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Jason Lambert Dixon Jr. y Sayfullo Saipov,
Jalen Malik Mitchell, Put Paterson in unwanted
Two young patersonians national list with his terrorist
brought medals to Paterson attack in Manhattan. He has
after competing at the Amer- brought shame not only to
ican National Kids Interna- Patersonians, but specially to
tional Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu the Muslim community in
Federation (IBJJF) Jiu-Jitsu Paterson which doesn’t
Championship in Las Vegas. represent his views.

Ing. Pedro Rodriguez, Alex Mendez,
Candidate for Mayor in the city of who is showing major finan-
Paterson, an electronic engineer cial struggles in his campaign.
by trade, he was the first of the Mendez reported his cam-
candidates for mayor of Paterson paign account with negative
to be certified by the City Clerk in balance and bouncing checks.
less than 5 days of receiving the Recently he received funds
petitions, demonstrating a strong from people linked to the
political structure and support latest corruption scandals in
within the community. the city of Paterson.

Senator Bob Menendez, Jose “Joey Torres,
The United States Senator He is currently serving his sen-
Robert Menendez's corrup- tence of five years in prison after
tion trial ended with a null having pleaded guilty to the acts
judgment, after an 11-week of corruption committed during
contentious drama. Menen-
dez was visibly moved when his tenure as Mayor of Paterson.
he spoke with reporters. Federal investigations are still un-
This finished an extraordinary derway and pending that could
fight between the Senator extend his stay in prison.
and federal agents.

NJCDC (New Jersey Commu- Well of Hope,
nity Development Coorpora- A needle exchange institu-
tion). tion that poorly ran its ex-
NJCDC carried out with great
success their annual gift give- change program, leading to
away to hundreds of children the contamination of parks
for Christmas. with needles. Unfortunately,
NJCDC has been contributing several councilmember’s
different activities for the continue to approve funding
benefit of the community for
many years. for this organization.
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