U.S. Mayors Commarano And Elwell Arrested

In addition, the corruption case is said to involve rabbis in the Syrian Jewish enclave in Brooklyn, New York and Deal, New Jersey. Several area rabbis and other community leaders and politicians, besides those listed above were taken into custody. It's hard to believe two mayors are arrested in Hobokena and Secaucus. How could politics have gone so wrong?

Not only that, according to local station WNBC, some of the suspects were also allegedly involved in an human organ-trafficking ring. It is unclear at this time where the organs came from or how they were distributed.

Federal authorities have audio recordings and "cooperating witnesses" in the case. An example is that of then Hoboken city councilman and mayoral candidate, and now mayor Peter Cammarano, who said (after meeting with a developer who had promised him a bribe of several thousand dollars), “I wanna make sure that I, you know, you, you’re my man."

Fellow defendant Michael Schaffer, a Commissioner with the North Hudson Utilities Authority, told the "cooperating witnes" that Peter Cammarano told him: "Michael, the way I operate politics, anybody who helps me, I help them. That’s the way I operate. And if you’re not there the first round, I don’t need ya’ the second round.”

New Jersey is infamous for these corruption scandals. In recent years, New Jersey has seen more than 130 corruption-related convictions of public officials. Mayor of Hoboken Peter Cammarano has been in office less than a month and has already been arrested for corruption. Don't you love politics