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What’s unfolding in a New Jersey court might confound even the late-night radio legend and king of conspiracies Art Bell.
In one corner is David Rubini, a fast-talking on-air talent with a Texas twang, who styles himself a former protégé of Bell’s and his disciple on the radio mic.
Rubini’s nemesis, Michael Marshalek of Hoboken, is a conspiracy-radio fan turned anti-face-mask crusader. Of late, he faces charges for allegedly holding his 5-year-old son captive during a police standoff over COVID restrictions.
At stake is a piece of Bell’s legacy: a collection of the Radio Hall of Famer s final shows before he died in 2018. Rubini claims that Marshalek invested in his online radio venture and then stole Bell s archives. He aims to get them back.
John Bellocchio would gladly give you his kidney, but only at the right price.
The North Jersey native is dedicated enough to that position to take the U.S. government to court. He sued the Justice Department in federal court earlier this month demanding the right to sell his own organs.
The practice has been banned in the country for decades. But Bellocchio s suit challenges a 37-year-old federal statute for “infringing on his freedom to contract and for interfering with his say in what he does with his personal property.”
For Bellocchio, 37, that means his kidneys, lungs, liver and pancreas, any of which can currently be donated, at least in part. All should be fair game aside from your brain or heart even if a price tag is attached, the Oakland resident said in an interview last week.
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Four former Morris County law enforcement officers received sentences of probation on Thursday for their roles in a conspiracy to buy and share cocaine and other narcotics with one another.
The group’s transgressions involved drug deliveries in the parking lot of the Morris County jail, where some of the men worked as corrections officers. Two officers also admitted to using a computer database at the jail to snoop on the county’s investigation against them, authorities said.
Officers Dominick Andico, Robert Busold and Albert Wyman who later resigned as corrections officers each received three years of probation during a virtual hearing in state Superior Court on Thursday. Nicholas Ricciotti, 32, a sheriff’s officer, got two years probation.