Apr 11, 2025 | "No Bill" | 911 call domestic dispute | Attorney General Directive 2019-4 | autopsy results | ballistics results | Fatal Police Shooting | Hamilton | Independent Prosecutor Directive | interviews | intoxicated | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) | photographs | review of body worn camera footage | standard operating procedures (SOPs) | State Grand Jury | 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 a Hamilton Township man who was fatally shot while exchanging gunfire with two Hamilton police officers, striking one of them, on March 8, 2024.
Apr 11, 2025 | backroom poker games | Basking Ridge | Belleville | Cedar Grove | criminal enterprises | criminal usury | Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ) | Dover | East Hanover | Edgewater | Florham Park | Gambling | gambling machines | gambling offenses | Garfield | Haworth | illegal gambling proceeds | illegal online sportsbook | illegal poker games | Investigation | island heights | Lincoln Park | Lincroft | Little Falls | Longwood Florida | Lucchese Crime Family | Money Laundering | Montvale | New Jersey State Police (NJSP) | North haledon | Paterson | Prospect Park councilman | Racketeering | Red Bank | Saddle Brook | shell corporations | Spring Lake | Totowa | Wayne | West Caldwell | West New York | Woodland Park | Division of Criminal Justice | New Jersey State Police | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin, the Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ), and the New Jersey State Police (NJSP) announced that 39 people – including a Prospect Park councilman and members of the Lucchese Crime Family – have been charged with racketeering, gambling offenses, money laundering, and other crimes, after law enforcement executed search warrants at 12 locations throughout North Jersey earlier this week.
Apr 10, 2025 | ARPA funded education-related programs | coalition of attorneys general | Covid-19 Pandemic | Education Funding | essential resources | K-12 students | Lawsuit | Trump Administration | U.S. Department of Education | DD-Education | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin joined a coalition of 15 other attorneys general and the Governor of Pennsylvania in suing the Trump Administration to restore states’ access to essential U.S. Department of Education programs that funding for services to address the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on K-12 students in New Jersey and across the country.
Apr 9, 2025 | "overdraft protection" | Banks | common-sense limits | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) | defund and disband CFPB | Elon Musk | fee cap | Final Rule | Limits on fees | Multistate Comment Letter | Overdraft Fees | overdraft revenue | Trump Administration | U.S. House of Representatives | Division of Consumer Affairs | Division of Law | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin joined a multistate comment letter urging the U.S. House of Representatives to vote against a joint resolution that would allow very large banks to keep charging customers high overdraft fees on their accounts.
Apr 8, 2025 | and misconduct by a corporate official | check fraud | Clementon | Computer Theft | conspiracy to commit money laundering | COVID-19 Fraud Crimes | East Orange | Economic Impact Disaster and Paycheck Protection loans | failure to pay tax | falsifying or tampering with records | filing a fraudulent tax return | Forgery | Indictment | Money Laundering | New Jersey; Irvington | Newark | Official Misconduct | Pattern of official misconduct | Pitman | Sayreville | Tampering with public records or information | temporary Department of Labor and Workforce Development (DOL) employee | Theft by Deception | U.S. Small Business Administration | Unemployment benefits | Voorhees | with theft by deception | Woodbridge | Division of Criminal Justice | Press Release
For Immediate Release: April 8, 2025 Office of the Attorney General- Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney GeneralDivision of Criminal Justice- Theresa L. Hilton, Director For Further Information: Media Inquiries-Matthew ReillyOAGpress@njoag.gov TRENTON – Attorney General...
Apr 7, 2025 | conspiracy to commit aggravated assault | Forced Entry | Harding Highway | Harding Woods mobile home park | Home Invasion | New Jersey State Police Detective shooting | New Jersey State Prison | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) | Pittsgrove | riot | Salem County Courthouse | Sentencing | Witness Tampering | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) announced the sentencings of four defendants involved in events that led to the shooting of a New Jersey State Police (NJSP) detective by other individuals at a Salem County mobile home park.
