Fresh Indictment For Former AC Mayor Pete Byron

Former Mayor Pete Byron is under indictmen accusing him of abusing his position as mayor to ask for a job from an attorney who held a city contract, then failing to pay state taxes on his earnings from that job. The Press of Atlantic City reports the charges appear to stem from the same job that got Byron into federal hot water. Last year he pleaded guilty to federal tax charges in Camden over failure to report more than $40,000 in income in 2017 and 2018. Court documents cited an unnamed Gloucester County law firm as the source of that income. Byron isn’t commenting on the charges.