New Jersey.

The Assembly Appropriations Committee last week postponed hearings into the bonding practices of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, after the authority's former chairman asked for more time to respond to a committee subpoena.

Peter Levine, the former chairman and a current member of the authority's board, was the first person subpoenaed by the Legislature's committee, which last month heard testimony from Florio Administration officials and bond industry professionals in a one-day hearing on statewide bonding practices.

The second hearing was scheduled for Sept. 30, but was postponed until sometime this month, according to Assemblyman Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-Morris.

"Mr. Levine's attorney asked for a postponement and it was granted," Frelinghuysen said. "This postponement in no way affects the goals of this committee to scrutinize, and perhaps make legislative recommendations, to reform the bonding practices of state government, state agencies, and authorities."

Also slated to testify at the hearing were Jerome Goodman, the authority's current chairman; Robert Mulcahy 3d, president and chief executive officer of the authority; and Robert Del Tufo, the former state attorney general.

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