Stephen Depiro, the mobster who according to the FBI managed the Genovese crime family’s control over the New Jersey waterfront and for nearly three decades extorted unionized longshoremen, was sentenced to three years and five months in federal prison.
The Elizabeth School District has agreed to pay back $272,810 that belonged to the federal school lunch program for needy kids, and instead was used to provide meals and catering for school board meetings and other special functions.
Former Manalapan mayor Andrew Lucas joins a litany of New Jersey mayors who have gone to jail. Federal Judge Freda Wolfson sentenced the 37-year old Lucas to five years in prison.
More news involving law and order in The Soprano State means we have to update The New York Times’ Best Seller for the faithful. Read the details of the latest batch of “you can’t make this stuff up” here.
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