Police have arrested a suspect nearly four months after a New Jersey Republican councilwoman was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-jersey-gop-councilwoman-gunned-down-in-her-car-police-looking-for-suspect-motive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gunned down</a> in her car as she was nearing her home.
Rashid Ali Bynum, 28, was arrested and charged in the murder of 30-year-old Eunice Dwumfour, who was shot and killed on the evening of February 1. Dwumfour and Bynum knew each other from working together at Champions Royal Assembly, a Nigeria-based prosperity gospel church in Newark, police said, <a href="https://abc7ny.com/nj-councilwoman-shot-dead-eunice-dwumfour-sayrevile-murdered/13320349/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to ABC 7.
“This was a very complex, extensive case with painstaking police work every single moment until today and it will continue after today,” Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone <a href="https://abc7ny.com/nj-councilwoman-shot-dead-eunice-dwumfour-sayrevile-murdered/13320349/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at a press conference attended by Dwumfour’s family members. “The murder has shaken the community and no arrest will bring back the late councilwoman.”
Bynum was taken into custody in Chesapeake City, Virginia, where he lived, and he will be extradited to New Jersey, where the suspect will be held at the Middlesex County Adult Correctional facility until his pre-trial hearing. The suspect was caught on surveillance footage fleeing the scene after the shooting, according to Ciccone. The prosecutor also said that Bynum’s phone indicated that he had traveled from Virginia to New Jersey at the time of Dwumfour’s murder.
The suspect allegedly searched online for information about Dwumfour’s church and the town where she lived, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/05/30/arrest-made-in-murder-of-nj-councilwoman-eunice-dwumfour/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Bynum is charged with first-degree murder, second-degree unlawful possession of a handgun, and second-degree possession of a handgun for an unlawful purpose.
Eyewitnesses said they saw the gunman run toward Garden State Parkway after firing multiple times into Dwumfour’s vehicle. The councilwoman’s vehicle traveled around 100 feet before hitting two parked cars. Ciccone did not provide any motive for why Bynum allegedly targeted the Republican councilwoman.
The case went silent for months as authorities held no press conferences, and the prosecutor’s office <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/prosecutors-office-seeks-to-block-records-on-gop-councilwomans-murder-from-going-public" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requested</a> an injunction to block news outlets from obtaining important information about the investigation. In March, the councilwoman’s parents expressed frustration at the lack of developments from the investigation into their daughter&#8217;s murder. The family’s attorney also said the lack of info from authorities on the case was “mystifying and troubling.”
Dwumfour was elected to the Borough of Sayreville City Council in an upset victory over her Democratic opponent in 2021. She was also a business analyst and part-time EMT and was heavily involved in her church.
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The Republican councilwoman was the oldest of five children born to a Ghanaian family. In December, Dwumfour celebrated getting married to a Nigerian pastor. She was also the mother of an 11-year-old daughter from a previous relationship.

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Arrest Made After Months Of Silence In NJ GOP Councilwoman’s Murder

Arrest Made After Months Of Silence In NJ GOP Councilwoman's Murder

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-jersey">New Jersey</a> woman incarcerated at a state women&#8217;s correctional facility alleges a male transfer who identifies as female assaulted her after several instances of sexual harassment.
Shakira Reed, an inmate at New Jersey&#8217;s Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women, told <a href="https://reduxx.info/exclusive-female-inmate-at-nj-womens-prison-alleges-brutal-assault-by-trans-identified-male-transfer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reduxx</a> in an exclusive report that a trans-identifying male named Jermain Gibson allegedly repeatedly punched Reed in the head, resulting in a broken nose and two black eyes in a scene that witnesses described left &#8220;blood everywhere.&#8221;
&#8220;I was attacked because I didn&#8217;t want to have sex with him,&#8221; Reed told Reduxx.
Prison authorities transferred Reed to Hunterdon Medical Center, where she received medical care before returning to the correctional facility&#8217;s on-site hospital unit. Following the assault, authorities punished both Gibson and Reed in holding cells in a 90-day &#8220;lockup&#8221; away from other inmates.
Reed said the assault occurred after weeks of sexual harassment from Gibson, including the inmate exposing himself to her as she walked past his cell. She reported the incident to authorities but said Gibson was not punished.
An anonymous female inmate told Reduxx that she witnessed Gibson sexually assaulting Reed.
&#8220;I lived on the wing with both of them. Gibson continuously harassed Reed and would often speak in his man voice because he thought it was funny when he was asked not to because it had made the women uncomfortable,&#8221; she said, according to the outlet.
&#8220;During the days leading up to the actual incident, he kept egging her on. When it actually took place, I could hear it. I didn&#8217;t see it, but it was so loud we heard them down the wing, and this took place in the rec room. We could hear Shakira yelling, &#8216;Stop hitting me!'&#8221;
&#8220;The recent events here are just unimaginable, and honestly, if I wasn&#8217;t living them, I wouldn&#8217;t even believe them. People need to know what this has been like for us because no one has ever come to ask us how we feel about them being here. This is misogyny within misogyny.&#8221;
Gibson, who is serving a mandatory minimum term of five years in connection with robbery charges, is one of over two dozen men who identify as female that have been transferred into the women&#8217;s correctional facility, Reduxx reported.
Multiple women have provided <a href="https://reduxx.info/exclusive-female-inmate-describes-sexual-harassment-by-violent-trans-identified-male-housed-in-womens-prison/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testimony</a> to the outlet detailing ongoing sexual harassment and other related experiences by the male transfers at the women&#8217;s only prison.
Last year, another male inmate who identifies as a woman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-inmate-impregnates-two-female-prisoners-at-new-jerseys-women-only-prison-report-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> impregnated two females being held at the women&#8217;s only prison.
The double pregnancy occurred less than a year after the state began adopting new radical gender theory practices in its prison system, including placing inmates in the facility based on their gender identification.
Dan Sperrazza, New Jersey&#8217;s Department of Correction&#8217;s external affairs executive director, told NJ.com last year that &#8220;consensual sexual relationships with another incarcerated person&#8221; likely led to the two becoming pregnant.
In 2021, the state of New Jersey began enforcing radical gender theory in its correctional system. The change occurred after the state was sued by an anonymous prisoner who was being kept in men&#8217;s prisons despite identifying as a female.
Tim Meads contributed to this report.

