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Mother's Ale House In Wayne Listed At $2.6 Million
Mother's Ale House in Wayne has hit the real estate market. The Route 23 Mountainview Boulevard building spans 11,695 square square feet, according to the listing by New Vistas Corp. The sale comes with a liquor license, parking lot with 76 spaces, and a finished basement to be used as a banquet room. The restaurant closed two months ago. It was apparently purchased by the bank at a sheriff's sale for $100 in May, NorthJersey.com reports. The lien holder had gone forward with foreclosure proceedings. As of August, the former owner apparently owed the bank more than $2.5 mil…
Police & Fire
Feds: International Fugitive Admits Role In $30 Million NJ Mortgage Fraud
A New Jersey mortgage company loan officer who’d been an international fugitive for several years admitted his role in a long-running, large-scale scam that cost lenders more than $30 million, authorities said. Isaac DePaula, 41, and a group of conspirators pulled off the scheme through a company called Premier Mortgage Services (PMS), according to a complaint on file in U.S. District Court in Newark. The thieves targeted low-income areas, recruiting straw buyers to seek mortgages for properties they really couldn’t afford, federal authorities charged. The conspirators secured the loans by…
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Clementon Park & Splashworld Reopening After Foreclosure
It's been a wild ride for Clementon Park & Splashworld, but a smoother path is up ahead. The 114-year-old South Jersey amusement and splash park is reopening on Friday after being closed for nearly two years. The park announced its hours of operation and discounted season ticket prices on its website here. After foreclosure, the 52-acre park was sold to a new owner in March for $2.37 million. The winning bid by Indiana Beach Holdings included the park's liquor license. Popular rides include the Sea Dragon arc swing; Ring of Fire 360-degree loop ride; a giant Fer…
Politics
Bogota Mayor Evicted, Political News Site Reports
Bogota Mayor Christopher Kelemen was evicted from his home after not paying local property taxes for nearly a year, a New Jersey political news site reported. A judge determined during a two-year foreclosure process that Kelemen owed $488,508 in unpaid mortgage and property taxes, David Wildstein reported on his New Jersey Globe site. Kelemen, a Republican was became mayor in 2015 with 62% of the vote, is being challenged for the mayoralty in next month’s election. According to Wildstein, Kelemen -- a local deli owner who works in real estate -- moved into the home of his late father,…
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' Cast Member Leaves Franklin Lakes For Nevada: 'Not The Armpit Of The Earth'
Jacqueline Laurita, out. The original "Real Housewives of New Jersey" cast member whose Franklin Lakes mansion is facing foreclosure has left the Garden State for Nevada with husband Chris. "I’m sure going to miss New Jersey and all of the people who have made it so special for me and my family," the reality star wrote on Instagram. "We have SO many incredible memories here that we will cherish forever! I thank you all! I was born here, left and returned, only to leave again! NJ is not the armpit of the earth after all! 😘 It’s beautiful and so are most of the people in it! We’ll be back to…
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Dogs Abandoned Without Food Or Water Inside Foreclosed Newark Home: AHS
A pair of shih tzus were found caked in their own waste inside a locked crate that had been left in a Newark house, the Associated Humane Societies of Newark said. The dogs, dubbed "Fred" and "Wilma," were found by a man hired to clean out the foreclosed house. The cleaner brought the pair to AHS in Newark, where staff were horrified by their condition. Fred and Wilma were not provided with food or water, AHS said. "We can't imagine how long Fred and Wilma were locked in that crate when a man that was hired to clean out the foreclosed home in Newark, NJ, found them. The dog…
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' Couple Sells Things On Facebook Marketplace In Wake Of Foreclosure
"Real Housewives of New Jersey" cast members Christopher and Jacqueline Laurita took to Facebook marketplace to sell some belongings from their Franklin Lakes mansion currently facing foreclosure. According to Christopher Laurita's Facebook page, he has already sold a $1,200 coffee table, $500 home gym, $800 leather sofa and more. He listed a $5,000 chandelier, free 74-inch Mitsubishi flatscreen TV, $1,800 poker table, signed photo of The Sopranos cast and many more items. The Lauritas' lenders for the home initiated foreclosure proceedings in 2015 but dismissed them the following year. …
