Jan 16, 2025 | 25 defendants | 4 companies | Camden County Prosecutor's Office | cloned credit cards | Connecticut | credit card “skimmers” | DCJ Detectives | diesel fuel theft | Division of Criminal Justice | financial fraud | fuel providers | Gloucester Township Police Department | Large-Scale Diesel Fuel Theft Scheme | Massachusetts | New Jersey | New York | peer-to-peer payments | Pennsylvania | stolen credit card information | trucking companies | Division of Criminal Justice | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey Consumers
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ) announced charges against 25 people and four companies for their alleged roles in a multimillion-dollar scheme that used stolen credit card information to fraudulently purchase tens of thousands of gallons of diesel fuel and then resell it to trucking companies and other fuel providers.
Dec 10, 2024 | email compromise scheme | financial crimes | international business | Newton man sentence | newton new jersey | securities fraud | Division of Criminal Justice | Office of Securities Fraud and Financial Crimes Prosecutions | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today announced that Michael T.G. Long, the Director of the Division of Law (DOL), is returning to private practice and that Deputy Director Michael C. Walters will become Acting DOL Director.
Dec 6, 2024 | email compromise scheme | financial crimes | international business | Newton man sentence | newton new jersey | securities fraud | Division of Criminal Justice | Office of Securities Fraud and Financial Crimes Prosecutions | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Office of Securities Fraud and Financial Crimes Prosecutions (OSFFCP) today announced the sentencing of a Sussex County man who admitted receiving over $1.2 million in stolen funds in an international business email compromise (BEC) scheme in 2017 and 2018.
Dec 3, 2024 | defendants indicted | facilitating human trafficking | human trafficking | human trafficking rings | human trafficking rings dismantled | seven defendants | Crime Victims | Division of Criminal Justice | Division of Violence Intervention and Victim Assistance | Human Trafficking | New Jersey State Police | Press Release | Victims of Crime Compensation Office
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin, the Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ), and the New Jersey State Police (NJSP) today announced that seven defendants were indicted in connection with two separate human trafficking enterprises in North and South Jersey. One human trafficking ring was based in Essex County, where a suspected female trafficker allegedly used beatings with an electrical cord and other acts of physical violence to control the teenage victims, subjecting them to sexual assaults by strangers and profiting from the abuse.
Nov 14, 2024 | bipartisan legislation | Burglary Laws | cross-jurisdictional burglary suspects | Department of Law and Public Safety | deter | Division of Criminal Justice | Home Invasions | information sharing | investigate and prosecute | Law Enforcement Leaders | Newark | NJPBA | NJSACOP | Residential Burglaries | Statewide Burglary Task Force | Strategy Meeting | Advancing Innovative Policing Policies | Division of Criminal Justice | Gun Violence | Policing Policy | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court | Tackling Auto Theft | Violence Intervention
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin held a meeting in Newark with law enforcement leaders from across the state to discuss how officers and prosecutors can best use the newly enacted laws that heighten criminal penalties for residential burglaries.
Oct 29, 2024 | Bordentown | Corrections Officers | Female Secure Care and Intake Facility | JJC | Juvenile Justice Commission | Sexual Assault | unlawful sexual contact | Division of Criminal Justice | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ) announced the charging of two Juvenile Justice Commission Senior Corrections Officers who allegedly sexually assaulted, and had unlawful sexual contact with, a female resident of the Female Secure Care and Intake Facility located in Bordentown, New Jersey.
