The Heinz Endowments said in a federal lawsuit on Monday that their former senior technology advisor embezzled nearly $1 million from the organization over a seven-year period. Charles A. Richardson, who was hired by Heinz Endowments in 2014, was responsible for all technological aspects of the organization’s operation, the lawsuit
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An East Orange native was charged with sucker-punching and killing a Paterson man in a city smoke shop.
Charles A. Richardson, 34, of Paterson was wanted for murder when East Orange police arrested him following a traffic stop Sunday night, authorities said.
Law enforcement sources said Richardson had gotten into a sidewalk despite with Tremaine Thomas, 43, outside the Pull Up 2 smoke shop on 10th Avenue the afternoon of June 20.
Richardson followed Thomas into the store and cold-cocked him with his fist in the head, knocking him out, they said.
City firefighters tried to revive Thomas before he was taken with severe head trauma to St. Joseph’s University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead about three hours later.