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Councilman indicted for tampering with absentee ballots
November 10, 2005, 7:39 PM EST
TRENTON, N.J. -- The state Attorney General's Office on Thursday announced the indictment of an Atlantic City councilman on charges of tampering with absentee ballots before the city's June 7 primary election for mayor and city council.
Marty L. Small, 31, has been charged with 10 counts of tampering with public records and one count of hindering or preventing voting.
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Small is accused of filing absentee ballot applications for 10 people. He represented himself as their "authorized messenger," when he had no such designation from the voters.
A registered voter in New Jersey has the option of having a person pick up their absentee ballot if they are unable to file for the ballot themselves.
Small faces a maximum of 55{ years in prison and $160,000 in fines if convicted, though such offenses often do not result in incarceration. Small would also have to forfeit his position on the city council and his job with the Atlantic City public schools.
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FBI searches office of former Sen. Lynch
Documents from powerful Democrat and developer partner sought in corruption probe
Thursday, November 10, 2005
BY JOHN P. MARTIN AND JOSH MARGOLIN
Star-Ledger Staff
FBI agents yesterday raided an office shared by former state Sen. John Lynch and a politically active developer, bringing into the open a longstanding corruption probe involving one of the state's most powerful political figures.
Agents executed a search warrant at the Tinton Falls office that Lynch, a Democrat and political mentor to former Gov. James E. McGreevey, shares with developer Jack Westlake, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the raid.
The purpose of the raid was unclear, although sources believed that FBI agents were seeking documents related to the men's business dealings, including an unidentified real estate project in New Brunswick.
Lynch and Westlake have been under scrutiny by federal prosecutors for more than a year in a probe that began when two former McGreevey aides scored millions of dollars developing and selling highway billboards just before the ex- governor took office in 2002. The sources said the same FBI agents on the billboard investigation supervised yesterday's search.
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