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In addition to former Councilman William McKoy, the newcomer in the race is Assad Akhter, Gov. Phil Murphy’s senior director of government affairs.
OTHELLO — Othello Police Officer Omar Ledesma and his shopping buddy were looking everywhere, but there was no slime to be found. Not in aisle G, or E or F. Evelyn, Ledesma’s shopping buddy for the OPD Shop With a Cop, needed slime for a present. “Let’s see.. .slime, slime,” Ledesma said as he searched the aisles of the Othello Walmart. But there was no slime. Finally, Ledesma pulled out his phone to do a search of Walmart’s website.
New Jersey’s Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin has added new charges to an ongoing election-fraud case involving Democrat Alex Mendez, the Paterson City Council President, and several alleged co-conspirators. According to the Attorney General, the defendants are accused of attempting to rig the election, tampering with ballots, and obstructing the course of justice through witness tampering.
The 347 mail-in voting ballots that have put Alex Mendez at risk of facing prison time were never counted as part of the councilman’s winning margin.
The council president was hit with a new batch of criminal election fraud charges stemming from the 2020 ward council races.