Apr 30, 2025 | City Council Seat | forged ballots and voter registrations | Haledon | new charges | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) | Paterson City Council President Alex Mendez | Paterson resident | Paterson’s May 2020 municipal election | stole ballots | superseding indictment | Third Ward | three alleged co-conspirators | Vote-By-Mail | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court | Public Integrity
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) announced that Paterson City Council President Alex Mendez along with three alleged co-conspirators and another Paterson resident are facing new charges in a superseding indictment that alleges they stole ballots, forged ballots and voter registrations, and submitted them to help Mendez win Paterson’s May 2020 municipal election.
Apr 29, 2025 | 911 Call | Alternative Responses to Reduce Instances of Violence and Escalation (ARRIVE) Together program | autopsy results | ballistics reports | Body-Worn Camera Footage | CED (Taser) | emergency medical services (EMS) | Emergency Services Unit (“ESU”) | Fatal Police Shooting | Hudson County Sheriff's Office | Independent Prosecutor Directive of 2019 | Investigation | Jersey City | Jersey City Medical Center (JCMC) | medical examiner | mental-health incident | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | photographs | Randolph Avenue | State Grand Jury | witness interviews | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Press Release | Public Integrity
A state grand jury has voted not to file any criminal charges at the conclusion of its deliberations regarding the death of an individual from Jersey City, New Jersey, who was fatally shot by Jersey City Police Officer Stephen Gigante on August 27, 2023.
Apr 29, 2025 | addiction recovery | AmeriCorps | education of special needs students | educational | environmental needs | Funding | independent federal agency | mass layoffs | meaningful community-based service | mentoring programs | national disasters | operations | programs | Public Safety | recovery programs | relief program | urban areas | volunteer and service efforts terminated | DD-FederalFunding | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin filed a lawsuit with a coalition of 23 attorneys general challenging the Trump Administration’s dismantling of AmeriCorps, an independent federal agency that addresses the country’s educational, public safety, and environmental needs by engaging Americans in meaningful community-based service.
Apr 29, 2025 | 800 law firms | abuse of power | amicus briefs | coalition of attorneys general | former judges | law fims | legal community | letter | professors | targeting law firms | Trump Administration | unconstitutional executive orders | violation of Constitution | DD-FederalFunding | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin led a coalition of 20 attorneys general in publishing an open letter to the legal community that expresses support for law firms that have fought back against President Trump’s unconstitutional attempts to target law firms for advocacy the Trump Administration disfavors, and that expresses the coalition’s profound disappointment that several of the country’s largest law firms have capitulated in the face of these dangerous attacks on the rule of law.
Apr 28, 2025 | A-1 Elegant Tours | American Star Transportation LLC | anticorruption profiteering penalty | decade-long ban from doing business with the State | Eastern Star Transportation | false representations for a government contract | Guilty Plea | hiring practices | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | OPIA | Paterson Bus Company | safety of its bus fleet | school buses | second-degree crime | six-figure penalty | Unqualified Drivers | Child Protection | Consumer Protection | Press Release | Public Integrity
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) announced that a Paterson school bus company pleaded guilty to a second-degree crime, and agreed to pay a six-figure penalty and face a decade-long ban from doing business with the State, after it put unqualified drivers behind the wheels of school buses and deceived school districts about its hiring practices and the safety of its bus fleet.
