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Retired NY Knicks Star Charles Oakley Dines At NJ Restaurant During Special Trip For Friend Retired NY Knicks Star Charles Oakley Dines At NJ Restaurant During Special Trip For Friend
Retired NY Knicks Star Charles Oakley Dines At NJ Restaurant During Special Trip For Friend Akhtar Farzaie needed one more person to bring to a charity golf outing at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster last month.  Naturally, retired NY Knicks power forward Charles Oakley was the first person to come to mind. Farzaie, 41, who owns Bella Pizza in Hillsborough, met the 60-year-old NBA legend when he said he was elbowed by him during a pickup game at a local YMCA in 2002. The two were later acquainted by mutual friends, and have kept in touch ever since. Oakley agreed to make a special trip out to Somerset County for Farzie last month, and was treated to seared Bronzino, si…

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by Cecilia Levine
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President Postpones Trump National Golf Trip To Central Jersey President Postpones Trump National Golf Trip To Central Jersey
President Postpones Trump National Golf Trip To Central Jersey President Donald Trump canceled his weekend trip to his private golf resort in Somerset County. Despite the coronavirus and statewide George Floyd protests against police brutality, the Federal Aviation Administration had issued a no-fly zone for Bedminster and Morristown for "VIP movement" this weekend, raising the possibility of a presidential visit to Trump National Golf Club. Instead, President Trump will fly to Maine on Friday, and return to the golf club in Bedminster next Friday, June 13, for a planned re-election campaign fundraiser. Trump is now expected to visit a Maine manufactu…

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by Jon Craig
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$55G Reimbursed To Morris County Sheriff For Protecting Trump $55G Reimbursed To Morris County Sheriff For Protecting Trump
$55G Reimbursed To Morris County Sheriff For Protecting Trump The Morris County Sheriff's Office will be paid $55,938.90 in federal funds for costs associated with protecting President Trump last year when flying into Morristown Municipal Airport. The U.S. Secret Service called the department and other local law enforcement agencies 17 times in 2018, the Daily Record said. Protection detail was provided when the president commuted from the Hanover-based airport to Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster on the ground, according to the article. Sheriff James Gannon applied for federal grant "Fiscal Year 2018" in October and earned approval this week, t…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Report: NJ State Investigators Probing Harassment, Immigration Fraud Claims At Trump Golf Club Report: NJ State Investigators Probing Harassment, Immigration Fraud Claims At Trump Golf Club
Report: NJ State Investigators Probing Harassment, Immigration Fraud Claims At Trump Golf Club State authorities were reviewing harassment and immigration-fraud claims raised by former and current undocumented housekeepers at President Trump’s Garden State golf club in Bedminster, the Daily News reported Friday. Attorney Anibal Romero of Newark told the newspaper that investigators from New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal’s office contacted him about claims by five of his clients that they’d been “routinely threatened and called racial slurs” while working at the club, the Daily News report says. Romero told the News he also contacted federal authorities. All five claim tha…

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by Jerry DeMarco