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Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) member and Spring Valley Mayor Noramie Jasmin was arrested yesterday for allegedly accepting bribes from an undercover FBI agent, as part of a wide-ranging federal corruption probe that netted six New York state politicians.......Jasmin is not the first member of MAIG to run afoul of the law.

MAIG Mayor James Schiliro of Marcus Hook, Penn. was arrested in late March for reckless endangerment after allegedly firing a gun in his home during an argument with a 20-year-old man over a sex act.

MAIG Mayor Craig Lowe of Gainesville, Fla. was charged with driving under the influence and property damage after police found him asleep in his car at the scene of a crash.

Other members and former members of MAIG have been charged with a range of offenses, including felony corruption, assault of a police officer, and child sex crimes.

More than two years after former Mayor Eddie A. Perez was convicted of five felony corruption charges and sentenced to three years in prison, his lawyers will have a chance Tuesday to make their case for why those convictions should be thrown out.

Kwame Kilpatrick stepped down as the mayor of Detroit Thursday after pleading guilty to two counts of obstruction of justice stemming from a sex-and-misconduct scandal that has plagued the Motor City for months.

Kilpatrick also pleaded no contest to assaulting or obstructing a public officer as part of the plea agreement, which ends his role as mayor of the nation's 11th-largest city.

Prosecutors charged Racine Mayor Gary Becker with child-sex felonies Thursday and said he had gone to a mall to meet a 14-year-old girl he thought he had met during an online chat.

A state agent had posed as the girl, and the 51-year-old mayor was arrested Tuesday at the mall in suburban Milwaukee. District Attorney Michael Nieskes said during a news conference after a court hearing Thursday that investigators also found records of 1,800 sexually explicit chats on Becker's computer.

The charges include attempted second-degree sexual assault of a child under 16, possession of child pornography, child enticement, use of a computer to facilitate a child sex crime, attempt to expose a child to harmful material and misconduct in office. At least one city official has called on Becker to resign.

Becker, who is married and has two children, waived his preliminary hearing in Racine County Circuit Court on Thursday afternoon. Racine County Circuit Judge Stephen Simanek set his arraignment for Feb. 10.

According to an affidavit supporting a search warrant for his home, the drunken mayor contacted the young man by text in Trainer and then had a Marcus Hook police officer deliver him to his house. There, with Schiliro’s 13-year-old daughter sleeping upstairs, the mayor gave the young man three glasses of what the victim believed to be wine. During the encounter, Schiliro produced three different handguns and waved them around, at one point, threatening suicide. The young man told authorities he felt like a hostage and feared for his life. One weapon was discharged into some papers that were on the floor in the rear of the house, according to the document.

The charging document, filed Thursday, expands on the details of that encounter. According to the affidavit of probable cause for arrest, the young man told authorities that Schiliro wanted to perform oral sex on him, a request Schiliro made 20 or 30 times and "became very distraught after the victim refused" Schiliro's request.

Turdacious wrote:If you're gonna go down, go down in flames.

According to an affidavit supporting a search warrant for his home, the drunken mayor contacted the young man by text in Trainer and then had a Marcus Hook police officer deliver him to his house. There, with Schiliro’s 13-year-old daughter sleeping upstairs, the mayor gave the young man three glasses of what the victim believed to be wine. During the encounter, Schiliro produced three different handguns and waved them around, at one point, threatening suicide. The young man told authorities he felt like a hostage and feared for his life. One weapon was discharged into some papers that were on the floor in the rear of the house, according to the document.

The charging document, filed Thursday, expands on the details of that encounter. According to the affidavit of probable cause for arrest, the young man told authorities that Schiliro wanted to perform oral sex on him, a request Schiliro made 20 or 30 times and "became very distraught after the victim refused" Schiliro's request.

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