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Massive New Jersey corruption probe snares officials, rabbis - The Star-Ledger Archives

44, that's right 44 people, including three mayors, two state assemblyen, and five rabbis were arrested, the culmination of a two year federal investigation into an international money laundering and bribery scheme.

This stuff is wild, let me tell you. It includes tales of organ flipping (works the same way as house flipping), bribery, and the laundering of so much cash that they brought in a federal credit union to help them count it all. And the coruption was equal opportunity. Republicans and Democrats alike were ensnared in this web.

Even by NJ standards this is pretty shocking. I thought it didn't get any more corrupt than what Sharpe James was pulling off when he was the mayor of Newark, but all I can say is wow. They have taken the corruption crown away from Rod Blagojevech.

An interesting side story to this is that this investigation was started by Christopher Christie, a former U.S. attorney who is currently the Democratic nominee running against Jon Corzine for governor. I think this pretty much guarantees his election.

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Xerxys

Isn't this the norm in the north east? I personally think the only reason so many were caught is because they got greedy and included an idiot dumbass that ratted them out ... otherwise, there must be more than half that number quoted above there that got away with the entire case.

I'm not surprised.

Seaver

Majority are Democrat, nothing to see here people.

Sorry, I got so sick of the "Culture of Corruption" mantra spewed not too long ago.

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MSD

For the first few weeks of the Blagojevich thing, I was convinced that the majority of voters in Illinois, especially Cook County and Chicago, simply do not give a shit what their elected officials do as long as they're Democrats. I'll stop believing that once Daley is defeated in a landslide.