Saturday, April 6, 2013
$440 million in economic development spending is under scrutiny.
A year after the New Jersey Comptroller’s Office issued a scathing report about waste and mismanagement at the Delaware River Port Authority (DRPA), federal prosecutors have dropped a subpoena on the authority, demanding spending records for the last five years, according to a Philadelphia Daily News report. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia issued the subpoena via its public corruption unit two weeks ago, the Daily News reported, seeking a plethora of documents related to the authority’s spending outside of the four bridges—the Walt Whitman, Ben Franklin, Commodore Barry and Betsy Ross—and the PATCO High-Speed Line run by the DRPA. The DRPA spent nearly half a billion dollars on economic development projects, according to last …
Thursday, January 24, 2013
A Haddonfield doctor’s whistleblower lawsuit sparked an investigation that ended in a multimillion dollar settlement payment by Cooper Health System.
HADDONFIELD-HADDON TOWNSHIP, NJ -- Cooper Health System will pay $12.6 million to settle allegations the Camden hospital engaged in kickbacks to doctors as it built its cardiology program, state and federal officials said Thursday. Cooper agreed to pay the federal government $10.2 million and the state $2.3 million in the joint settlement, plus attorney’s fees of $430,000 to a whistleblower, Haddonfield cardiologist Dr. Nicholas DePace. The hospital also already implemented, and agreed to maintain, corporate reforms for accountability, training and other aspects of compliance. The settlement stems from a joint federal-state investigation into the financial ties between the Cooper Heart Institute in Camden, the Cooper Heart Institute …
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Prison, probation and restitution await Winslow’s Joseph Rivera for a six-year bribery operation.
A Camden County man who traded on his position to the tune of $1.86 million in bribes will spend the next five years in prison, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced Wednesday. Joseph Rivera, 56, of Winslow, received the sentence for his role in a bribery scheme. He pleaded guilty earlier to solicitation, acceptance of a bribe and tax evasion. Prosecutors say Rivera used his job as a senior investigator with the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Division of Wage and Hour Compliance, to bribe temporary labor firms. In exchange for payment, Rivera offered his official assistance. Rivera’s responsibilities included inspecting temporary labor firms in South Jersey for compliance with state wage and hour laws, taxes …
Samantha McCall
10:21 pm on Monday, April 8, 2013
Thanks Jeff, since when does George Norcross care about education? Good for the lady who stood up to him at the end. Norcross sees dollar signs! The referendum that passed this past election, which I was shocked, $7.8 billion, you can bet George Norcross has his hand in that. more ›