A former Asbury Park council member and a developer pleaded not guilty yesterday to corruption charges involving development in that city, an impoverished seaside community.
A Connecticut developer pleaded guilty today to a federal conspiracy charge that he installed a chimney at no cost in the home of Joseph P. Ganim, the indicted mayor of Bridgeport, in return for Mr. Ganim's support in winning city contracts.
The developer pleaded guilty to mortgage and insurance fraud, and some lender is on the hook for $6.2 million for a shell that will probably have to be torn down.
The 81-year-old real estate developer pleaded guilty to tax evasion in State Supreme Court in Manhattan and paid a $1 million fine to put the 123-count case behind him.
The developers plead that the complexities of the site, which includes a working section of the London overground railway, make it unprofitable to offer more, or to reduce the bulk of their towers.
Tweed, a club promoter, and Davis, a property developer, had pleaded not guilty, contending that they had consensual sex with the 19-year-old student in September last year.
The developer, Morton Salkind, pleaded guilty in 2008 to evading $276,000 in taxes and agreed to pay $17 million, his civil tax liability, back to the government, in a deal that left open the possibility he might avoid jail time.
NEWARK — A developer who pleaded guilty to tax evasion and agreed to pay $17 million back to the government will be sentenced here on Thursday in a politically charged case that has surfaced as an issue in the New Jersey governor's race.
Instead, reports the Washington Post book, one of the project's actual developers had pleaded guilty in a separate Wall Street fraud case involving mafia crime families.
