appeared in court<\/a> shortly after taking office for getting into a fight in the parking lot of the Golden Nugget.<\/p>\nIn 2007, when former Mayor Robert Levy pleaded guilty to defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Associated Press<\/em> reported that four of the city\u2019s previous eight mayors had been arrested on graft charges, and one third of the city\u2019s council members was either in prison or under house arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A radical campaign to transform Atlantic City government to make it less susceptible to corruption was dealt a blow on Thursday when the city clerk rejected a petition submitted by organizers of the “Atlantic City Residents for Good Government” political action group (PAC). The campaign is spearheaded by casino union boss Bob McDevitt, Resorts Casino […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":124065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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