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‘I Was Attacked Because I Didn’t Want To Have Sex With Him’: New Jersey Female Inmate Details Alleged Assault From Trans-Identified Male Transfer

New Jersey Female Inmate Details Alleged Assault From Trans-Identified Male Transfer

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Federal prosecutors are reportedly investigating whether Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and his wife accepted gifts from a meat business worth potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange for any actions taken by Menendez as a senator.
NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/feds-investigating-menendez-wife-got-gifts-dc-apartment-mercedes-jewel-rcna86339" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that investigators are looking to see if the gifts — which include a Mercedes-Benz, a luxury apartment in the expensive D.C. area, cash, and jewelry — came from the owner or associates of IS EG Halal.
In 2019, the halal meat business won an exclusive contract to become the sole company responsible for certifying halal exports from Egypt. U.S. officials viewed the situation as suspicious due to how such a large contract was awarded to a company with “little prior experience.”
The Egyptian government immediately fired seven other &#8220;longtime companies across the globe&#8221; once IS EG Halal won the contract, causing those companies to lose out on millions, the report said. The firm is reportedly &#8220;run by a Christian with little prior experience in Islamic certification of international meat imports and exports.&#8221;
Menendez is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which puts him in charge of billions of dollars in aid to Egypt.
IRS criminal investigators are also reviewing to see if Menendez and his wife reported the gifts on their tax filings, the report said. He did not report the items on his Senate disclosure forms.
Peter Paradis, the former deputy assistant inspector general at the USDA, said Egypt giving the exclusive contract to IS EG Halal and canceling the other contracts &#8220;defies logic.&#8221;
“This corporation has no track record of doing these types of certifications — and yet the country in question earmarks them as the sole entity to perform that task?” Paradis said.
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The company and the senator maintain that they have done nothing wrong.
The report said that federal prosecutors are looking to see if anyone connected to the company paid any kind of a bribe to Egyptian officials, which would potentially violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
The criminal investigation has expanded in recent weeks after powerful North Bergen Democrat Mayor Nicholas Sacco was recently subpoenaed. The subpoena <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-criminal-corruption-investigation-into-democrat-senator-bob-menendez-expands-with-new-subpoenas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sought information</a> about “certain legislative changes in New Jersey” related to a proposed development deal.
In 2015, Menendez was indicted on bribery charges for allegedly accepting “luxury vacations, golf outings, campaign donations and expensive flights” from Florida physician Salomon Melgen in exchange for political favors. A federal jury in Florida convicted Melgen in April of “67 charges for operating what prosecutors called a massive scheme that robbed Medicare out of as much as $105 million,” the Palm Beach Post <a href="https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/crime/2017/04/28/eye-doc-melgen-guilty-in/6873372007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Prosecutors began investigating Menendez when they were tipped off in 2012 that Menendez was allegedly having sex with underage prostitutes in the Dominican Republic.
The jury was split in the trial and a mistrial was declared.

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New Details Emerge In Federal Criminal Investigation Into Democrat Senator Bob Menendez

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The federal criminal corruption investigation into Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-senator-bob-menendez-under-federal-criminal-investigation-again-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robert Menendez</a> (D-NY), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has recently expanded after another round of grand jury subpoenas were sent out this week.
NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/criminal-probe-sen-bob-menendez-expands-new-subpoenas-rcna83646" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the new criminal investigation into Menendez, which first made news last October, originally centered around how IS EG Halal, a New Jersey-based halal meat business, won &#8220;an exclusive worldwide contract with Egypt to certify halal exports — as numerous other firms’ contracts were suddenly canceled in 2019.&#8221;
Numerous sources told the publication that the U.S. Agriculture Department was suspicious over how the large contract was awarded to the company which had &#8220;little experience.&#8221;
Menendez&#8217;s wife is friends with the company&#8217;s owners, the report said, and the senator&#8217;s position as chairman on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee puts him in charge of billions of dollars in weapons sales to Egypt.
However, the latest subpoenas that were issued in the criminal investigation are not related to allegations involving the meat company and Menendez, the report said.
Sources told the publication that the North Bergen Democrat Mayor Nicholas Sacco was one of the people who received a subpoena in this last batch to go out. The report described Sacco as a &#8220;powerful&#8221; politician in New Jersey.
The subpoena seeks information about &#8220;certain legislative changes in New Jersey,&#8221; the report said, but no further details were available.
In 2015, Menendez was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-senator-bob-menendez-under-federal-criminal-investigation-again-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indicted</a> on bribery charges for allegedly accepting “luxury vacations, golf outings, campaign donations and expensive flights” from Florida physician Salomon Melgen in exchange for political favors. A federal jury in Florida convicted Melgen in April of “67 charges for operating what prosecutors called a massive scheme that robbed Medicare out of as much as $105 million,” the <a href="https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/crime/2017/04/28/eye-doc-melgen-guilty-in/6873372007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Palm Beach Post</a> reported.
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Prosecutors began investigating Menendez when they were <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/09/05/everything-you-need-to-know-about-sen-bob-menendezs-corruption-trial/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tipped off</a> in 2012 that Menendez was allegedly having sex with underage prostitutes in the Dominican Republic.
The jury was split in the trial and a mistrial was declared.
The DOJ was set to re-charge Menendez when the judge dismissed 7 of the 18 charges against him, the report said.
A separate <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/10/25/2022/senator-robert-menendez-under-investigation-again" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from Semafor said that the new criminal case against Menendez mirrors the prior criminal case that Menendez faced.
The report noted that federal prosecutors rarely ever lose in court and so the fact that they are bringing a new criminal case against Menendez “after its humiliating public failure to convict him” likely means that they believe they have a stronger case this time.
When a mistrial was declared during the first criminal case, Menendez resorted to implying that racists were the reason he came under investigation. Prosecutors ultimately decided against retrying him.

