Looks like there may be a few special elections in New Jersey:

Mayors, rabbis arrested in NJ corruption probe. That sound you hear? Just a large handful of New Jersey lawyers climaxing in unison. Click the link to read the whole crazy story. Long and short, it goes like this: Take three mayors and scores of city council members and other politicians and municipal officials, fold in a handful of rabbis, a couple of cups of money laundering and finish with a dash of human organ sales. That's your recipe for a New Jersey-sized political scandal. Now for the most important question: Will HBO or Showtime be the first cable channel to offer the series? I'm going with HBO. Hell, they can just recycle the "Sopranos" team.

Comments

[Reamus]

Looks like Joisey ain't done much to get cleaned up since I grew up there! Ya gotta love a story like this. It's the gang that couldn't shoot straight all over again.

This is a lawyer employment act if I evet saw one!

[gmb]

Reamus: I have a friend who is a partner at a firm that has a white-collar defense practice. I'm guessing she may be in a position to buy a vacation home. Or two. No doubt her fellow partners had their O faces on. And New Jersey...the gift that keeps on giving. And I grew up in NJ too. Southern NJ, which was just a little less corrupt than our neighbors up north. GMB

[dguzman]

It was like a joke, one where they kept piling on more crazy stuff--by the time they got to the Israeli organ sales, I was bent over double, laughing.

Oy vey!

[gmb]

dguzman: Ah, my home state never fails to deliver, no? GMB

[Reamus]

These guys got to be from Passiac or somewhere like that, right? When the Mafia got busted in NYC many moons ago, the beloved Jimmy Breslin was heard to say "What? Morgenthau never heard of telephones? these guys will go live in Tenafly,or Paramus." And so they did. I went to school with their kids.Fertile place for ganster stories is the Garden State...

[JDM]

Bartleby: Hello, we'd like two tickets to New Jersey, please.
Bus Station Attendant: Jersey's sold out, sir.
Loki: What?
Bus Station Attendant: There's one at the same time tomorrow. I suggest you not underestimate the staggering drawing power of the Garden State, and show up two hours in advance

[gmb]

Reamus: Hoboken and Jersey City, primarily, I think. And Deal, NJ for the Syrian rabbis. I hear that Paterson is pretty filthy too. Truth is, most of the fucking state is dirty. But that's probably true with most states. Real open dirty stealing goes on at the state and local level. Just bigger numbers at the fed level--and not nearly as obvious.
JDM: Sounds about right. Man, this whole country is an open sewer, and the politicians are the rats. GMB

[JDM]

Like a Mel Brooks movie, but with no redeeming humor.

[gmb]

JDM: Or genuine laughs. GMB

[distributorcap]

i wonder if the organs sold by the rabbis were kosher?

[gmb]

DCap: They had to be. They were, after all, procured by a rabbi. GMB

[JDM]

On more mature consideration, I guess it's just as well that no mohels have been implicated. That would really cap it off.

[gmb]

JDM: That is a fact, my friend. GMB