Marlboro Township is a township in Monmouth County,in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The township is located within the Raritan Valley region and is a part of the New York metropolitan area. As of the 2020 United States census,the township's population was 41,502,an increase of 1,311 (+3.3%) from the 2010 census count of 40,191,which in turn reflected an increase of 5,449 (+16.3%) from the 33,423 counted in the 2000 census.
Sharpe James is an American former politician from New Jersey. A Democrat,he served as the 37th mayor of Newark from 1986 to 2006 and as a state senator for the 29th legislative district from 1999 to 2008. He is the longest-serving mayor in Newark's history and is a subject of the 2005 feature-film Street Fight,which depicts Newark's 2002 mayoral election where James faced a closer-than-expected challenge from Cory Booker. Once a popular figure in New Jersey politics,his career effectively ended after he was convicted of high-profile corruption charges in 2008.
Kenneth Allen Gibson was an American politician of the Democratic Party who was the 36th mayor of Newark,New Jersey from 1970 to 1986. He was the first African American mayor of a major city in the Northeastern United States.
JoséLuis Huizar is a Mexican-American former politician who served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 2005 to 2020.
John A. Lynch Jr. is an American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey,who served in the New Jersey Senate from 1982 to 2002,where he represented the 17th Legislative District,and was Senate President from 1990 to 1992.
Peter J. Cammarano III is an American disbarred attorney,former Democratic politician and a convicted felon. He was the 37th mayor of Hoboken,New Jersey,serving from July 1 until July 31,2009. Cammarano was arrested by the FBI on corruption charges on July 23,2009,as part of an international criminal investigation known as Operation Bid Rig;he resigned from office eight days later. He pleaded guilty to extortion in April 2010 and was later sentenced to 24 months in federal prison.
Operation Bid Rig was a long-term investigation into political corruption in New Jersey conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation,the Internal Revenue Service,and the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2014.
Dennis P. Elwell served as Mayor of Secaucus,New Jersey from 2000 until July 28,2009,when he resigned after allegations of political corruption.
Solomon Dwek is an Israeli-American real estate investor who was convicted of felony fraud. He became an FBI informant.
Alex Blanco is an American politician,who served as mayor of Passaic,New Jersey. A member of the Democratic Party,Blanco was the first elected and second serving Dominican-American mayor in the United States.
Antonio "Anthony" Spalliero was a real estate developer with ties to organized crime. From 1968 to 2005,Spalliero had been arrested at least eight times,and indicted twice,though most of the charges were dismissed or dropped.
The Federal Correctional Institution,Fairton is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Fairfield Township,Cumerland County,New Jersey. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons,a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility also has an adjacent satellite prison camp housing minimum-security male offenders and a completely separate medium-security unit that houses inmates admitted into the federal Witness Security Program.
Carmelo G. Garcia is an American politician,life coach and convicted felon from the state of New Jersey. He represented the 33rd Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly as part of the Democratic Party for one two-year term. In June 2024,he pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud and bribery charges related to his time working for the Newark,New Jersey,city government from 2017 to 2019.
Corruption in Illinois has been a problem from the earliest history of the state. Electoral fraud in Illinois pre-dates the territory's admission to the Union in 1818. Illinois had the third most federal criminal convictions for public corruption between 1976 and 2012,behind New York and California. A study published by the University of Illinois Chicago in 2022 ranked Illinois as the second most corrupt state in the nation,with 4 out of the last 11 governors serving time in prison.
The 1970 Newark mayoral election was held on June 16,1970. Incumbent mayor Hugh Addonizio ran for a third term in office but was defeated by civil engineer Kenneth A. Gibson. Gibson became the first black man elected mayor of a major city in the Northeastern United States or Eastern Seaboard.
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