Dec 22, 2016 | Press Release
TRENTON – Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino and the Division of Consumer Affairs today announced a new program designed to ensure that New Jersey residents who suspect their loved ones are being abused by unscrupulous home health care providers have access...
Dec 21, 2016 | Press Release
Filed in Superior Court in Camden County, the complaint alleges that Rent-A-Center unlawfully discriminated by failing to prevent or remedy racially hostile conduct in two of its stores, both located in Pennsauken. Based in Plano, Tx., Rent-A-Center operates a total...
Dec 19, 2016 | Press Release
Elvis Parra, owner of E&K Trucking, Inc. in Newark, was indicted Friday on second-degree charges of theft by deception and misconduct by a corporate official, third-degree insurance fraud, and fourth-degree workers compensation fraud in connection with the alleged...
Dec 16, 2016 | Press Release
NEWARK – The Division of Consumer Affairs today announced it has cited 21 unlicensed moving companies and fined each $2,500, following “Operation Mother’s Attic,” a covert sting in which Division investigators posed as consumers to catch moving...
Dec 15, 2016 | Press Release
Ernestine Bowman, 32, of Orange, N.J., pleaded guilty late yesterday to a charge of second-degree facilitating human trafficking before Superior Court Judge Frances McGrogan in Bergen County. Under the plea agreement, the state will recommend that Bowman be sentenced...
Dec 15, 2016 | Press Release
Peifeng Meng, 43, of Pennington, N.J., was arrested at his home yesterday morning by detectives of the Division of Criminal Justice, who executed a search warrant. He was charged with second-degree distribution of 25 or more computer files of child pornography and...
