Ralphiel Mack, brother of ex-mayor convicted of bribery, may lose his job in the state

Former Trenton Mayor Tony Mack’s brother is expected to lose his job at the Department of Community Affairs, the New Jersey Globe reports.

Ralphiel Mack began working last week as a constitutional services representative in the office of Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver, DCA commissioner, despite a 2014 conviction on three counts of bribery, extortion and fraud by mail and e-mail. under the scheme of influence the construction of fictitious parking on urban land.

There was news of hiring Mack first reported by The Trentonian.

The developers, Lemuel Blackburn and Harry Seymour, were FBI informants, and Mack was sentenced to 30 months in prison for receiving some bribes on behalf of his brother. He was released in 2016.

The federal prosecutor’s office used wiretapping and video footage obtained by the FBI from a surveillance camera near Jojo’s steakhouse. Restaurant owner Joseph “Joe” Giorgani, convicted of sex crimes and a drug dealer, admitted to being a middleman in the bribery scheme.

Mack, a former Trenton Central High School football coach, was hired for public affairs, though the Department of Education banned Maku from working as a school social worker.

Tony Mack, a former four-term Freeholder of Mercer County, was elected mayor in 2010. arrested in 2012 and remain in office until his removal 19 days after a federal jury found him guilty. He was released in 2018.

The former mayor’s half-brother, Stanley Davis, who was hired as head of Trenton’s water utility, was jailed for using his city’s work crews and equipment to do side work during the workday.

The state has not commented on the employment dispute.

This is not the first time a person has been jailed for a political corruption scandal.

In 2019, Marcellus Jackson was a former member of the Pasaika City Council hired by the education department despite pleading guilty in 2009 to charges of bribery to help the fictitious company get an insurance contract. Jackson later resigned from public office after Attorney General Gurbir Greval determined he was not eligible to work in a public body.

At the time, Gruol could not explain why the Attorney General’s Office was unable to issue an order banning Jackson from working in the state in the future.

Court records do not indicate that any order was issued against Mack or his brother Tony.

Last week, a Supreme Court judge ruled that former Newark mayor Sharpe James could not run for city council because his conviction in 2009 did not allow him to hold public office.

Patterson officials similarly rejected an application for former Patterson mayor Joey Torres to take up his old post.