Jimmy King, a unsuccessful candidate for Jersey City Council in the May muncipal election (Ward C), pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Newark to one count of conspiring to commit extortion by admitting that he accepted $10,000 in bribes from the government cooperating witness Solomon Dwek in return for exercising his influence, if he got elected into office, to help Dwek get approvals for a purported condo project that Dwek wanted to build in Jersey City.
King was one of the 44 arrested on July 23 in the public corruption/money laundering sting by the federal government.
King, 67, a former executive director of the Jersey City Parking Authority, former chairman of the Jersey City Incinerator Authority, and a former Hudson County undersheriff, also admitted to U.S. District Judge Jose Linares that he had agreed to accept an additional payment from Dwek after the election.
King will be sentenced on Jan. 5. – RK
King pleads guilty to extortion in connection with July 23 arrests
