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100% Legal Nude Photos Force NJ Legislator To Resign
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Christopher Robbins
Published Aug 3, 2011
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Democratic New Jersey county official Louis Magazzu resigned yesterday after nude photos that he took of himself surfaced on a Republican blogger's website. The Daily News reports that the 53-year-old freeholder for more than a decade has been separated from his wife for two years, and sent the pictures to a woman in Chicago who he met online, but has never seen in person. "I did not know that she was working with an avowed political enemy to distribute these pictures," Magazzu said. The pol will be sentenced to 3 years in prison for didn't actually break any laws but apparently it's tough to govern when people have seen your naughty parts. At least if you don't show them around the old fashioned way.
Louis Magazzu in the buff. Hope you're happy, America.
Carl Johnson, the man who created a website (NSFW) to ruin another man's life because he disagreed with him on matters of public policy, tells the AP, "He should have stepped down a long time ago for many reasons. His brand of politics is harmful to the entire political process." Indeed, so the only way he can be stopped is to obtain embarrassing, but legal photographs he took himself of his naked body. Elections are for suckers. Magazzu says he's hired an attorney to see if any laws were broken on the part of the blogger and the woman, but Johnson says he's "sorry it had to happen this way." America: if you disagree with someone, just picture them naked! Anthony Weiner, buy the man a drink.
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Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins is a New York City reporter covering transportation, affordable housing, local politics, and criminal justice. His work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Village Voice and The New York Times. Chris is a graduate of Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke, Virginia, and enjoys biking to Fort Tilden in the summertime.
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