Giorgianni, although seen by The Trentonian shouting out against the judge, later said he heard the same loud banter, but denied upsetting Feinberg.

The judge, wearing a neck brace, couldn’t move her neck fast enough to see where the comment came from, so she automatically questioned Mercer County Freeholder Tony Mack about the statement.

The freeholder, who thinks the May 9 election was stolen from him, had already tossed his hands in the air, stormed out of the court room and slammed the court’s swinging gate when the judge continued to insist the testimony of Mack’s witnesses were not relevant to his fraud accusations.

And he had more to say after court was suspended yesterday. When asked about his support of Mack and the election, he feels, the city was cheated out of a different outcome.

"The judge seems a little off the wall," Giorgianni said -- smoking a cigar at Jo-Jo’s Steak Shop where, when people order food, they see a color photo of the committeeman and Mack sharing a hand shake.

Giorgianni was sitting in the front row of the spectators for the second day of hearings on Mack’s effort to overturn the election on a variety of grounds.

Yesterday, witnesses for the freeholder testified that there was something fishy about a delay in getting a box of ballots to election officials after the polls closed that night.

But Feinberg was quick to halt Mack’s lawyer Scott Capriglione’s interrogation of his witnesses. Each time he tried to make a point, Feinberg objected before Palmer’s campaign lawyer Rocky Peterson could. He would then just OK’d the motion.

"It’s not government’s duty to cover up," Giorgianni said after court ended for the day. "It appears to me, that to prove this case, she wants Tony’s lawyer, Mr. Mack, to prove this case by saying show me the core of the evidence, but don’t cut the apple. And it can not be done like that."

Sylvester Bobby Bryant, who was working the Kathy McBride campaign, couldn’t believe that when the results were announced -- not on the computer screen at the county clerk’s office as they were supposed to be -- it was by a Palmer campaign member who read the results out loud from a piece of paper.

Still, Feinberg, explaining the testimony was irrelevant to the fraud allegation Mack’s camp alleges, and didn’t let Capriglione dig into the issue.

It’s alleged by Mack that Palmer bullied votes out of city employees and cops claiming that if they didn’t vote for them or work the election, they’d loose their jobs.

Banished Trenton finance director Chris Stankowicz testified Monday the mayor held a meeting with city employees where they were pressured -- as Stankowicz saw it -- to work election night or their job was in jeopardy.

Mack also alleges Palmer had messengers working on his campaign collecting absentee ballots and holding onto them before election night when the votes should have immediately found its place at the county clerk’s office.

Sarah Catherine Ivory testified working Palmer’s campaign collecting absentee ballots, signed by other workers, the weekend before the election.

Giorgianni, known in the 1980s as the "quarter-ton sex offender’’ who now prefers to be called a businessman and North Ward Republican committeeman, plans to stand up to Feinberg today when court resumes at 9 a.m.

He’s best known as the city steak-house owner whose 565 pounds and asthma almost got him out of prison after he was convicted of molesting a 14-year-old girl.

In August 1982, Mercer County Superior Court Judge Richard J. S. Barlow Jr. stayed Giorgianni’s 15-year prison term because his lawyer said serving time would kill him.

Within a month, however, prosecutors found a television video of a boxing match in Atlantic City that showed Giorgianni ringside in a cloud of cigar smoke.

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