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Trenton NJ, Acting Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today announced a new indictment in an investigation by the New Jersey State Police Auto Theft Task Force and Division of Criminal Justice that targeted members of an auto theft ring that burglarized car dealerships in four New Jersey counties—Essex, Hudson, Bergen, and Union—taking key fobs they used to steal high-end vehicles from dealership lots.
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Ridgewood NJ, Acting Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced today that New Jersey is co-leading a multistate investigation into whether the social media platform TikTok is violating state consumer protection laws by inducing young people to use the platform in ways that are potentially damaging and putting them at risk of mental and physical harm.
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Prospect Park NJ, Acting Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced the indictment of a man who is charged with fraud in connection with mail-in ballots in the May 12, 2020 special election in the City of Paterson.
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Bordentown NJ, acting Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced that an inactive correctional police officer for the New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission (JJC) pleaded guilty today to a criminal charge for using unjustified force and breaking the wrist of a male resident at the JJC Juvenile Medium Security Facility in Bordentown, N.J.
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Jersey City NJ, Acting Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Bureau of Securities today announced that a Jersey City-based financial services company, BlockFi Lending, LLC, has reached a $100 million settlement with state and federal securities regulators over the company’s offers and sales of unregistered securities in the form of interest-bearing digital asset deposit accounts called BlockFi Interest Accounts.
