Thursday, September 06, 2007

New Jersey Corruption Feast: Mayor Samuel Rivera of Passaic Arrested


The New York Times reports on Mayor Samuel Rivera of Passaic:
also arrested Mayor Samuel Rivera of Passaic, who resigned Thursday from a committee of mayors supporting Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential bid. Mr. Rivera, a former police officer in both New Jersey and Puerto Rico, has had a variety of run-ins with law enforcement, including domestic violence charges filed by his daughter in 2004 that were later dropped; charges in 2002 of making terroristic threats against a boxer who had gone to the home of a woman Mr. Rivera later married (also dropped); and a 2003 assault conviction for yelling obscenities at a woman and pushing her. In 1966, a 20-year-old Mr. Rivera, who was working as a security guard, killed his brother-in-law in what was ruled an accidental shooting.
I guess with the Clintons it all about dollars.Doesn't Hillary care about women? No word yet from NOW on Samuel Rivera.Remember this is the very same Samuel Rivera that wants to ban guns.