It’s a New Jersey temptation liaison true out of a “Sopranos” playbook.
A organisation of Garden State officials inextricable in a crime prick met in diners and parking lots where they supposed money bribes pressed in coffee cups and paper bags, a state’s profession ubiquitous announced.
The 5 defendants — including a propagandize house president, a former state representative and a mother of Morristown’s mayor — are indicted of holding thousands of dollars of bribes sheltered as debate contributions from an unnamed taxation profession who they betrothed to sinecure for remunerative authorised work.
The bungle took place between May and Jul this year, a censure said.
Mary Dougherty, a initial lady of Morristown and a former Morris County freeholder candidate, supposed a coffee crater pressed with $10,000 value of $100 bills during a grill though after asked a declare to cut her 4 checks of $2,500 each, prosecutors alleged.
Sudhan Thomas, boss of a Jersey City Board of Education, was charged with usurpation $35,000 in money bribes to sinecure a declare as a special warn to a propagandize board.
Protesting his innocence, Thomas claimed a profession ubiquitous was targeting him since he sued a state for $2.1 billion he pronounced his propagandize district was owed.
“This is old-school domestic crime during the worst,” New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal pronounced during a press discussion Thursday. All 5 charged face adult to 10 years in jail and a $150,000 fine.