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Another prominent Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter is facing serious criminal charges. Passaic, N.J., Mayor Samuel "Sammy" Rivera, recently named to Clinton's national Hispanic outreach team, was one of 11 Garden State politicians snared in a federal sting yesterday involving school contracts. It's not clear if Rivera was due to attend Clinton's speech to New Jersey Democrats in Atlantic City today. Rivera's troubles surfaced just a day after Clinton super-donor Norman Hsu failed to show up for his $2 million bail hearing. The former first lady cut ties with the Chinese-born financier after news reports revealed he was a fugitive on...

News of U-S Attorney Chris Christie's latest round of corruption arrests early yesterday morning sent a shockwave through New Jersey politics. The epicenter is, without question, the State House in Trenton. The tension is palpable, the mood is somber and it comes just as the fall campaign season kicks into high gear. Democratic Assemblymen Mims Hackett and Al Steele are among 11 public officials who are being charged with demanding and accepting cash bribes to steer public contracts. Democratic Assembly Speaker Joe Roberts says, "I was absolutely sickened by today's news involving the arrests of two Assembly members. While this...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A law enforcement official says 11 public officials from across New Jersey, including a mayor and two state lawmakers, have been arrested in a federal corruption investigation. The official says the arrests are related to insurance contracts for local governments. The official says two Democratic state lawmakers, the mayor of Passaic (puh-SAY'-ihk) and the chief of staff to Newark's City Council president are among those arrested.

Among the 11 public officials arrested in an F.B.I. corruption sting in New Jersey today was a leading Democratic supporter of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign in that state, Mayor Samuel Rivera of Passaic. It was the latest legal embarrassment involving an ally of the Clinton campaign, coming only one day after a wealthy Clinton donor, Norman Hsu, missed his court date in a California fraud case and apparently disappeared. Clinton advisers this spring and summer have been aggressively touting their long list of endorsements from elected officials and prominent Democratic donors, to indicate the breadth of establishment support...

TRENTON, N.J. (1010 WINS) -- Eleven mayors and two other New Jersey officials from across New Jersey, were arrested Thursday in federal corruption investigation, officials told 1010 WINS reporter Steve Sandberg. Democratic state Assemblymen Mims Hackett Jr. and Alfred E. Steele were among those arrested, along with Passaic Mayor Samuel Rivera. The chief of staff to Newark's City Council president was also arrested, the official said. 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.