Another day, another 30 corruption arrests in NJ

The story speaks for itself at this point(from the Wall Street Journal):

Federal agents swept into northern New Jersey towns Thursday morning, arresting about 30 people including several mayors, in a federal investigation into alleged public corruption and a high-volume, international money-laundering conspiracy.

Even by New Jersey standards, this one seems like a weird one. I am sure we will get a lot more after the news conference later, but I have a question that always arises when these things happen. Why is it never a member of New Jersey law enforcement or the Attorney General's office who make these busts? New Jersey has the second highest cops per capital (USDOJ Expenditure and Employment) behind New York and yet the police can never seem to identify or arrest any corrupt politicians. Why?

According to a statement released by the U.S. Attorney's office in Newark, the arrests related to the public-corruption probe included Peter Cammarano III, the newly elected Democratic mayor of Hoboken; Dennis Elwell, mayor of Secaucus, also a Democrat; state Assemblyman Daniel Van Pelt, a Republican; and Democrat Leona Beldini, the deputy mayor of Jersey City, the state's second-largest city after Newark.

Arrests that are part of the money-laundering portion of the investigation include several rabbis in New York and New Jersey, the statement said.

We will be following this as it unfolds. Read the entire Wall Street Journal article here.

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