The owner of a New Jersey grocery store admitted Thursday to committing a $750,000 food stamp fraud scheme over a three-year period while attempting to conceal his involvement in the business, authorities said.
Booker was the mayor of Newark from 2006–2013.
Cardinal Joseph Tobin, the archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, has told priests under his leadership he has no knowledge of a “gay subculture” in his archdiocese and has instructed them not to speak to media about sexual misconduct.
Twenty customers of a pizza parlor in California broke out into a brawl over a missing iPhone that was in the lost and found the entire time.
A man from Washington state was arrested for allegedly massaging a teenager’s back without his consent at a New Jersey airport.
Jury selection began on Tuesday in the public corruption trial of Senator Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey) and co-defendant Dr. Salomon Melgen in a Newark, New Jersey federal court room. The trial is currently scheduled to begin on September 6.
A New Jersey family said they were kicked off a JetBlue flight for bringing a cake onto the plane that the airline called a “security risk.”
A previously deported illegal immigrant, who is also a convicted sex offender, was arrested in New Jersey by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
Two immigrants from India living in New Jersey pleaded guilty in federal court to smuggling foreign nationals into the United States through commercial airlines.
A New Jersey man pleaded guilty Monday to a food stamp fraud scheme that defrauded the government of more than $800,000.
An illegal immigrant convicted of raping a child in Ecuador has been deported back to that country by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.
Two Muslim businessmen who ran a Halal chicken slaughterhouse were arrested and charged by federal authorities for alleged human trafficking and harboring illegal immigrants for exploitation and monetary gain.
President Obama plans to stop by the Integrity House in Newark, N.J., to press for criminal justice reform for non-violent drug offenders. The Integrity House is a halfway house and drug-treatment center for criminals. “Nice of you to show up,” notes Governor Chris Christie, who has spent a large part of his two terms in New Jersey pushing for criminal justice reform and drug addiction treatment.
According to the New York Times, while Dale Russakoff’s new book, The Prize: Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools? has just hit bookstores Tuesday, it is already “a source of enormous contention.” It begins in 2010 when Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg became the subject of much media attention as he announced on Oprah that he would throw $100 million into Newark, New Jersey’s failing public school system.
