Rival Accuses Cory Booker Of Having Owned A ‘Crack House’

Rival Accuses Cory Booker Of Having Owned A ‘Crack House’

HUNTER WALKER 11:38 AM EDT, TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Steve Lonegan, the Republican former mayor of Bogota, N.J. who is running against Newark Mayor Cory Booker in the Garden State's U.S. Senate race, is scheduled to have a press conference Tuesday where he plans to accuse Booker of having owned a "crack house."

Lonegan's "crack house" accusations are in response to reports published in the New York Post and Bergen Record in recent days about a property Booker obtained while mayor. The property drew complaints from neighbors who said it was left vacant and "overrun by squatters."

"Mayor Steve Lonegan, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate, will hold a press conference today in front of Cory Booker's abandoned property, now a crack house," a press release announcing the event said.

In another story published Monday, the Post reported a neighbor who lived near the building said she wrote "many many letters to [Booker] about squatters in the yard, people using drugs." According to the Record, Booker purchased the building in 2009 and sold it to a non-profit he owns for $1 "less than three weeks" after the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) announced he would not run for re-election in February of this year.

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