Booker made $689K from ex-law firm while mayor

file photo Booker campaigning in Ridgewood  ,Boyd Loving

Booker made $689K from ex-law firm while mayor
By Michael Gartland and Susan Edelman
September 6, 2013 | 3:11pm

Cory Booker pocketed $689,500 in payouts from his former law firm while he served as Newark’s mayor and the firm pulled down millions in government contracts, he revealed Friday.

Booker, the front-runner in the race for New Jersey’s US Senate seat, received the payments in annual allotments from 2007 to 2011. At the same time, the Trenk DiPasquale law firm held lucrative contracts with several local government agencies over which the mayor had influence — raking in more than $2 million in fees, records show.

When questioned last month by The Post, Booker refused to say how much money he received from the West Orange, NJ. firm, saying only it was a buyout of his equity in the firm, and that he had signed a “confidential settlement agreement.”

After weeks of pressing, Booker’s staff on Friday finally showed his tax returns from 1998 to 2012. Reporters were allowed to view them from 12 pm to 3 pm., but could not get copies.

Since 2007, the law firm collected at least $1,287,639 in legal fees from Newark’s Housing Authority; $554,663 from the Joint Meeting of Essex and Union Counties, a wastewater treatment agency serving Newark and 14 towns; and $212,318 from the Newark Watershed, records show.

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