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-jersey">New Jersey</a> woman reported that she made an unlikely discovery in the woods when she came across more than 500 pounds of cooked <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/food">pasta</a> dumped among the trees.
Nina Jochnowitz, who ran for city council in the past, was walking through a creek near Veterans Park in Old Bridge, New Jersey, when she found the heaping mounds of cooked spaghetti and macaroni. She <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=256033300128994&amp;set=pcb.6825396244142464">shared</a> photos of the noodles on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=256033303462327&amp;set=pcb.6825396244142464">Facebook</a> and thanked the public works department for cleaning up the mess.
The photos were then reposted in a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/newjersey/comments/134q4ur/estimated_300400_lbs_of_pasta_dumped_in_old_bridge/">subreddit</a> about New Jersey, which led to a lot of commenters coming up with pasta puns.
&#8220;We should send the perpetrators to the state penne tentiary,&#8221; one Reddit user said.
&#8220;Italian grandmas: why would someone dump four servings of pasta in the woods like that?&#8221; another person said.
“I swear it wasn&#8217;t me&#8230;.,” a Facebook user named Al Dente commented on the original Facebook post.
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While many were treating the incident as a joke, Jochnowitz criticized the mayor in her original post and accused him of ignoring the situation. <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pasta-new-jersey-mysteriously-dumped-in-old-bridge-woods/">CBS News</a> noted that Jochnowitz ran on a platform of cleaning up the waterways and environment in her town. She also intended to improve waste and recycling services, which would include bulk pickup for trash, ostensibly including trash bags filled with pasta. 
&#8220;You might say, ‘Who cares about pasta?’ But pasta has a PH level that will impact the water stream,&#8221; Jochnowitz <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/news/new-jersey/new-jersey-pasta-dump-old-bridge-township-reddit-20230503.html">told</a> the Philadelphia Inquirer. &#8220;That water stream is important to clean up because it feeds into the town’s water supply…It was one of the fastest cleanups I’ve ever seen here.&#8221;
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Jochnowitz referred to the incident as, &#8220;Mission Impastable.&#8221;
“The township heard or read the comments and responded by doing a rapid cleanup the river basin and pasta dump,” she wrote on social media. “As my friend called it a &#8216;Mission Impastable&#8217;!!! They also cleaned out all the garbage tossed in the basin. Thank you Kasey and the entire crew of Public Works!”
“No surprise when we see the dumping of construction and other garbage spewed in all of the neighborhoods,” the New Jersey resident continued. 
“This week, there was a new type of dumping, of excessive food, PASTA. A good Estimate is more than 500 pounds of pasta dumped adjacent to the streams intersecting with Hilliard and Mimi. While it has been reported to our township administrator (myself) and I reckon that someone forwarded my post on this to the no-can-do Mayor knows…and his CaL girls, they will ignore this food garbage.”

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‘Mission Impastable’: Woman Discovers 500 Lbs Of Cooked Pasta Dumped In NJ Woods

