New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who as U.S. Attorney launched The Jersey Sting, sounds like a candidate, but last night would not throw his hat into the crowded Republican ring to run for president.
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“Louis Manzo’s purported influence was non-existent at the time of the alleged bribery, and any future influence was nebulous, unrealistic and not within the parameters of the statute, nor is there a scintilla of ‘public servant’ present,” attorneys for the former state assemblyman and mayoral candidate argue, as they seek to have the bribery case against him thrown out.
He and his brother were charged with accepting $27,500 from federal informant Solomon Dwek, in exchange for assistance on a purported real-estate project.
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"Nahum is an idiot," said Solomon Dwek dismissively on the surveillance tape. It was a comment that a federal judge took into consideration Thursday as he sentenced Rabbi Edmond Nahum to just a year of probation for his role in helping Dwek launder money.
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Think this is another story based on New Jersey informants, prosecutors, politics, and corruption – corruption stimulated by individuals' greed for money and power? Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, a joint project of Rutgers School of Law-Newark and Rutgers School of Criminal Justice, says James Finckenauer, in a review, thinks there's somthing different about this story.
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Former Assemblyman Daniel M. Van Pelt, who was convicted last year for accepting $10,000 in cash from FBI informant Solomon Dwek, has filed an appeal before the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Now living in Baltimore with her husband in jail awaiting sentencing, Pearl Dwek—the wife of federal informant Solomon Dwek—has filed for bankruptcy, saying she owes half a million dollars to creditors.
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Arguing there was insufficient evidence to support the jury’s verdict, former Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell asked a federal judge Monday to throw out his bribery conviction or grant him a new trial.
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Former Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano, arrested on corruption charges just 23 days after being sworn in to office, was "keyed out" of the Lewisburg Federal Prison Camp in Pennsylvania on Wednesday to complete the rest of his 24 month sentence in a halfway house in New York.
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Former Jersey City City Council candidate LaVern Webb Washington, whose guilty plea to bribery charges was thrown out by a federal judge, was indicted again yesterday for defrauding her campaign fund in connection to payments she accepted from federal informant Solomon Dwek, federal officials said.
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A day after former deputy Jersey City mayor Leona Beldini lost her appeal, the U.S. Attorney’s Office asked a federal judge to revoke her bail. Beldini, 76, a long-time confidante of Mayor Jerramiah Healy, was free pending an appeal of her corruption conviction and has already been sentenced to three years in prison.
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Former Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini, one of the first to go to trial in the massive federal corruption sting that came to light in July 2009, lost her appeal today with a decision by the 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirming her bribery conviction — making it likely that the 76-year-old one-time burlesque star will soon begin serving her three-year prison sentence.
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