The FBI rounded up 11 New Jersey officials today, including two mayors (both Dems), a county undersheriff, a city council staffer, one current and one former councilmen, and five school board members, in a bribery scheme involving roofing and insurance contracts.
The FBI set up an elaborate sting to catch the civil servants accused of accepting $150,500 in bribes.
The FBI set up an undercover insurance brokerage company that included undercover agents and two cooperating witnesses, one of whom had previously operated a roofing business, according to a statement released today by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.The school board members allegedly took bribes from the cooperating witnesses, and the probe widened when school board members directed the cooperating witnesses to officials in north Jersey, authorities said.
They, in turn, directed investigators to other public officials, authorities said.