Mafia Hitman Fronting As Elected Official in New Jersey Ordered to be Held in Jail Until Trial

Paterson, NJ – When he wasn’t voting on township ordinances as an elected town council member in New Jersey, prosecutors say a former mobster was back to his old ways, shaking down debtors with a baseball bat in North Jersey.

The experiment of a convicted mobster and alleged hitman turned motivational speaker and elected official appears to have just been another front in the long criminal career of a man now facing multiple serious charges.

John Alite was perhaps one of the most honest politicians in New Jerse...