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The arrests were expected to become fodder in this year’s legislative elections, for which Republican Party leaders have built a campaign, in part, on allegations of systemic corruption in the Democratic Party.

Most of the defendants are Democrats.

Those charged include Assemblyman Alfred E. Steele, 53, who is also the pastor of a Baptist church in Paterson and was a Passaic County undersheriff; Assemblyman Mims Hackett Jr., 65, who is also mayor of the City of Orange; Passaic Mayor Samuel “Sammy” Rivera, 60; Passaic City Councilman Marcellus Jackson, 37; former Passaic City Councilman Jonathan Soto, 32; and Keith O. Reid, 48, chief of staff to the Newark City Council’s president.

Also charged were Pleasantville School Board President James A. Pressley, 22; board member Rafael Velez, 46; and former members Adams, 27, Callaway, 53, and James T. McCormick, 50.

Callaway is a member of the Pleasantville City Council. He is also a brother of Craig Callaway, the former Atlantic City Council president who was jailed in March in a similar, but apparently unrelated, corruption investigation.

Louis Mister, 56, a Pleasantville resident, was also charged. Mister is described as an associate of Maurice Callaway’s and is alleged to have accepted two cash payments for him.

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20070907_Corruption_sting_crosses_N_J_.html


13 posted on 09/08/2007 6:28:22 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( my opinions do not represent the opinions of the management at Free Republic, they are mine alone.)
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To: AmericanMade1776
Most of the defendants are Democrats.
15 posted on 09/08/2007 6:29:00 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( my opinions do not represent the opinions of the management at Free Republic, they are mine alone.)
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