Alfred E. Steele (born January 22, 1954) is an American Baptist clergyman and Democratic Party politician, who served in the New Jersey General Assembly starting in 1996, where he represented the 35th legislative district.
He resigned on September 10, 2007, in the wake of his arrest the previous week on corruption charges.
Steele has served as Chaplain in the Passaic County Jail from 1990 to 1994, a position he is currently holding.
[2] The charges are that Steele accepted $14,000 in bribes to steer insurance brokers new business from Newark, Orange, Passaic and Paterson, where he allegedly boasted that he could secure the business as he "had five votes on the City Council.
[5] In resigning before September 17, 2007, the Democratic Party would be able to put an alternate on the November ballot in lieu of Steele.