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16 Jul

Division of Consumer Affairs Announce Actions to Expand Access to Mental Health, Substance Abuse Services During COVID-19 Pandemic – Measures Aimed at Expanding New Jersey’s Mental Health Workforce and Improving Access to Substance Abuse Treatment and Counseling

NEWARK –Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal and the Division of Consumer Affairs today announced new measures to promote access to mental health and substance use disorder services and treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic, including a new program to make it easier for recent graduates of social work and counseling programs...

15 Jul

Attorney General’s Office Investigating Fatal Police-Involved Shooting in Morris Township, N.J.

Morris Township, N.J. – The Attorney General’s Office is conducting an investigation of a fatal officer-involved shooting that occurred at approximately 4:19 p.m. this afternoon on Fairchild Avenue in Morris Township, N.J., when police responded to a 911 call reporting a domestic disturbance. One male civilian sustained fatal injuries. The...

14 Jul

Trump Presidential Transition Team Agrees to Settlement Over Registration as Charitable Organization, Subpoena Compliance
AG’s Office Will Receive Transition Records that Organization Previously Refused to Produce

NEWARK – Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal and the Division of Consumer Affairs (“the Division”) announced today that Trump for America, Inc., a New Jersey-based 501(c)(4) social welfare organization that raised millions of dollars to support Donald J. Trump’s 2016 Presidential Transition, has entered into an agreement to resolve allegations...

14 Jul

AG Grewal Sues ICE over New Directive that Bars International Students from Attending U.S. Universities that Shift Programs Online Due to COVID-19 Pandemic
Thousands of Rutgers Students Could Be Shut out of the Country, Costing School up to $200M

TRENTON – Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal today joined a coalition of eighteen Attorneys General in suing to block implementation of a new Directive from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) requiring that international student visa holders attending college in the U.S. take all or most of their classes in-person...

14 Jul

AG Grewal, Consumer Affairs Announce Voluntary Compliance Program for Unregistered 501(c)(4) Social Welfare Organizations
Through October 1, 2020, the Program Allows Eligible 501(c)(4) Organizations to Avoid Penalties for Past Failures to Register as Charitable Organizations

NEWARK – Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal and the Division of Consumer Affairs (“the Division”) today announced a temporary Voluntary Compliance Program to encourage certain 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations to comply with their obligations to register as charitable organizations with the Division. Under the Voluntary Compliance Program, the Division will...

11 Jul

Leading Member of Criminal Ring That Trafficked Untraceable “Ghost Gun” Assault Rifles and Cocaine Sentenced to 14 Years in State PrisonArrests in Operation Stone Wall were first ever in a ghost gun trafficking case under law signed by Gov. Murphy in 2018 making it crime to buy, manufacture, possess or sell ghost guns in New Jersey

TRENTON – Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal today announced a lengthy prison sentence for a leading member of a criminal network in Camden County that was dealing cocaine and illegally trafficking untraceable assault rifles known as “ghost guns” assembled from kits purchased online. Christopher Stoner, 43, of Lindenwold, N.J., was...