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Paul Milo

Content Producer

pmilo@dailyvoice.com

Paul Milo has worked as a reporter in northern New Jersey for more than 20 years, first for North Jersey Media Group / NorthJersey.com, then at Patch.com and at NJ.com / The Star-Ledger. He has written about a 106-year-old World War I veteran, the Sept. 11 attacks and a 15-year-old stock manipulator who was the youngest person ever civilly charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission, among many other stories. He has interviewed governors, presidential candidates and celebrities including Ryan Seacrest and comedian Kevin Hart.

In addition to his work for New Jersey-based outlets, he has also written for BeliefNet, Editor and Publisher, The Huffington Post, The Boston Globe and other publications, as well as freelance assignments for global chemical company BASF.

His first book, Your Flying Car Awaits, was published by HarperCollins in 2010. As part of the book’s promotional efforts he was interviewed by The New York Times and on WNYC radio’s The Brian Lehrer Show.

Paul was formerly a reporter at Daily Voice.

Paul Milo's Contributions

Police & Fire

Three Charged In Bayonne SUV Theft; Vehicle Found Just Blocks Away Two Bayonne men were arrested after they were seen emerging from a stolen SUV Thursday morning in Bayonne, and a third person was also charged in connection with the crime, police said. A woman called police and reported that her 2017 GMC Terrain had been taken from the 700 block of JFK Boulevard sometime between 3 and 7:30 a.m. A little more than an hour later, the woman received an alert from the vehicle's OnStar system indicating that it was parked nearby, in the 1200 block of JFK Boulevard. Officers canvassing the area found it parked in the rear of 1225 JFK Boulevard and sp…

11/24/2019

Police & Fire

ICYMI: Newark Man Laundered $23 Million In Drug Money, Authorities Say Authorities say a Newark man arrested in April for money laundering in New York immediately went back to work, laundering millions more for drug trafficking organizations and collecting a cut of the cash he handled. Edwin Deleon-Batista, 36, worked with others to convert cash from drug dealers into cashier's checks at local banks in states including New York and New Jersey, with the checks payable to people with ties to the drug dealing organizations, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. For a year beginning in March 2018, he obtained checks worth more than $13 million, earning a 1…

11/23/2019

Obituaries

Michael Pollard, 80, Garfield-Clifton Native, Actor In Scrooged, Star Trek Michael Pollard, a veteran character actor who had several prominent roles in TV and film over the course of a 60-year career, died Wednesday. He was 80 years old. Born in Passaic, he was raised in Garfield and Clifton, according to an obituary in The Washington Post. When he was 20, he was in classes at The Actor's Studio in New York with Marilyn Monroe. He went on to enjoy a long career, becoming well-known for numerous small, standout roles that left an indelible impression with generations of moviegoers. He worked alongside Warren Beatty in Bonnie and Clyde, with Pete…

11/23/2019

Police & Fire

Doc Who Had Office In Phillipsburg Admits Taking Bribes To Prescribe Fentanyl A doctor who had a practice in Warren County has admitted accepting bribes and kickbacks from a pharmaceutical company in exchange for prescribing a painkiller containing a powerful opioid, the Department of Justice said Friday. Kenneth Sun, 58, an Easton, Pa., resident who also practiced in Pennsylvania, received $140,000 in illicit payouts between 2012 and 2016 from the Arizona-based company, Insys. The medically unnecessary prescriptions resulted in $847,000 in Medicare reimbursements. Sun, who owned Progressive Pain Solutions in Phillipsburg, prescribed Subsys, a …

11/23/2019

News

Newark Daycare Mom Blames For Baby's Bruises Shut Down: Report The daycare in Newark where a woman says her six-month-old sustained bruising and other injuries has been shut down, CBS 2 News reported. The baby, Zuri Ormond, was injured when the owner of J & A Nursery fell down some stairs while holding her, mom Anari Ormond alleges. The daycare, located in the basement of a home on Eastern Parkway, was closed for operating without a license. Its owner, Lisa Muhammad, was also cited for multiple violations, including failure to provide a fire exit. Muhammad is expected to appear in court again on the code violations next month. Or…

11/22/2019

Lifestyle

Newark Handing Out Thousands Of Donated Turkeys Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark will be helping distribute more than 6,000 turkeys and other food items on Monday from noon to 7 p.m. at the JFK Recreation Center, 211 W. Kinney St. (enter on Howard Street). Residents from each of the city’s five wards have pre-registered to receive their free turkey in time for Thanksgiving, Nov. 28. The giveaway is made possible by the Believe in Newark Foundation and multiple donors, including: HelloFresh, Goya Foods, Pepsi, Sylvia’s Restaurant, Sylvia’s Soul Food Products, Whole Foods Market, Riviana Foods, Bindi North America, Inc., and The…

11/22/2019

Police & Fire

Idling Maserati Stolen In Livingston, Found In Belleville A high-end vehicle that sells in the six-figure range was taken from the parking valet stand at a Livingston restaurant Thursday night, police said. The grey Maserati was running but unoccupied around 9:30 p.m. at Nero's Grille, 618 South Livingston Ave., when someone described only as a black male jumped in and took off, police said. The vehicle was found hours later parked on Watchung Avenue in Belleville. The thief was still at large Friday afternoon, police also said.

11/22/2019

Police & Fire

Firefighters Battling West Orange Blaze Firefighters including mutual aid from Orange were at the scene of a blaze in the 420 block of Valley Road around midday Friday, according to witness reports. The fire is burning in the basement of FDR Auto Body, 429 Valley Road, a township spokesman said. There were no immediate reports of injuries. One witness said firefighters were broadcasting instructions to flood the basement of the burning building around noon. The fire broke out around 11:30 a.m. It was brought under control within about an hour.

11/22/2019

Police & Fire

Elizabeth Man Charged In Series Of Cranford Vehicle Burglaries A 30-year-old from Elizabeth has been charged with burglarizing commercial vehicles in Cranford and making off with tools worth thousands of dollars, the Union County Prosecutor's Office and Cranford police said in a joint statement Friday. Steven Cuartas is accused in a two-day spree of burglaries on Nov. 14 and 15 of vehicles parked on Bloomingdale Avenue, North Avenue, the 500 block of Claremont Place and the intersection of Claremont and Casino Avenue and at Pacific Avenue and Locust Drive. All told, the stolen items had an estimated value of more than $4,300. Roselle Park a…

11/22/2019

Police & Fire

E. Orange Couple, Several From Jersey City Charged In Hawaii Tax Refund Scam A woman who ran a Jersey City tax preparation service and her husband have pleaded guilty in a scheme to obtain fraudulent tax refunds by filing dozens of bogus returns, sometimes in the names of dead people, with the states of New Jersey and Hawaii, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Friday. Several others also pleaded guilty and will be sentenced to probation. State officials say a crew of family and friends helped carry out the fraud. They were nabbed in Operation Coast to Coast, which was carried out by a number of state agencies, including the Division of Taxation and t…

11/22/2019

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