Category: Investigation
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Siphoning cell phone fees / N.J. denies 911 call centers millions
(Published in The Press of Atlantic City on Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009.) If you own a cell phone in New Jersey, you pay a 90-cent monthly surcharge on your bill that appears targeted toward improving 911 communications. But this year, none of the estimated $137 million collected from New Jersey cell phone users for the […]
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School tech consultant target of contract probe
(Published in The Press of Atlantic City on Friday, Dec. 19, 2008.) The federal government is investigating a technology firm for allegedly steering southern New Jersey and Philadelphia school contracts to favored vendors in exchange for kickbacks. Consultant Martin Friedman on Thursday confirmed his firm, Alemar Consulting, of Broomall, Pa., is a target of an […]
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Technology contract probe could cost schools millions
(Published in The Press of Atlantic City on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008.) The federal government has frozen about $30 million in technology funding to some of the area’s poorest school districts as it investigates the companies who worked for them. Some New Jersey schools that could lose the funding, including Atlantic City, Pleasantville and Wildwood, […]
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One year later, no consensus on battle at Bayside
(Published in The Press of Atlantic City on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2005.) MAURICE RIVER TOWNSHIP It all started over a bag of chicken. Corrections Officer James Kita moved to frisk convicted drug dealer Omar McCray at the entrance to Bayside State Prison’s D trailer just before 4:40 p.m. Jan. 1. McCray had brought at least […]
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Bridgeton – Home office of fraud, officials say
(Published in The Press of Atlantic City on Sunday, July 31, 2005.) BRIDGETON The New Jersey Dealers Auto Mall has no cars on lots. No salesmen showing vehicles. No prices colorfully scrawled on showroom windows. What you’ll find is an old warehouse complex, and inside it, hundreds of 6-by-6 office cubicles with plywood walls and […]
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Winslow’s move to Commerce Bank raises questions
(Published on Monday, April 28, 2003 in the Courier-Post) WINSLOW Winslow’s government switched all its banking to Commerce Bank several months after the bank contributed thousands of dollars to township Democrats. Winslow officials put every township account — more than $9 million — in one bank for the first time in at least 20 years. […]
Daniel Walsh 