Larrie West Stalks (September 28, 1925 – April 2, 2015) was an American Democratic Party politician who served as the Essex County Register of Deeds and Mortgages from 1975 to 1995.
Stalks was running with Democratic sheriff John B. Cryan, who was under criminal indictment, and 1979 was a Republican year with President Jimmy Carter with low approval ratings.
Stalks was indicted on July 19, 1994, on federal bribery, extortion and theft charges relating to a public housing project where she served on the board of directors.
Stalks was accused of giving businessman Anthony Zecchino, an alleged associate of the Lucchese crime family, a $1.5 million security contract in exchange for the kickbacks.
She was also accused of using her position to give her husband, Frederick W. Stalks (December 7, 1922 - August 7, 2002), no-show jobs at Hill Towers, a 420-unit federally-subsidized low income housing project.
"[10] In 2008, Stalks was among those who wrote letters to U.S. District Court Judge William J. Martini urging leniency for former Newark mayor Sharpe James, who had been convicted on federal corruption charges.