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Newark quietly paid $25,000 to a Union County police lieutenant who claimed he was falsely charged with assault.

On November 29, 2022, the City of Newark (Essex County, NJ) quietly paid $25,000 to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by a recently retired Clark Township police lieutenant who claimed he was forced to defend himself against a “bogus/false/trumped up criminal charge” that was filed against him after a Newark police official, motivated by […]