

See DEAL, Page 2A

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For videos and a photo gallery, go to APP.com and search for
Freedom Pointe.

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Andrew Mayer is taken into custody Friday by an Ocean County Sheriffs officer after Superior Court Judge James M.
Blaney sentenced him to 180 days in jail for animal cruelty in the death of his dog, Rolo. The dog perished in the Toms River.
PHOTO COURTESY OF DEANNA LEIDY
Rolo perished in his owners
truck when it broke through the
ice on the Toms River.
Rendering of Freedom Pointe, a mixed-use development
planned for the Eatontown side of Fort Monmouth.
THOMAS P. COSTELLO/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
President Donald Trumps meandering news
conference Thursday afternoon in many ways
KATHLEEN HOPKINS @KHOPKINSAPP He was my
had the same look and feel of the news
best friend. I conference Gov. Chris Christie (left) held on
TOMS RIVER - A poor decision led to the death of his cared for him Jan. 9, 2014, when the Bridgegate scandal first
best friend. more than broke.
And now, a 29-year-old Toms River man must pay for anything. ... He
his reckless stunt with a 180-day term at the Ocean would have
County Jail.
Superior Court Judge James M. Blaney imposed the
jail term Friday on Andrew Mayer for causing the death
lived until he
was 12 years
Five signs Trump
of his 212-year-old dog named Rolo.
Rolo, a brown-and-white mix of boxer, Labrador re-
triever and pit bull, froze to death in frigid waters on
old, and hes
not with me
anymore.
is using playbook
March 1, 2015, when Mayers truck broke through the
semi-frozen Toms River with the dog inside.
Mayer, who pleaded guilty Sept. 26 to animal cruelty,
ANDREW MAYER
from Bridgegate
said Rolo jumped in his truck that fateful night as he MORE BOB JORDAN @BOBJORDANAPP
headed out onto the ice to do doughnuts. His truck at
once broke through the ice and became submerged, he
ONLINE
Not only did Chris Christie and Donald Trump start
said. To watch a video
their week enjoying a lunch of meatloaf together, but
Mayer jumped out and tried to save Rolo, but the dog about the
could they have also discussed best practices for con-
was afraid and backed away from him in the truck as it sentencing, visit
fronting political scandals?
was sinking, and Mayer wasnt able to reach him to pull APP.com and
Trumps meandering news conference Thursday in
search for Andrew
many ways had the same look and feel of the news con-
See DOG, Page 2A Mayer.
ference Christie held on Jan. 9, 2014, when the Bridge-
gate scandal broke.
Here are signs that Trump is borrowing from the
Christie scandal playbook:

Historians rank Obama at No. 12 1. Hold a marathon news conference but

STAFF REPORT
Theres a new entrant in the club of former presi-
dents, and hes good enough for No. 12, according to a
survey of 91 presidential historians.
Barack Obama, who handed over the keys to the
White House to Donald Trump last month, came in
12th place in his debut on the list, just behind New Jer-
seys Woodrow Wilson and just ahead of James Madi-
son, according to a C-SPAN poll released just before
Presidents Day weekend.
The top four were Abraham Lincoln, George
Washington, Franklin Roosevelt and Theodore Roo-
sevelt, the same as the last rankings in the 2009 sur-
vey. Similarly, the bottom three were the same:
Franklin Pierce, Andrew Johnson and, in dead last,
James Buchanan. All three bookended the Civil War,
which drove Lincoln to greatness.
Once again, the big three are Lincoln, Washing-
ton, and FDR as it should be, said Rice University
history professor Douglas Brinkley, one of the aca-
dont really give straight answers.
Trump was on stage for 77 minutes Thursday no
TOP 10 PRESIDENTS IN C-SPAN POLL match for Christies 108-minute defend-and-deflect
Bridgegate news conference, but long nonetheless.
1....................Abraham Lincoln 6 .....................Harry S. Truman
See SIGNS, Page 5A
2 .............George Washington 7 ..................Thomas Jefferson
3............Franklin D. Roosevelt 8 .....................John F. Kennedy INSIDE
4..............Theodore Roosevelt 9.......................Ronald Reagan Christie says Trump told him to order meatloaf, Page 5A
5 .........Dwight D. Eisenhower 10 ..............Lyndon B. Johnson
demic advisers to the study, in a story about the sur-
vey in the Washington Post. That Obama came in at
No. 12 his first time out is quite impressive.
Stay at the Shore
Edna Greene Medford of Howard University, an- Why go away when you can have fun here? Indulge, 1D
other adviser, told the Post said she would have ex-
pected Obama to rank higher, given his high approval
ratings when he left office in January, that his ad-
ministration had been close to scandal-free and his
See OBAMA, Page 5A

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