Prosecutor to Investigate Sexually Explicit Emails between Cryan, Lobbyist

Alleged racy emails between Assemb. Joseph Cryan (D-Union) and a former lobbyist from West Orange published in today’s New York Post were a “blatant violation” of a court order to keep them sealed, a prosecutor said Monday.

Gregory Mueller, the first assistant prosecutor for Sussex County prosecuting the case told NJ.com he will investigate who leaked the emails, citing the only people with access to the emails were Cryan, former lobbyist Karen Golding, her attorney Roy Greenman and anyone they may have given the emails to.

The emails were sealed in court offices, the NJ.com report said, and the court clerk assured Mueller they were not given to the press or anyone else.

Golding’s motion to unseal the emails “may be moot at this point” since they’ve already been published, the report said.

In 2006, Golding was initially arrested on charges she stalked Cryan after she was seen entering his unlocked car parked at the Statehouse in 2006, reports said. She claimed she and Cryan were involved in a relationship, but was allowed to enter a pre-trial intervention program. She was later arrested in 2007 after stalking a female friend of Cryan’s and was sentenced in 2010 after pleading guilty to stalking in that case.

Mueller acknowledged that he initially accepted Cryan's position that there was no relationship between Golding and Cryan, the NJ.com report said. However, he said, whether there was a relationship is irrelevant because Golding later “terrified” Cryan’s friend, Kathleen Conway, along with members of Cryan’s family, by stalking them after her arrest.

In a court motion, Golding said she was seeking to unseal the e-mails in an effort to prove she wasn’t lying about the relationship, but the court hadn’t yet acted on the motion.