Anthony Spalliero was charged in the ongoing
federal investigation in Monmouth County.
Philly.com May
4, 2005
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEWARK, N.J. -A developer was arrested yesterday and accused
of passing bribes to a onetime freeholder director and to a
former mayor of Marlboro Township.
The FBI complaint against Anthony Spalliero was the latest development
in a federal investigation into corruption in Monmouth County.
Spalliero, 64, is accused of offering about $143,500 in cash
bribes to Matthew V. Scannapieco from 2001 to 2003, while Scannapieco
was Marlboro's mayor.
Scannapieco pleaded guilty April 12 to taking $245,000 in bribes
from a developer working in the township. Mayor from 1992 to
2003, he said he had taken cash numerous times from 1997 to
2003 in return for supporting the developer's projects as mayor
and as a member of the planning board.
Spalliero, of Hazlet, also is accused of paying $8,500 from
2001 to 2003 to Monmouth County's top elected official. The
complaint did not name the official, but the freeholder director
at that time was Harry Larrison Jr., who was charged last week
with taking $8,500 in bribes from developers in Marlboro.
Larrison, 78, of Neptune, retired in December as the longest-serving
freeholder - 39 years - in state history.
Spalliero was arrested at the Holmdel home of his former wife,
the U.S. Attorney's Office said. A message seeking comment from
Spalliero's lawyer, Michael Critchley, was not immediately returned.
In February, federal prosecutors charged 11 officials in the
county with corruption, including the mayors of Hazlet, Keyport
and West Long Branch.
