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 | 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 25, 2025 | BMW | Bronx | Burlington County | Cadillac | Criminal Enterprise | DCJ | Division of Criminal Justice | East Windsor | Essex County | high-value vehicles | International Car Theft Ring | Jennings Street | Mercedes Benz | Mercer County | Middlesex County | Morris County | New York | Pompton Plains | Range Rover | Stolen vehicles | theft crews | Third Avenue | West Africa | Western and Southern African countries | Division of Criminal Justice | Press Release | Tackling Auto Theft
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Criminal Justice announced charges against 11 people for their roles in an auto theft ring that allegedly targeted high-end vehicles, burglarized homes to get the key fobs needed to steal the cars, stored the vehicles in parking garages in the Bronx, New York, and eventually shipped them to Western and Southern African countries.
Apr 24, 2025 | agencies can terminate any contracts | coalition of attorneys general | deny the law firms’ personnel entry to federal buildings | Executive Order | federal contractors must disclose any business with the law firms | Law Firm | Singled Out | Susman Godfrey | suspension of active security clearances Refusal to engage with or hire employees of singled out firms | Trump Administration | violation of the Constitution | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin is co-leading a coalition of 20 attorneys general in an amicus brief in support of law firm Susman Godfrey, which is challenging an unconstitutional presidential order that retaliates against the firm for representing clients in the aftermath of the 2020 election and defending the integrity of that election.
Apr 22, 2025 | "Newark Set" | “Double ii – Queen Street Blood Gang” (Double ii) | “Exit 5 | “Passion | ” “Body Bag | ” “Route 21 | 200 block of North 9th Street | advisors | assault firearms | assaults | Board of Social Work Examiners | cocaine | Conspiracy | criminal organizations | DCJ Major Threats Division (North) | detectives | distributors of controlled dangerous substances (CDS) | Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ) | drug offenses | enforcers | fentanyl | heroin | Illegal drug trafficking | intimidation | luger | maintaining gang discipline | Newark | Newark Police Department | Newark Police Division’s Intelligence Unit | NJSP | open-air drug market | Racketeering | semi-automatic rifle | shootings | supervisors | territory | violence | Violent Drug Gang | weapons offenses | Battling the Opioid Epidemic | Combating Gun Violence | Division of Law | Fighting the Opioid Crisis | Gun Violence | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ) announced that 26 people have been charged for their alleged roles in an enterprise that used violence and intimidation to operate an open-air drug market in Newark.
