Another of the Gang of 44 convicted
Daniel Van Pelt Did anyone really think a jury would buy former Assemblyman Daniel Van Pelt's defense that the $10,000 bribe he accepted from Solomon Dwek in an Atlantic City restaurant was a...
View ArticleAnother Madoff in our midst?
Shades of Solomon Dwek, another New Jersey developer has been arrested by the FBI and charged in an alleged $200 million scheme to cheat investors. My colleagues Bill Bowman and Zach Patberg of the...
View ArticleYou can’t make this stuff up No. 568
Former Guttenberg Councilman Vincent Tabbachino, on trial for corruption, took the stand in his own defense. He said he wasn't a crook but he knew Solomon Dwek, the government informant pretending to...
View ArticleAnother one bites the dust (updated)
Judge Joel Pisano Former Assemblyman Daniel Van Pelt has been sentenced to almost three and one-half years in the slammer for accepting a $10,000 bribde from an undercover agent. Once a rising star in...
View ArticleRemember Solomon Dwek?
Solomon Dwek, the undercover witness at the center of the corruption probe that resulted in a huge roundup of public officials, is back in the news. A warrant for his arrest was issued in Maryland, the...
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