Sarah Brockington Bost

Sarah Brockington Bost (born 1947) was the first female African-American to serve as Mayor of Irvington, New Jersey. She was the first African-American to head the Women Mayors Division of the United States Conference of Mayors.[1] In 2003 she was sentenced to a year in prison for witness tampering.[2]

Biography

Bost was born in 1947 in Irvington, New Jersey. She worked as a bank accountant and then was elected as the Essex County freeholder president.[3] She also served as a board member for Essex County College. Starting in 1994, she served two-terms as Mayor of Irvington, New Jersey.

Bost was indicted in March 2002, charged with accepting kickbacks amounting to $8,500 from two city contractors. She was also charged with witness tampering, when she met with the former town administrator and counseled him to lie to federal investigators. The administrator, David Fuller, became a government witness against her. She was prosecuted by Chris Christie, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey.[4]

In a plea deal in 2003, Bost pled guilty to the one charge of witness tampering, and the other charges were dropped. She was sentenced to a year in prison and served it at Federal Prison Camp, Alderson.[2][5] In 2010 the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission fined her $27,000 for failing to file required campaign finance reports by the mandated deadline and for accepting campaign donations that exceeded New Jersey's statutory limits.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Jessie Carney Smith. Sarah Brockington Bost. The Complete Encyclopedia of African American History.
  2. 1 2 "Irvington Ex-Mayor Is Sentenced To a Year in Witness Tampering". New York Times. September 9, 2003. Retrieved 2015-04-01.
  3. 1 2 Richard Khavkine (June 3, 2010). "Former Irvington mayor hit with $27,000 fine for campaign finance violations". The Star-Ledger. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
  4. ↑ "Christie Raises the Ante, And Perhaps His Profile". New York Times. June 1, 2003. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
  5. ↑ Jennifer Herman (2008). "Chronology". New Jersey Encyclopedia.
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