May 10, 2024 | cold-case investigations | Conviction Review Unit | Conviction Review Unit (CRU) | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | OPIA | overturned convictions | Public Defender | sexual assaults | Sussex County Prosecutor | unsolved homicides | violent crimes | Conviction Review Unit | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Press Release | Public Integrity
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and OPIA Executive Director Drew Skinner today announced the appointment of a new director of the Conviction Review Unit (CRU), selecting a former longtime public defender in the Monmouth County trial region and current chief of staff in the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) to take on the role.
May 9, 2024 | “free” phone offers | “unlimited” data advertisements | Assurance of Voluntary Compliance (AVC) | AT&T | material conditions | material limitations | misleading and confusing advertising and sales tactics | monetary incentives to “switch” wireless networks | multistate | Settlement | T-Mobile | Verizon Wireless | Wireless Carriers | Consumer Protection | Division of Consumer Affairs | Division of Law | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey in Court
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Consumer Affairs, together with 50 other attorneys general, announced a $10.25 million agreement with the nation’s largest cell phone companies to resolve an investigation into their allegedly misleading and confusing advertising and sales tactics.
May 9, 2024 | Expungement Order Process | Expungement Unit | Interim Consent Order | New Jersey State Police | NJOPD | NJSP | Office of the Public Defender | New Jersey State Police | Office of the Public Defender | Press Release
The New Jersey Office of the Attorney General (OAG), the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender (NJOPD), and the New Jersey State Police (NJSP) today announced that as part of ongoing litigation, an Interim Consent Order has been entered in State Superior Court aimed at creating a more efficient solution to how the NJSP processes outstanding judicial expungement orders.
May 9, 2024 | “Hate Has No Home in Ocean County” Initiative | Attorney General’s Initiative Award | Detective Joseph Seals Valor Award | Excellence in Policing Awards | Franklin Police Department | Greater Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church Outstanding Youth Engagement Award | Hackettstown Police Department | Lakewood Community Coalition | Lakewood Police Department | Lifetime Achievement Award | Milltown Police Department | Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office | National Police Week | Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office | Outstanding Community Partnership Award | Pablo Santiago Resiliency Award | Plainfield Police Department | Police Chaplain of the Year | Queen City Mentoring Academy | Salvation and Social Justice | Excellence in Policing | Policing Policy | Press Release
For Immediate Release: May 9, 2024 Office of the Attorney General- Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General For Further Information: Media Inquiries-Mariluz Garcia-DiazOAGpress@njoag.gov View Livestream TRENTON — Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today announced the...
May 8, 2024 | Chief Financial Officer | credit card scheme | Embezzlement | failure to pay taxes | McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP | New Jersey Division of Taxation-Office of Criminal Investigations | Office of Securities Fraud and Financial Crimes Prosecutions | Tax Evasion | Theft by Deception | Westfield | Division of Criminal Justice | Office of Securities Fraud and Financial Crimes Prosecutions | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ) today announced that a former Chief Financial Officer of a national law firm based in New Jersey, pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $1.5 million from the firm and evading payment of income tax owed to the State of New Jersey.
May 8, 2024 | Division of Consumer Affairs | Division on Civil Rights | Home Appraisal Discrimination Initiative | Interagency Task Force on Property Appraisal Valuation Equity | New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD) | New Jersey State Real Estate Appraiser Board | Newark NAACP | NJHMFA’s First-Time Homebuyer Program | Wealth Disparity Task Force | Addressing Hate, Bias & Discrimination | Bias and Discrimination | Civil Rights | Consumer Protection | Division of Consumer Affairs | Division on Civil Rights | Press Release | Protecting New Jersey Consumers
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced today that the Division on Civil Rights (DCR) and Division of Consumer Affairs (DCA) have launched several new public education resources as part of Attorney General Platkin’s Home Appraisal Discrimination Initiative.
