Investigative journalist / Pulitzer Prize finalist / Consumer legacy media / McGraw Fellow
New Jersey, USA
Joined November 2013
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Jeff Pillets retweeted
Camden and others hit with subpoenas in what appears to be part of a new #NJ corruption investigation into development and tax incentives. nj.com/politics/2023/04/nj-c…
Stories surfacing today confirm that Camden officials have been hit with subpoenas re politically connected real estate. In 2019, Nancy Solomon and I detailed in Pro Publica how high stakes stakes political pressure reshaped the city’s waterfront. propublica.org/article/how-a…
Look no further than this story if you want to understand how badly NJs political@system is broken. Fat Cat insiders get billions. The poor and powerless get scraps. gothamist.com/news/companies…
Why is NJ’s “reform” governor attacking the state’s most visible champion of open government? njspotlightnews.org/2023/03/… via @NJSpotlightNews
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Atlantic City casinos were given a huge tax cut last year, even as revenues had returned to pre-pandemic levels.
The state offered little evidence this break was needed.
So @ProPublica and @ThePressOfAC went to work. (THREAD)
Jeff Pillets retweeted
Ep 2 of Hazard NJ is out. We focus on the Diamond Alkali site, where Agent Orange production left dioxin-laced mud coating the bottom of the Passaic River. Cleanup has dragged since the 80s — leaving pollution exposed to increasingly severe storms njspotlightnews.org/podcast/…
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We’ve also got this deep dive by @JPillets into how federal bankruptcy laws allow polluters to avoid paying for there mess in cases like the Passaic River njspotlightnews.org/special-…
If anyone has the moral compass to look into the dark corners of the Sheridan death it is Matt Platkin. Stay tuned. Kudos to @nancysolomon2.
#Attorney General's Office has opened investigation into unsolved 2014 killing of prominent couple - Gothamist gothamist.com/news/nj-attorn…
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"This is what replacement really looks like."
After a white supremacist committed a terror attack on Black people in Buffalo, people on the city's East Side say it's Black culture that's under threat.
democratandchronicle.com/sto… @northjerse #BuffaloShooting #WhiteTerrorism #Tops
NPR's Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery (Episode Five) - Insider NJ - go.shr.lc/3LgduSU
Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery (that🤯) - by Jay Lassiter - go.shr.lc/3sspDgP
Jeff Pillets retweeted
In memory of Joe Albright, 1929-2022. Jersey Journal columnist, adorer of kitties, caterer to NJ Statehouse squirrel and bird corps. Funeral arrangements to follow. He loved and was loved.
Jeff Pillets retweeted
Joe Albright, longest-serving statehouse correspondent, dies at 93
bit.ly/3kKLH2g @NJGovNews @NJGov @HudCoTweet @NJDSC @NJGOP
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I have been working on this for 2 years and the first episode is now out!
🚨 NEW PODCAST 🚨
What happened to a prominent couple killed in their New Jersey home? WNYC's @NancySolomon2 takes us on a journey into the crazy world of Garden State crime and politics in Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery. Listen here: bit.ly/36nW88b
Major new investigative podcast raises questions about how John Sheridan was slain, and why. Goosebump stuff. @NancySolomon2. Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery [Podcast Trailer] youtu.be/MSebhJ0HP7c via @YouTube
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The man at the center of NJ’s murder-for-hire plot collected a $2,500 check from a super PAC to boost Bayonne mayor’s prospects
The check’s date was a month after he signed a plea agreement, and 3 months after he proffered to the feds
🔒w/@dracioppi northjersey.com/story/news/2…
This guy must have a lot to talk about. Shocked to see the mob mingling with NJ pols. @abalcerzak northjersey.com/story/news/2…
For GOP candidates, fringe fearmongering now mainstream njspotlightnews.org/2022/04/… via @NJSpotlightNews
