Mayor Arrested for Hacking Into Website

West New York Mayor Felix Roque (D) was arrested by the FBI “on charges of illegally hacking into a website associated with a recall movement, while attempting to tap into e-mails to find who might be plotting against him,” the Newark Star Ledger reports. Rogue’s son was also arrested.

“According to a criminal complaint filed under seal and released following the arrests, the two men are charged with an electronic dirty tricks campaign in an effort to disrupt and kill the recall movement… Details in the complaint show the two men were playing hardball, in a place where politics is always a life and death struggle against competing Democratic factions.”