I know there must be some moral to the fact the so many cons become
clergy when they get out of the joint.
Convicted former public official hopes to start ministry
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 11/9/07
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TRENTON A former Essex County executive has seen the light of God
from inside the walls of prison.
James Treffinger tells The Star-Ledger of Newark 10 months in prison
led him to a spiritual rebirth.
The 57-year-old is enrolled at Princeton Theological Seminary with
plans to start a ministry for prison inmates.
Treffinger was a rising star in Republican politics and the favorite
to win his party's nomination for a U.S. Senate seat when federal
authorities raided his office in 2002.
The one-time popular Verona mayor later admitted putting two campaign
staffers on the county payroll and obstructing the federal probe.
Treffinger isn't the only fallen politician to enter the seminary.
Former Governor Jim McGreevey, who resigned in 2004 after declaring he
was a "gay American,'' entered the General Theological Seminary in
Manhattan this fall with plans to become an Episcopal minister.
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