Kristie Cattafi

3 weeks ago | northjersey.com | Kristie Cattafi

The settlements will give each officer more than $100,000, promotions and retroactive pay at the higher rank. Both police sergeants agreed to retire as part of the settlement with Palisades Park. PALISADES PARK — The council has approved the settlement of two more lawsuits filed by police officers against the borough and its police department. These will bring this year's total number of police officer lawsuits settled by the borough to four.

3 weeks ago | usatoday.com | Kristie Cattafi |Katie Sobko

The wife of former Sen. Bob Menendez, Nadine Arslanian Menendez, has been convicted of helping her husband collect bribes. Arslanian Menendez was charged in a sprawling indictment brought by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York on 15 counts including bribery, extortion and obstruction of justice in a multi-level scheme that traded in envelopes of cash, gold bars and a new Mercedes for official acts that benefited Qatar and Egypt.

3 weeks ago | northjersey.com | Kristie Cattafi |Katie Sobko

Nadine Arslanian Menendez and her husband, ex-Sen. Bob Menendez, have now both been convicted of corruption and bribery after sitting through separate federal trials. While prosecutors called them "partners in crime," attorneys for Menendez pushed the blame on Arslanian Menendez during the senator's trial, saying she was "dazzling" and hid her financial troubles as they lived separate lives.

3 weeks ago | northjersey.com | Kristie Cattafi |Katie Sobko

A jury is now deliberating on the federal bribery and corruption trial of former Sen. Bob Menendez's wife, Nadine Arslanian Menendez. The trial began with jury selection on March 18 and stalled with days-long breaks in between testimony including this week, when federal prosecutors and defense attorneys met on Tuesday afternoon and there was no court held on Wednesday. The jury began deliberating after almost three weeks of testimony in the trial that had been expected to last through mid-May.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Kristie Cattafi |David M. Zimmer

Polls will open at 2 p.m. Tuesday for a handful of New Jersey school districts opting to hold April school board elections. Of the state's almost 600 school districts, 16 hold spring elections, and the others have them on Election Day in November. The districts with spring elections are: Cliffside Park, Fairview, Lodi, Garfield, Irvington, Newark, Monroe, North Bergen, Weehawken, West New York, New Brunswick, Randolph, Passaic, Totowa, Byram and Westfield.