2 years in fed pen for former Paterson councilman caught taking bribes

BEYOND BERGEN: A former Paterson City Council president was sentenced in Newark today to 24 months in federal prison for taking $10,000 in bribes from an FBI informant posing as a real estate developer.

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Jerry DeMarco

04/01/2015 4:53 p.m.

Anthony Davis, 50, previously admitted accepting $5,000 in cash from the government cooperator, who posed as an out-of-state real estate developer seeking pull with the city.

Davis met with the developer in Wayne in the summer of 2012 and “discussed the possibility of accepting additional money from [him] in exchange for a letter from Davis to the developer’s lender indicating that the Paterson City Council supported the developer with respect to certain business endeavors in Paterson,” U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said.

Davis then took another $5,000 in cash during a subsequent meeting in Paterson, he said.

Fishman credited special agents of the FBI Newark Field Office, with making the case, handled by Assistant U.S. Attorney Vikas Khanna of Fishman’s Special Prosecutions Division.

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