Things keep getting worse for Atlantic City Mayor Frank Gilliam as FBI agents raided his home for five hours and seized property.
The reason for the FBI investigation has not been revealed.
This comes as Gilliam must still answer complaints stemming from a fight, he and a City Councilman had with a group outside a city night club last month.
Special Agent Jessica Weisman told Bloomberg News that a team of FBI and Internal Revenue Service investigators arrived at Gilliam’s Ohio Avenue home at about 8 a.m. on the day of the raid and left five hours later.
She did not say what investigators were seeking, but said they had a search warrant and “we were there in an official capacity.” Video posted to social media showed agents leaving the house with boxes. Weisman did not say what they contained.
Gilliam returned to his City Hall office the day after the raid, but declined to comment.
In another Atlantic City Story, the Miss America organization has applied to renew its subsidy from the New Jersey Casino Reinvestment Development Authority.
Matt Doherty, executive director of the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, told the Press of Atlantic City that the authority has received a request for proposal from the Miss America Organization regarding future sponsorship.
The CRDA has not responded to the pageant organizers, with Doherty saying it’s “too early to say.”
The Miss America Organization is in the midst of controversial shakeup that has seen it revoke the licenses of several Miss America state pageants, including New York and New Jersey.
The CRDA was previously Miss America’s main sponsor since 2012, first subsidizing $7.3 million dollars over three years, then in 2015 agreeing to a $12 million contract, providing an annual $4.3 million under a three-year contract that expired after this year’s competition, according to the Press of Atlantic City.
