In Memoriam
Nicholas Caprio, a former assistant Essex County Prosecutor, died on June 27. He was 80. Caprio argued a case before the New Jersey Supreme Court’s Right to Die case that upheld the right of the guardian of a patient in...
In Memoriam
Elba Perez-Cinciarelli, former assemblywoman, dies at 76
Former Assemblywoman Elba Perez-Cinciarelli (D-Jersey City), the first Latina to represent Hudson County in the New Jersey Legislature and an early supporter of same-sex marriage, died on Friday. She was 76. Hudson County Democrats picked Perez-Cinciarelli, a Jersey City Education...
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Al Opacity, a former Lyndhurst Commissioner of Revenue and Finance, died on June 24. He was 69. Opacity served in the U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Berets) in Vietnam. A funeral director, Opacity was a first responder to the terrorist...
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Morris Spielberg, who kept his Newark furniture store open during the 1967 riots and remained in Newark after that, died on June 23. He was 96. Spielberg flew 35 missions as a U.S. Air Force pilot during World War II...
Lewis Kaden, counsel to Gov. Brendan Byrne, dies at 78
Lewis B. Kaden, Gov. Brendan Byrne’s first counsel and a former aide to U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, died on Sunday. He was 78. He died of injuries related to a fall at his Westchester home on June 15, according...
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Joseph Reiter, a former judge of the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, died on June 16. He was 91. The Cherry Hill resident as a U.S. Army veteran who served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District...
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Bob Leavitt, a former Verona Democratic municipal chairman, died June 21. He was 85. Leavitt he worked for the state Department of Labor and Industry and was an aide to State Sen. Pat Dodd (D-West Orange). James Zak, a former...