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Former Hoboken Mayor Pleads Guilty To Corruption Charge

Rachel Slajda | April 20, 2010, 2:24PM

Hoboken City Hall

The former mayor of Hoboken, Peter J. Cammarano III, pleaded guilty today to a corruption charge, admitting that he had accepted a $25,000 bribe from an undercover informant.

Cammarano was the youngest mayor in the city's history and had only been in office for three weeks when he was arrested last summer in a wide-sweeping corruption and money-laundering sting that netted other public officials and rabbis. One man from Brooklyn was also charged with trying to sell a human kidney.

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