The New Brunswick Legal Saga

At least everyone who cares about this knows that Anthony Caputo, the one time New Brunswick police director, lived in Cape May.

That was the point, no?

The legal saga enveloping this case, which was ended this week by the state Supreme Court, began about two years ago when Charlie Kratovil, who edits an online news site, New Brunswick Today, discovered that Caputo resided about two hours from his place of business, the city of New Brunswick.This was a big deal. If a man lives two hours from his job, is he really doing it?

How did he know that? The editor was given Caputo’s voting records, which had his Cape May address, through a public records request. All this was very much what reporters do during the regular course of business.

Kratovil sought comment from city officials about…