Amazing story. A shame people like this get the power to begin with.
Did you know it cost more for a gallon of water than a gallon of champagne here because of the corruption?
Would be nice if the rice came back down to earth but I'm sure it won't.
Taxpayers will be footing the bill for the Yachts and everything else these polticians bought over the last two decades forever.
4-17-2008 A day Newarkers will remember
Thirty-seven years in public office.
And he never lost an election, steamrolling foes along the way, squashing critics and pushing his agenda by sheer force and will.
Yesterday, the once-unstop pable force was steamrolled by 12 strangers who pronounced his guilt inside a federal courtroom.
In a matter of seconds, the 10 a.m. decision launched the state's largest city into a day of clattering, as residents and workers digested and dissected the news that James and his former girlfriend had committed fraud and would be going to federal prison.
This is the story of a day in Newark no one will soon forget, a day few who watched James' spectacular hold over the city would have predicted.
For 20 years, James ruled Newark from a second-floor office at City Hall -- a building with an unmistakable golden dome that rises over Broad Street, a building the former mayor could see every day entering and leaving the Martin Luther King Federal Courthouse across the street.
As mayor, James kept a hand in nearly every decision, right down to which clerks would get hired for jobs. Those who disagreed with him paid the price, with James often taunting them in public or keeping them out of the loop on decisions.
Did you know it cost more for a gallon of water than a gallon of champagne here because of the corruption?
Would be nice if the rice came back down to earth but I'm sure it won't.
Taxpayers will be footing the bill for the Yachts and everything else these polticians bought over the last two decades forever.
4-17-2008 A day Newarkers will remember
Thirty-seven years in public office.
And he never lost an election, steamrolling foes along the way, squashing critics and pushing his agenda by sheer force and will.
Yesterday, the once-unstop pable force was steamrolled by 12 strangers who pronounced his guilt inside a federal courtroom.
In a matter of seconds, the 10 a.m. decision launched the state's largest city into a day of clattering, as residents and workers digested and dissected the news that James and his former girlfriend had committed fraud and would be going to federal prison.
This is the story of a day in Newark no one will soon forget, a day few who watched James' spectacular hold over the city would have predicted.
For 20 years, James ruled Newark from a second-floor office at City Hall -- a building with an unmistakable golden dome that rises over Broad Street, a building the former mayor could see every day entering and leaving the Martin Luther King Federal Courthouse across the street.
As mayor, James kept a hand in nearly every decision, right down to which clerks would get hired for jobs. Those who disagreed with him paid the price, with James often taunting them in public or keeping them out of the loop on decisions.
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