After all , when Judge Pisano railed about Mr. Janiszewski -LRB- '' To say that citizens of New Jersey have become the laughingstock because of widespread corruption in politics is an understatement '' -RRB- he may have had a bit of deja vu from his 2001 sentencing of a former Camden mayor , Milton Milan -LRB- '' The citizens of this city have their problems , but they did not deserve to be made the laughingstock of urban America '' -RRB- .