ATLANTIC CITY– A New Jersey councilman has been charged after allegedly submitting false voter registrations, making false statements to the FBI and submitting fraud unemployment benefits claims with the state, authorities said.
MD Hossain Morshed, 49, a councilman in Atlantic City’s Fourth Ward, was charged in a criminal complaint unsealed Friday with one count of fraudulent procurement and submission of voter registration applications, one count of making false statements and one count of wire fraud, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said.
Morshed was scheduled to make his initial appearance Friday before U.S. District Judge Ann Marie Donio in Camden federal court.
In April 2019, Morshed had allegedly given a prospective voter a New Jersey voting registration application that had already been filled out, and which falsely stated that the prospective voter had a home address in the Fourth Ward in Atlantic City, according to the case documents and statements made in court. He then urged the prospective voter to sign the application despite the incorrect information, Sellinger said.
Morshed also visited the prospective voter at the voter’s actual residence, presenting them with a vote-by-mail application to sign (which included the same false Atlantic City address on the voter registration and listed yet another false Atlantic City...
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