Editing South Bound Brook, New Jersey (section)

====Political corruption====
In 2005, Republican mayor Jo-Anne Shubert resigned as Mayor of South Bound Brook a week before admitting that she had given a $35,000 no-bid computer contract to a company owned by her brother and where she was employed as an office manager.<ref>Hemenway, Chad. [https://web.archive.org/web/20121106180031/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/mycentraljersey/access/1752676691.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep+24,+2006&author=CHAD+HEMENWAY&pub=Courier+-+News&desc=NEW+LOOK+FOR+SOUTH+BOUND+BROOK:+Redevelopment+brings+rebirth+to+determined+community&pqatl=google "NEW LOOK FOR SOUTH BOUND BROOK: Redevelopment brings rebirth to determined community"], ''[[Courier News]]'', September 24, 2006. Accessed May 17, 2011. "'Basically, we tried to reinvent the town,' said former Mayor Jo-Anne Schubert, who made redevelopment a rallying cry of her 10-year political tenure in the borough until her resignation in October 2005."</ref>

In 2010 and 2011, Republican mayor Terry Warrelmann, was involved in a controversy involving his family and the borough's refusal to release police reports surrounding the incident. On July 9, 2010, John Paff, filed a lawsuit seeking the release of the documents.<ref>[http://ogtf.lpcnj.org/2010207yc//PaffvSBB.pdf "OPRA Request: Borough of South Bound Brook"], New Jersey Libertarian Party Open Government Advocacy Project. Accessed January 22, 2015.</ref><ref>Deak, Michael. [http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20100726/NEWS/7260326/Libertarian-party-organiztion-chair-s-lawsuit-seeks-file-possibly-involving-South-Bound-Brook-mayor-s-relative "Libertarian party organization chair's lawsuit seeks file possibly involving South Bound Brook mayor's relative"], ''[[Courier News]]'', July 26, 2010. Accessed January 23, 2015. "John Paff, chairman of the Libertarian Party Open Government Advocacy Project, filed suit in Superior Court against the borough and Borough Administrator Donald Kazar. Paff is contending he should have been given the report about the investigation that may have involved a relative of Mayor Terry Warrelman."</ref> On December 17, 2010, New Jersey Superior Court Assignment Judge Yolanda Ciccone, sitting in Somerville, New Jersey, conducted a hearing on Paff's lawsuit. On March 31, 2011, Paff received a 79-page file containing the redacted versions of documents within that investigative file.<ref>[http://ogtf.lpcnj.org/2010207yc//SouthBoundBrookDocs.pdf ''Paff v. Borough of South Bound Brook''], New Jersey Libertarian Party Open Government Advocacy Project. Accessed January 22, 2015.</ref> The records show that Mayor Warrelmann, along with his son Stephen, Nancy Santora and an unidentified juvenile, were suspects in an investigation of a November 21, 2009, burglary of a shed in South Bound Brook. No charges, however, were brought against any of the suspects.