Jana Cholakovska
Freelance Journalist and Writer at Freelance
journo covering the environment, public health + labor | member: @IRE_NICAR @opcofamerica | she/her
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2 days ago |
nj.com | Jana Cholakovska
Mount Arlington Councilman John S. Windish made it clear over the phone in the spring of 2018: his support came at a price. $7,000 to be exact. If he won reelection, he’d reappoint Matt O’Donnell as municipal attorney representing the government in tax appeal cases. “That’s the only quid pro quo I’m asking you,” O’Donnell said, according to court records. “I need this job.”Windish promised his full support.
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1 month ago |
nj.com | Jana Cholakovska
The booze is still flowing at Trump National. At least for now. Nearly a year after New Jersey decided not to renew their liquor licenses, President Donald Trump’s golf clubs continue to serve alcohol thanks to an extension of temporary permits that were set to expire last week. People convicted of crimes involving “moral turpitude” — which typically includes acts of “dishonesty, fraud, or depravity” — are barred from holding or profiting from a liquor license in New Jersey.
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1 month ago |
silive.com | Jana Cholakovska
He was known as one of the nation’s “most powerful and experienced” mafia leaders with intimate knowledge of “who’s who” of notorious gangsters. As the “consigliere,” or third-in-command, he ran the New Jersey arm of the infamous Genovese crime family. But that was a long time ago.
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1 month ago |
nj.com | Jana Cholakovska
He was known as one of the nation’s “most powerful and experienced” mafia leaders with intimate knowledge of “who’s who” of notorious gangsters. As the “consigliere,” or third-in-command, he ran the New Jersey arm of the infamous Genovese crime family. But that was a long time ago.
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1 month ago |
nj.com | Jana Cholakovska
You can think of it as Western Union for criminals. “Hawala” — a network of brokers who move large sums of money all over the globe in under-the-radar ways that can’t be traced — usually doesn’t actually involve the transfer of physical cash. Investigators say the illegal networks can be hotbeds of dirty money, and a New Jersey hawala agent who helped send more than $65 million to the Middle East was just handed a three-year stint in jail.
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