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Education Management Corp. to Enact Reforms, Forgive $1.3 Million in New Jersey Student Loan Debt as Part of Multi-State Settlements – N.J. Joins Agreements Resolving Variety of Allegations Against For-Profit College
The first settlement resolves consumer fraud allegations that the Pittsburgh-based EDMC engaged in abusive recruiting practices and misled students about the cost of its higher education programs, student loan terms, graduation rates and other information. The second...
Salem County Physician Who Allegedly Had Sexual Relations with a Patient Surrenders His License to Practice Medicine
On September 29, 2015, a Complaint was filed before the BME seeking the temporary suspension of Bussey’s license, alleging he engaged in an inappropriate sexual relationship with a longtime female patient he was treating for depression, anxiety, bi-polar...
Ex-High School Choir Director Sentenced to Prison for Posing as Teen Online to Engage in Sexually Explicit Chats With Underage Girls – He sent obscene materials to underage girls, including three of his students, and had a 12-year-old Colorado girl send him a sexually explicit video of herself
Arthur N. Ernst III, 28, of Cranford, N.J., was sentenced today to five years in state prison by Superior Court Judge Joseph P. Donohue in Union County. He will be required to register as a sex offender under Megan’s Law and will face parole supervision for...
Two Former North Bergen Public Works Supervisors Sentenced to State Prison for Using Workers for Personal and Political Tasks
TRENTON – Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman announced that two former supervisors for the North Bergen Township Department of Public Works were sentenced to state prison today after being convicted at trial in June of official misconduct for assigning...
Woman Charged With Stealing $128,131 by Fraudulently Collecting Her Mother’s Social Security Benefits for 8 Years After the Mother Died
The Division of Criminal Justice Financial & Computer Crimes Bureau today obtained a state grand jury indictment charging Linda Miller, 58, of Englewood, N.J., with second-degree theft by deception. The charge is the result of an investigation by the Office of the...