Trenton NJ, Senator Michael Testa and Senate Minority Leader Anthony M. Bucco issued the following statements in response to a recent article highlighting a potential connection between Senator Bob Menendez’s role as Chairman of the U.S. Senate Banking Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment and the appointment of former New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal as Director of Enforcement for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2021. The article also named Gubir Grewal’s cousin, Balpreet Grewal-Virk, as someone with very close ties to Senator Menendez, which included substantial campaign and political action committee contributions.
Trenton NJ, A state government employee Katie Brennan who says her allegations that she was sexually assaulted by a campaign staffer to Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy were ignored or downplayed has filed a notice of intent to sue New Jersey for damages.
An attorney for Katie Brennan filed the notice of tort claim last week.The notice alleges the state, including Murphy and Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, acted negligently and with reckless indifference when it hired Albert Alvarez.Brennan says Alvarez sexually assaulted her in 2017 during Murphy’s gubernatorial campaign and that she told several officials in Murphy’s administration.
By Sara Jerde | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on September 13, 2016 at 5:56 PM, updated September 13, 2016 at 5:58 PM
Gov. Chris Christie has again nominated Gurbir Grewal to be Bergen County prosecutor.
Christie announced late Monday that he would ask the state Senate to approve Grewal, who has been serving as acting county prosecutor. Christie previously nominated Grewal for the job in 2013, but the Senate did not approve the appointment.
Grewal was appointed acting prosecutor by Christie in January when former County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli retired from the job.
FEBRUARY 3, 2016, 4:58 PM LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2016, 7:57 AM
BY JOHN SEASLY
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
Six young men have been arrested in connection with a string of armed robberies of gas stations and convenience stores throughout Bergen County, the acting county prosecutor announced on Wednesday.
The robberies happened between March 2014 and January. In one of the holdups, a gunman shot a gas station attendant with a 9-millimeter handgun and two other robberies involved “brutal assaults,” said Gurbir Grewal, the acting Bergen County prosecutor.
The prosecutor’s Special Investigations Squad began looking into the robberies in April 2014. Between March and June of that year, a pattern began to emerge as six Delta Gas Stations in five towns were targeted.
In each case, a gunman asked the gas station attendant for change for a $20 or a $50 bill, and as the attendant counted the change, the gunman pulled out a handgun and demanded the money, Grewal said.
On May 12, 2014 in Teaneck, an assailant pistol-whipped an attendant. On June 9 that year in Ridgefield Park, the gunman shot the attendant in the chest with a 9-millimeter handgun, then reached into his pocket and took the money, Grewal said. The attendant underwent surgery at Hackensack University Medical Center and survived.
In November 2015, in a joint investigation of two Lodi robberies by local police and the Special Investigations Squad, police identified David Thomas Jr., 21, of Lodi, as the gunman responsible for the Lodi robberies as well as those throughout Bergen County in 2014, Grewal said.
JANUARY 23, 2016, 9:55 PM LAST UPDATED: SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 2016, 9:58 PM
BY JEAN RIMBACH
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
Gurbir Grewal had an impressive position in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Newark when he agreed to take on what could very well be a temporary job as Bergen County’s prosecutor, the high-profile, high-stakes seat at the top of the county’s law-enforcement pyramid.
He says he was motivated in large part by the opportunity to make a difference in the community where he resides. “You actually see what you’re working on sort of manifest itself in the community,” said the 42-year-old Glen Rock resident, during an interview three weeks after his appointment as acting prosecutor. “You’re able to make a difference more immediately.”
But the married father of three — who put battling the heroin epidemic and quality-of-life crimes as top priorities — said there was also another, more personal motive: He hopes to make a difference in the lives of people, like himself, who are members of the Sikh religion.
“The other part of why I wanted to do this — and one of the reasons why I wanted to do public service in the first place — is that I come from a background where people are always taught to be good doctors and good engineers and good professionals and not ever steered toward public service,” he said last week. “And I think because of that there are misunderstandings of who Sikhs are and people who look like me, where they come from, and what they might believe because they’re never sort of seen in those front-line public service jobs.”
Grewal, who speaks Punjabi and Hindi, is the first South Asian and the first Sikh to occupy the office. But that’s just one piece of the picture emerging of the county’s first new prosecutor in 14 years, replacing John Molinelli.
