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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Hoboken Mayor: I'm Innocent
2009-07-25
Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano says he'll stay in office while he fights a charge of taking a $25,000 bribe. The mayor was among 44 public officials, rabbis and others arrested in an FBI sweep across New Jersey and Brooklyn yesterday. Cammarano made a brief statement before reporters this afternoon, but took no questions.
CAMMARANO: I want to state categorically that the charges that have been leveled against me in fed court are completely baseless and I deny any wrongdoing in connection with the allegations that are contained in that complaint.
The mayors of Secaucus and Ridgefield and two state assemblymen also face corruption charges. The 10-year federal money laundering probe also led to the resignation of the state's Community Affairs Commissioner, Joe Doria, but he's not been charged.
Posted by:Fred

#3  No.
Posted by: lotp   2009-07-25 15:04  

#2  Do you suppose that he might donate the bribe he didn't get to me?
Posted by: Richard of Oregon   2009-07-25 13:53  

#1  Reminds me of an episode of "The Wire" where an elected city politician, on trial, claimed to have diverted a donation (read: bribe) to public service groups, but chose not to "insult" the alleged beneficiaries - whose names escaped him - by asking them to sign receipts. He was acquitted. Just fiction, I guess.
Posted by: Bugs Sleregum7060   2009-07-25 02:44  

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