Anthony Siracusa

October 8, 2007 - 7:04am

Bob Levy's predecessor

Atlantic City has a long history of colorful Mayors.

A fourteen-count indictment charged Atlantic City Mayor Anthony Ruffu, Jr. with awarding insurance and other city contracts to firms where he had a personal financial interest. He was acquitted of four counts in a June 1930 jury trial and was awaiting trial on the remaining ten counts when he was killed three weeks later.

The 54-year-old Ruffu and three other family members were returning from a short vacation so they could attend the high school graduation of the Mayor's youngest son. Ruffu's Cadillac was hit by an oncoming train about a quarter mile north of the Absecon station. The four bodies in the car -- all badly mutilated -- were thrown about 200 feet, and wreckage from the vehicle was found 500 feet away.

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