Jerramiah Healy

Jerramiah Healy is currently Jersey City’s mayor. He was elected in a special election in 2004 and in subsequent regular elections in 2005 and 2009.

He previously served as an assistant prosecutor for the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office, an assistant corporation counsel for the city, an attorney for the rent control board, the chief judge of the city’s municipal court, and an at-large city councilman.

On July 23, 2009, a federal political corruption investigation that netted scores of Jersey City officials cited an “Official 4″ as allegedly taking under-the-table money from a purported developer for a 2009 re-election campaign. The Jersey City Independent was the first news organization to point out that “Official 4″ was clearly Healy. One day later, he admitted it was him, but defended himself, saying he “did nothing wrong.” He has not been charged.

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