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The attorney for a charter school business administrator indicted in March for his role in awarding contracts to the Egg Harbor Township school's founder is asking a judge to dismiss the indictment, alleging misconduct by state Deputy Attorney General John Nicodemo.
The Morris County Prosecutor’s Office (MCPO) hosted members of the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice and the Office of the Attorney General on Friday, Aug. 25, to introduce its
View Comments A state superior court judge dismissed a bribery charge against ex-assemblyman Jason O’Donnell on Thursday, ruling that New Jersey cannot charge O’Donnell under its bribery statute because he was not a public official at the time of the alleged bribe. The decision by Judge Mitzy Galis-Menendez puts a dent in one of New Jersey’s most high-profile public corruption stings in years, one that led to charges against O’Donnell, then-sitting Jersey City school board president Sudhan Thomas and three others. Galis-Menendez, based in Hudson County, dismissed New Jersey’s argu...
By John Heinis/Hudson County View “This court does not believe that the state has presented some evidence to the grand jury that the defendant received a benefit as a consideration for the performance of his official duties,” Galis-Menendez said prior to her decision during a Zoom hearing today. O’Donnell’s attorney in the matter, Leo Hurley, had argued that his client’s case was identical to that of former Jersey City Assemblyman Lou Manzo, who was arrested in 2009’s infamous operation Bid Rig for allegedly receiving $27,500 in bribes for his failed run for mayor. However, U.S. D...