>Jersey Mayors Stung in Graft Probe
By AMIR EFRATI, SUZANNE SATALINE and DIONNE SEARCEY
WSJ
New Jersey has never been short of corruption scandals, but the one that unfolded yesterday was surprising even by the standards of the state that inspired “The Sopranos.”
Federal agents swept across New Jersey and New York on Thursday, charging 44 people — including mayors, rabbis and even one alleged trafficker in human kidneys — in a decadelong investigation into public corruption and international money laundering.
