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Cryan ‘disappointed’ by Murphy’s conditional veto of bribery bill

May 16, 2022 1:05 pmMay 17, 2022 12:04 am

State Sen. Joe Cryan (D-Union), the Senate sponsor of a bill applying bribery laws to candidates for political office (rather than just elected officeholders), said today that he was frustrated by Gov. Phil Murphy’s conditional veto of the bill last...

Bill extending bribery laws to political candidates sails through Senate committee

March 21, 2022 4:54 pm

Less than a week after it passed the Assembly State and Local Government Committee, a bill extending New Jersey’s bribery laws to candidates for political office who don’t hold elected office unanimously passed the Senate Judiciary Committee today. The vote...

Assembly committee advances long-languishing bill extending bribery laws to candidates

March 17, 2022 11:53 am

The Assembly State and Local Government Committee today unanimously advanced a perennially sidelined bill that would make existing bribery statutes apply to candidates for office; under current law, only those who hold elected office can be charged with bribery. The...

Mary Manzo, whose two sons faced off in ’92 Jersey City mayor’s race, dies at 102

January 24, 2022 8:15 pm

Mary Manzo, who was forced to choose between two sons running against each other for mayor of Jersey City in 1992, died on January 19. She was 102. Her two sons, Hudson County Freeholder Louis Manzo and former Jersey City...

Longtime Assembly bill to apply bribery statute to candidates gets a Senate sponsor

November 23, 2021 2:09 pm

A nine-year bid to apply the state’s bribery statute to candidates for public office continues, but now with a sponsor in the State Senate. State Sen. Joseph Cryan (D-Union) introduced legislation on Monday that would make it a crime for...

N.J. attorney general’s office takes shots at ex-federal judge in bid to stop dismissal of charges

May 19, 2021 2:32 pmMay 19, 2021 6:19 pm

The state attorney general’s office took a shot at the integrity of a respected former federal judge in a response brief involving the state’s cooperating witness in a corruption sting caper, attorney Matthew O’Donnell. In court papers filed on Monday,...

Elba Perez-Cinciarelli, former assemblywoman, dies at 76

July 4, 2020 12:32 am

Former Assemblywoman Elba Perez-Cinciarelli (D-Jersey City), the first Latina to represent Hudson County in the New Jersey Legislature and an early supporter of same-sex marriage, died on Friday. She was 76. Hudson County Democrats picked Perez-Cinciarelli, a Jersey City Education...