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Ralphiel Mack, brother of ex-mayor convicted in bribery scheme, likely to lose state job

March 21, 2022 12:15 amMarch 21, 2022 12:15 am

The brother of former Trenton Mayor Tony Mack is expected to lose his job at the Department of Community Affairs, the New Jersey Globe has learned. Ralphiel Mack began work last week as a constituent services representative in the office...

Corrado calls for revival of Select Committee on Oversight

September 13, 2019 8:40 pm

State Sen. Kristin Corrado called for the Select Committee on Oversight to resume its investigations the hiring practices of Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration Friday. “The committee left some glaring unfinished business,” Corrado, a select committee vice chair, said. “Summer is...

More details of Jeffrey Dye ‘past offenses’

August 25, 2019 10:35 pm

Embattled Passaic NAACP President Jeffrey Dye had just been chosen to head the Local Residents Work Force when he was arrested in 1998 for threatening his brother with a knife. Issues related what the Murphy administration called Dye’s “past offenses”...

Top Murphy aide watched Dye bash Jews, call Schaer a ‘slave master’

August 23, 2019 1:57 pmJuly 31, 2024 9:13 pm

A top member of Gov. Phil Murphy’s staff attended a March 2017 meeting of the Passaic NAACP when Jeffrey Dye launched an attack on Jews and Assemblyman Gary Schaer (D-Passaic). Rev. Derrick Green was serving as African American outreach director...

Steinhardt calls on Murphy to break silence on Dye hiring

August 21, 2019 4:40 pm

New Jersey Republican State Chairman Doug Steinhardt called for Gov. Phil Murphy to break his silence on the hiring — and subsequent firing — of a political appointee who made a series of inflammatory statements on social media. “Governor Murphy...

Passaic NAACP leader bashes Israel on Facebook

August 19, 2019 3:03 pmAugust 20, 2019 2:30 am

A Murphy administration appointee who serves as president of the Passaic NAACP criticized U.S. foreign aid to Israel on his Facebook page, the latest step in a growing divide between Blacks and Jews in the New Jersey Democratic party. Jeffrey...

Judge in Gilmore case has seen Ocean GOP chairman before

April 3, 2019 1:31 pm

The federal judge presiding over the tax evasion trial of Ocean County Republican chairman George Gilmore is a respected longtime jurist who has seen plenty of political corruption cases during her 40 years as a U.S. District Court judge. Anne...