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Former Law Firm Chief Financial Officer Pleads Guilty to Defrauding Firm of More Than $1.5M and Tax Evasion
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.
AG Platkin Announces New Public Education Resources as Part of Home Appraisal Discrimination Initiative
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.
ICYMI: CHOP and NJ HTS Launch New Website Dedicated to Promoting Traffic Safety
“Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)’s New Jersey Safety and Health Outcomes (NJ-SHO) Center for Integrated Data and the New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety (HTS) are pleased to announce the launch of njsho.chop.edu, a website that features an interactive data dashboard that enables users to visualize, monitor, and track important traffic safety measures across communities and over time.”
AG Platkin Leads States in Defending Massachusetts’s Gun Laws
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin led a multistate amicus brief filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in support of Massachusetts, which is defending its commonsense gun safety laws from a Second Amendment challenge.
UPDATE: AG’s Office Releases Identities of the Decedent and Ocean Township Police Officer involved in Fatal Crash in Ocean Township, N.J., on April 15, 2024
The Attorney General’s Office today identified the decedent and the officer from a fatal crash involving an Ocean Township police vehicle that occurred on April 15, 2024, in Ocean Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey.