Former Hoboken Employee Stole Mayor’s E-mails

A former Hoboken municipal employee is accused of breaking into Mayor Dawn Zimmer's e-mail account and forwarding them to other city officials.

Patrick Ricciardi is scheduled to be arraigned in federal court in Newark on Wednesday afternoon.  Ricciardi was employed by Hoboken as an IT specialist.  Prosecutors allege Ricciardi used his position and administrative privileges to break into Zimmer's e-mail account and forward e-mails to at least three city officials. The complaint doesn't specify what was in the e-mails.

Ricciardi faces one count of accessing a computer without authorization, one count of intercepting wire and electronic communications and one count of disclosing the intercepted communications.