Racist New Jersey GOP Mayor Pleads Guilty To Forgery

Gothamist reports:

Salvatore Bonaccorso, the former longtime mayor of Clark, New Jersey, was sentenced Friday to three years probation and barred from holding public office again after pleading guilty to charges of official misconduct and forgery.

Bonaccorso, 64, a Republican who served as mayor of the Union County township from 2001 until last month, was also fined $15,000. He resigned in January after admitting that he’d used township employees to benefit his private business, Bonaccorso & Son, and had forged signatures on permit applications to remove residential oil tanks.

The sentencing followed earlier revelations, reported in 2022 by NJ Advance Media, that Bonaccorso had used racial slurs while talking to police and made demeaning comments about female police officers.

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