'Mission Impastable': Woman Discovers 500 Lbs Of Cooked Pasta Dumped In NJ Woods

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-jersey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Jersey</a> Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is charging itself with violating environmental laws.
The NJ DEP&#8217;s Bureau of Coastal and Land Use Compliance and Enforcement cited the Division of Fish and Wildlife for illegally clearing 15 acres of protected wetlands. The Division of Fish and Wildlife intended to use the land to build a habitat for a species of bird, but in doing so, destroyed protected lands intended to protect two other species. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/environmentalists" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Environmental</a> groups complained, and the DEP agreed and charged itself.
According to the DEP <a href="https://dep.nj.gov/njfw/news-20230201-american-woodcock-habitat-creation-glassboro-wildlife-management-area/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, the Division of Fish and Wildlife was in the process of clearing 21 acres of land to build a &#8220;meadow habitat&#8221; for the American woodcock, a bird in the sandpiper family that is in decline on the eastern seaboard because its meadow and scrub habitats have grown into full forests.
According to the <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/news/new-jersey-department-of-environmental-protection-glassboro-wildlife-management-area-violation-20230414.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Philadelphia Inquirer</a>, the situation began on March 6, when environmental groups in the state sent a <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/155OQzUMEM7rw3X6r8ahguRU-ni-6FbAP/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to the DEP protesting the land clearing in the Glassboro Wildlife Management Area in Gloucester County in South Jersey. “‘Creation and management&#8217; is a gross mischaracterization of the unlawful environmental damage that has occurred at this site: the wetland soil and flora that were previously undisturbed have been destroyed, and the mature forest that was already habitat for numerous rare species of plants and birds was clear-cut logged,&#8221; the groups wrote.
&#8220;At the present time, NJDEP has cleared the entire area,&#8221; they added. &#8220;All trees have been cut, and all stumps bulldozed. The wetlands and uplands have been made nearly indistinguishable, and the landscape is in the process of being leveled using land graders and earth movers. All natural resources &#8211; plants, animals, soils and surface geology &#8211; have been altered, removed or exterminated.&#8221;
The DEP responded to the letter by suspending the project on March 10. The Bureau of Coastal and Land Use later determined that the project had destroyed mature oak and pine forests in and near protected wetlands, and filled in some others. Some three acres of the cleared land had damaged habitat for two other bird species: the barred owl, which is threatened, and the red-shouldered hawk, which is endangered. Another 12 acres of freshwater wetland transition areas, which are also protected lands, were cleared of vegetation and soil.
A DEP spokesman told the Inquirer that it issued a letter of violation on April 6 “for unauthorized regulated activity.” By the end of the month, it would issue a penalty assessment. The notice includes a threat of penalties, but it is unclear exactly how the DEP fining itself would work. Under the conditions of the violation, the Division of Fish and Wildlife must submit a plan to restore the affected areas within 30 days, and open the process to the public. It must also propose additional environmentally beneficial measures.
The environmental miscue comes as New Jersey is dealing with a potential environmental disaster. In recent weeks, at least 13 whales have washed up on the shores of New Jersey, along with at least 25 dolphins. Additionally, a few porpoises have washed up on the Jersey Shore beaches, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/with-more-whales-and-dolphins-washing-ashore-officials-have-to-ask-are-wind-farms-to-blame" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
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The deaths of the aquatic mammals coincide with prep work for several offshore wind farms in the Atlantic Ocean, including three in New Jersey. Critics argue that the work, including sonar and seabed rock sampling, are responsible for the deaths. But Democratic Governor Phil Murphy has called their claims &#8220;disinformation&#8221; and said he would proceed with the projects. Federal authorities have also dismissed them.

