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AG Platkin and Division on Civil Rights Announce Enforcement Action Against Advance Funding Partners/Same Day Funding for Lending and Employment Discrimination

Mar 11, 2025

Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division on Civil Rights (DCR) announced today that DCR has issued a Finding of Probable Cause alleging that Advance Funding Partners/Same Day Funding (Advance Funding), a New Jersey business that provides cash advances and loans to borrowers, violated the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD) by engaging in unlawful lending discrimination and employment discrimination.

AG Platkin Recovers Over $500,000 in False Claims Act Settlement

Mar 10, 2025

Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced that the State of New Jersey secured over half a million dollars from a surety company, International Fidelity Insurance Company (IFIC), and its parent, I.A.T. Insurance Group (IAT), to resolve a whistleblower lawsuit accusing them of improperly keeping monies of New Jersey residents in the form of unused collateral in violation of the New Jersey False Claims Act and the New Jersey Uniform Unclaimed Property Act.

Attorney General Platkin Announces Leadership Changes in Department of Law and Public Safety

Mar 7, 2025

Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today announced that Sundeep Iyer will serve the Office of Attorney General as Acting Executive Assistant Attorney General, and that he has appointed Yolanda Melville to serve as the Director of the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights, the state agency charged with protecting the civil rights of all New Jersey residents.

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1) How to file a domestic violence restraining order; 2) resources for domestic violence victims; and 3) petitioning the court to dissolve the no contact order for defendants/juveniles released from custody due to public health emergency credits.

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