A.C. probe may end this week

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, March, 2007 | by George Anastasia Inquirer Staff Writer

ATLANTIC CITY - It was a case built around secretly recorded conversations that in all probability will never be made public.

It was an inside look at the pay-to-play philosophy that seems to drive government here and across New Jersey, but few will get to see it.

It was a bizarre and disjointed federal investigation in which targets quickly became informants and in which, it sometimes seemed, nearly everyone was wearing a body wire.

The other shoe is about to drop in a convoluted Atlantic City political corruption case that already has resulted in the resignations of three City Council members.

Two local businessmen with ties to City Hall are expected to plead guilty soon to charges that they paid bribes to at least one of the councilmen in exchange for...