July 2010

• Tony Mack takes office as mayor. His campaign donors include convicted child molester Joseph “Jo-Jo” Giorgianni.

• The independent library board announces plans to close the city’s four branch libraries.

August 2010

• Mack nominates friend Carleton Badger as housing director. Badger drops out after his past indictments for forgery and theft are reported. Acting business administrator Bill Guhl later says he quit after urging Mack not to nominate Badger.

• Mack administration calls in police and sheriff’s officers to oust deputy clerk Cordelia Staton from City Hall.

• Mack’s Berkeley Square home falls into foreclosure for at least the second time.

September 2010

• Municipal courthouse developer sues after Mack cancels the project, demanding $7 million in rent, plus damages.

• Records show Mack received a $20,000 mortgage loan from a Burlington County woman in April 2010 and deposited the same amount in his campaign account. The sum exceeds contribution limits; a state law prohibits the disguising of campaign contributions as loans.

October 2010

• Mack is criticized over delayed notifications after Trenton Water Works filtration plant temporarily shuts down, causing a water contamination scare.

November 2010

• About 72 city workers are laid off in response to the city’s budget deficit.

• Municipal Judge Renee Sumners, a Mack friend and appointee, resigns over bounced checks and unpaid debts.

• Acting business administrator Andrew McCrosson, a Mack appointee, quits and pleads guilty to stealing from a congressional campaign.

January 2011

• Mack administration proposes selling city properties for $1 to a developer whose parent company contributed $6,000 to his campaign.

• The Department of Community Affairs rejects two of Mack’s director nominees as unqualified.

• Mack half-brother Stanley Davis and two other water utility employees are indicted for doing side jobs with city equipment on city time. Guhl says Mack ordered an overtime policy change that benefited his brother. Davis eventually pleads guilty.

• Acting police director Ernie Williams quits after learning from the press that Mack intends to replace him.

• Mack arrives mid-way through a council meeting in his sweat pants, berating council members for “conniving” against him and accusing Council President George Muschal of spying on his staff.

• Campaign finance reports show that Cooper Levenson, a politically connected law firm Mack hired, donated $7,200 to Mack’s campaign through the Partners for Progress PAC, violating the city’s pay-to-play law, acting law director Marc McKithen said.

• Cooper Levenson agrees to terminate its city contract.

February 2011

• A laid-off park ranger supervisor sues, saying civil service rules were violated when he was replaced by a Mack political ally.

• Partners for Progress’ treasurer says the FBI is interviewing the PAC’s officers.

March 2011

• Under DCA pressure to improve his staff, Mack hires former county freeholder Paul Sigmund as chief of staff.

• Superior Court Judge Linda Feinberg lambastes Mack aide Anthony Roberts as “completely unqualified” to evaluate contract bids, rejecting the city’s effort to cancel an information technology contract.

• Paul Sigmund is charged with speeding and driving without a valid license.

May 2011

• Sigmund is found wandering in a neighborhood near City Hall with heroin in his pocket and assaults an officer, police say. Police Director Joseph Juniak demands Sigmund be fired. Sigmund resigns.

• Records show park rangers hired under Mack, including political ally Robert Mendez, accumulated significant overtime. The DCA says it is “extraordinarily concerned with what appear to be doctored time sheets.”

June 2011

• The Committee to Recall Tony Mack begins collecting signatures to force an early mayoral election.

• Law director Marc McKithen quits, reportedly after clashing with the Mack administration over public information requests.

• Mack’s brother Ralphiel Mack is rehired as Trenton Central High’s football coach, after an assault charge was dismissed.

August 2011

• Mack administration sends layoff notices to 149 employees, including more than 100 police officers, or about a third of the department.

• Judge Feinberg rules the administration violated open public records laws by not releasing financial records to two civic activists.

• Municipal court director Nathaniel Jones is found to be serving despite a past assault conviction and never receiving council approval. He goes on paid leave and is later shifted to the law department.

September 2011

• Just before the police layoffs, Mack unveils a $4,000 portrait wall in City Hall of himself and preceding mayors.