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Why are so many whales dying this year?
At least <a href="https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/03/16/why-are-so-many-whales-washing-up-dead-on-east-coast-beaches" target="_blank" rel="noopener">29 whales</a> have washed up on the Atlantic coast since December, including over a dozen in New Jersey. A number of whales beach on the east coast every year, but the uptick in deaths has alarmed scientists.
The string of whale demises has coincided with prep work for the installation of several large clean energy offshore wind farms in the waters around the northeast, sparking concerns that the wind farms are causing the deaths.
Critics of the wind farms have argued that ocean floor preparation work including the sonar used by energy companies to map the ocean floor and the noise made by seabed rock sampling may have caused the whale deaths.
At least 13 whales have washed up in New Jersey and New York alone as of April 4, <a href="https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/15804f85-838e-4870-bd16-aa383f37bd63/2023%20CETACEAN%20STRANDING%20DATA%20-%20Sheet1%20(17).pdf">according</a> to the Marine Mammal Stranding Center.
It&#8217;s not just whales, either. At <a href="https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/15804f85-838e-4870-bd16-aa383f37bd63/2023%20CETACEAN%20STRANDING%20DATA%20-%20Sheet1%20(17).pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">least 25</a> dolphins and a couple of porpoises have washed up on New Jersey&#8217;s shores as well.
On Tuesday, New Jersey Republicans <a href="https://www.senatenj.com/index.php/oscanlon/oscanlon-durr-introduce-resolution-urging-moratorium-on-offshore-wind-projects/60146" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduced</a> a resolution calling for an immediate moratorium on offshore wind energy projects due to the &#8220;unexplained&#8221; marine life deaths. Dozens of New Jersey mayors have <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dozens-nj-mayors-call-immediate-offshore-wind-moratorium-latest-whale-deaths">called</a> to halt the projects as well.
&#8220;After months of whales and dolphins washing up on our beaches, enough is enough,&#8221; said state Sen. Declan O’Scanlon, who represents a beach district and introduced the proposal.
&#8220;We cannot ignore the surge in marine life deaths that has occurred while offshore wind project preparation activities have been conducted along the coast,&#8221; O’Scanlon said. “While the Governor has stated that ‘there’s no evidence these activities are causing these whale and dolphin deaths’, he omits that he, and we, simply have no idea what’s causing these tragic deaths.&#8221;
New Jersey is working on <a href="https://dep.nj.gov/offshorewind/projects/#ny-bight" target="_blank" rel="noopener">three</a> offshore wind projects with the ambitious <a href="https://www.nj.gov/emp/energy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">goal</a> of 100% clean energy for New Jersey by 2050. The GOP proposal to stop work on New Jersey&#8217;s wind projects is likely to get shut down by Democrats. Even if it survives the legislature, Governor Phil Murphy is unlikely to sign it.
Last month, Murphy, a Democrat, <a href="https://www.nj.com/news/2023/02/citing-disinformation-murphy-will-not-stop-nj-offshore-wind-work-after-whale-deaths.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cited</a> &#8220;disinformation&#8221; around the whale deaths and said he will push forward with the wind energy projects despite the concerns.
The federal government has also downplayed the possibility of any connection to the wind farms.
Two government agencies, the Marine Mammal Commission and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) <a href="https://www.mmc.gov/wp-content/uploads/Update-on-Strandings-of-Large-Whales-along-the-East-Coast-2.21.2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">both</a> <a href="https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/new-england-mid-atlantic/marine-life-distress/frequent-questions-offshore-wind-and-whales?fbclid=IwAR2TXmI7xEfF89Cws7dmZJWYxkgnqTfl-nd6Fj3ql0D15bGharPlYOa_Z5c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> initially that there is &#8220;no evidence&#8221; that wind farms are the culprit.
Some of the whales, mostly humpbacks, showed evidence that they were hit by ships, the MMC said.
Last week though, the NOAA <a href="https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USNOAAFISHERIES/bulletins/352c198" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a> that a planned wind energy project 15 miles off the shore of Atlantic City is &#8220;likely to adversely affect, but is not likely to jeopardize, the continued existence of&#8221; whales and other sea life in the area.
The NOAA has been <a href="https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/marine-life-distress/2016-2023-humpback-whale-unusual-mortality-event-along-atlantic-coast#causes-of-the-humpback-whale-ume" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tracking</a> higher numbers of beached humpback whales as an &#8220;unusual mortality event&#8221; since 2016, but deaths of several species of whales and other marine life have increased in the last few months.
New Jersey&#8217;s Environmental Protection Department was also quiet about the whale deaths at first. Eventually, the department said it is “aware of no credible evidence&#8221; that offshore wind farms are killing whales, but it will “continue to monitor” the situation.
The beached whales have caused a rift among environmentalists.
Clean Ocean Action, one of the few environmental groups to criticize offshore wind energy, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/29/whale-deaths-new-jersey-offshore-wind-00079462" target="_blank" rel="noopener">became</a> an odd couple team with Republican lawmakers who oppose the projects.
On the other side are the New Jersey chapters of the Sierra Club and League of Conservation Voters, who say climate change is the bigger threat. Essentially, their argument is that a few dead whales now is worth the clean energy that will help save the planet.
“I find it unreasonable to call for the pause or moratorium on offshore wind — which is going to save us all,” New Jersey Sierra Club Director Anjuli Ramos-Busot <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/29/whale-deaths-new-jersey-offshore-wind-00079462" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
States in the northeast have been racing to become hubs for wind energy.
New York has also seen at least two whale deaths this year as it aggressively pursues plans for offshore wind projects.
Governor Kathy Hochul has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/nyregion/new-york-wind-farm-rhode-island.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> for New York to produce <a href="https://www.cnet.com/home/energy-and-utilities/gigawatt-the-solar-energy-term-you-should-know-about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">enough</a> wind energy to power 6.7 million homes by 2035, more than twice the households in New York City. In December, a group of environmentalists <a href="https://nylcv.org/wp-content/uploads/Letter-to-Governor-Hochul-on-Offshore-Wind-Goals.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed</a> Hochul to commit to even more.
President Biden has <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/29/whale-deaths-new-jersey-offshore-wind-00079462" target="_blank" rel="noopener">set</a> a national goal of enough offshore wind energy to power 10 million homes by 2030.
For now though, Republican legislators and many New Jersey residents are not going quietly, and they are optimistic they can make a change.
&#8220;I&#8217;m witnessing firsthand,&#8221; a commercial fisherman of over 25 years <a href="https://pressofatlanticcity.com/demonstrators-speak-for-whales-in-word-and-song/article_19668bc9-2441-5b76-ba0e-3e8deb2238b1.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the Press of Atlantic City at a protest last week. &#8220;The governor has the statistics with the actual work they&#8217;re doing and what the impact is, and they&#8217;re not addressing it. &#8230; Look at what you&#8217;re doing and what the documents say and pay attention to it. Stop issuing permits to kill endangered species.&#8221;
&#8220;The support is definitely getting stronger,&#8221; a woman at the protest <a href="https://pressofatlanticcity.com/demonstrators-speak-for-whales-in-word-and-song/article_19668bc9-2441-5b76-ba0e-3e8deb2238b1.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the outlet.

