Breaking: Hudson County (NJ) Democratic Party arrested.


Or so it seems. We’re having difficulty keeping up.

UPDATE: OK, more information:

2 N.J. Mayors Arrested in Broad Inquiry on Corruption

The mayors of Hoboken and Secaucus, a state assemblyman and dozens of others were rounded up early Thursday as the F.B.I. swept across four counties in New Jersey as part of a two-year corruption and money-laundering investigation that ranged from the Jersey Shore to Brooklyn and has even reached into the State House in Trenton.

Agents raided the home of Joseph V. Doria Jr., commissioner of the state Department of Community Affairs, who also is the former mayor of Bayonne, an official confirmed Thursday morning.

Among the roughly 30 people arrested by mid-morning were Hoboken Mayor Peter J. Cammarano III and Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell, both Democrats, and Assemblyman Daniel M. Van Pelt, a Republican from Forked River, in Ocean County. Mr. Cammarano, who turned 32 on Wednesday, was elected mayor June 9 and sworn in July 1, after serving as councilman-at-large since 2005.

I’ve done a spreadsheet of the people named so far – and let me note: there’s something fun about a story where you need to do a spreadsheet in order to keep up with this sort of thing.

Name Occupation Democrat
Peter Cammarano Mayor of Hoboken Yes
Dennis Elwell Mayor of Secaucus Yes
Leona Beldini Dep Mayor of Jersey City Yes
Mariano Vega Council President, Jersey City Yes
La Vern Webb-Washington Council Candidate, Jersey City Yes*
Michael Manzo Fire Department, Jersey City No**
Daniel Van Pelt New Jersey Assemblyman No
*Ran as independent.
**Ran as independent.

There’s going to be a press conference at noon, and it should be riveting.

Moe Lane

PS: You know who else is from Hudson County? Senator Robert Menendez.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.


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I guess the only thing I'm really shocked by is

Andy W. Thursday, July 23rd at 2:13PM EST (link)

that when I read the article and saw now D’s or R’s next to names, I came here to RS and actually saw that some of the implicated folks weren’t D’s according to Moe’s check.

Keep up the good work Sam Graves (R, MO-6)

dangit

Andy W. Thursday, July 23rd at 2:14PM EST (link)

“no” D’s or R’s next to names.

Keep up the good work Sam Graves (R, MO-6)

 
 

Acting US Atty Marra was asked about Menendez

CincoSolas_del_Bronx (Diary) Thursday, July 23rd at 2:17PM EST (link)

at the presser, and was deliciously ambiguous with the standard “no comment during an ongoing investigation” line, which could have just as easily been a summary “no”.

There are enough indictees to up the likelihood of singing.

Fresher winds than usual from across the Hudson!

Those dreading urbanization should remember that though the Kingdom of God first appeared in a temporal Garden, at the end of the book it is established in an eternal City. (paraphrase, James M. Boice)

soli Deo gloria