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Young Ex-Cons Nabbed In Elizabeth Taxi Driver Shooting Charged Federally Young Ex-Cons Nabbed In Elizabeth Taxi Driver Shooting Charged Federally
Young Ex-Cons Nabbed In Elizabeth Taxi Driver Shooting Charged Federally Two ex-cons seized in the shooting of a taxi driver during a late-night robbery in Elizabeth were identified by federal authorities on Tuesday. City police nabbed Naeem Jackson, 22, of East Orange, and Walter Williams-Lang, 20, of Elizabeth, but the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Newark took the case because of the government’s ability to secure much harsher penalties than under state law. Both Jackson and Williams-Lang were wearing dark clothing and masks over their faces when they entered the cabbie's minivan shortly after 4:30 a.m., U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. Williams-Lang point…

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Feds: Dealer Admits Selling Fentanyl Dose That Killed Jersey Shore Woman Feds: Dealer Admits Selling Fentanyl Dose That Killed Jersey Shore Woman
Feds: Dealer Admits Selling Fentanyl Dose That Killed Jersey Shore Woman A Trenton dealer admitted in federal court that she sold a Jersey Shore woman the fentanyl dose that killed her, authorities said. Tarashanna Blake, 33, met the 39-year-old victim near her Englishtown home, where the sale was made, on May 15, 2018, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said. Englishtown police found the buyer dead of an overdose later that day, with several folds of what at first appeared to be heroin stamped “CAMEL” nearby, Honig said. It was actually fentanyl, she said. Blake took a deal from the government rather than face trial, pleading guilty in U.S. District Court …

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Ex-Jersey City School Board Prez, Jersey Shore Lawyer Charged In $113,000 Embezzlement Schemes Ex-Jersey City School Board Prez, Jersey Shore Lawyer Charged In $113,000 Embezzlement Schemes
Ex-Jersey City School Board Prez, Jersey Shore Lawyer Charged In $113,000 Embezzlement Schemes A former Jersey City school board president pulled off a series of embezzlement schemes that netted more than $110,000 with the help of a Jersey Shore attorney, federal authorities said. Sudhan M. Thomas, 45, had previously been the acting executive director of the Jersey City Employment and Training Program (JCETP), which “received substantial amounts of funding from federal grants from the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Thomas -- known as "Tommy" -- paid personal debts and expenses with $45,000 that …

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Bergen, Somerset Businessmen Con Bank Out Of $17 Million, Feds Charge Bergen, Somerset Businessmen Con Bank Out Of $17 Million, Feds Charge
Bergen, Somerset Businessmen Con Bank Out Of $17 Million, Feds Charge A former Bergen County marble and granite wholesaler and his Somerset County partner cooked the books while also posing as customers as part of a $17 million bank fraud, federal authorities allege. A U.S. District Court judge in Newark allowed the release Monday afternoon of Rajendra Kankariya, 61, of Tenafly, who was the now-defunct company’s president, and his chief financial officer, 44-year-old Rakesh Sethi of Basking Ridge, following their arrests by the FBI. Property secured bonds of $500,000 for each of them, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Kankariya and Sethi pulled the scam fr…

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Morris County Ex-Con Admits Exploding Bomb, Illegally Collecting Weapons Morris County Ex-Con Admits Exploding Bomb, Illegally Collecting Weapons
Morris County Ex-Con Admits Exploding Bomb, Illegally Collecting Weapons An ex-con from Morris County admitted in federal court in Newark on Wednesday that he detonated a bomb at a lake, owned explosive devices and illegally collected a cache of guns and ammo. Christopher Faschan, 31, of Landing, pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of destructive devices and being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Faschan showed the bomb to an unidentified woman on Feb. 1 in Stanhope, then detonated it at Lake Lackawanna, Carpenito said. “That’s something that could easily be put under someone’s car, not that I would do…

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Kidnapper Admits Beating, Stabbing Ex, Binding Her In Christmas Lights, Driving From NJ To NC Kidnapper Admits Beating, Stabbing Ex, Binding Her In Christmas Lights, Driving From NJ To NC
Kidnapper Admits Beating, Stabbing Ex, Binding Her In Christmas Lights, Driving From NJ To NC A Manhattan man admitted Monday that he kidnapped his former lover in Newark by binding her in Christmas lights and then drove south toward Florida before federal authorities captured him in North Carolina. Rudolf Szoradi, 50, who pleaded guilty to kidnapping and interstate domestic violence, threatened to kill the victim while attacking her in his relative’s basement on Dec. 15, 2017, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. The woman, who’d gotten a protection order against Szoradi, was choked, punched, kicked and then stabbed and slashed with a knife before being tied up and taken across stat…

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Feds: Paterson Officer Assaulted Hospital Patient, Recorded It On Cellphone Feds: Paterson Officer Assaulted Hospital Patient, Recorded It On Cellphone
Feds: Paterson Officer Assaulted Hospital Patient, Recorded It On Cellphone Federal agents arrested a Paterson police officer early Wednesday on charges of assaulting a suicidal hospital patient with another officer and recording it on his cellphone. Surveillance video shows Roger Then, 29, of Paterson pushing the victim to the ground after a fellow city officer punched him in the face while he was sitting in a wheelchair in a hallway at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center on March 5, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Moments earlier, the victim apparently threw some type of object down the hall, he said. A second video, shot by Then, shows the victim on his ba…

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Feds: Montvale Tax Preparer Collected Returns Using Dead Man's ID Feds: Montvale Tax Preparer Collected Returns Using Dead Man's ID
Feds: Montvale Tax Preparer Collected Returns Using Dead Man's ID SADDLE RIVER, N.J. – A tax preparer from Montvale used a dead man's identity and a Las Vegas P.O. box to illegally collect refunds from the IRS -- while he was already awaiting trial on charges of helping scam the government out of more than $1.6 million, a federal grand jury charged. Federal agents early Friday arrested 53-year-old Wayne Dunich-Kolb after a grand jury in Newark returned a new 29-count indictment accusing him of filing bogus tax returns, stealing client refunds and committing identity theft “in connection with refunds stolen from a deceased taxpayer,” U.S. Attorney Craig Car…

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