Since 2015, the Ocean County Republican Chairman’s PAC has been making thousands of dollars worth of consulting fee payments to Walter L. Fields, Jr., a self-described “race and public affairs” journalist from Paterson who...
The IRS has issued another six-figure federal tax lien against Ocean County GOP Chairman George Gilmore’s Toms River home for taxes due in 2015, public records on file with the Ocean County Clerk’s Office...
David Samson has requested a two week adjournment of a probable cause hearing that is scheduled to resume today, Thursday, April 6th, at Newark Municipal Court. The presiding judge is Marvin Adames. In a...
Dominion Voting Systems, the company that receives contracts to supply voting machines and related equipment for Ocean County, was among the companies and interest groups that hired 1868 Public Affairs, a lobbying firm with...
Is George Gilmore a borough employee or a contracted professional? In Seaside Heights, he’s both. According to Gilmore’s 2016 contract with Seaside Heights, obtained in response to an Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request,...
TRENTON – In another display of government dysfunction, the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC), the independent state agency that administers state campaign finance laws, has cancelled its meeting scheduled for January 17th, 2017,...
JACKSON – At a recent town council meeting, Sheldon Hoffstein, a Republican from Jackson, argued that the township’s law firm, Gilmore & Monahan, should be replaced with an outside firm with no conflicts of...
South Jersey Democratic Boss George Norcross’s company – Conner Strong & Buckelew – is probably getting money via public contracts from your town in some way, but campaign finance disclosure reports won’t tell you a...
LITTLE EGG HARBOR – GOP township committee candidate Barbara “Bobbi Jo” Crea has claimed to be a “fiscal expert” in her recent campaign mailer, and she’s apparently putting those skills to work if her campaign finance disclosure forms...
How far will Ocean County’s politically connected public contractors go to keep their lucrative professional services contracts? Engineering firm Remington, Vernick & Vena allegedly had to buy sports tickets with company money for David...
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