Mildred Crump

November 28, 2007 - 5:47pm

Crump's ex-Chief of Staff indicted

Keith Reid, who served as the Chief of Staff to Newark City Council President Mildred Crump until his arrest in October, was indicted today on charges that he took $13,500 in cash bribes to steer an insurance contract to an undercover FBI company. The Indictment also accuses Reid of conspiring with an Irvington Township official -- identified only as Irvington Official 1 in the Indictment.

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September 27, 2007 - 10:30am

Mildred Crump’s bad month

The Buddy Tyler Award for the dumbest politician of the week – and in New Jersey there is much competition for such a title – goes to Newark City Council President Mildred Crump. Yesterday, Crump complained to a Star-Ledger reporter that she felt dissed by the Devils because they didn’t give a free luxury box to the City Council. The boxes sell for $225,000 each. Read More >
September 7, 2007 - 5:27am

Crump asks Newark Inspector General to review Christie case against her aide

Newark City Council President Mildred Crump says that Keith Reid, who was arrested yesterday on charges that he accepted a cash bribe to deliver a city insurance contract, has taken a leave of absence from his post as her Chief of Staff.

She says Reid requested the leave.

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June 14, 2006 - 4:44pm

It didn't take very long for the Team Booker's first problem

Just hours after the votes were counted in the Runoff elections for Newark City Council, there was already some dissension among the nine allies of Mayor-elect Cory Booker who will serve together for the next four years. Councilman-At-Large Luis Quintana, one of two incumbents to win re-election, has made no secret of his desire to become Council President, but sources within the Booker campaign says that Mildred Crump, who won back the At-Large Council seat she gave up to challenge Sharpe James for Mayor in 1998, wants the job too. Quintana would become Newark's first Latino Council President, while Crump would be the first woman to hold the post.

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