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local politics started to fade, with his three-member slate for the Camden Board of
Education all losing in elections, though he was able to get all of his Democratic City Committee candidates elected in June 1980. In May 1981, Errichetti was indicted on charges of bribery related to federally subsidized sewer projects, in which Errichetti was said to have received $ 10,000 in cash to steer engineering projects.
632:, December 27, 2013. Accessed February 17, 2014. "In the film, which opened Friday, Camden Mayor Carmine Polito turns down a briefcase full of money when he is first offered a bribe. The character, based on real-life Mayor Angelo Errichetti and played by Jeremy Renner, later agrees to accept the money because he believes doing so would lead to jobs for residents."
436:, May 19, 2013. Accessed January 19, 2014. "Angelo J. Errichetti, 84, a former Camden mayor and state senator who was South Jersey's premier Democratic power broker in the decade before his 1981 bribery conviction in the Abscam scandal, has died after a long illness. He had been living in Ventnor, N.J."
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Errichetti was charged with arranging for undercover agents to meet with several politicians who would end up accepting bribes to help use their influence on behalf of individuals posing as Arab investors, with
Errichetti taking his share of the bribes, in what was called the Abscam case. His grip on
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As Mayor of Camden, Errichetti put in 12-hour days, working to improve the economy of the struggling city. He exercised substantial control over the city's operation, and he submitted seven budgets without tax increases that were passed with little oversight. The City
Council first scheduled hearings
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Errichetti went into politics in 1961 as administrative assistant to Mayor Alfred R. Pierce and was named as Camden's purchasing agent and later as head of its
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responded that there was no evidence that the FBI sought out
Senator Williams, rather he had selected himself when he accepted Errichetti's offer to meet with the undercover agents and that it was Errichetti who was "standing in the center of a cesspool of corruption".
402:"Congressman, Mayor of Camden And 2 Indicted in Abscam Inquiry; Other Indictments Expected Congressman, Mayor and 2 Indicted in Abscam Inquiry Vital Tool in Staying Deportation Money Allegedly Divided Errichetti Denies Charges Penalties for Crimes"
571:, December 22, 2001. Accessed May 20, 2013. "Angelo Errichetti, who was mayor from 1973 to 1981, spent nearly three years in prison after being convicted in the Abscam scandal. Errichetti accepted a $ 50,000 bribe from an undercover FBI agent."
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