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07-24-2009, 06:13 AM #1
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Feds Roundup New Jersey Democrat Government Officials for Co
The mayors of Hoboken, Secaucus and Ridgefield, public corruption, high-volume, international money laundering conspiracy
Feds Roundup New Jersey Democrat Government Officials for Corruption Charges
By Jim Kouri Thursday, July 23, 2009
The mayors of Hoboken, Secaucus and Ridgefield, the Jersey City deputy mayor and council president, two state assemblymen, numerous other public officials and political figures and five rabbis from New York and New Jersey were among 44 individuals charged Thursday in a two-track federal investigation of public corruption and a high-volume, international money laundering conspiracy, Michael Drewniak, public affairs officer for the US Attorney’s Office in Newark, NJ.
All of those arrested are members of the New Jersey Democrat Party.
Most of the defendants were arrested Thursday morning by a large contingent of federal agents, led by Special Agents of the FBI Newark Division and IRS Criminal Investigation Division.
Court-authorized search warrants were also being executed approximately 20 locations in New Jersey and New York, to recover, among other things, large sums of cash and other evidence of criminal conduct. Additionally, 28 seizure warrants were being executed against bank accounts in the names of the money laundering defendants and entities they control.
One criminal Complaint charges a Brooklyn man, Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, with conspiring to broker the sale of a human kidney for a transplant, at a cost of $160,000 to the transplant recipient. According to the Complaint, Rosenbaum said he had been brokering the sale of kidneys for 10 years.
In part, the bribe-taking was connected to fund raising efforts in heavily contested mayoral and city council campaigns in Jersey City and Hoboken, and the bribes were often parceled out to straw donors, who then wrote checks in their names or businesses to the campaigns in amounts that complied with legal limits on individual donations – so-called conduit or conversion donations. Other bribe recipients took cash for direct personal use and benefit; others kept some of the cash and used the rest for political campaigns, according to the criminal complaints.
Governor Jon Corzine announced that he asked his Community Affairs Commissioner, Joseph Doria, saying that Doria “could not be effective with such a serious investigation going on.â€Join our efforts to Secure America's Borders and End Illegal Immigration by Joining ALIPAC's E-Mail Alerts network (CLICK HERE)
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07-24-2009, 08:23 AM #2
Getting rid of these few is like removing a grain of sand from a beach, but at least its a start , I guess. I think if you removed the corruption from all of Jersey we'd be left with no politicians at all
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