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Post by fiberisgoodforyou on Oct 20, 2007 22:19:17 GMT -5
www.politicsnj.com/steele-admits-taking-bribes-12981#comment-19799Stupidity of Olympic Proportions! ImWithStupid 1) Incorporate as insurance broker. 2) Put insurance company in contact with municipality. 3) Get municipality lots of special state aid through slush funds or politicized grant programs. 4) Municipality hooks up with insurance campany. 5) Municipality chooses Insurance Company (on the merits, of course) and insurance company is so thankful it gives you a couple hundred thousand every year for your "brokering serices." 6) And don't you worry about ever expressing a quid pro quo - the muncipality will understand what is at stake. All perfectly legal. Good grief Assemblyman Steele, at least learn how to take "honest graft" fair and square and legal. You can get so much more than a silly envelope of cash... you could get a whole brief case full every years for 20 years. DUH!
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Post by fiberisgoodforyou on Oct 21, 2007 22:35:59 GMT -5
www.politicsnj.com/steele-admits-taking-bribes-12981#comment-19799Stupidity of Olympic Proportions! ImWithStupid 1) Incorporate as insurance broker. 2) Put insurance company in contact with municipality. 3) Get municipality lots of special state aid through slush funds or politicized grant programs. 4) Municipality hooks up with insurance campany. 5) Municipality chooses Insurance Company (on the merits, of course) and insurance company is so thankful it gives you a couple hundred thousand every year for your "brokering serices." 6) And don't you worry about ever expressing a quid pro quo - the muncipality will understand what is at stake. All perfectly legal. Good grief Assemblyman Steele, at least learn how to take "honest graft" fair and square and legal. You can get so much more than a silly envelope of cash... you could get a whole brief case full every years for 20 years. DUH!
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Post by fiberisgoodforyou on Oct 21, 2007 22:36:47 GMT -5
Her Abbott Colleague she "needs support from"!
CJG/USAO#2007R00190
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA : Criminal No. 07- : v. : 18 U.S.C. §§ 1951(a) and 2 : ALFRED E. STEELE : I N F O R M A T I O N
The defendant having waived in open court prosecution by
Indictment, the United States Attorney for the District of New
Jersey charges that:
Attempted Extortion Under Color of Official Right
1. At all times relevant to this Information:
a. Defendant ALFRED E. STEELE: (i) represented the
35 th District as an elected Assemblyman of the New Jersey General
Assembly; and (ii) served as an Undersheriff for the Passaic
County Sheriff’s Department. As an Assemblyman, defendant ALFRED
E. STEELE was in a position to use his official influence, and
did use such influence, with (i) local government officials
inside the district that he represented; and (ii) influential
lawmakers and officials outside of his district.
b. Two cooperating witnesses (“CW-1" and “CW-2") and
an undercover special agent (“UCA”) of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (“FBI”) purported to be representatives of Coastal
Solutions, LLC, an FBI undercover company that was represented to
be a company capable of providing insurance brokerage services to
governmental entities (hereinafter, the “FBI Undercover Company”).
As represented by these individuals, the FBI
Undercover Company was based in New Jersey, did business in
various states, and paid for goods and services in interstate
commerce.
2. From in or about April 2007 to in or about August 2007,
on seven occasions which law enforcement authorities consensually
recorded, defendant ALFRED E. STEELE accepted a total of $15,500
in exchange for agreeing to use his official influence to assist
in steering government insurance brokerage contracts to the FBI
Undercover Company as follows:
a. On or about April 2, 2007, in Newark, New Jersey,
defendant ALFRED E. STEELE accepted $5,000 in cash from CW-2. In
exchange, defendant ALFRED E. STEELE agreed to use his official
influence to assist the FBI Undercover Company in securing an
insurance brokerage contract from the Paterson School District.
b. On or about May 16, 2007, in Paterson, New Jersey,
defendant ALFRED E. STEELE accepted $1,500 in cash from the UCA.
In exchange, defendant ALFRED E. STEELE agreed to use his
official influence to assist the FBI Undercover Company in
securing an insurance brokerage contract from the Paterson
Housing Authority.
c. On or about May 24, 2007, in Orange, New Jersey,
defendant ALFRED E. STEELE accepted $1,500 in cash from the UCA
in exchange for defendant ALFRED E. STEELE using his official influence to assist the FBI Undercover Company in securing
insurance brokerage contracts from the City of Orange.
d. On or about July 9, 2007, in Newark, New Jersey,
defendant ALFRED E. STEELE accepted $1,500 in cash from CW-2 in
exchange for defendant ALFRED E. STEELE using his official
influence to assist the FBI Undercover Company in securing
insurance brokerage contracts from the City of Newark.
e. On or about August 2, 2007, in Passaic, New
Jersey, defendant ALFRED E. STEELE accepted $1,500 in cash from
CW-2 for defendant ALFRED E. STEELE’s past and continued official
influence in attempting to secure an insurance brokerage contract
for the FBI Undercover Company from the Paterson School District.
f. On or about August 13, 2007, in Clifton, New
Jersey, defendant ALFRED E. STEELE accepted $3,000 in cash from
CW-2 in exchange for defendant ALFRED E. STEELE’s official
influence in attempting to secure insurance brokerage contracts
for the FBI Undercover Company from the Newark Board of Education
and the City of Passaic.
g. On or about August 20, 2007, in Elizabeth, New
Jersey, defendant ALFRED E. STEELE accepted $1,500 in cash from
the UCA in exchange for his past and continued official influence
in attempting to secure an insurance brokerage contract for the
FBI Undercover Company from the City of Orange.[/color]
3. From on or about April 2007 to on or about August 2007,
in Passaic, Essex and Union Counties, in the District of New
Jersey and elsewhere, defendant
ALFRED E. STEELE
did knowingly and willfully attempt to obstruct, delay and affect
interstate commerce by extortion – that is, by soliciting and
accepting corrupt payments that were paid by another, with that
person’s consent, in exchange for defendant ALFRED E. STEELE’s
official influence and assistance in attempting to obtain
government insurance brokerage contracts for the FBI Undercover
Company as specific opportunities arose.
In violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections
1951(a) and 2.
_______________________________ CHRISTOPHER J. CHRISTIE United States Attorney
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