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A male student at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) engaged in sexual activity with a female student. Three years later, she asked the school to investigate him for sexual assault, and the school suspended him even though he had already graduated.
The male student, whom The Daily Wire will call &#8216;John Doe,&#8217; was a freshman at TCNJ in the fall of 2017. Throughout the school year, a female student, referred to in court documents as &#8216;Jane Roe,&#8217; regularly came over to John’s dorm to spend time with his roommate, her ex-boyfriend with whom she was still friends. According to <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.njd.496453/gov.uscourts.njd.496453.25.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the lawsuit</a> John filed after TCNJ punished him, he didn’t interact with Jane outside of her visits to his dorm room.
On September 30, 2017, not long into his freshman year, John, Jane, and John’s roommate were all hanging out together in John’s dorm room. At some point, John’s roommate left for the night, and John and Jane remained alone together. The two continued talking into the night, which John says turned into “consensual kissing that lasted for a few minutes.” John asked Jane for oral sex and she agreed. After Jane “voluntarily and willingly” engaged in oral sex with John, the two fell asleep in John’s bed, according to John’s lawsuit.
The next morning, John asked Jane if she wanted to have sex. Colleges teach students that they must ask to engage in any kind of sexual activity. Jane agreed and the two engaged in what John described as “consensual sexual intercourse.” Afterward, Jane left John’s dorm room.
John says in his lawsuit that his subsequent interactions with Jane were “friendly,” and that the two spoke to each other whenever they saw each other on campus, even working on calculus assignments together. John says that at no point did Jane seem “uncomfortable” around him or suggest he had ever done anything wrong.
About a month after John and Jane had sex, Jane began dating another man. John suspects that Jane started regretting their encounter and didn’t want her new boyfriend to find out about it, so at some point after they started dating, Jane told her new boyfriend and a friend that John had sexually assaulted her.
Nearly an entire year after her encounter with John, Jane reported the incident to TCNJ’s Title IX department, which handles claims of sexual assault. John was never notified about the complaint, and just a few weeks after reporting the incident, Jane told the Title IX office that she wanted to close the case.
But three years later – now almost four years since the encounter – Jane asked the Title IX office to reopen her case. On May 4, 2021, Jane filed a formal complaint against John, which required the school to notify him of the allegations. The complaint alleged that John sexually assaulted Jane and “made sexually harassing comments” to her during their calculus class in the second semester of their freshman year. John was informed that an Alternative Resolution Agreement (ARA) was being sought without telling him the implications of such an agreement.
John obtained legal counsel and was sent the ARA, which required him to perform 90 hours of community service and take online classes. John declined to accept the ARA, saying that he felt it was an “unreasonable punishment for something that he did not do,” according to his lawsuit.
Since John didn’t accept the ARA, Jane told the Title IX office that she wanted to pursue the formal resolution process, which required a hearing. At this point, however, John had already graduated from TCNJ and left campus. Yet the school pursued the process anyway.
John’s legal counsel at the time advised him not to speak during the grievance process, because anything he said could be used against him if Jane decided to file criminal charges. Even though TCNJ’s policies say the burden of proof is on the school and not the accused, the school reportedly only pursued evidence that pointed to John’s guilt. The school spoke to Jane’s boyfriend and her friend, who gave inconsistent statements. The school also allowed what John describes as “prejudicial hearsay statements” to be presented to the administrator overseeing the hearing. And while the school allowed Jane to submit hearsay statements regarding her mental state, John was not allowed to rebut her statements or present evidence of his own mental state.
John’s counsel at the time also advised him not to attend the hearing On November 5, 2021, he was informed that he had been found responsible and would be suspended for two years, a note which would appear on his school transcript.
John obtained new legal representation and requested a new hearing with an opportunity to actually be heard, which TCNJ denied. Before the hearing had even taken place, John filed a lawsuit, which TCNJ tried to get dismissed.
U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, last week denied TCNJ’s motion to dismiss, which is a win for John. In general, lawsuits like John’s that survive a motion to dismiss result in some kind of a settlement between the two parties, according to data compiled by Brooklyn College professor K.C. Johnson.

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Rapper <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Flo Rida</a>’s 6-year-old son Zohar Dillard is in critical condition after he fell from a fifth floor apartment window in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-jersey">New Jersey</a>.
The incident occurred on March 4. Now the child’s mother, Alexis Adams, is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lawsuit">suing</a> the apartment complex&#8217;s owners and managers, a construction company, a window installer, and others, The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11920489/Flo-Ridas-son-6-hospitalized-critical-condition-falling-fifth-floor-apartment.html">reported</a>.
Adams said in a statement: “As a single mom to a special needs child, this feels like a nightmare. My heart is broken into a million pieces. I am devastated, angry and struggling to come to terms with the fact that my only child has suffered severe injuries due to willful negligence of our landlord and others involved In failing to take necessary safety measures.”
The lawsuit alleges that the building complex engaged in “negligent, willful and wanton acts&#8221; by putting the wrong-sized guards on the windows. This led to her son falling and suffering serious injuries which will make him disabled in the future and unable &#8220;to perform his usual functions.&#8221; 
Zohar had multiple fractures, a liver laceration, internal bleeding, and collapsed lungs from the fall, the publication noted.
Flo Rida, whose real name is Tramar Lacel Dillard, addressed the incident via Instagram. He began by thanking those who sent him their &#8220;concerns and prayers&#8221; on Instagram. 
&#8220;He is getting the best medical care and miraculously survived a tragic fall. I ask for your continued prayers as he undergoes rehabilitation,&#8221; Flo Rida <a href="https://www.instagram.com/stories/official_flo/3070072011976420660/">wrote</a> on his Instagram story Thursday. &#8220;I would appreciate that this remain a private matter.&#8221;
He had previously denied being the father until a DNA test proved that he was.
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“Flo Rida has only seen his son once during the paternity test but kept his shades on and his back turned,&#8221; Adams told The Daily Mail during a 2018 interview. &#8220;They were in the same room. He didn&#8217;t try to hug Zohar, nothing. It was very cold,” she asserted.
The recording artist does provide financial support for the child, but Adams had expressed to The Daily Mail that the amount wasn’t enough to cover their son’s medical bills. Zohar was born with hydrocephalus, an incurable condition that involves extra fluid putting pressure on the brain, which often leads to brain damage.

