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An Atlantic City police officer, Sterling Wheaten, was indicted for civil rights violations and filing a false report over the 2013 incident in which Wheaten put his K9 dog on David Castellani after Castellani had four other police on him and one hand in a handcuff, per the indictment.
The city has already paid $3 million over this incident.
Cory Booker’s former chief of staff, Modia Butler, is joining the CRDA board.
Butler’s also a partner at Mercury, the terrifying public relations firm. Super.
Everyone reports on the NJ Transit audit, which Governor Murphy released yesterday at a train station in Metuchen. The system’s a mess, but “fixable” Murphy said, while pledging not to let the report collect dust. It’s like he read our minds.
The Press of AC and Breaking AC have stories on Atlantic County Prosecutor Damon Tyner, specifically that three employees (one current, two former) have accused Tyner of futzing with evidence in the April Kauffman murder case, hiring unqualified relatives and committing mortgage fraud.
Phil Murphy who used to work for Goldman Sachs talked a lot about forming a state-run bank when he was campaigning for Governor, but hasn’t talked about it much since, the valuable Spotlight reports, apropos a report by the Citizen Action Education Fund, which you can read here.
Apologies for no roundup Wednesday! Some days I have ragestroke and am unable to function. Also, some of us were traveling (side note – it’s possible to get from Atlantic City to La Guardia on public transit in three hours and fifteen minutes and for under $50).
Everyone covers Phil Murphy’s speech on his plan, or something, for the economy, in which he proposed a $500 million venture capital fund, to replace the tax-incentive programs which are up for renewal next year.
The indefatigable Amy Rosenberg has a fun story on the race between Tom MacArthur and Andy Kim for the 3rd Congressional District, which has entered the Twilight Zone, with MacArthur simultaneously calling Kim a “Washington insider” (!) and “Not one of us” (Kim’s a second-generation American).
Stockton’s deal to buy the old Golden Nugget, or the old Hilton or Atlantic Club or whatever they called it at the end, is off now, the parties announced yesterday.
Good morning Roundup Readers! We’re filing today from the world-famous Atlantic City Inlet, since the waves looked good and we thought there’d be surfers. Also we wanted to get out of range of the Kavanaugh hearings. Has anyone seen Don hometime boy McGahan? He was behind the nominee the whole time last time.