A LIAR AND A THIEF

The guilty plea came as part of a deal with the feds that saw them dropping official corruption charges related to $40,000 in under-the-table payments Anello took just before and immediately after he was elected mayor from a downtown developer who later turned state's evidence in the case.

Plea bargains are nothing unusual. Dope dealers, pimps, murderers and rapists take them all the time. Prosecutors like them because they save the government the time and expense of a trial, and the scumbag still goes to jail.

So Anello pleaded guilty to felony charges just like a dope dealer or a pimp, and went to prison. He did his time at the Cumberland Federal Correctional Institution, a penitentiary managed by the federal Bureau of Prisons.

They cut him loose back in December, and last week,

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