{"id":12920,"date":"2009-07-23T12:20:37","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T17:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=12920"},"modified":"2009-07-23T12:31:25","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T17:31:25","slug":"2-nj-mayors-arrested-no-discernible-political-affiliations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12920","title":{"rendered":"2 NJ mayors arrested, no discernible political affiliations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/jul\/23\/2-nj-mayors-arrested-corruption-case\/?feat=home_headlines\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a>, two New Jersey mayors were among the 30 folks rounded up for corruption. I know, I&#8217;m shocked, too &#8211; corruption in NJ? Really?  But what&#8217;s really surprising about the article, is that none of the people involved seem to belong to any political party.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The mayors of two New Jersey cities and a current and former state legislator were among more than two dozen people arrested Thursday in a sweeping corruption investigation.  Among about 30 people arrested Thursday were Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano III, Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell, Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini, former Jersey City Council President L. Harvey Smith and state Assemblyman Daniel Van Pelt.  Van Pelt is accused of accepting $10,000 from a cooperating government witness posing as a developer who sought help in getting permits for a project in Ocean County.  Smith, a former state Assemblyman and Jersey City mayoral candidate who served four years as the city&#8217;s council president, and several other current and former Jersey City public officials also are accused of accepting money to help the fake developer gain permits and approvals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not like they didn&#8217;t have room to put the political party in the article &#8211; in the middle of the story they start talking about the FBI raiding a synagogue in NYC for trafficking in human kidneys.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADDED:<\/strong> Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090723\/ap_on_re_us\/us_nj_corruption_arrests\" target=\"_blank\">longer version of the same article<\/a> &#8211; it even lists the suspects and gives little bios on them. But no political party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Associated Press, two New Jersey mayors were among the 30 folks rounded up for &hellip; <a title=\"2 NJ mayors arrested, no discernible political affiliations\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12920\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2 NJ mayors arrested, no discernible political affiliations<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberals-suck","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}