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A New Jersey mom is suing her local police chief and high-ranking officials at a nearby Air Force Base, alleging they targeted her and portrayed her as a security threat after she spoke out about the sexually graphic material on display in an elementary school.
Angela Reading, who was once the state&#8217;s Student Teacher of the Year and is now a law student at Villanova, is represented by the Thomas More Society in her <a href="https://s4f4x7d5.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Filed-Complaint.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit against a total of nine people</a> in connection with an incident that occurred last November. The mother of daughters aged 6 and 7, who was at the time vice president of the county Board of Education, attended “Math Night” at Upper Elementary School where she was stunned to see posters made by children that used sexual terms, including “polysexual,” “pansexual,” and “genderqueer.”
“Why are elementary schools promoting/allowing elementary KIDS to research sexuality and create posters?” Reading wondered on Facebook. “This is not in the state elementary standards (law) nor in the BOE-approved curriculum. It’s perverse and should be illegal to expose my kids to sexual content.”
After one of her daughters asked Reading what “polysexual” meant, Reading contacted a parent of one of the children who created the posters, a school board member, and the schools superintendent, who all dismissed her concerns.
Reading&#8217;s Facebook post caught the attention of U.S. Army Reserve Major Christopher Schilling, who was attached to the nearby Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. According to Reading&#8217;s lawsuit, Schilling emailed parents and local school staff members, and even sought to involve personnel at the base in an attempt to censor and retaliate against Reading.
Schilling sent a message “falsely alleging that Mrs. Reading’s protected speech violated the School Ethics Act and school district policy, even though her Facebook post clearly stated that she was merely expressing her own opinion on social media, which policy expressly permits,” the lawsuit states.
School Superintendent Helen Payne sent a “letter to the community” saying Reading’s actions had “resulted in both general and specific threats against the District and its personnel” despite the fact that no such “specific threats” had been made, according to the lawsuit.
Robert Duff, chief of police for North Hanover Township, allegedly pressured the Facebook group administrator to remove Reading’s post, claiming &#8220;students could die&#8221; if it remained up, the lawsuit claims. Duff allegedly later told Reading he had received emails from the Joint Base calling her an “extremist” but insisted to Reading that the emails were “classified,” which the lawsuit states is false. The chief is also accused of improperly accessing school surveillance footage to try to prove Reading’s children had not seen the posters.
Reading alleges the efforts led to her being verbally abused at a December Board of Education meeting and spiraling problems for her and her family. She resigned from her school board post and from positions in the New Jersey School Boards Association and her husband resigned as president of the North Hanover Township School Board.
“My entire life has been uprooted,” Reading told <a href="https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2023/march/nj-mom-treated-like-a-terrorist-threat-demonized-for-questioning-sexual-posters-in-elementary-school?utm_source=wnd&amp;utm_medium=wnd&amp;utm_campaign=syndicated" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBN News</a>. “When all of this was taking place, I&#8217;m in law school and I had to stop going to school, not take my exams, which plummeted my GPA. I had to pull my kids from school during that time period for their safely. And now I don&#8217;t feel safe for them even going back to that school given how so many members of the community and the superintendent participated in this cancellation and betrayal of me as a security threat.”
Reading&#8217;s lawyers deny that her Facebook post violated the law or the platform&#8217;s terms of use, and note that she did not name any individuals at the school and even took care to black out the name of a student artist.
&#8220;Mrs. Reading’s post respectfully expressed her concerns, but it did not call for any person to take any form of action or make a response,&#8221; the lawsuit states.
In addition to Schilling, Duff, and Payne, the lawsuit names other officials at the military base who Reading claims falsely told media outlets that Schilling acted alone
“The Joint Base further falsely claimed to the media that Defendant Schilling was acting alone when in fact, he had acted with the other Joint Base Actors under the respective authority of their Joint Base Superiors,” the lawsuit claims.
Reading said the incident has left her and her family pariahs in their own town.
“There are damages far outreaching that will follow me throughout my entire life,” she said. “I don&#8217;t even feel comfortable and safe going out in my community the way that they portrayed me. I&#8217;ve lost friends that don&#8217;t talk to me who actually believed the things that were being said.”

