press release August 21, 2015

Wayman Muse (DOB 11/7/93), of Camden, already facing sentencing in Camden on a handgun possession charge, today (8/21) was denied any reduction in his $100,000 bail on charges he and two others were involved in the armed robbery of a woman in Woodbury on 8/12/15.

 Although Muse denies having a gun or participating in the robbery, he led police to the location of the woman’s pocketbook, Assistant Gloucester County Prosecutor Joseph Enos told Superior Court Judge M. Christine Allen-Jackson in opposing lower bail. \”That shows his involvement,\” Enos said.

08/20/15

The overwhelming majority of people who go into the health care industry do it because they want to help people. Unfortunately, there are also some unscrupulous individuals who do it because they think they can take advantage of the health care system for their own financial gain.

That’s just what happened in the case of an Oklahoma hospice executive. Paula Kluding, owner of Prairie View Hospice, Inc., located in Chandler, Oklahoma, submitted millions of dollars’ worth of fraudulent claims to the federal Medicare program. But after a thorough investigation by the FBI and our partners at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General, Kluding was convicted of Medicare fraud and other related charges at trial and was recently sentenced to a federal prison term. She was also ordered to pay $2.5 million in restitution to Medicare.

press release August 21, 2015

TRENTON – Responding to the growing need for support to fight Western wildfires, the Christie Administration is sending an additional 20 members of the New Jersey Forest Fire Service and New Jersey State Forestry Services to assist in the battling of wildfires that are raging across parts of the Northwest, Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin announced today.

These members, who are expected to leave New Jersey over the weekend or early next week, will supplement 32 firefighters, including three wildfire truck crews, the Christie Administration dispatched more than week ago as part of a cooperative aid agreement with the U.S. Forest Service. 

TRENTON — Hundreds of thousands of public workers could continue to make higher contributions toward their health insurance premiums for several more years under a new ruling by the state agency that governs public employer-employee relations. The decision by the Public Employment Relations Commission delays when public employee unions can use contract negotiations to attempt to…