Jon S. Corzine
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Corzine Jon S. Corzine
It is a warning that New Jersey government had lost the people's confidence, Jon S. Corzine was sworn in as the state's 52nd elected governor and pledged to guide in a new era marked by ethics reform and fiscal restraint. Offering a sober message in blunt language, Mr. Corzine, who is a former Wall Street executive, said that the state faced deep financial problems, and he complained that past failures of leadership had relegated key aspects of the government to the control of the state and federal courts. He also pledged wide-ranging ethics reform, including an elected state comptroller to monitor the government.