A state effort to revive corruption charges against New Jersey Democratic Party powerbroker George Norcross was rejected by a state appeals court Friday.
The state’s racketeering case spanning a 112-page indictment into steering hundreds of millions of dollars of Camden waterfront tax credits had claims that weren’t timely and others that didn’t rise to the level of a crime, a unanimous New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division ruled.
Several of the claims were time-barred, because the statute of limitations had passed for the state to charge based on tax credits lobbied for and received years in the past, as ...