Trenton's Slime Pit ; Big Money Fuels a Climate of Corruption

The Record, Bergen County, NJ › August 23, 2004

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THE past 10 days just might be the most tumultuous - and the most sordid - in New Jersey's political history.

First, Governor McGreevey announced plans to resign amid claims he was being extorted by his alleged gay lover, Golan Cipel, an Israeli national formerly on the State House payroll. Then last week, Mr. McGreevey's chief fund-raiser, Charles Kushner - one of the nation's top political fat cats - pleaded guilty to charges ranging from 16 counts of lying on his tax returns to hiring prostitutes to intimidate witnesses in a federal investigation. Things can't get tawdrier than this.

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Trenton's Slime Pit ; Big Money Fuels a Climate of Corruption

What slime pit has New Jersey descended into? It's so bad a politicsnj.com columnist has taken to running such items as "New Jersey Felon of ...

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