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...others were Jersey City Council President Thomas Flaherty, Port of New York Authority Commissioner William Sternkopf, Hudson County Treasurer Joseph Stapleton, Hudson County Freeholder and Democratic County Chairman Walter Wolfe, Jersey City Purchasing Agent Bernard Murphy, Hudson County Police Chief Fred Kropke and Jersey City Business Administrator Philip Kunz...
...months, Municipal Auditor William Sternkopf Jr. had delved into Jersey City's past, hoping to uncover fresh lore about the quaint folkways of old Frank Hague and his crumbled Hudson County political barony. Last week Auditor Sternkopf announced happily that he had tracked down full details of one of the most significant rituals of Boss Hague's time-an institution known as "Rice Pud ding...
...Auditor Sternkopf collected affidavits from 2,500 employees who had contributed or collected money for the machine. His report covered only a third of the Hague payrolls and only the last two years of Boss Hague's 32-year reign (when nephew Frank Hague Eggers was allowed to be mayor), but that limited corner of the pudding alone added up to about $360,000. The rice pudding was supposedly collected for legitimate campaign purposes, but only a teaspoonful-$2,280 to be exact-was ever officially reported to the county, state or national Democratic Party coffers...
...Sternkopf report indicated that Hague's collectors must have raised at least $15 million, perhaps more than $20 million, in the 32 years of Frank Hague's raisiny rule...
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