Matt Platkin Archives - New Jersey Globe

Inkygate: Norcross sues Philadelphia Inquirer, editor Nancy Phillips for $100 million

September 17, 2026 11:55 amSeptember 17, 2026 8:28 pm

New Jersey Democratic powerbroker George E. Norcross III filed a $100 million lawsuit Thursday against The Philadelphia Inquirer and editor Nancy Phillips, accusing the newspaper and the longtime editor of its justice and injustice team of fabricating information that helped...

N.J. will shutter embattled public corruption office

September 3, 2026 3:47 pmSeptember 4, 2026 1:29 am

Attorney General Jennifer Davenport will close the embattled Office of Public Integrity and Accountability and return responsibility for prosecuting public corruption to the Division of Criminal Justice, ending a controversial eight-year experiment that produced accusations of prosecutorial misconduct, years-long delays,...

State tells judge Leguía belongs on ballot — while rejecting her case

August 17, 2026 1:00 pm

In a brief that takes no position and then takes nearly every position, the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office told a federal judge Monday that Libertarian Lana Leguía deserves to be restored to the ballot in one of the nation’s...

Jeremy Feigenbaum, New Jersey’s first solicitor general, will leave state government

July 21, 2026 10:02 amJuly 21, 2026 11:55 am

Jeremy Feigenbaum, New Jersey’s first solicitor general and one of the most consequential lawyers ever to serve in state government, will leave office on September 10 after six years overseeing the state’s most significant constitutional and appellate litigation. Feigenbaum, 37,...

Platkin sues Kevin O’Leary, Fox News over alleged false CCP accusations tied to Utah AI project

July 15, 2026 9:45 pmJuly 16, 2026 9:43 am

Former New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin has filed a defamation lawsuit in Utah against businessman and television personality Kevin O’Leary and Fox News, alleging they falsely accused two Utah advocacy organizations and their leaders of acting as agents of...

Mystery: how an Inquirer editor’s notes about George Norcross wound up with the N.J. state Attorney General

July 15, 2026 1:54 pmJuly 15, 2026 10:52 pm

On Aug. 4, 2019, an editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer sat down for a long, gossipy interview with Susan Bass Levin, the former mayor of Cherry Hill, N.J. During a conversation that would spill over into the next day, Bass...

Nearly 400 local newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft over alleged copyright theft

June 24, 2026 9:50 pm

The massive coalition of local newspaper publishers filed a federal lawsuit today against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the technology companies systematically copied copyrighted reporting from nearly 400 local newspapers to train and develop commercial artificial intelligence products, including ChatGPT and...