“The mayor of a small town in suburban New Jersey who was recorded four years ago using racial slurs and saying he would never hire a female police officer was charged on Monday with two unrelated crimes linked to his private landscaping business,” the New York Times reports.Sal Bonaccorso (
On Monday, both the mayor and the police department of a New Jersey township were accused of abuse of power in unrelated incidents in which the city's top official was criminally charged and the state attorney general recommended ousting the police chief and a sergeant.