Trenton Mayor Tony Mack And Sex Offender Crony Indicted On Corruption Charges

Trenton Mayor Tony “Honey Fitz” Mack has been formally indicted on charges that he solicited bribes in exchange for a city-funded contract to build a parking garage. Also indicted today was Mack’s sex-offender buddy Joseph Giorgianni, who “ate his way out of jail” after getting convicted of perving out on a 14-year-old girl (more on that below).

According to court documents obtained by the Voice, the feds have been investigating Mack since September 2010, when they say he, Giorgianni and several others — including Mack’s brother, Ralphiel, who also was indicted today — accepted bribes for the parking garage contract.

The alleged extortionists accepted $54,000 and expected to receive
another $65,000 from a cooperating witness who claimed to be a developer
who wanted to win the contract by paying off the mayor. According to
the criminal complaint — which reads like a script for The Sopranos —
Giorgianni made all the arrangements.

“I like to do it the Boss Tweed way,” Giorgianni told the developer
in a meeting recorded by federal authorities. “You know Boss Tweed ran
Tammany Hall.”

He went on to say “I can be bought,” and “I like money so much, I hate the poor.”

Giorgianni explained his arrangement with Mayor Mack as follows:
“this is Tony Mack’s theory and it’s a smart one…he uses guys like us
(older individuals) [who are] not going out like punks — we’re going
out like troopers…what could they do…they can’t hurt you with jail
no more.”

Giorgianni went to prison in the 1980s for “carnally abusing and
debauching the morals” of a 14-year-old girl in the back of a sandwich
shop he owns in Trenton. He became somewhat infamous because health
problems — stemming from his weighing more than 500 pounds — led to
his early release from prison, which led a prosecutor to charge that he
“ate his way out of jail.”

Mack and his cronies have been charged with conspiring to obstruct,
delay and affect interstate commerce by extortion under color of
official right.

Mack, who has held on to his job as mayor since his arrest in
September, was issued a vote of no confidence by the Trenton City
Council.