Eleven arrested in bribery scandal

Just wondering - what party do these guys belong to? Seems the old journalistic questions - who, what, where, when, how, were NOT asked or printed. Just wondering.

NJ DEMS ARE A NATIONAL EMBARRASSMENT AND CONTINUE TO MAKE NJ LOOK BAD - THIS ALL HAPPENS WHILE CORZINE SITS ON HIS HANDS AND HANDS OUT CHECK TO SHUT PEOPLE UP. THIS SCANDAL IS NOW NATIONAL NEWS:

11 Public Officials Arrested Across New Jersey in Federal Corruption Probe Thursday, September 06, 2007 E-MAIL STORY PRINTER FRIENDLY VERSION TRENTON, N.J. —

Eleven public officials from across New Jersey, including a mayor and two state lawmakers, were arrested Thursday in a federal corruption probe, the U.S. Attorney's office said. Democratic state Assemblymen Mims Hackett Jr. and Alfred E. Steele were among those arrested, along with Passaic Mayor Samuel Rivera, a law enforcement official said. The chief of staff to Newark's City Council president was also arrested, the official said, along with Passaic Councilmen Jonathan Soto and Marcellus Jackson and five Pleasantville school board members. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to upstage a formal announcement, said the arrests were related to insurance contracts for local governments. The arrests were first reported Thursday by WNBC-TV in New York. Initial court appearances were scheduled in federal court Thursday afternoon in Trenton. The U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, Christopher J. Christie, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Weysan Dun have scheduled a 3:30 p.m. news conference at the courthouse. The arrests are the latest in an anti-corruption campaign waged by Christie's office, and mark the second major corruption roundup this year. Two Democratic senators, Wayne Bryant of Lawnside and Sharpe James of Newark, are facing pending federal corruption charges. Both pleaded not guilty. More than 100 public officials in the state have been convicted on federal corruption charges in the last five years.

Its interesting that the Editor's version here takes great pains to single out the lone Republican in the group, while there is no mention of the fact that the 10 others are all Democrats. Makes you wonder about the impartiality of this website. It's become a bad joke eversince Bob Sommer took over.  

I just read Al Steele's financial disclosure form and nowhere on it does he list the ALLEGED bribes he received so clearly this is just a witch hunt by the US Attorney!

I don't care if they are dems or repubs or independents if they do a crime give them hard time.

NJ has had its share of "bad" people in both parties. I say again NJ HAS HAD ITS SHARE OF BAD PEOPLE IN BOTH PARTIES.

The way to fix this problem is to vote for people you trust not who you are told to trust or who your party tells you to vote for but for people who give you that confidence level of trust.

If you ever feel they don't have you trust you then vote them out.

You can certainly see why Chris Christie got to keep his position after the political arm of the White House got through with him. Did he make a deal to just target Dems? And don't you think the timing of these arrests are a tad suspect just 2 months before the election. But then again, he has his own political agenda. That being said, these elected officials should all resign now and take care of their defense. We don't need them anywhere near the legislature, town hall and BOE.

is in a state of political chaos, too bad the Republicans didn't have the sense to fund the District 36 Republican effort. How many issues have to develop in the district before someone in the GOP realizes that those three clowns serving in Trenton are completley vulnerable? It will be interesting to see how quickly Sarlo, Schaer and Scalera throw Rivera and Jackson under a bus to save there own political skins.

I also am with atticus. I guess we know where this sites affiliations stand