Anthony Chiappone served in the Assembly on the Health and Senior Services Committee, the Human Services Committee and the Regulated Professions Committee.
11 Facts About Anthony Chiappone
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Anthony Chiappone had challenged incumbent Mark Smith in February 2010 to become Mayor of Bayonne, New Jersey.
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Anthony Chiappone served as a Councilman-at-Large for the city of Bayonne having won a third four-year term in May 2006 and serving until April 2009 when he resigned.
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Anthony Chiappone simultaneously held a seat in the New Jersey General Assembly and on the City Council.
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Anthony Chiappone began his career in politics in 1994, when he produced a local Public-access television program called "Bayonne Sunnyside Up," which focused on the community events that take place in Bayonne.
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In spite of the charges against him and calls for his resignation from Governor Jon Corzine and Assembly Speaker Joseph J Roberts, Chiappone proclaimed his innocence and refused both to resign and to withdraw from his re-election campaign.
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The criminal charges against Chiappone meant that both of the 31st legislative district's assemblymen were simultaneously under indictment, as L Harvey Smith had been arrested on corruption and money laundering charges one month before Chiappone was charged.
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Anthony Chiappone accepted a plea agreement on June 25,2010, and subsequently submitted a letter of resignation to Joseph Cryan, Assembly Democratic Leader.
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Jason O'Donnell, a Democrat in the district, was chosen in July to replace Anthony Chiappone and was sworn into the Assembly in September 2010.
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Anthony Chiappone attended York College and Jersey City State College.
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Anthony Chiappone is a photographer by trade, having owned and operated Kristen Studios Photography and Videography in Bayonne for twenty years.