make reference to that in interviews. we thought we would take a closer look and here is a closer story. this for decades, what you're looking at, was perhaps the most coveted slice of real estate in all of new jersey, a priceless patch of 16 empty acres situated at the edge of the george washington bridge, the gateway to new york city, smack in the middle of ft. lee. 16 acres of land that has a rich and tortured history. nearly 40 years ago a previous mayor of ft. lee, burt ross, pictured on the right on the screen there, he was approached by allegedly mob-linked developers and he was made an offer that was awfully hard to refu refuse. give them the rights to slap a high rise on that land, those 16 acres, and he would give them a million dollars. burt ross didn't want that money but he did wear a wire for the feds and those crooked developers went to jail. a book was even written about this called "the bribe."