Peter J Cammarano III was born on July 22,1977 and is an American disbarred attorney, former Democratic politician and a convicted felon.
13 Facts About Peter Cammarano
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Peter Cammarano was the 37th mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey, serving from July 1 until July 31,2009.
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Peter Cammarano pleaded guilty to extortion in April 2010 and was later sentenced to 24 months in federal prison.
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Peter Cammarano was born on July 22,1977, in Wayne, New Jersey.
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Peter Cammarano graduated from Boston University and Seton Hall University School of Law.
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Peter Cammarano served as the Hoboken coordinator of the 2004 John Kerry presidential campaign and as the New Jersey legal director for US Senator Robert Menendez's 2006 campaign.
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On June 9,2009, Peter Cammarano won the Hoboken Mayor's race in a runoff election, defeating Dawn Zimmer by 161 votes.
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On July 23,2009, just 22 days after assuming office, Peter Cammarano was arrested by the FBI as part of a major political corruption and international money laundering conspiracy probe known as Operation Bid Rig.
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Peter Cammarano was charged by the US Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey with accepting $25,000 in cash bribes from an undercover cooperating witness.
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Peter 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.
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Peter Cammarano remained free on a $100,000 bond pending his sentence.
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In late September 2010, Peter 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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Peter Cammarano was released from Lewisburg Federal Prison Camp in Pennsylvania on Wednesday September 14,2011, and sent to a halfway house in New York.