by Karishma Vanjani | Jun 23, 2019 |
This article was produced in partnership the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. It was co-published with The Star-Ledger. A company that won the second-largest tax break in New Jersey history gave a false answer about being prohibited from working with a federal...
by Karishma Vanjani | Jun 23, 2019 |
This article was produced in partnership with WNYC, which is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. A law firm linked to New Jersey political boss George E. Norcross III enjoyed extraordinary influence over the state’s tax break program, crafting new...
by Karishma Vanjani | Jun 22, 2019 |
New Jersey’s main economic development program has come under fire for giving away billions of dollars in tax breaks to corporations with little evidence of substantial job creation for the state. In part two of our series “The Real Bosses of New Jersey,” produced in...
by Karishma Vanjani | Jun 22, 2019 |
NEWARK — Nearly $285 million in tax breaks approved for projects linked to New Jersey political boss George E. Norcross came under scrutiny Thursday in a public hearing looking at potential fraud in the state’s $11 billion incentive program. Investigators in a...
by Karishma Vanjani | Jun 21, 2019 |
This article was published in partnership with ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network, with support from the McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism at the Craig Newmark School of Journalism, City University of New York. CAMDEN, N.J. — On a blustery day here in...
