The former mayor of Orange, New Jersey was sentenced to 9 months in prison and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine in a case in which Mims Hackett Jr. and 10 other public officials were arrested on September 6, 2007 for allegedly accepting a $5,000 bribe to help an insurance brokerage firm get business in the town. The brokerage turned out to be an undercover sting operation of the FBI which was charged with investigating public corruption in Northern New Jersey. Hackett plead guilty on May 27 as did most of the other defendants.
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It is good to see that even your local Mayor cannot get away with this kind of insidious corruption.
Read the full story here.
It is good to see that even your local Mayor cannot get away with this kind of insidious corruption.
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