New Jersey Planner Facing Corruption Charges

Posted by: Nate Berg

24 July 2009 - 2:00pm

Jersey City senior planning aide Guy Catrillo has been charged with attempted extortion by the FBI as part of a broad corruption sting in the state.

Catrillo is among 44 people charged in the sting, which includes mayors, city officials and religious leaders.

"He is accused of taking a total of $15,000 in money from a purported developer in return for favors. Much of that money was allegedly spent on his 2009 campaign for City Council, and it showed up in an ELEC report as a personal loan from Catrillo to his campaign. In that election, he ran for the Ward E City Council position on Mayor Healy’s ticket and lost."

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Source: Jersey City Independent, July 24, 2009

New Jersey? Is this just a coincidence?

Submitted by Irvin Dawid on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 09:57.

I'm referring to Gail Collins' recent NYT column on events in the Garden State (with due credit to Brooklyn).

"No matter what dreadful embarrassment your state is facing, you can always console yourself by remembering that you do not live in New Jersey. On (July 23), a vast corruption sweep there netted three mayors, two state assemblymen, five rabbis and a guy who had allegedly been running an organ-trafficking business that has left swathes of the population of Moldova walking around with only one kidney."

Irvin Dawid, Palo Alto, CA