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HIKO Energy, LLC Agrees to Pay $2.1 Million, Including $1.8 Million in Consumer Restitution, and Revise its Business Practices, to Settle Allegations by New Jersey Attorney General, Board of Public Utilities, and Division of Consumer Affairs that the Third-Party Energy Supplier Misled Consumers
NEWARK – HIKO Energy, LLC (“HIKO”) has agreed to pay $2.1 million, including $1.85 million in restitution to consumers, and to significantly revise its business practices, in order to resolve the Complaint filed by the Acting Attorney General, New...
New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs Obtains $46,000 Judgment Against “Superstorm Sandy Reconstruction Summit” Organizer Who Made False Promises, Misrepresentations
The event was canceled, however, under a December 10, 2012 court order that resulted from the lawsuit filed by the Division of Law on behalf of the Division of Consumer Affairs. The Final Judgment and Order, announced today, concludes that lawsuit with Superior Court...
Bounty Hunter Pleads Guilty in Scheme to Fraudulently Collect Fees by Claiming to Capture Fugitives Already Caught by Police – He faces prison term; 2 Hudson County sheriff’s officers previously pleaded guilty to aiding him
The bounty hunter, Adel Mikhaeil, 50, who now lives in Stroudsburg, Pa., also admitted that he paid bribes to an insurance company executive and an employee of a company that locates fugitives for bail bond insurers in return for giving him more business. Mikhaeil...
Notice of Public Meeting – A Meeting of the NJ Human Relations Council will be held on Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Suspended Engineer for NJ Department of Transportation Pleads Guilty in Scheme to Steal $700,000 in Railway Project Grant Funds – Indictment charged that DOT senior engineer and accomplice took $325,000 in bribes
Gaudner B. Metellus, 35, of Philadelphia, Pa., a suspended senior engineer for the DOT, pleaded guilty today to a second-degree charge of official misconduct before Superior Court Judge Robert J. Gilson in Morris County. Under the plea agreement, the state will...