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  • Trial of former Newark mayor winds down (Democrat Sharpe James)

    04/07/2008 5:49:46 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 8 replies · 132+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 4/7/08 | Jeffrey Gold - ap
    NEWARK, N.J. - Newark Mayor Sharpe James betrayed his city by using his influence to help his one-time mistress rake in more than half a million dollars through shady real-estate deals, a prosecutor said in closing arguments Monday. James is accused of arranging for the sale of nine city-owned properties at a discounted rate of $46,000 to Tamika Riley from 2001 to 2005. Riley quickly sold them for $665,000 without ever starting required rehabilitation work on most of them, prosecutors said. The 41 witnesses heard during the five-week trial did not include James, 72, or Riley, 39, a publicist who...