{"id":144274,"date":"2026-02-17T10:25:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/17\/defendant-in-search-of-a-crime-nj-ags-office-will-not-appeal-dismissed-criminal-case-against-george-norcross\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T10:25:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:25:39","slug":"defendant-in-search-of-a-crime-nj-ags-office-will-not-appeal-dismissed-criminal-case-against-george-norcross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/17\/defendant-in-search-of-a-crime-nj-ags-office-will-not-appeal-dismissed-criminal-case-against-george-norcross\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Defendant in Search of a Crime’: NJ AG’s Office Will Not Appeal Dismissed Criminal Case Against George Norcross"},"content":{"rendered":"

In one of the first major decisions made since acting Attorney General Jennifer Davenport assumed control of that office, the state’s top prosecutor’s office announced today that it will not appeal the recent dismissal of criminal charges against longtime Democratic political boss George E. Norcross III, closing the book on the public corruption case against him.<\/p>\n

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In one of the first major decisions made since acting Attorney General Jennifer Davenport assumed control of that office, the state’s top prosecutor’s office announced today that it will not appeal the recent dismissal of criminal charges against longtime Democratic political boss George E. Norcross III, closing the book on the public corruption case against him.<\/p>\n

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In one of the first major decisions made since acting Attorney General Jennifer Davenport assumed control of that office, the state’s top prosecutor’s office announced today that it will not appeal the recent dismissal of criminal charges against longtime Democratic political boss George E. Norcross III, closing the book on the public corruption case against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":144275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/legal-news-3DKWwP.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}