A former Democrat mayoral candidate in Plainfield, New Jersey, has admitted forging a huge amount of voter registration applications.
Seventy-one-year-old Henrilyn Ibezim pleaded guilty in the case surrounding the 2021 Democratic primary, Fox News reported Friday, noting he was running on the Unity Party ticket.
In a press release Thursday, New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport said Ibezim pleaded guilty Monday and was charged with one count of third-degree forgery.
“Under the terms of his plea agreement with the Attorney General’s Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA), the State agreed to dismiss the remaining counts in the indictment and to not prosecute the defendant for any other disclosed criminal violations arising out of his conduct during the Democratic primary for mayor in June 2021,” the AG’s office said, adding prosecutors were going to recommend he serve probation.
Ibezim was accused of bringing a garbage bag holding 1,000
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