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Embattled Democrat Eric Garcetti Confirmed
The U.S. Senate Voted to confirm President Biden’s pick for U.S. Ambassador to India — former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. The vote was 52-42 with seven Republicans joining the Democrats to help get him over the line. Garcetti has faced accusations that he is not fit for the role due to his alleged actions, or lack thereof, regarding sexual harassment allegations in his LA office. Here’s one former high-ranking aide, Naomi Seligman, with CNN’s Jake Tapper this week explaining why he shouldn’t get the job. 
&#8220;Unfortunately, the White House has put undue pressure on Democrats to vote for Eric Garcetti because Eric Garcetti has been a very, very loyal person to President Biden, and that’s unfortunate because these senators that purport to support #MeToo cannot just do it when it’s politically expedient,&#8221; Seligman said. &#8220;They have to do it when it matters, even if it’s your own political party.”
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Banking Update
Moody’s Investors Service, one of the three prime rating services, downgraded its rating of the entire banking system from stable to negative in response to the SVB banking crisis. Daily Wire Senior Editor Cabot Phillips joined Morning Wire Afternoon Update to break down the latest:
<blockquote>Moody’s warned it would downgrade a number of midsize banks, including Comerica, First Republic, UMB, and Western Alliance, after downgrading Signature Bank. Despite the Federal Reserve’s efforts to protect banks and the Treasury Department’s promise that depositors would not lose their money, Moody’s, declared, “We have changed to negative from stable our outlook on the US banking system to reflect the rapid deterioration in the operating environment following deposit runs at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Silvergate Bank, and Signature Bank (SNY) and the failures of SVB and SNY.”</blockquote>
Newsom Bailed Out
California Democratic Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gavin-newsom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gavin Newsom</a> cheered the federal government’s decision to bail out <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/silicon-valley-bank" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Silicon Valley Bank</a>’s depositors without mentioning that he is one of them. The Daily Wire’s Tim Pearce told Afternoon Update:
<blockquote>The government’s decision to cover all deposits was a surprise as FDIC insurance is guaranteed to cover only up to $250,000 per account.  It turns out, Newsom’s own wineries may stand to benefit from the FDIC’s action. California’s governor owns three wineries that banked with SVB that were at risk of losing money on deposits over the $250,000 threshold. 
And the governor’s wife has ties to the bank, as well. 
Jennifer Siebel’s charity, the California Partners Project, received a $100,000 donation from SVB in 2021. And SVB Capital’s President sits on the charity’s board of directors. Newsom’s team deflected questions over his ties to SVB saying the governor’s assets have been managed by a blind trust since 2018. </blockquote>
Newark Duped By Indian Scammers
And, The city of Newark, New Jersey admitted earlier this month that it was duped into becoming sister cities with a fake Hindu nation. Mayor Ras Baraka reportedly hosted representatives from the fictitious nation of &#8220;Kailasa&#8221; at Newark&#8217;s City Hall for a &#8220;cultural trade agreement,&#8221; not realizing that the arrangement was a scam perpetrated by a notorious Indian conman named Swami Nithyananda. Nithyananda has been a fugitive since 2019, wanted in India for rape charges. 
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City of Newark, New Jersey admits it got scammed into becoming “sister cities” with a fake nation. <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSNewYork?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CBSNewYork</a> <a href="https://t.co/QD0nmin7V5">https://t.co/QD0nmin7V5</a> <a href="https://t.co/7NiizmUP5M">pic.twitter.com/7NiizmUP5M</a>
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Chicago Crime
And the city of Chicago has earned the dubious honor of being the fastest-growing city in the U.S. for auto thefts. A new report indicates that auto thefts rose 55% in 2022 compared to the previous year, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau.  States that saw the largest increase in vehicle thefts were Illinois, Washington, and New York. 
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Sayreville, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-jersey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Jersey</a>, Republican Councilwoman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-jersey-gop-councilwoman-gunned-down-in-her-car-police-looking-for-suspect-motive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eunice Dwumfour</a> was murdered 34 days ago, and her family says that authorities have left them in the dark. 
Attorney John Wisniewski, a former Democratic state legislator and gubernatorial candidate, is advising Dwumfour’s parents, Ghanaian immigrants Prince Kofi and Mary Dwumfour, and said the family is concerned with the lack of updates from authorities investigating their daughter’s murder. The Dwumfours will reportedly meet with investigators this week after Wisniewski helped set up a meeting. 
&#8220;The silence about this and the absence of outreach prompted them through their pastor to reach out to me to help facilitate, and there will be an opportunity this week for them to sit down and learn that everything is being done and no stone is being left unturned,&#8221; Wisniewski said Monday, <a href="https://www.northjersey.com/restricted/?return=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.northjersey.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Fcrime%2F2023%2F03%2F07%2Feunice-k-dwumfour-killing-murder-investigation-nj-sayreville%2F69977754007%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to NorthJersey.com. 
The attorney said the lack of info from authorities on the case is “mystifying and troubling” when compared to smaller cases, such as vandalism, that police immediately posted rewards for information. Authorities still have not come up with a suspect or motive and have not held a press conference on Dwumfour’s murder. 
&#8220;Here there&#8217;s a homicide and their daughter&#8217;s taken from them and in comparison, it’s crickets,&#8221; Wisniewski charged.
Dwumfour’s loved ones gathered for her funeral in Newark on Sunday, which was delayed so her husband Ezechukwu Peter Akwue could arrange to travel to the U.S. from Nigeria. The couple married just two months before Dwumfour was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-jersey-gop-councilwoman-gunned-down-in-her-car-police-looking-for-suspect-motive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found dead</a> in the driver’s seat of her white Nissan SUV after being shot as many as 14 times as she pulled up to her Sayreville home.
Surveillance <a href="https://newjersey.news12.com/video-shows-person-running-behind-complex-where-councilwoman-dwumfour-murdered" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> obtained by News 12 New Jersey appeared to show a man dressed in black running behind Dwumfour’s complex around the same time Dwumfour was killed. Eyewitnesses say they saw the gunman run toward Garden State Parkway after firing multiple times into Dwumfour’s vehicle. Police later received a tip and searched for the murder weapon in the woods behind the complex where Dwumfour lived, but did not report any findings, according to ABC 7.
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Last month, the New Jersey prosecutor’s office investigating Dwumfour’s murder <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/prosecutors-office-seeks-to-block-records-on-gop-councilwomans-murder-from-going-public" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requested</a> an injunction to block news outlets from obtaining important information about the case.
The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office argued that releasing any information to the public about the councilwoman’s death would hinder law enforcement’s investigation, NJ.com <a href="https://www.nj.com/middlesex/2023/02/prosecutors-seek-to-block-records-requests-in-sayreville-councilwomans-killing.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The move came after several local and national media outlets requested that 911 calls, arrest reports, and police body cam and dash cam footage be made public. 
Dwumfour was elected to the Borough of Sayreville City Council in an upset victory over her Democratic opponent in 2021. She was also a business analyst and part-time EMT and was an assistant pastor in the Champions Royal Assembly, a Nigerian-based prosperity gospel church.

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