NJ mayor's arrest puts spotlight on historic city

Even in the state of "The Sopranos" and "On the Waterfront," where corruption seems institutionalized, the arrest of a neophyte mayor in office a mere three weeks stands out.

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A helicopter and small plane have collided over the East River, police said. Multiple casualties are being reported. The two aircraft crashed Hoboken, N.J., just before noon, with wreckage falling into the water and on land on the New Jersey side, witnesses said.

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The Mess That Is Hoboken

This has been quite a mess in Hoboken of a first month by Mayor Peter Cammarano where 33% of our last 3 mayors have NOT been arrested by the FBI – a pretty fascinating statistic courtesy of and probably a telling sign of the state of the cities in New Je …

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For now, though, give Jersey credit: The arrests yesterday were massive -- the outgrowth of a 10-year federal probe that's already chalked up 48 convictions.

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Federal prosecutors say five highly-placed rabbis in New York and New Jersey were also arrested, including Eliahu Ben Haim, of Long Branch, N.J., Saul Kassin and Mordchai Fish of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Edmund Nahum, of Deal, N.J. Fish's brother, also a rabbi, was charged as well.

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Hoboken mayor, Secaucus mayor, Jersey City deputy mayor, Jersey City city council president, an assemblyman and a host of rabbis get nabbed by the FBI for money laundering. Just in time for a couple of special elections for November.

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considering New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine for secretary of the Treasury. And then I saw that "Wally Edge" of politicsnj.com beat me to the punchline.

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An investigator with the Brantley County Sheriff's Office said he saw the decomposing remains of at least 13 adult dogs and two plastic bags of dead puppies at the site.

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HOBOKEN, N.J., June 21 — The Cave of the Sibyl, where Virgil's prophetess received Aeneas before leading him to the underworld, was a vast cavern in southern Italy with a hundred mouths. When the Sibyl spoke, her words came in a hundred voices.

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Funny.

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The robot that parks cars at the Garden Street Garage in Hoboken, New Jersey, trapped hundreds of its wards last week for several days. But it wasn't the technology car owners had to curse, it was the terms of a software license.

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The robot that parks cars at the Garden Street Garage in Hoboken, New Jersey, trapped hundreds of its wards last week for several days. But it wasn't the technology car owners had to curse, it was the terms of a software license.

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