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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.
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Good Monday morning!
I took some time off last week, and I wondered if the governor would sign weed legalization without me. Turns out he and the Legislature waited for me.
Instead, we saw the death Saturday of one longtime Senator, Gerald Cardinale (R-Bergen), whose input often made Senate Judiciary Committee meetings interesting, and who I will really miss talking to.
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We’re a day ahead of deadlines for two big events:
Gov. Phil Murphy has set a Friday deadline for a deal on the final form of the weed legalization bills or he will conditionally veto the measures on his desk, Sam Sutton reports.
As COVID-19 infections surged in April, Abbe Dolobowsky said, she was given a hard choice.
The 66-year-old human resources manager from Fair Lawn has asthma and kidney disease, she said. But according to Dolobowsky, her request to work remotely at St. Mary s General Hospital in Passaic was met with an ultimatum: Report to the office, or take an unpaid leave of absence.
She eventually would be granted sick leave. But in early January, Dolobowsky pushed back: She sued for discrimination, saying the hospital had violated state law.
She s not the only one going to court over workplace conditions during the pandemic: This month, a factory worker for Sealy Mattress Co. in Paterson alleged he was fired in retaliation for filing a grievance over allegedly lax face mask rules.
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One of my favorite stories of the past month or so has been the auction to push the button to blow up Trump Plaza.
We know that it won’t happen. But would you believe the idea actually originated with a Republican former elected official, who then passed it onto a state senator who passed it on to another Republican state senator who passed it on to Mayor Marty Small?