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US Senator Harrison A. Williams is convicted by a jury in United States District Court in Brooklyn on nine counts, including bribery, receipt of an unlawful gratuity, conflict of interest, and conspiracy to defraud the United States, after a trial stemming from the FBI 'Abscam' sting in which the FBI produced videotapes of Williams promising to use his influence to aid a supposed Arab sheik (impersonated by an FBI agent) in return for a multi-million dollar loan to a titanium-mining corporation in which the senator had a secret financial interest. Prior to a Senate vote on his expulsion, Williams resigned on March 11, 1982, and served two years of his three-year sentence in a federal prison On April 30 of 1921 The Port Authority of New York (later renamed in 1972 as the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey) is created when representatives of New York And New Jersey sign a compact authorized by Congressional legislation in the Great Hall of the New York Chamber of Commerce in Lower Manhattan. On April 29 of 1992
Sidney Reso, an Exxon executive, is kidnapped from the driveway of his Morris Township home by Arthur Seale, a former Exxon security consultant who was fired by Exxon in 1987. Seale's wife Irene also assisted her husband in the kidnapping. Reso was shot in the arm, gagged, bound confined in a wooden box in a poorly ventilated storage space where he suffocated and died. The Seales were later arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned. On April 28 of 1942
The first state blackout during World War II takes effect as one of the measures to prevent potential enemy attacks on New Jersey. Other steps included civil defense patrols on beaches and other sites to detect submarines or landings of spies and saboteurs. On April 27 of 1877
Witherspoon Hall is completed on the campus of the College of New Jersey (renamed Princeton University in 1896). It is the first dormitory in the nation to have indoor plumbing. On April 26 of 1979
Anthony 'Little Pussy' Russo, the mob boss of Monmouth County, is shot and killed in Long Branch. Russo was home on an Easter furlough from state prison when he was shot in the head in a room at a Long Branch hotel. No one is ever charged for the murder, but the FBI believed that the hit was by others in the Genovese crime family to prevent Russo possibly testifying about the mob to a grand jury. |
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