Lynch played prep basketball at St. Peter the Apostle High School, a key player on a team that was the runner-up in the 1956 Parochial A state championship.
In 1997, after an unsuccessful effort to regain Democratic Party control of the Senate, Lynch stepped down from his position as the Minority Leader.
[5] The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey began investigating Lynch in the mid-2000s for his business dealings.
[6] On December 19, 2006, he was sentenced by Judge Stanley R. Chesler to three years and three months in prison, which he was required to begin serving by January 15, 2007.
[8] Lynch served two and a half years at Federal Correctional Institution, Loretto before being transferred to a halfway house in Newark, New Jersey in June 2009.