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Bertoli pleads guilty to one tax-related charge (Updated)

October 5, 2022 10:50 amOctober 6, 2022 9:13 am

Thomas Bertoli, a former union carpenter who became a top political strategist in Hudson County, pled guilty today to a single count of corrupt interference with the administration of Internal Revenue Service laws in a plea agreement with federal prosecutors....

AG won’t rule out independent expenditures by casinos

June 24, 2021 3:31 pmJune 24, 2021 6:04 pm

Since gambling in Atlantic City was legalized 45 years ago, casinos and their top executives have been banned from spending money to influence state elections. That could change after U.S. District Court Judge Brian R. Martinotti ruled on Monday that...

State appeal on decision allowing banks, utility companies to make independent expenditures unlikely

June 23, 2021 3:52 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration signaled it does not intend to appeal a federal court decision allowing regulated industries, like banks and utility companies, to make independent expenditures on behalf of legislative and gubernatorial candidates. “No news on the appeal, but...

Judge says regulated industries can make independent expenditures in state elections

June 22, 2021 4:06 pmJune 22, 2021 6:19 pm

A federal judge rule Monday that banks and other regulated industries – including utility companies – can make independent expenditures on behalf of gubernatorial and legislative candidates but stopped short of declaring a 1911 statute that bans campaign contributions unconstitutional....