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Peter J. Cammarano III (born July 22, 1977) was the 37th Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey, serving from July 1, 2009, to July 31, 2009. He was born in Wayne, New Jersey and attended Boston University and Seton Hall University School of Law. In a 2005 run-off election, he was elected Councilman-at-Large in Hoboken[1] and became Hoboken's youngest mayor in 2009.
In 2009, he won the Hoboken Mayor's race in a runoff election, though his electoral victory against Dawn Zimmer was not without controversy. His margin of victory in the June 9, 2009, runoff was 161 votes, and observers credited his victory to absentee and provisional ballots in combination with hiring many residents from districts that eventually voted in large numbers for him. Zimmer's three running mates won control of the city council despite Cammarano's mayoral victory.[2]
He was sworn in to office on July 1, 2009. At 32, Cammarano became the youngest mayor in city history.[3]
On July 23, 2009, just 22 days after assuming the office of mayor, Cammarano was arrested by the FBI as part of a major corruption and international money laundering conspiracy probe known as Operation Bid Rig. Cammarano was charged by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey with accepting $25,000 in cash bribes from an undercover cooperating witness.[4][5]
On July 31, 2009, Cammarano announced his resignation.[6] Cammarano sent a letter to the city clerk saying his resignation was effective at noon. "I apologize to the residents of Hoboken for the disruption and disappointment this case has caused," he said in the letter.
Cammarano pleaded guilty on April 20, 2010 to extorting cash contributions in return for official influence and admitted accepting $25,000 in illicit cash contributions in exchange for exercising his future official influence and authority. Cammarano remained free on a $100,000 bond pending his sentence.[7] On August 5, 2010, Cammarano was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison.[8] In late September, 2010, Cammarano was designated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons to serve his 24-month sentence at the minimum security component at Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary in Pennsylvania and was scheduled to report there on October 4, 2010.
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Status Date: 2012-04-04