Newly installed Mayor Peter Cammarano was arrested this morning and charged with Federal charges of "knowingly and willfully conspire to obstruct, delay, and affect interstate commerce by extortion under color of official right, by accepting and agreeing to accept corrupt payments that were paid and to be paid by another, with that person’s consent, in exchange for defendant PETER CAMMARANO III’s future official assistance in Hoboken Government matters." Read the criminal complainthere.
FBI PRESS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCING INDICTMENT OF CAMMARANO