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Cliffwood Beach NJ, A Monmouth County woman has been charged with witness tampering and retaliating against a witness or informant, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today.
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Upper Saddle River NJ, a Bergen County man was sentenced today to 51 months in prison for defrauding lenders and corporations of $4.9 million by impersonating two bank executives interested in funding syndicated loans for global companies, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
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Hillsborough NJ, a Somerset County, New Jersey man, was sentenced today to 78 months in prison for engaging in a $2 million Ponzi scheme targeting elderly investors and for subscribing to a false tax return, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
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Wyckoff NJ, a Bergen County, New Jersey, man was arrested today on charges of engaging in mortgage fraud, fraudulently obtaining an SBA loan, and stealing another person’s identity information, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
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Union NJ, A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man today admitted to knowingly receiving child pornography, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today.
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Trenton NJ, a Middlesex County, man today admitted attempting to interfere with law enforcement officers during a civil disorder when he attempted to set fire to a police vehicle during a riot in Trenton, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
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Ridgewood NJ, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center has released its annual report. The 2020 Internet Crime Report includes information from 791,790 complaints of suspected internet crime—an increase of more than 300,000 complaints from 2019—and reported losses exceeding $4.2 billion. State-specific statistics have also been released and can be found within the 2020 Internet Crime Report and in the accompanying 2020 State Reports.
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Teaneck NJ, a Bergen County, New Jersey, man today admitted orchestrating a long-running bank and securities fraud scheme, which led to large-scale losses for financial institutions and investors, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
Continue reading Teaneck Property Manager Admits Decade-Long $80 Million Mortgage Fraud Scheme
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Trenton NJ, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced that a man was indicted for allegedly throwing an explosive device at members of the New Jersey State Police on May 31, 2020 during the mostly peaceful protests in New Jersey’s capital city Trenton over the death of George Floyd .
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Secaucus NJ, A portfolio manager and senior independent executive advisor at a Secaucus-based real estate fund was charged with using a sham loan document to defraud an investor of hundreds of thousands of dollars, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today.
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Paramus NJ, Paramus Police were searching Friday for a suspect they say robbed the Citibank at 700 Route 17, northbound, near the Fashion Center shopping mall. According to police the suspect entered the bank at about 1:48 p.m. Friday and passed the teller a note demanding money. The teller gave him an unknown amount of cash from a drawer. The suspect then fled on foot toward the Fashion Center mall, which sits across a parking lot from the bank.
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Brooklawn NJ, a Camden County man today admitted his role in conspiring with members of a white supremacist hate group to threaten and intimidate African Americans and Jewish Americans by vandalizing minority-owned properties throughout the country in September 2019, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
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Jersey City NJ, A pharmacy employee was charged for conspiring to offer and pay bribes and kickbacks in exchange for having prescriptions steered to the Morris County, New Jersey, pharmacy where he worked, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today.
Continue reading Morris County Pharmacy Employee Charged in $1.9 Million Kickback and Bribery Scheme
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Roswell NM, the FBI is not responding to a UFO sighting in New Mexico on Sunday. An American Airlines passenger jet traveling from Cincinnati to Phoenix encountered an apparent UFO over northeastern New Mexico Sunday afternoon.
The pilot on flight 2292 radioed around 1:00 p.m. CST and said that the unidentified object was flying right on top of them, according to a transmission recorded by Steve Douglass on his blog, Deep Black Horizon. American Airlines verified to Fox News that the transmission is from flight 2292.
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Ho-Ho-Kus NJ, on Wednesday afternoon around 2pm a heavyset man , about 5 feet, 7 inches, wearing a back wool cap, a black and gray North Face jacket, blue pants and red sneakers entered the Valley National Bank on Sheridan Avenue and passed along a note demanding money. The bank is within a block of the the Ho-Ho-Kus Police station and the robber then fled with an undisclosed amount of cash .
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