Feb 14, 2025 | "No Bill" | Attorney General Directive 2019-4 | Elizabeth | Fatal Crash | Fourth Avenue and Centre Street | Grand Jury | Independent Prosecutor Directive | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Press Release | Public Integrity
A state grand jury has voted not to file any criminal charges against an Elizabeth police officer at the conclusion of its deliberations regarding a December 10, 2023 fatal motor vehicle crash in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Feb 7, 2025 | Banned for Life from Public Employment | Bonaccorso & Son LLC | Ex-Clark Mayor | New Jersey Superior Court | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) | probation | Salvatore Bonaccorso | Sentencing | submitting fraudulent applications | taxpayer-funded resources | unlawfully obtain permits | using township employees to operate private business | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Press Release | Public Integrity
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) announced the sentencing of the ex-mayor of Clark Township, Salvatore Bonaccorso, after he pleaded guilty to two crimes for using township employees to operate his private oil tank removal business and submitting fraudulent applications to various municipalities to unlawfully obtain permits for the tank removals.
Jan 30, 2025 | Acting Essex County Prosecutor | Acting Sussex County Prosecutor | Carolyn Murray | Chief of the Public Protection Unit | Conviction Review Unit (CRU) | Counsel to the Acting Prosecutor | Essex County | Family Court Judge | First Assistant Prosecutor | Major Crimes and the Special Victims units | McGuire & Wachenfeld | Morris County | Newark | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) | public service | Retirement | Rutgers University | Sahil K. Kabse | Seton Hall University School of Law | state and federal prosecutor | Superior Court Judge | Tompkins | U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey | Violent Crime Coordinator | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced that Acting Sussex County Prosecutor Carolyn Murray is retiring February 1, 2025, after a long career of outstanding public service in a variety of roles.
Dec 20, 2024 | Attorney General Directive 2019-4 | autopsy | body-worn camera | Death in Custody | Independent Prosecutor Directive | medical records | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) | Paterson Police Department Headquarters | standard operating procedures (SOPs) | State Grand Jury | state medical examiner | surveillance footage | toxicology | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Press Release | Public Integrity
A state grand jury has voted not to file any criminal charges at the conclusion of its deliberations regarding the death of an individual from Paterson, New Jersey, who died on February 18, 2022, while in custody at the Paterson Police Department.
Dec 19, 2024 | 2017 judicial order | 2022 campaign | banned | conspiracy to commit official misconduct | contempt | former mayor | guilty | Jose “Joey” Torres | non-custodial probation | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) | Passaic County | Paterson | Paterson Department of Public Works | Public Office | Superior Court | Office of Public Integrity and Accountability | Press Release | Public Integrity
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) announced that Jose “Joey” Torres, the former mayor of Paterson, New Jersey, pleaded guilty today in connection with his 2022 campaign to retake the mayor’s seat, which violated a 2017 judicial order banning him from running for or holding public office.
