Ex-Newark Mayor Apologizes, Gets Prison Time

From: New York Sun | July 30, 2008 

NEWARK, N.J. — The former mayor of Newark broke a yearlong public silence since his indictment hours before being sentenced for corruption with an attitude rarely, if ever, seen during his 20 years as the leader of the state's largest city: contrition. "I would like to apologize to my wife of 44 years and my mother, who is 94, for the hardship and suffering they have had to endure," Sharpe James told a hushed courtroom yesterday. "If I made a mistake, it was not of malice or intent." "I made a...

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