• Business administrator Eric Berry, the seventh person to serve in the position under Mack, quits after six months.

• Mack names Harold Hall acting public works director despite DCA criticism of his qualifications.

October 2011

• Acting housing director Carmen Melendez owes more than $50,000 in unpaid city and federal taxes and more than $90,000 on two business loans.

• Mack orders police drug and anti-crime units disbanded in favor of more foot patrols. Four council members rebuke Mack for his hiring missteps and policing plans, with two endorsing the recall effort.

• The Mercer County prosecutor intervenes and Mack compromises on policing, agreeing to preserve the specialized units.

• A judge orders the reinstatement of two Water Works employees who said they were demoted and then suspended for providing evidence in the criminal case against Mack’s half-brother. The decision is later reversed.

• Mack appoints his fourth acting police director, removing Sgt. Chris Doyle, who opposed the foot-patrol policing plan.

• Mack threatens to reject $6 million in state aid accompanied by stronger state control of city hiring. He later agrees to an altered agreement.

• Laid-off recreation staffer Maria Richardson alleges Mack stole city tents and gave an aide a no-show job. She alleges Harold Hall hired unqualified friends and relatives and sought to bypass competitive bidding laws. Attorney George Dougherty says more such allegations of corruption and cronyism are coming.

• Records show that Hall split up bids for construction projects in a way that allowed the city to bypass public bidding requirements.

• Council questions a proposed bond measure to help pay for several projects, including improvements to the field at Trenton Central High, where Ralphiel Mack is the football coach. The city comptroller says Mack personally asked for the field funding, which a state finance board later bars.

November 2011

• The recall committee fails to collect enough signatures to force an early mayoral election.

• Former Mack aide Samara Lentz alleges she suffered discrimination at work and was fired when she filed a complaint.

January 2012

• Mack unsuccessfully asks council to hike his pay $28,000 to $154,000 and give raises to top city officials.

Mayor Tony Mack's State of Trenton 03/21/2012 13 Gallery: Mayor Tony Mack's State of Trenton 03/21/2012

February 2012

• Council suspends the salary budget for the mayor’s office for four months, citing poor job performance.

• City Hall, the police and senior centers run out of toilet paper thanks to a dispute over bidding, drawing international attention.

• The DCA rejects Trenton’s request for a permanent state aid increase, citing the city’s lack of a “sound management structure.”

March 2012

• Mack calls the council’s budget approval “out of order” because of his staff’s salary cuts, but the DCA says the budget is valid.

• Veteran housing department employee Henrietta Owusu sues, alleging she was denied promotion as punishment for reporting inappropriate actions by acting director Melendez.

April 2012

• Mack begins reopening shuttered library branches as “learning centers,” bypassing the library board and state rules on libraries.

May 2012

• Local legislators propose a law change making it easier to recall mayors.

Photos: FBI search Trenton Mayor Tony Mack's house 27 Gallery: Photos: FBI search Trenton Mayor Tony Mack's house

June 2012

• Council rejects employment extensions for Hall, Melendez and acting health director Ruth Carter. Mack ignores the vote.

• Council scrutinizes recreation spending under Hall, who effectively runs the division, criticizing a $17,000 sign installed at Cadwalader Park without landmarks commission approval.

July 2012

• Mack takes direct control of recreation, removing the division from Hall’s control.

FBI raids Mack’s, Ralphiel Mack’s, and campaign donor Joseph Giorgianni’s homes.

Previous Tony Mack coverage:

• Trenton Mayor Tony Mack denies wrongdoing after FBI predawn raid at his home

• Trenton Mayor Tony Mack's house is searched by FBI agents

• Trenton Mayor Tony Mack says city officials, prosecutor's office is probing recreation department

• Former Trenton employee sues Mayor Tony Mack alleging corruption, cronyism in hiring

• Committee to recall Mayor Mack fails to collect 9,860 needed signatures to force special election

• Four Trenton council members express "no confidence" in Mayor Tony Mack

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