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DePhillips to propose articles of impeachment against Asaro-Angelo

March 10, 2022 10:15 amMarch 10, 2022 11:57 am

Assemblyman Christopher DePhillips (R-Wyckoff) announced this morning that he plans to introduce a resolution to impeach Labor Commissioner Rob Asaro-Angelo, whose department has come under fire from both parties for its handling of unemployment claims during the pandemic. “Enough is...

Durr, armed with senatorial courtesy, set to interview Murphy cabinet nominee

January 25, 2022 4:45 pmJanuary 25, 2022 4:45 pm

For Victoria Kuhn to win Senate confirmation as the state corrections commissioner, she must first receive signoff from State Sen. Edward R. Durr (R-Swedesboro), who now has senatorial courtesy over all gubernatorial nominations from Gloucester County. Durr will interview Kuhn...

Murphy nominates Kuhn as corrections commissioner

January 13, 2022 12:49 pm

Eight months after Commissioner of Corrections Marcus Hicks was forced to resign after an independent report found lapses in his management of the state’s only women’s prison, Gov. Phil Murphy has nominated Victoria Kuhn, Hicks’s former chief of staff, to...

Bruck announces charges against five Edna Mahan officers

December 15, 2021 3:58 pm

Acting Attorney General Andrew Bruck announced charges today against one Department of Corrections official and four correctional officers at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women, following a brutal assault on prisoners that occurred on January 12. The five officers...

Searching for a new corrections commissioner, Murphy calls Kuhn ‘outstanding’

November 29, 2021 3:58 pm

Though he had no updates on the ongoing national search for a new Commissioner of the Department of Corrections, Gov. Phil Murphy today lauded Acting Commissioner Victoria Kuhn – a possible hint that it may be Kuhn herself who is...

Stanfield wants Kuhn to come before Senate

July 8, 2021 6:04 pmJuly 9, 2021 9:48 am

After Corrections Commissioner Marcus Hicks was forced out of his position over violent cell extractions conducted in the dead of night at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility, Victoria Kuhn, his chief of staff, took helm of the agency. But her...

Heading into re-election, nearly a third of Murphy’s cabinet is unconfirmed or departing

July 8, 2021 1:04 pmMarch 23, 2022 3:32 pm

Nearly a third of Gov. Phil Murphy’s cabinet members intend to leave the administration or are in their positions on an acting basis, with some awaiting confirmation and others awaiting the nomination of a permanent agency head. Press play to...