Jeff Pillets
@JPillets
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Investigative journalist / Pulitzer Prize finalist / Consumer legacy media / McGraw Fellow
New Jersey, USA
Joined November 2013
RT @TedShermanSL: Camden and others hit with subpoenas in what appears to be part of a new #NJ corruption investigation into development an….
nj.com
New subpoenas hint at corruption investigation by the state into state tax breaks.
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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
Tax breaks were supposed to lead to a rebirth for one state’s poorest city. But the city has also been reshaped by the rich and influential Norcross family in ways that benefit it and its allies.
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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
Subaru got $118 million under a tax break program that’s since come under scrutiny, but employs just 10 Camden residents.
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Why is NJ’s “reform” governor attacking the state’s most visible champion of open government? via @NJSpotlightNews.
njspotlightnews.org
In his lawsuit, filed in Mercer County, Brindle, executive director of ELEC, seeks protection from the governor and personal damages.
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RT @NEWZHQ: @suealtman 🔥. @NancySolomon2 🔥. @JPillets 🔥. @delany_kate 🔥 . @EyesOnNJ 📺. @abalcerzak . @catadunn. @tjcNJ . @jay_lass. @….
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RT @propublica: Atlantic City casinos were given a huge tax cut last year, even as revenues had returned to pre-pandemic levels. The stat….
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RT @MSolDub: Ep 2 of Hazard NJ is out. We focus on the Diamond Alkali site, where Agent Orange production left dioxin-laced mud coating the….
njspotlightnews.org
Decades of industrial dumping left a toxic legacy in the lower Passaic River. Now climate change is adding to the threat.
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RT @MSolDub: We’ve also got this deep dive by @JPillets into how federal bankruptcy laws allow polluters to avoid paying for there mess in….
njspotlightnews.org
It’s almost 40 years since demonstrators demanded a cleanup of the Passaic, one of the most polluted rivers in the U.S.
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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
The deaths of John and Joyce Sheridan are the subject of a new podcast series by WNYC. The state attorney general’s office said it would “follow the evidence wherever it leads.”
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RT @Chris_Maag: "This is what replacement really looks like.". After a white supremacist committed a terror attack on Black people in Buffa….
democratandchronicle.com
Terrorists and some GOP leaders have united around the "Great Replacement" myth. But Black families in Buffalo say they're the ones getting replaced.
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NPR's Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery (Episode Five) - Insider NJ -
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Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery (that🤯) - by Jay Lassiter -
insidernj.com
Dead End: A NJ Political Murder Mystery, true crime whodunit that'll leave you rapt. It's also a quest for justice for two murder victims who deserve to RIP.
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RT @EliseOnDeadline: In memory of Joe Albright, 1929-2022. Jersey Journal columnist, adorer of kitties, caterer to NJ Statehouse squirrel a….
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RT @jerseyjournal: Joe Albright, longest-serving statehouse correspondent, dies at 93.@NJGovNews @NJGov @HudCoTweet….
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RT @NancySolomon2: I have been working on this for 2 years and the first episode is now out!.
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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] via @YouTube.
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RT @abalcerzak: 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 prosp….
northjersey.com
Sean Caddle’s work in Bayonne after signing a plea agreement in murder-for-hire scheme raises more questions about cooperation with feds.
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A win for Democracy in South Jersey-
insidernj.com
South Jersey Progressive Democrats Successfully Oust Phantom Candidates South Jersey Progressive Democrats Successfully Oust Phantom
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This guy must have a lot to talk about. Shocked to see the mob mingling with NJ pols. @abalcerzak
northjersey.com
Sean Caddle pleaded guilty to hiring hitmen to kill former associate Michael Galdieri. Caddle, under house arrest, has been cooperating with the FBI.
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For GOP candidates, fringe fearmongering now mainstream via @NJSpotlightNews.
njspotlightnews.org
Rhetoric once the province of fringe candidates is now common among Republican congressional candidates in New Jersey.
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