| | The ''Daily Beast'' reported {{Quotebox|"under Booker’s watch—or, more likely, because he was not watching—[[corruption]] ran rampant at a publicly funded water-treatment and reservoir-management agency, where Booker’s former law partner served as counsel. And speaking of his former law career: Despite having resigned from his law firm once entering the mayor’s office, Booker received annual payments until 2011, during which time the firm was profiting handsomely off of Brick City. That would be the Brick City that Booker professed to love with the fire of a thousand suns, but did little to fundamentally change. [[Murder]], [[violent]] [[crime]], [[unemployment]], and [[tax]]es all rose dramatically under his stewardship."<ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-ugly-truth-about-cory-booker-new-jerseys-golden-boy</ref>}} | | The ''Daily Beast'' reported {{Quotebox|"under Booker’s watch—or, more likely, because he was not watching—[[corruption]] ran rampant at a publicly funded water-treatment and reservoir-management agency, where Booker’s former law partner served as counsel. And speaking of his former law career: Despite having resigned from his law firm once entering the mayor’s office, Booker received annual payments until 2011, during which time the firm was profiting handsomely off of Brick City. That would be the Brick City that Booker professed to love with the fire of a thousand suns, but did little to fundamentally change. [[Murder]], [[violent]] [[crime]], [[unemployment]], and [[tax]]es all rose dramatically under his stewardship."<ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-ugly-truth-about-cory-booker-new-jerseys-golden-boy</ref>}} |