Orange, NEW JERSEY

SENTENCED (AGAIN)
January 29, 2009
Former Assemblyman and Orange Mayor Mims Hackett Jr, 67, (D) was sentenced Friday to five years in prison on state charges of official misconduct for submitting more than $5,000 in phony receipts to the city of Orange over a four-year period.

The sentence will run concurrently with a nine-month federal prison term on a bribery conviction after he pleaded guilty in May to charges of attempted extortion. He was one of 11 politicians arrested for corruption in 2007.

He served on the Orange City Council from 1988-1996; Assemblyman from 2000-2007; and Mayor from 2002-2007.