Cultural center to be named after convicted mayor (beloved RAT felon in Union City, NJ)

Greenwich Time ^ | 6/02/11

[Libloather]

Cultural center to be named after convicted mayor
Published 06:16 a.m., Thursday, June 2, 2011

UNION CITY, N.J. (AP) — Officials have decided to name a new cultural center after a New Jersey mayor who was convicted of federal racketeering charges.

The William V. Musto Cultural Center in Union City will be dedicated on June 11. The center used to be the 15th Street Free Public Library.

Musto was a state lawmaker who served as mayor from 1962 to 1970 and 1974 to 1982. That's when he was convicted of helping mobsters and contractors siphon federal funds from an expansion project at two high schools.

[Libloather]

William Vincent Musto — also known as William V. Musto — of Union City, Hudson County, N.J. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1964; member of New Jersey state senate 33rd District, 1976; indicted in 1981 on federal charges that he took part in a scheme to collect $440,000 in kickbacks from a construction company connected to organized crime; convicted in May 1982.

http://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/organized-crime.html

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Libloather.

...served as mayor from 1962 to 1970 and 1974 to 1982. That's when he was convicted of helping mobsters and contractors siphon federal funds from an expansion project at two high schools.

Hey, call off your old, tired ethics -- he was just a libertarian entrepreneur. ;')

[Calvin Locke]

And, as Bill Clinton would say, "He had to do it to improve the high
schools with those expansions. He did it for you!"