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: Price Of Englewood's Gloria Crest Drops From $39M To $9.99M
The price of Englewood's Gloria Crest mansion has been slashed by nearly 75 percent, Zillow shows. The N. Woodland Street home that dates back to the 1920s was first listed at $39 million in 2013. Now prospective buyers can have the "Englewood White House" for just $9.99 million. This is the fifth time the price has been dropped on the 24,000-square-foot home, the New York Post reports. The house was on its way to a foreclosure auction over an unpaid $5 million mortgage in 2017, when owner Edward Turen (CEO of Control Equity Group) took out loans on the mansion for more than it was worth, …
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Star Facing Foreclosure Slapped With Another Lawsuit
Months after her the bank foreclosed on her $1.125 million Englewood home, "Real Housewives of New Jersey" star was hit with a lawsuit -- another one. A Pennsylvania law firm is suing Margaret Josephs after she allegedly failed to pay a $3,568.73 bill for the work they completed during "matrimonial litigation" in 2015, Page Six reports. The firm -- Sunshine, Atkins, Minassian, Tafuri, D’Amoto & Beane -- says they sent Josephs a notice in December 2017, just as her house was being foreclosed on, but “the certified mail was returned ‘unclaimed’ and the regular mail was…
Lifestyle
Oakland Family Has Been Living In Hotel Since September
A newly-single mom, her five children and her two parents have been living in a hotel since September, when their Oakland house went into foreclosure. Nicole Becker explained that after separating from her husband in May, the family was forced to move into a hotel where they are limited to two beds and a mini fridge. Becker says she has no help from her husband, now living out-of-state, and is barely getting by. "Not only am I paying for our nightly stays, we are forced to eat out every night, which as you can imagine, is extremely costly," she said. "And of course this is…
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Catnip Cocktail, $4M Rembrandt Top Bergen County News This Week
These are the five stories that topped Bergen and Passaic county news this week at Daily Voice: CATNIP COCKTAIL: A driver was under the influence of a "catnip cocktail" when he suddenly jerked his car across several lanes of Route 23, said police who arrested him. REMBRANDT: What three Teaneck brothers thought was just another inheritance painting under the ping-pong table in their basement turned out to be a lost Rembrandt recently auctioned off at nearly $4 million, Fox Business reports. MAYWOOD HIGH SCHOOL? Maywood school officials “must seek alternative remedies,” after rejec…
Police & Fire
Mahwah Homeowner, 71, Charged With Setting Foreclosure Fire
MAHWAH, N.J. -- A 71-year-old Mahwah man was charged with torching his foreclosed house. Everett Nathaniel Johnson was being held in the Bergen County Jail Friday, charged with aggravated arson with the knowledge of "danger of death or bodily injury" in Thursday night's Marion Drive fire, records show. Mahwah police officers dispatched to the house on a welfare check saw Johnson near the garage holding a can of gasoline, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. "Multiple points of fire" also were found in the 5:30 p.m. blaze, responders told Daily Voice. The l…
Real Estate
Bank Sends Embattled Englewood
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Star Foreclosure Notice
ENGLEWOOD, N.J. — The Englewood home of Real Housewives of New Jersey star Margaret Josephs is in foreclosure, the New York Post's Page Six reports. Unity Bank sent the 50-year-old reality TV star and her husband, Joseph Benigno, a foreclosure notice in December 2017, the article says. Between September and December 2016, the pair took out two mortgages with the bank for two properties next door to each other, The Post reports. The star is in the midst of a legal battle with U.S. retailer Vineyard Vines for trademark infringement, the article says. Josephs was found guilty and ordered to p…
Police & Fire
Mahwah Homeowner, 71, Charged With Setting Foreclosure Fire
MAHWAH, N.J. -- (UPDATE) A 71-year-old Mahwah man was charged with torching his foreclosed house. Everett Nathaniel Johnson was being held in the Bergen County Jail Friday, charged with aggravated arson with the knowledge of "danger of death or bodily injury" in Thursday night's Marion Drive fire, records show. Mahwah police officers dispatched to the house on a welfare check saw Johnson near the garage holding a can of gasoline, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. "Multiple points of fire" also were found in the 5:30 p.m. blaze, responders told Daily Voic…
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