http://1010wins.com/topstories/local_story_062150108.html
A state grand jury has indicted an Old Bridge Township official on corruption charges, alleging he solicited and received thousands of dollars in goods and services from developers doing business with the township.
Barry C. Bowers, the community's engineering inspector, was charged with official misconduct and accepting unlawful benefits as a public servant, the state Attorney General's office said Thursday.
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FBI adds Touro College to extortion probe (sex-blackmail, gay guv, Torricelli connection)
STAR LEDGER ^ | 8/16/04 | JOSH MARGOLIN
Posted on 08/16/2004 8:29:51 AM EDT by Liz
(Touro's) board members include politically connected developer Charles Kushner, and other prominent New Jersey developers and businessmen.......and plans to build a medical school in Livingston and enlisted former Sen. Robert Torricelli as its consultant on that project........ Golan Cipel was helping Touro with its medical school plans, and now federal investigators have made Touro part of their probe into the sex-and-blackmail scandal that last week all but ended the political career of Gov. James E. McGreevey.
The FBI is reviewing allegations that Cipel's attorneys asked McGreevey's administration to help fast-track the Manhattan-based college's application to open what would be the only private medical school in New Jersey.
Touro's attorney yesterday said college officials "are confounded" by the allegations and disavowed any role in the scandal. "Those statements were never authorized and we were unaware of them until we read them in the newspapers," said the college's lawyer, Franklyn Snitow.
In addition to Cipel, the medical school plan has brought together Kushner and Torricelli, two other controversial figures in Democratic politics.
Kushner, who has been charged with obstructing a separate federal investigation, is a Touro board member. He also had arranged with Touro officials to largely bankroll the creation of the medical school in his hometown of Livingston and, in return, hoped to see the institution named after his mother, Rae, who recently died..................
Torricelli, who did not seek re-election after being admonished in an ethics scandal, is representing Touro in its push for a medical school. Snitow said Torricelli was enlisted as "we prepare ourselves to go through the process."
Torricelli aide Sean Jackson said Torricelli is "providing general advice, fund-raising strategy and advice about opening a medical school."