And you don’t get to avoid that joke.Ī lot of rogues have passed through the hallowed halls of the Statehouse over the centuries, but few if any were as colorful, brilliant and politically consequential as Friedland.įor instance, a 36-year-old Republican Assemblymember named Tom Kean became speaker in 1972 because Friedland cut a deal with Republicans and a few Democrats that messed up his own party’s majority in 1972. The Jersey Journal reports that former state Senator/Assemblymember David Friedland has died at 84.īut did he, really? When you’re known for faking your own death to escape federal corruption charges and then you get caught because your scuba diving business in the Maldives got too successful, you don’t get the benefit of the doubt that you actually are dead.
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