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Monmouth Democrats mandate anti-harassment training for candidates, party leader

January 25, 2020 11:24 amJanuary 27, 2020 8:24 am

Monmouth County Democrats will require all candidates and party leaders to attend anti-harassment training sessions and will deny access to critical campaign tools if they don’t participate. Democratic county chairman David Brown says that he will withhold access to voter...

O’Donnell sometimes billed towns more than 24 hours in a day for legal fees

January 15, 2020 3:53 pmJanuary 16, 2020 1:41 pm

Attorney Matt O’Donnell, the state’s cooperating witness in a corruption sting operation, sometimes billed municipalities in excess of 24 hours in a single day, according to bills submitted to government entities that were reviewed by the New Jersey Globe. O’Donnell...

Licatra will seek Monmouth freeholder seat

January 6, 2020 3:01 pmJanuary 8, 2020 9:04 am

Update: Licitra announced his candidacy on Monday afternoon. The early favorite for an open seat on the Monmouth County Board of Freeholders appears to be Ross Licitra, a former narcotics detective who now runs the Society for the Prevention of...

Morris County drops O’Donnell as special counsel

January 4, 2020 6:32 pm

Matt O’Donnell has lost another plumb legal contract. The Morris County Board of Freeholders has dropped O’Donnell, the cooperating witness in a state corruption sting, from their list of attorneys to handle tax appeal work for county government. This is...

Perry will be Middletown mayor again in 2020

January 2, 2020 6:48 pm

Tony Perry is expected to get a second year as mayor of Middletown when the township committee reorganizes on Sunday. The 29-year-old Perry, a former chief of staff to State Sen. Joseph Kyrillos (R-Middletown), became the youngest mayor in township...

More clients fleeing O’Donnell law firm

December 30, 2019 2:33 pmDecember 30, 2019 10:45 pm

A North Jersey law firm run by the state’s cooperating witness in a political corruption sting continues to lose clients. Hackensack, Middletown, Holmdel, and Monmouth County will replace O’Donnell McCord as their tax appeal counsel after it was disclosed that...

Several towns pulling business from O’Donnell law firm

December 27, 2019 12:02 pmDecember 30, 2019 9:40 am

Matthew O’Donnell is losing his job as tax appeal counsel in several New Jersey municipalities after local officials learned that he was the cooperating witness in the state attorney general’s sting operation that has already led to criminal charges against...