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2003-01-01 |
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| Name | Richard Muti |
| Address | 66 Church St.
Ramsey, New Jersey 07446, United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | [Link] |
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| Info | Mayor of Ramsey.
Former Deputy First Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor and a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy.
Richard Muti grew up in Ramsey (his grandparents settled there in 1911) and attended Ramsey public schools, K-12. A 1964 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Muti spent five years as a Navy pilot before leaving the service to accept a full-tuition fellowship at Harvard Business School. He received his M.B.A. in 1971 and worked in the real estate industry for 10 years. In 1976, he began attending Rutgers Law School four nights a week, while continuing to work. He earned his law degree in 1980 and returned to full-time government service with the Bergen County Prosecutor?s Office. He quickly gained recognition as a top trial prosecutor, achieving a 95% conviction rate. Within two years, he was appointed chief of the arson prosecution section.
Muti entered private practice in 1984, but continued government service as a part-time municipal prosecutor. In eleven years he prosecuted over 2,000 drunk driving cases and thousands of other offenses, with a 99% conviction rate. While in private law practice, Muti?s primary client was the Salesian Society, the religious order that operates Don Bosco High School in Ramsey. Muti returned to full-time government service in 1995, when he accepted a post as chief administrator in the Bergen County Prosecutor?s Office.
As chief administrator, Muti prepared and managed an $18 million annual budget and directed all purchasing. He supervised an additional $5 million in forfeiture funds and instituted new procedures that earned over $100,000 more in interest each year on those funds. Muti received two written commendations from the Bergen County Treasurer for his management of the budget and finances. He also wrote a new personnel manual, and negotiated labor contracts with three police unions. In those negotiations, he gained the reputation of being ?tough, but fair.? When one union filed for arbitration of its salary and working condition demands, Muti defended the Prosecutor?s Office and won the case. He also served as lead prosecutor in two murder trials and other high profile cases, including misconduct of public officials and police corruption.
Muti?s employment with the Prosecutor?s Office came to an abrupt end in August 2000. After trying for months, unsuccessfully, to persuade his boss not to purchase an unneeded $7 million building and to cut back on hiring new personnel, Muti wrote to the County Executive and Freeholders to complain about waste of public resources in the Prosecutor?s Office. He was fired that same day. (Click here to read the full text of the letter Muti sent to "blow the whistle" on wasteful spending in the Prosecutor's Office.)
Muti became a part-time college professor, teaching English composition at Rutgers University, and government and politics, history, and criminal justice at Fairleigh Dickinson University. In his first formal run for political office, Muti defeated a 4-term incumbent in a stunning landslide victory last November and became mayor of his hometown, Ramsey. He took a leave of absence from teaching and now devotes full-time to government service.
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