Milton On Trial: It Begins Today!

It’s an Ash Wednesday miracle! Jury selection begins today in the trial of New Jersey’s Milton Street, with opening arguments expected as early as this afternoon.

Milton is not charged with impersonating a public figure or making up a story that all the people attending his rally were shot and couldn’t make it. He’s accused of using the influence of his brother to get money for doing nothing. Then, to top it off, he allegedly didn’t pay any taxes on it.

Milton said last year the charges against him were political (or, rather, “politics”) while discussing these charges and the city’s attempt to get back taxes from him: “I’m saying to you that the city solicitor has an invested interest in this election. And his interest is that I don’t get elected. And he came out with these false allegations…. The government will never in a thousand years prove that I had two million dollars. They’ll never prove that. Never, never, never, never, never, never, never!”

The two people who lost to Milton Street in the City Council primary last May remain in hiding.

Milton Street Set to Go to Trial on Fraud and Tax Charges [KYW 1060]
Milton Street Blasts City’s Tax Case Against Him [KYW 1060]