NJ-07: Malinowski pleads down charge of driving with a suspended license, pays fine
U.S. Rep. Tom Malinowski was charged with driving with a suspended license last month, but on Tuesday agreed to a $150 fine for “failure to provide documents,” according to his lawyer.
The charge against Malinowski, a freshman Democrat who represents New Jersey’s 7th District, was highlighted in a tweet late Monday by Harrison Neely, a consultant for Republican Tom Kean Jr., who’s challenging Malinowski in the November election.
Neely posted an 11-second clip of police body camera footage of the Aug. 1 traffic stop in Hopewell, Mercer County. He said he obtained the footage through a records request.
“You were doing 65 miles an hour. It’s a 45 mile-an-hour zone,” the officer tells Malinowski.
“Going along with the traffic, I guess,” Malinowski says.
“There was nobody in front of you or behind you,” the officer says.
Malinowski’s attorney, Scott Salmon, said the congressman was cited for “delaying traffic” in Raritan in December and thought he had paid the ticket, but did not.
https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2020/09/01/malinowski-pleads-down-charge-of-driving-with-a-suspended-license-pays-fine-1314399
