Rivera gets 21 months
By Matt Friedman, PolitickerNJ.com ReporterThe Star-Ledger reports that former Passaic Mayor Samuel Rivera has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for taking bribes in exchange for municipal contracts.
Rivera, who was one of 11 public officials caught in an FBI corruption sting last year, was also fined $4,000.
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“On a municipal salary with a large family, he struggled,” Rivera Attorney Klingeman said in May. “That in no way excuses this. He is sorry and remorseful and he will express that at sentencing.”
BOO F'N HOO - Can't make $118,000 and provide for his family, which included health benies and I'm sure a City Hall Expense Acct. Try living and providing for a family on $60,000. And his family didn't her get most of them public troth jobs - no HS degree daugther a passaic police officer. No one is feels bad for this crook - he should have gotten more.
is that all ?
dont you get more time for shoplifting
21 months
Matthew Scannapieco got 21-months too. But he took around $250,000 I think
Sharpe got 27-months... Treffinger got 13-months.... I guess that's about all you can expect in these cases.
The cynical lesson learned might be: if you're going to steal, you might as well steal a lot??
Take their pensions
Tey could do as little as 6 months in my mind - most regardless still probably don't think they did anything wrong - hurt them in their pockets take their pensions away and allow them to never hold office or an appointment again. Oh wait the other Dem cronies in the State & US will just give them more in Soc Sec & Welfare benies.
Rivera is an embarassment.
The city of Passaic is a cess pool of corruption and no real economic future.
Rivera's tenure borders on laughable that such an individual coulf actually be elected to anything.
Memo to Schaer: run for mayor. To run for the Assembly in 09 is a risk you should avoid.
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Not Enough. . . Again!
Once again an elected official grossly betrays the public trust and is sentenced to a mere slap on the wrist. This is why there is so much corruption in NJ.
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