New Jersey Assemblyman & “Rising Republican Star” Daniel Van Pelt Gets 41 Months for Bribery & Attempted Extortion
Sobbing and pleading for leniency, former 9th District Assemblyman Daniel M. Van Pelt told a federal court judge Friday he let voters and his family down by taking a $10,000 bribe from FBI informant Solomon Dwek.But U.S. District Court Judge Joel A. Pisano said Van Pelt’s tears came too late and only because he got caught. …
Van Pelt was arrested in July 2009, along with 44 other people, as part of Operation Bid Rig, New Jersey’s largest public corruption sting. …
Van Pelt was a committeeman in Ocean Township, Ocean County, at the time. The bribe was related to a development there.
Full story, with video of Van Pelt accepting a bribe: pressofAtlanticCity.com, November 20, 2010
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