Five minutes before noon Tuesday, former Democrat Party power broker John A. Lynch Jr. said goodbye to a friend who drove him to the Federal Correction Institute in Loretto, Pa., and became federal inmate 28068-050.Lynch was is the former mayor of New Brunswick, president of the New Jersey State Senate and Middlesex County party boss.
"You're a nobody. You're just a number. You just went from the limelight to the shadows," said Gerald J. Luongo, a former mayor and South Jersey assemblyman who recalled making that walk himself when he entered a federal prison camp in Florida in 2002.
Just google -- New Jersey mayor sentenced -- for a few of the Garden State's finest. An overview of 2004 written at the end of the year by the Star-Ledger had this startling fact, "2004 was remarkable for how much time and how many resources were spent chasing dishonest officials.
Assembling this list of corruption-related events - raids, indictments, sentencings, resignations, etc. - reveals an average of one corrupt act playing out on the public stage every three days. "
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