Matt O'Donnell Archives - New Jersey Globe

April 10, 2021: GOP gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli and The Trentonian reporter Isaac Avilucea

April 10, 2021 5:50 pmApril 12, 2021 12:14 am

Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli and The Trentonian reporter Isaac Avilucea joined host David Wildstein on the New Jersey Globe Power Hour on Talk Radio 77 WABC on Saturday April 10. Ciattarelli, a former Republican assemblyman from Somerset County, is...

Matt O’Donnell tells prosecutors politicians didn’t ask him to commit a crime, but ‘expected it or implied it,’ records show

April 9, 2021 1:08 amApril 9, 2021 5:43 pm

Matt O’Donnell, the state’s cooperating witness in an undercover sting operation targeting New Jersey politicians, told prosecutors that he felt obligated to give campaign contributions and cash in order to secure lucrative contracts representing local government entities as a tax...

State allowed cooperating witness to bill taxpayers millions after admitting to crime

April 9, 2021 12:01 amApril 9, 2021 11:10 am

Attorney General Gurbir Grewal permitted the state’s cooperating witness in a corruption probe, Matthew O’Donnell, to bill millions of dollars in fees to municipal and county governments as a tax appeals attorney even after admitting to crimes that could result...

O’Donnell straw donor to enter PTI after cooperating with prosecutors

April 6, 2021 10:11 am

Christopher Brown, one of the alleged straw donors used by the state’s cooperating witness in a political corruption probe, is set to join the Pretrial Intervention (PTI) after agreeing to assistant prosecutors with their investigation. Brown is the brother-in-law of...

Prosecutors say there are ‘ongoing investigations’ related to Matt O’Donnell

April 1, 2021 2:04 pmApril 1, 2021 10:05 pm

A Superior Court Judge today sealed a list of potential targets in a state corruption probe, including a list of individuals cooperating witness Matthew O’Donnell offered to contact and a list of people prosecutors asked O’Donnell to connect with. Deputy...

Attorney General seeks to seal court records in case connected to Matt O’Donnell

March 29, 2021 12:08 amMarch 29, 2021 4:34 pm

New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal has moved to seal court records in a motion to dismiss an indictment against a former Hudson Council official, augmenting the mysterious circumstances related to Matthew O’Donnell, the state’s cooperating witness in a political...

Mary Dougherty gets probation in resolution to peculiar Matt O’Donnell sting operation

March 18, 2021 10:01 am

Mary Dougherty, one of four surprisingly small fish political figures charged in the bizarre Matt O’Donnell sting operation in 2019, was sentenced to one-year of probation on Thursday morning by Superior Court Judge Stephen Taylor. Dougherty pleaded guilty to a...