May 1, 2025 | complaints | DEP | Department of Environmental Protection | Enforcement Actions | Environmental Justice Law | Hamilton | Junkyard and Illegal Solid Waste Facilities | Kearny | Middlesex Borough | overburdened communities | spray drying facility | Woodbridge | Department of Environmental Protection | Division of Law | Environmental Justice | Press Release | Securing Environmental Justice
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Shawn M. LaTourette announced three new environmental enforcement actions in communities considered overburdened under New Jersey’s Environmental Justice Law.
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 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.
Apr 24, 2025 | Consumer Protection | Division of Criminal Justice | Office of Securities Fraud and Financial Crimes Prosecutions | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced that a state grand jury indicted a Middlesex County husband and wife for allegedly defrauding investors of more than $2 million through a fraud scheme that guaranteed high returns, but instead diverted funds for the couple’s personal benefit and provided fake returns to the victims.
