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Victims have lost up to $500,000 after falling for new scamming techniques. Scam alert issued in New Jersey, as law enforcement impersonated in extortion scheme Skip to main content
The Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor (WCNYH) was a regulatory agency in the Port of New York and New Jersey in the northeast of the United States. The bi-state agency was founded in 1953 by a Congressionally authorized compact between New York and New Jersey "for the purpose of eliminating various evils on the waterfront in the Port of New York Harbor."
The Hobbs Act's definition of "extortion" was "copied from the New York Code substantially." [75] The New York extortion law provided: "Extortion is the obtaining of property from another, or the obtaining the property of a corporation from an officer, agent, or employee thereof, with his consent, induced by a wrongful use of force or fear, or ...
On July 7, 2022, Murphy signed the Police Licensing Program Bill (S-2742/A-4194) into law. This new law requiring all law enforcement officers to hold a valid, active license issued by the Police ...
Earlier this month, HSI, working with multiple agencies, dismantled the ring and charged the men with conspiring to receive, possess or sell stolen vehicles in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania ...
In 1953, New York and New Jersey entered a compact establishing the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, a bistate commission for regulating and enforcing the law in the Port of New York and New Jersey shared by the states. For approximately 60 years, the states collaborated through the commission to combat lawlessness and disinfect the ...
The former head of ELEC, the campaign finance watchdog, wanted to block changes that drastically cut the time it had to investigate violations.
On June 8, 2020, both houses of the New York state legislature passed the Eric Garner Anti-Chokehold Act, which makes it so any police officer in the state of New York who injures or kills somebody through the use of "a chokehold or similar restraint" can be charged with a class C felony, punishable by up to 15 years in prison. [3]