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15 Mar 2023, 7:08 am by Tom Smith
NEWARK, N.J. -- The city of Newark is admitting it got scammed.It was about to become a Sister City with a Hindu nation, but there was one problem -- the nation doesn't exist.As CBS2's Ali Bauman reports, the city only found out about the fraud after it held an official ceremony for it.What started off as a seemingly well-intentioned partnership has turned into a giant embarrassment for the city of Newark.Earlier this year,… [read post]
26 Sep 2009, 2:17 am
Last night we watched the first episode of a new documentary from the Sundance Channel, "Brick City,"about fighting crime in Newark, N.J. produced by Forest Whitaker (available in the free movies on demand section for Time Warner subscribers).It had been billed as Newark meets The Wire, though it's not living up to that yet. [read post]
11 Jan 2014, 1:29 am by Jon Gelman
Insurance Broker, Former Toms River, N.J., Mayor, Sentenced In Separate Schemes Involving Toms River OfficialsTRENTON, N.J. [read post]
2 Apr 2012, 7:55 am by boston
Even worse, they are often used as a political weapon.Consider the situation unfolding in Plainfield, N.J. [read post]
23 Jul 2009, 6:27 am
Department of Justice announced:The mayors of Hoboken, Secaucus and Ridgefield, the Jersey City deputy mayor and council president, two state assemblymen, numerous other public officials and political figures and five rabbis from New York and New Jersey were among 44 individuals charged today in a two-track federal investigation of public corruption and a high-volume, international money laundering conspiracy.According to the Newark Star-Ledger, the rabbis… [read post]
13 Jul 2007, 1:32 am
" Former Newark Mayor Indicted On Charges of Defrauding City "Former Newark mayor Sharpe James was led handcuffed into a federal courtroom Thursday to face a 33-count indictment alleging a pattern of corruption that including using city credit cards for personal expenses and selling off city land at steeply discounted prices for a personal acquaintance's profit. [read post]
23 Aug 2012, 8:08 am by Joe May
New Jersey: “N.J. judge: Former Newark mayor violated campaign finance laws” by Phil Gregory in Newsworks New Jersey. [read post]
16 Jul 2007, 1:54 am
" Former Newark Mayor Indicted On Charges of Defrauding City "Former Newark mayor Sharpe James was led handcuffed into a federal courtroom Thursday to face a 33-count indictment alleging a pattern of corruption that including using city credit cards for personal expenses and selling off city land at steeply discounted prices for a personal acquaintance's profit. [read post]
15 Mar 2010, 10:42 pm by Sam E. Antar
A federal judge barred former Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini from using a similar tact at her trial in February. [read post]
9 Mar 2012, 1:11 pm by Suzanne Ito
(We're suing in N.J. because the Newark FBI refused to release other documents in response to our Freedom of Information Act request for racial mapping data). [read post]
26 Oct 2015, 6:12 am by Jim Sedor
Lobbying “APA to Pay $9M to Settle Lobbying Fee Class Action” by Charley Himmel for Courthouse News Service Arkansas: “Lobbyist Tells of Loan Made to Lawmaker” by Michael Wickline for Arkansas Online Campaign Finance Illinois: “Ruling: Campaign finance limits don’t apply to unions with city contracts” by Fran Spielman and Dan Mihalopoulos for Chicago Sun-Times New Jersey: “N.J. [read post]
11 Aug 2020, 3:52 am by SHG
Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark, N.J., called defunding the police a “bourgeois liberal” solution for addressing systemic racism. [read post]
19 Mar 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
In an internal draft memo, the Army said the U.S. military should not be needed to help police with traffic and crowd management, as city officials had requested, unless more than 100,000 demonstrators were expected. [read post]
26 Jun 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Lori Tremmel Freeman, chief executive of the National Association of County and City Health Officials, said more than 20 health officials have been fired, resigned, or have retired in recent weeks “due to conditions related to having to enforce and stand up for strong public health tactics during this pandemic. [read post]
14 Apr 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
How a Criminal Probe into Suspected Conspiracy to ‘Defraud the City’ Was Settled with a Single Misdemeanor MSN – Jeff McDonald (San Diego Union Tribune) | Published: 4/9/2023 When an investigator for District Attorney Summer Stephan was seeking warrants to search Jason Hughes’ home and office, he described a far-reaching conspiracy to swindle San Diego taxpayers out of millions of dollars t [read post]