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A crackdown on corruption and unbelievable roundup검거 today by the Fed. From NBC News world headquarters in New York, this is NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. A huge round-up in New Jersey this morning. And tonight, nearly four dozen people including three city mayors and two state legislators are under arrest. Charges here include bribery뇌물, money laundering and no one has seen anything quite like this case. The story tonight from our justice correspondent Pete Williams.

 

Federal agents started the round-up at 6 AM arresting mayors and state legislators in New Jersey and rabbis in a parallel case in New York… 44 in all. “New Jersey’s corruption problem is one of the worst, if not the worst, in the nation. Corruption is not only pervasive스며드는, it become….it has become ingrained뿌리깊은 in New Jersey’s political culture.” Three mayors were charged with taking bribes. Hoboken’s Peter Cammarano, Dennis Elwell of Secaucus, and Anthony Suarez of Ridgefield along with Leona Beldini, the deputy mayor부시장 of Jersey City.

 

FBI agents were listening in as officials met in diners and parking lots with an undercover informant밀고자 posing as a real estate developer looking for favors. It appears that whenever the informant waved around money, hands reached out to grab it. Some $650,000 in cash paid to city and state officials. Court documents say, Hoboken’s mayor was recorded telling the informant, “You’re gonna be treated like a friend.” And when the informant described himself to Mariana Vega, a City Jersey official as being in good hands유능한 지도하에, Vega replied, “Like Allstate.” “For these defendants, corruption was a way of life. They existed in an ethics-free zone.”

 

Jonathan Dienst of New York’s WNBC TV who broke this story says federal agents made a surprising discovery. “The FBI says it also stumbled upon우연히 발견하다 a Brooklyn man who is offering to broker the sell of human kidneys. This April, $160,000 who would find donors in Israel who needed the money, and then fooled US hospitals that the donor and recipient were related. They say he’d been doing this for more than 10 years.”

 

And prosecutors say rabbis at synagogues유대교 집단 in New Jersey and New York helped the informant launder over $ 3 million by sending it to contacts in Israel who returned cash. The FBI says some New Jersey officials appear suspicious of the informant, but never wary조심성 있는 enough to pass up the cash. Pete Williams, NBC News, At the Justice Department.

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