Primarily Democrat controlled New Jersey politics is beyond a culture of corruption, it's the culture, period. There is no un-corrupted alternative.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- The FBI arrested 11 public officials, including a mayor and two state lawmakers, Thursday in a federal corruption probe that spread across the state, the U.S. Attorney's office said.
The arrests were related to insurance contracts for local governments, a law enforcement officials said on condition of anonymity because the formal announcement was pending.
Democratic state Assemblymen Mims Hackett Jr. and Alfred E. Steele were both arrested, along with Passaic Mayor Samuel Rivera, the law enforcement official said. Also arrested were the chief of staff to Newark's City Council president, Passaic Councilmen Jonathan Soto and Marcellus Jackson, and five Pleasantville school board members.
Initial court appearances were scheduled Thursday afternoon in Trenton.
The U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, Christopher J. Christie, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Weysan Dun scheduled an afternoon news conference to discuss the case.
Hackett, 65, is also the mayor of Orange, a city of about 33,000 residents 15 miles west of New York City. A phone message left at his office wasn't immediately returned Thursday.
Isn't this like dog bites man?
Doesn't everyone know that New Jersey is corrupt from top to bottom, all the way from the local housing inspector up to the state house?
Posted by: nowingker | Thursday, September 06, 2007 at 12:20 PM
Insurance: legalized gambling for people too moral to throw dice.
Posted by: rwilymz | Thursday, September 06, 2007 at 12:51 PM
Corrupt democrats? Say it ain't so. That's like telling me the sun rises in the east.
Posted by: Capitalist Infidel | Thursday, September 06, 2007 at 01:16 PM
...or like bears defecating in forested areas.
Posted by: seekeronos | Thursday, September 06, 2007 at 01:41 PM
I am already seeing way too many NY, NJ and California plates here in places that are not on the cross country tourista beaten path. Please, we don't need any more moonbats from failed blue states here.
Posted by: Ennis | Thursday, September 06, 2007 at 03:10 PM
No big deal any allegations of wrong doing for a Democrat can be considered a resume enhancement and may even be back in office after serving any jail time.
Posted by: Bryan | Thursday, September 06, 2007 at 04:37 PM
"Doesn't everyone know that New Jersey is corrupt from top to bottom, all the way from the local housing inspector up to the state house?"
New Jersey, Texas, really anywhere that one-party rule decides to break out like a bad case of the plague. Just look at the trainwreck of a national one-party government we've been suffering through for the last six years.
"No big deal any allegations of wrong doing for a Democrat can be considered a resume enhancement and may even be back in office after serving any jail time."
Hey, at least our crooks actually serve jail time.
Posted by: IslamoLlama | Thursday, September 06, 2007 at 05:31 PM
Oh no, this is TERRIBLE. Almost as bad as a family values GOP Senator getting 'friendly' in a mens room!
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