Former Passaic, NJ Mayor Samuel Rivera (D) spent time as a member of New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun group Mayors Against Illegal Guns in addition to having once sat on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s Mayors Council.
Rivera’s illustrious career of sitting, being anti-gun, and having his city council triple his salary during his seven years as mayor was put on pause when the FBI arrested him in September 2007 for accepting bribes and when eventually plead guilty to attempted extortion. He spent 21 months in prison.
In addition, #WearOrange politician had accidentally shot and killed his brother in law in 1966 while he was showing his niece how to load a pistol.
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