On December 19, 2022, the Borough of Oaklyn (Camden County) quietly paid $250,000 to a Borough police officer who claimed that he suffered retaliation after he reported “payroll irregularities” and reported the police chief for allegedly using on-duty officers as chauffeurs when the chief was too drunk to drive himself home from bars. In his […]
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Raritan paid $450,000 to settle lawsuit filed by a couple whose 1-year-old son was killed by impaired driver who was allegedly released prematurely by Borough police.
On January 24, 2023, the Borough of Raritan (Somerset County) paid $450,000 to a couple whose 1-year-old son was killed by a 62-year-old, intoxicated driver who Borough police had only hours before released from custody after having arrested him for heroin possession. The couple claimed that police “knew or should have known [that the driver] […]
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East Orange settles five police lawsuits for $1.6 million, readies for trial on two others.
Between 2015 and 2018, several members of the East Orange Police Department (Essex County) filed sexual harassment, retaliation or discrimination lawsuits against the Department and its senior officials. Five of those suits have settled for a total of $1,647,500 while two others are still open and are scheduled for trial later this year. I have […]
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State pays $2 million to settle lawsuit filed by man wrongfully imprisoned for 24 years.
According to a November 9, 2022 court filing, the State of New Jersey settled a lawsuit filed by a man who had spent half his life in Rahway prison for a 1994 murder he did not commit. The lawsuit continues, however, against an Elizabeth police officer involved in the man’s investigation and arrest. According his […]
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Three more Cumberland Jail inmate suicide cases settle for a total of $1,639,500.
In a May 3, 2022 article, I reported that four lawsuits arising out of Cumberland County, New Jersey Jail inmate suicides settled for a total of $672,500. In the same article, I reported that three other inmate suicide cases were then still pending. Those three cases have since settled bringing the total cost to settle […]