This afternoon a federal grand jury indicted Passaic Mayor Samuel Rivera on charges of attempted extortion and bribery for allegedly accepting $5,000 in cash in exchange for his influence on local government contracts. The attempted extortion charge carries a maximum statutory penalty of 20 years in federal prison. The bribery count carries a statutory maximum of 10 years in prison.
Despite the indictment, Rivera is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt and has steadfastly maintained his innocence.
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1 JUNIOR // Jan 30, 2008 at 10:37 pm
SAMMY RIVERA IS A ***** CROOKED AS BASTARD HE USE TO LIVE IN LOW INCOME HOUSING AND BECAUSE HE BECAME MAYOR HE THINKS HES BIG ****, HES LIKES TO PICK ON THE LITTLE PEOPLE AND HE AINT ABOUT ****
2 lol... // Mar 28, 2008 at 2:24 pm
You’re so funny.. yes its true he use to live in low income housing and he bettered himself by moving out and becoming somebody… Just because your ass is probably broke as hell and maybe u been locked up several times doesnt mean u need to judge him and say stupid shit without knowing or maybe u know what a good person he is and how he did good for passaic.. Take you’re ass back to school..
3 jim k // Mar 30, 2008 at 5:30 pm
i met sammy rivera, at a spanish chamber of commerce function, did this man finish high school, the words that were coming out of his mouth, the storys i here about him raping a girl in 1974 in passaic, involved in a shooting in puerto rico, being a thug in his younger years in passaic charges of beating his wife, and girl freinds, his daughter being on the police dept no high school diploma being hispanic myself people need to no who they are voting for, i would not even let this man cut my lawn thats how much i trust him
4 HISPANIC // May 15, 2008 at 4:23 pm
PEOPLE IS ALLWAY READY TO JUDE SOMEONE FOR THE NEGATIVE, BUT DID ANY BODY APPRECIATES THE WAY HE HAD CHANGE PASSAIC IN THE PAST 8 YEARS. I ONLY MET HIM ONCE AT A HOSPITAL. MAYBE HE COULD BE JUDGE AS IGNORANT AND CORRUPT, IT COULD BE TRUT BUT WHEN I CAME FROM MY COUNTY IN 1997 PASSAIC WAS DIRTY, GARBAGE ALL OVER THE PLACE, STREETS VERY BAD AND MOST OF ALL ALOT OF CRIME EVEN AT PASSAIC HIGH I SAW HOW THEY STABED A KID ON THE HALLWAYS, NOW PASSAIC IS CLEAN THE STREETS ARE FIXED AND LET ME ASK YOU SOMETHING…WHERE ARE ALL THE MOTHERS AND FATHERS OF THE KIDS FROM OUR TOWN THAT HE PROVIDED WHITH EDUCATION BY BUILDING MORE SCHOOLS IN OUR TOWN? WHAT TYPE OF HISPANICS ARE WE? THAT BETRAYED AFTER THEY PROVIDE TO US. EVERY SINGLE MEN OR WOMEN IN THE GOVERMEN STILL, DO DRUGS, RENT PROSTITUS SO WHO IS THE GOOD OR BAD GOVERNOR..
5 LBWhitaker // May 25, 2008 at 11:05 pm
I’m not here to write/type lies, but the truth of the matter is he got what was coming to him. As far as the city of Passaic being dirty and crime. Let’s do the math, any and every body can live in Passaic undocumented as well as illegal. Our school system is over crowded and children are suffering.
If they took the students of parents that are legally or born in this country and told them to only attend school. I can promise you the sysem will not be over crowded. Crimes, dirty street, education came all be tracked back to how our city handle the illegally people taken over this city. I don’t have a problem with people who take the time to come over here and get the proper paper work. Yes, they want and deserve a better life. But the numbers of those doing things the proper way compared to them that’s not is very low. I believe you want to be here than take the proper steps to be here legally.
6 LBWhitaker // May 25, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Let’s go a step further with Sammy Rivera I remember when the guy that press charges against him over a woman. Remember Rivera stated he only went there at night to tell her about a school for her son and he wasn’t have relations with her. Well low and behold he married that same woman. I don’t have anything against the man I don’t know him. But to make this city better to the cizitens of Passaic. He didn’t cover all races. My opinion he dropped the ball when he had a rodeo in the Passaic Stadium. The following week and the weekend the children had to smell and practice with bull or horse SH%T on the field. This is our Mayor the kick back for the rodeo meant more than the children of Passaic.
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