Massive Corruption Arrests in New Jersey

These were arrests on a massive scale.

Amongst those taken into custody by the FBI were city mayors,

politicians, and religious leaders.

The authorities needed buses to cope with the sheer scale of the

operation.

New Jersey's corruption problem is one of the worst, if not the worst,

in the nation.

Corruption is not only pervasive, it become-- it has become

ingrained in New Jersey's political culture.

It's thought that religious charities controlled by prominent rabbis were

used to launder cash. The arrests were part of a ten-year

operation that uncovers money laundering on an international

scale, as well as corruption and the sale of human

organs in the US, Switzerland, and Israel.

The list of people we arrested sounds like it should be the roster for a

muti-meeting of community leaders.

But sadly, they weren't meeting in a boardroom this

morning, they were in the FBI

booking room.

Prosecutors say one rabbi was dealing in human kidneys for

transplants

for a decade, buying them from vulnerable people at a

huge

profit. The scale of the corruption across New

Jersey has

outraged residents.

It just goes back to the, uh, belief that Hudson County is incredibly

corrupt, and I thought we were cr-- we were making headway and

becoming less corrupt.

The number of arrests was remarkable, even for New Jersey, where more than

one hundred and thirty public officials have pleaded guilty or been

convicted of corruption in the last ten

years.