Satish Poondi Archives - New Jersey Globe

Hoboken preparing to formally ask attorney general to probe racist flyer cold case

April 6, 2021 6:08 pm

The Hoboken City Council will consider a resolution on Wednesday urging Attorney General Gurbir Grewal to investigate a racist flyer at the close of the 2017 campaign. A group of Hoboken officials – five city council members and Mayor Ravi...

Edison hires ex-prosecutor to aid their cooperation with grand jury probe of racist flyer

April 2, 2021 4:55 pmApril 3, 2021 3:24 pm

Edison has hired a high-level former prosecutor to help guide the township counsel through the Attorney General Gurbir Grewal’s probe of a racist flyer in the 2017 election. Vaughn McKoy, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney and director of the state...

Mohin Patel made anti-Muslim, anti-media Facebook posts

March 29, 2021 3:09 pm

Edison School Board vice president Mohin Patel has a history of anti-Muslim and anti-media posts on Facebook. On March 9, Patel shared on Facebook a picture of a bonfire adorned with photographs of five individuals and the star and crescent...

Attorney General issues subpoena for Edison racist flyer records

March 19, 2021 7:33 pmMarch 20, 2021 12:00 pm

The New Jersey Attorney General’s office today subpoenaed Edison Township for documents related to an anonymous racist flyer in the 2017 election and empaneled a grand jury to determine if anyone will be charged. The New Jersey Globe has obtained...

Edison Democratic officials chide Grewal for failure to solve racist flyer cold case

March 18, 2021 1:13 am

Seeking “justice and clarity,” seven elected officeholders in Edison – all Democrats — have admonished Attorney General Gurbir Grewal for his failure to solve a 40-month-old cold case involving racist flyers in a 2017 local election. Mayor Thomas Lankey and...

Karabinchak, Stanley rout Coyle for renomination to 18th district Assembly seat

March 11, 2021 8:26 pmMarch 11, 2021 8:29 pm

Assemblymen Robert Karabinchak (D-Edison) and Sterley Stanley (D-East Brunswick) won a landslide victory over Edison Councilman Joseph Coyle to win the Middlesex County Democratic organization line in the 18th district. Karabinchak received 268 votes and Stanley won 229. Coyle’s vote...

Grewal denies knowing lawyer said to be mastermind behind racist Edison mailer

March 11, 2021 12:45 pmMarch 18, 2021 12:07 am

Attorney General Gurbir Grewal denied knowing a politically connected lawyer whom an Edison councilman identified as a mastermind behind a racist flyer sent during the town’s 2017 School Board campaign in a letter to Assemblyman Erik Peterson (R-Franklin) Wednesday. “I...