Hudson County Facts

It’s rumored that during a “visit” to the apartment of a Hudson County political operative, law enforcement seized a photo album containing images of Robert Janiszewski — with a number of different women. Did the County Boss know that he was being photographed? Or, did the pictures serve to encourage a cooperative attitude?

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It was not unknown for police to happen across a parked car containing Bobby J quietly conversing with a constituent.

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During Janiszewski’s reign, a woman walked in the door of a County office one day and – out of the blue – announced that she now was working there. This new employee didn’t hit it off with the rest of the staff and eventually stopped showing up at all. Everyone assumed that the job didn’t suit her and that she’d moved on to bigger and better things. When the Feds finally reeled in Bobby J once and for all, the woman’s co-workers were surprised to learn that, by coincidence, her letter of resignation just had crossed the Director’s desk. Despite being missing from the corner of Newark and Baldwin for many months, the ghost worker’s pay checks still rolled out at the tune of $85K a year.

Until pinched by the feds, Robert Janiszewski constantly complained that he could have been a contender on the State and even the National level, if it wasn’t for the baseless prejudice that the rest of the Country had that Hudson County politicians were corrupt.