11 New Jersey officials arrested

[cw42]

Two mayors and two state legislators are among 11 public officials arrested in New Jersey as part of a corruption investigation, the U.S. attorney's office in Trenton announced Thursday.

"The defendants allegedly demanded and accepted payments ranging from $1,500 to $17,500 at any one time," the release from the U.S. attorney's office alleges. "In most cases, the defendants sought to establish and perpetuate a corrupt relationship with the cooperating witnesses to continue receiving bribes."

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:beer: Here's to my home state of NJ!

 

[GenHoth]

P&N That way

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2093112&enterthread=y

 

[mugs]

What's unfortunate is that this is nothing out of the ordinary in NJ. 🙁

 

[Legendary]

This is nothing new about Jersey.

 

[RedCOMET]

Dirty Jerse FTW!!

 

[daveshel]

Corruption in Joisey? You're rockin' my world!

 

[NanoStuff]

Originally posted by: Legendary
This is nothing new about Jersey.

Nothing new about DC either, the only difference is in NJ it's illegal. The reason you're hearing about this regularly over there is because they're trying. It doesn't mean they have the most corruption, it just means they're getting rid of it.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: NanoStuff

Originally posted by: Legendary
This is nothing new about Jersey.

Nothing new about DC either, the only difference is in NJ it's illegal. The reason you're hearing about this regularly over there is because they're trying. It doesn't mean they have the most corruption, it just means they're getting rid of it.

Also not at all uncommon in Illinois and Wisconsin (though mainly Milwaukee there).

 

[nageov3t]

well, at least our politicians aren't as bad as Alaska's 😛

 

[ThePresence]

NJ hell yeah!

:beer:

 

[GRIFFIN1]

How will they be punished for this? No free donuts for a week? $25 fine?

 

[slsmnaz]

I knew Tony S. didn't die in the finale!

 

[Miramonti]

This is ridiculous. I know these men and they are great people.

In fact, before their arrest, I was in final contract negotiations with three of them to have the state of New Jersey renamed after my dog Winnie. 😀

 

[Eli]

Its nice to see stuff like this in the media, it gives you hope that maybe our systems' checks and balances still work at least sometimes.

 

[AnyMal]

Corrput politicians? No fvcking way!

 

[Queasy]

I'm shocked, shocked! to find that there is corruption in New Jersey.

 

[Syrch]

they need to investigate miami!

 

[ElFenix]

so that's about what, 1.1 x 10^-5% of the corrupt politicians in jersey?

 

[biggestmuff]

Corruption in NJ?