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NEW JERSEY MAN GETS JAIL TIME IN CONNECTION WITH ILLEGAL MONEY TRANSFER SCHEME THAT MOVED $100 MILLION TO PAKISTAN -- Fourth of six defendants sentenced in the ICE / IRS investigation -- NEWARK, N.J. - A key player in a scheme to illegally transfer more than $100 million to Pakistan through a New Jersey money transmittal business has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison as a result of an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Umer Darr, a Pakistani native and naturalized U.S. citizen of Bayonne, N.J, was sentenced earlier...

Boy's parents allege threats WOODBRIDGE: A nun in her 70s was fired from her job as school disciplinarian and advanced placement math teacher at St. Cecilia's School in Iselin after she allegedly threatened an 11-year-old sixth-grade boy at the school. Joanne Ward, spokeswoman for the Diocese of Metuchen, said a letter was sent to the boy's parents Tuesday telling them of the termination of Sister Catherine Iacouzze. The parents of the boy filed a citizen's complaint against Iacouzze in Municipal Court alleging that she told the boy he would "have no teeth left in his mouth if he had an...