Mr. Meehan said, for example, that a local charity received $175,000 "from the contributions Joe demanded" from a company before he gave it a city contract.
That, in turn, should have raised the contribution to demand from other sources.
Payments were also demanded from others.
Loyalty is demanded from the staff.
The budget contribution demand, deriving from better than expected performance by the British economy apparently over the past four years, exploded into the centre of an EU summit in Brussels devoted to climate change policies.
Go and demand from the government.
Mr. McGreevey said last week that he welcomed the investigations, which center on complaints, first reported in The Record of Hackensack, that Mr. Chugh had demanded contributions from business owners who needed inspections and zoning variances from Woodbridge Township, where Mr. McGreevey was then mayor.
One of the two crimes Mr. Ciccone pleaded guilty to was demanding contributions from public officials, in this case, members of his staff.
Twelve days after Mr. Ciccone's plea, one of his investigators, James McLarnon, pleaded guilty to illegally demanding contributions from colleagues in the sheriff's office.
In one noteworthy case, the city treasurer of Chicago, Miriam Santos, demanded large contributions from a number of investment firms and threatened to blackball them as pension managers if they did not pay.
