I love my state and will defend it to the death, but I swear its elected officials sometimes make it a personal goal to turn NJ into the biggest laughingstock in the country. This story is different from your usual "politicians are corrupt" angle because of the sheer weirdness:

44 people, including three mayors, arrested in moneylaundering investigation

Some key quotes that you think would be from entirely different stories:

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Investigators charged one man with conspiring to broker -- for a fee of $160,000 -- the sale of a human kidney for transplant.

The arrests resulted from an FBI and Internal Revenue Service probe "that began with an investigation of money transfers by members of the Syrian enclaves in New York and New Jersey," the newspaper said on its Web site.

According to Newark's The Star-Ledger, the rabbis taken into custody are from the Syrian Jewish communities of Deal on New Jersey's northern shore[.]




And people wonder why I usually vote for the non-incumbent.