A confessed killer is now a community leader.
Four council members have abruptly resigned since February. And the mayor claims a mysterious incident precipitated that exodus from the Englishtown borough council and led to his nomination of John Alite — the former mob hitman — as a replacement.
But he refuses to talk about it.
“There’s a lot to unpack there,” said Marc Pfeiffer, a senior policy fellow and assistant director of the Bloustein Local Government Center at Rutgers University…
While Englishtown’s situation is admittedly unusual, plenty of towns have weathered dysfunction, Rutgers’ Pfeiffer pointed out.
“Things happen,” he said. “There’s always been oddball situations that happen in local governments.”
But lately, Englishtown has faced more than its share.