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1. Former Pleasant Hill Cemetery Association treasurer Jerry Smith gets 7 years
(N.J./State)

... failure to pay New Jersey income taxes. Under the plea agreement, Smith consented to pay restitution of $607,590 to the Pleasant Hill Cemetery Association in Chester, representing the amount stolen less ...

2. Christie Whitman: Consider separation of church and state when addressing gay marriage issue
(Opinion/Commentary)

... Jersey, agonizing over bills to define marriage? Wouldn't it be better if government's only role were to recognize the legal relationship between two consenting adults — something that occurs when you ...

3. Czech government apologizes for forced sterilization of Roma women
(World/International)

... in neighboring Slovakia to follow suit. The Czech government this week made a public statement of regret that Roma women were sterilized in the past without their full consent and said that safeguards ...

4. State going after gifts to New Jersey’s doctors
(Health/Healthquest)

... to maintain documentation that doctors have consented to the sale of their prescribing information. The report also recommends legislation to restrict the use and sale of prescriber information for commercial ...

5. U.S. court keeps ban on Republican ballot security programs
(N.J./State)

... Debevoise extended the restrictions for at least another eight years while slightly narrowing the consent decree containing them. Debevoise held that "voter intimidation presents an ongoing threat to ...

6. Paula Franzese: Voters give New Jersey leaders a rare opportunity for uniform ethics reform
(Opinion/Commentary)

... experience makes plain that it is not enough to impose strictures on government employees. Most ethics violations do not occur without the participation and consent of third parties. A uniform system ...

7. Investment advisor Maxwell Smith quilty of scamming elderly of $9.8 million
(N.J./State)

... Milgram said. "In pleading guilty to these charges, Smith faces a lengthy prison sentence and must pay full restitution to his victims." Smith also entered into an administrative consent order with the ...

8. Climate change could cause world’s small island nations to follow Atlantis into the sea
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... mitigation measures without the consent of local populations. Imposition of a conservation scheme might seem preferable to an oil concession, but the ultimate question for indigenous peoples is who decides ...

9. Union County man charged with theft of Internet domain name
(N.J./State)

... content and advised the company. A check of the P2P.com, LLC corporate GoDaddy domain account revealed that the domain name had been transferred without their knowledge or consent almost a year earlier. ...

10. Death sentence part of anti-gay legislation proposed in Africa
(World/International)

... organisations, says the Bill incorrectly groups together predatory sexual acts with acts between consenting adults. "As civil society we condemn all predatory sexual acts (hetero or homosexual) that ...

11. Jersey City man sentenced for bilking investors nearly $1M
(N.J./State)

... pleaded guilty on June 22 to charges of theft by deception and money laundering, both in the second degree. He must pay $975,237 in restitution to his victims under a consent judgment filed in court Tuesday. ...

12. Monmouth’s Michael D’Angelo going to prison for stealing from investors
(N.J./State)

... by deception filed by the Division of Criminal Justice Major Crimes Bureau. On April 29, D'Angelo executed a consent order to settle a lawsuit filed by the New Jersey Bureau of Securities, which investigated ...

13. Morris County wedding photographer Celebration Studios pleads guilty of theft
(N.J./State)

... of the state's attorneys' fees and investigative costs. Under its plea agreement, the company must execute a consent judgment for the same amount of restitution. At present, neither defendant has any ...

14. Target settles with state of New Jersey over consumer fraud allegations
(N.J./State)

... quantities of advertised merchandise, failed to post its raincheck policy, failed to post bicycle safety notices, and violated a previous consent order with the state Division of Consumer Affairs. As ...

15. Female circumcision still a political third rail in parts of Africa
(World/International)

... also wants the law to provide that the consent of a girl or woman will not be valid defense, given the health risks associated with female genital mutilation. The World Health Organization in June 2006 ...

16. Study shines light on ‘transplant tourism’ and the trafficking of human organs
(Health/Healthquest)

... from executed prisoners have allegedly been used for the majority of the transplants performed in the country," it says. Doubts concerning the validity of consent obtained from the executed prisoners, ...

17. Corzine signs law creating law enforcement oversight office that is result of racial profiling by N.J. state police
(N.J./State)

... a 1999 consent decree the state entered into with the U.S. Department of Justice. The Attorney General will appoint a director for the office and all law enforcement agencies operating under state ...

18. Anti-democratic Democrats
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

Where does the law come from in a secular society? Where, when we strip away tradition? All that we have left is the consent of the governed. That is the battle here. Will we have a "soft" authoritarian ...

19. Decade-long federal oversight of state police for racial profiling ends
(N.J./State)

A U.S. District Court judge Monday dissolved the federal consent decree that guided the operation of the State Police for the last ten years following the adoption of reforms in the management and training ...

20. Must see movies at this week's New Jersey Film Festival
(Entertainment/Movies)

... thorough, "Food, Inc." lifts the curtain behind which our nation's food industry hides, exposing the highly mechanized, inhumane, and unhealthy reality that operates with the consent of the government's ...