[Breaking] Another mayor busted - Guttenberg

Guttenberg Mayor David Delle Donna.

[Breaking - 11:15 PM] Guttenberg's mayor and his wife were arrested by the FBI today, charged with diverting campaign funds (as in: for personal use) and taking money from a bar owner to get a zoning variance.

After the mandatory perp walk and arraignment, Mayor David Delle Donna and his wife Anna were each released on $100,000 bond.

As The Ridge Nightfly, a Somerset County blog which posted on the story earlier this evening puts it so well --

As usual, the most astonishing thing is not that they were corrupt, but that they put their futures into the toilet for “plastic surgery, dog accessories and gambling trips to Atlantic City…about $1,000 in department store gift cards and bottles of liquor”. In New Jersey it seems that failures of ethics are accompanied by failures of imagination and a sense of proportion.

Sooner or later Christie's darts have to start hitting the Union County map.

Don't they?

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AP (breaking news): "Guttenberg mayor and wife indicted on corruption charges"
The Ridge Nightfly: "Petty Crooks"
PoliticsNJ: "Guttenberg mayor indicted"
NY Times: "New Jersey Mayor and Wife Accused of Extortion"

-- Dan Damon

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