New Jersey - All politicians are corrupt is belief commonly held by most Americans if not most people. That is a sentiment which is being exclaimed loudly, in New Jersey's Monmouth County, after ten officials including three mayors, were arrested Tuesday for extorting cash bribes and free work from a contractor who was working undercover for the FBI, another was charged with money laundering. 76 public officials in New Jersey have been charged or convicted in corruption-related cases in the last 37 months.