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Born in Wayne, N.J., Mr. Cammarano graduated from Boston University and moved to Hoboken while at Seton Hall University Law School. He joined a law firm, but his heart clearly was in politics. He was the city's coordinator of the Kerry-Edwards campaign, and two years later was the state legal director in Senator Robert Menendez's campaign. He was elected to Hoboken's City Council in 2005.
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- ↑ Schweber, Nate (July 25, 2009). "Hoboken Mayor, From Reformer to Defendant". The New York Times.
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- ↑ "Hoboken Mayoral Candidate Peter Cammarano No Longer Working at Genova, Burns and Vernoia". NJ.com. June 8, 2009. Retrieved May 19, 2012.
- ↑ "Election wrapup: Cammarano elected Hoboken mayor; Zimmer not conceding, has majority of council". NJ.com. June 13, 2009. Retrieved June 13, 2009.
- ↑ The Jersey Journal (July 1, 2009). "Peter Cammarano is sworn in as Hoboken's youngest mayor, Councilman Ravi Bhalla is the first Sikh to hold an elected public office in New Jersey". Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
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The arrests in the public-corruption portion of the probe included the Democratic mayors of Hoboken and Secaucus, Peter Cammarano III and Dennis Elwell; Republican state Assemblyman Daniel Van Pelt; and Democrat Leona Beldini, the deputy mayor of Jersey City.
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Peter Cammarano III, the mayor of Hoboken, N.J., who was arrested July 23 in a huge state corruption sweep, resigned effective at noon on Friday. ...
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- ↑ "NJ Supreme Court disbars ex-Hoboken mayor who admitted taking bribes". Jersey Journal . September 17, 2014. Retrieved February 14, 2015.
Former Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano, who was sentenced to two years behind bars after admitting to accepting bribes from a corrupt developer, has been disbarred by the state Supreme Court
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