Apr 11, 2025 | backroom poker games | Basking Ridge | Belleville | Cedar Grove | criminal enterprises | criminal usury | Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ) | Dover | East Hanover | Edgewater | Florham Park | Gambling | gambling machines | gambling offenses | Garfield | Haworth | illegal gambling proceeds | illegal online sportsbook | illegal poker games | Investigation | island heights | Lincoln Park | Lincroft | Little Falls | Longwood Florida | Lucchese Crime Family | Money Laundering | Montvale | New Jersey State Police (NJSP) | North haledon | Paterson | Prospect Park councilman | Racketeering | Red Bank | Saddle Brook | shell corporations | Spring Lake | Totowa | Wayne | West Caldwell | West New York | Woodland Park | Division of Criminal Justice | New Jersey State Police | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin, the Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ), and the New Jersey State Police (NJSP) announced that 39 people – including a Prospect Park councilman and members of the Lucchese Crime Family – have been charged with racketeering, gambling offenses, money laundering, and other crimes, after law enforcement executed search warrants at 12 locations throughout North Jersey earlier this week.
Mar 5, 2025 | addiction and substance abuse disorders | and Gutierrez Drug Trafficking Organization (DTO) | CDS | CDS processing and packaging | Conspiracy | DCJ | digital scales | Division of Criminal Justice | fentanyl | grinders | heroin | Indictment | Lodi | NJ CARES | North New Jersey | Office of Alternative and Community Responses (OACR) | Office of the New Jersey Coordinator of Addiction Responses and Enforcement Strategies | Operation Helping Hand | opioid epidemic | Opioid Mills | Paterson | Racketeering | Rodriguez | rubber bands | Sanchez | sifters | wax folds | wood-handle stamps and ink pads | Battling the Opioid Epidemic | Division of Criminal Justice | NJ CARES | Press Release
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Criminal Justice announced a 53-count state grand jury indictment charging 20 people for their alleged roles in operating opioid mills in North Jersey.
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.
