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Attorney General Announces Grants to Gloucester, Hunterdon and Warren County Prosecutors’ Offfices for Programs to Provide Alternatives to Jail for Defendants With Mental Health Disabilities
Acting Attorney General Hoffman announced that each of those three county prosecutors’ offices will receive a grant of $150,000 over two years for programs that will offer treatment and counseling through contracted services to eligible participants as an...
Ocean County Man Pleads Guilty to Theft Charge for Filing False Applications to Receive $218,209 in Superstorm Sandy Relief Funds
Gregory Wagner, 63, of Toms River, N.J., pleaded guilty today to a charge of third-degree theft by deception before Superior Court Judge Wendel E. Daniels in Ocean County. Under the plea agreement, the state will recommend that Wagner be sentenced to 364 days in the...
Healthcare and Rehab Center Will Pay $35,000 to Deaf Man Who Requested Sign Language Interpreter, Was Not Accommodated
Thomas Snyder, of Newark, was admitted to the Park Crescent Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center in East Orange in March 2014. Throughout his 39-day stay at the facility, Snyder and his sister repeatedly asked for the services of an ASL interpreter, but did not...
Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman and New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs Urge Consumer Caution When Holiday Shopping
“Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday have become the trifecta of holiday bargain shopping,” said Acting Attorney General Hoffman said. “Retail and online merchants are bombarding consumers with offers designed to beat out the competition....
New Jersey Bureau of Securities Takes Action Against Principals of Monmouth County Investment Firm that Defrauded Clients of Millions of Dollars
Bureau Chief Laura H. Posner revoked the registrations held by Anthony J. Cantone and his wife, Christine L. Cantone, following the Bureau’s investigation. Anthony J. Cantone is President and CEO of broker-dealer Cantone Research Inc. (CRI), and was registered...