Cheatam expected to plead guilty
By Matt Friedman, PolitickerNJ.com ReporterFormer Jersey City housing commissioner Ed Cheatam has arrived in federal court in Newark, the Star-Ledger reports.
Cheatam, who is also the former vice president of the Jersey City Board of Education, is one of the two public officials who are expected to plead guilty today. The other has not yet been named.
Cheatam is charged with taking bribes from an FBI informant and funneling them into Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy’s reelection campaign (Healy has not been charged).
Update: the other defendant to plead guilty today is Denis Jaslow, a former investigator for the Hudson County Board of Elections and, before that, a corrections officer at East Jersey State Prison.
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How many elected officials in Hudson County are Democrat? How many are Republican? I guess that accounts for the degree of corruption and for the drain of the state coffers being flushed down the educational toilet through Hudson County's Abbot Districts.
Would it be out of line to say that Hudson County is the only Abbott County in New Jersey? Are there any Hudson County School Districts not failing the kids in thier care?
Keep electing Democrats and stay ignorant so Democrats can continue to deny you the "Hope and Change" you think is available only through the Democrat party. You get the government you elect, deal with it and stop expecting the rest of the state to bail you out for your lousy political choices.
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