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New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs Obtains Permanent Ban, $1.1 Million Judgment Against Unregistered Contractor Who Took Money from Elderly Consumers for Repairs That Were Never Completed
The State’s eight-count Verified Complaint, filed last December in State Superior Court in Essex County, alleged that Brown, d/b/a “B&K Masonry & Chimney,” committed multiple violations of the Consumer Fraud Act, the Contractors’...
Ex-Camden Firefighter Sentenced to Prison for Stealing $82,000 by Collecting Disability Pension While Competing in Martial Arts
Shane B. Streater, 41, of Camden, was sentenced to seven years in state prison by Superior Court Judge John T. Kelley in Camden County. He was ordered to pay full restitution of $82,488 to the pension system and he is permanently barred from public employment in New...
Bergen County Psychiatrist Agrees to Temporary License Suspension Amid Allegations He Indiscriminately Prescribed CDS to Patients and Allowed His Wife To Use His Prescription Blank to Dispense Drugs Without a License
Dr. James Cowan, Jr., who practiced from a home office in Ridgewood, allegedly allowed his wife, a clinical social worker, to continue running his medical practice when he became too ill to work. While confined to a hospital, and then a nursing home, the 72 year old...
Former Lakewood Electrical Code Inspector Indicted for Allegedly Accepting Bribes from Contractors
The Division of Criminal Justice Corruption Bureau obtained a state grand jury indictment today charging Mitchell B. Perkins, 67, of Stafford Township, N.J., with one count of bribery (2nd degree), two counts of official misconduct (2nd degree), two counts of...
Newark Man Sentenced to 17 Years in State Prison on Carjacking and Armed Robbery Charges Related to February 2015 Crime Spree – The defendant was shot by a state trooper when he drove a van toward the trooper prior to his arrest
TRENTON – Acting Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino announced that a Newark man was sentenced to state prison today on first-degree charges of carjacking and armed robbery in connection with a crime spree in February 2015 that ended when state troopers...