[1] After receiving a gubernatorial pardon in January 1990, Gregorio staged a political comeback and won election as mayor of Linden, serving in that position until 2006.
[2][3] Gregorio was born in Staten Island and moved to Linden in 1949 after serving in the United States Navy as a radar man.
Under the terms of his conviction, Gregorio was required to relinquish his mayoral and Senate seats and would be unable to seek elected office.
You can't stay in office forever" and blamed his loss by fewer than 100 votes to a lack of sufficient campaigning.
[4] After his son was charged in 2007 with kidnapping two men who had been harassing his teenage daughter, Gregorio had no regrets about the arrest saying "he did what any father would do" and he "should have given him a medal".