HOBOKEN, N.J., July 30 (UPI) -- A second New Jersey mayor has announced his resignation after more than a dozen political figures were caught up in a huge corruption scandal.
Mayor Peter J. Cammarano III of Hoboken joined Mayor Dennis Elwell of Secaucus in leaving office after the arrest of more than a dozen state political figures July 23, The New York Times reported.
Gov. Jon S. Corzine has called for all of the elected officials charged to resign. The scandal cost Corzine a Cabinet member, Joseph V. Doria, the commissioner of community affairs in the middle of his re-election campaign. Doria's home and office were searched by the FBI, the Times reported.
Cammarano was charged with accepting $25,000 in cash from an undercover cooperating witness, Solomon Dwek. Dwek posed as a developer looking to gain government support for his projects in several New Jersey counties, the report said.
Dwek helped build cases against five rabbis and other people on money-laundering charges in Brooklyn and on the Jersey Shore. He also led prosecutors to charge another Brooklyn man with conspiring to broker the sale of a human kidney.
