Jerry DeMarco

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Born in Newark and raised in Hudson County, Jerry DeMarco is a 38-year veteran of the news industry and a renowned breaking news reporter. He has covered local, county and state police, as well as the FBI, ATF and other federal agencies.

DeMarco joined Daily Voice in 2015 after six years running Cliffview Pilot, one of the nation's few independent breaking news sites. As an independent publisher, he helped establish Local Independent Online News, a national trade organization.

Prior to launching his own site, DeMarco served as a reporter for the Bergen Record, Stamford Advocate, Rockland Journal News, News Tribune, and Trenton Times.

DeMarco has won national recognition for his investigative work, including Clarion, Heywood Broun and Deadline Club awards. He's changed public policy and managed several major projects -- including one that helped put a corrupt public official in federal prison and another that forced a sitting New Jersey attorney general from office for her participation in a Bergen County traffic stop involving her boyfriend.

DeMarco regularly lectures at a graduate course in media relations at Fairleigh Dickinson University and previously was an adjunct professor at Lehman College in the Bronx. 

He has a Bachelor's Degree in English from St. Peter's University in Jersey City.

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Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Hudson keeps state aid levels under Christie plan Hudson keeps state aid levels under Christie plan Hudson keeps state aid levels under Christie plan
Hudson keeps state aid levels under Christie plan YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: State aid to Hudson County communities wouldn’t be lowered under Gov. Christie’s proposed budget for fiscal 2014, his administration announced today. The New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA) released the individual municipal state aid figures for Hudson — part of a total of $1.364 billion allocated in Christie’s proposed spending plan. Property tax reform and stable aid funding “are helping drive down the cost of local government and control[ling] property taxes for Hudson area taxpayers,” the governor’s administration said in a news release. “This pr…

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Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
Breaking News
Lodi man, 24, shoots self dead after argument with girlfriend Lodi man, 24, shoots self dead after argument with girlfriend Lodi man, 24, shoots self dead after argument with girlfriend
Lodi man, 24, shoots self dead after argument with girlfriend YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 24-year-old Lodi man shot himself dead early yesterday as local police and SWAT team members tried to get to him in time. The man’s girlfriend called police at 1:50 a.m. and said he was threatening to hurt himself in an upstairs apartment on Hope Street following an argument, Lodi Police Sgt. Robert Salerno said this afternoon. After setting up a perimeter, Lodi officers tried but couldn’t contact the distraught man, Salerno said. They called in the Bergen County Police Department SWAT team and still couldn’t reach him, the sergeant said. So they broke in “on…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Lyndhurst football coach admits sex with student Lyndhurst football coach admits sex with student Lyndhurst football coach admits sex with student
Lyndhurst football coach admits sex with student YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Former Lyndhurst High School football coach Scott Rubinetti will get five years probation, must register as a Megan’s Law offender and can never teach or coach again in the U.S. — even as a volunteer — in exchange for pleading guilty today to having sex with a 17-year-old student and getting her to  lie to investigators about it. Rubinetti also must undergo a psychiatrict evaluation under the plea accepted early this afternoon by Superior Court Judge Patrick J. Roma in Hackensack. (PHOTO ABOVE: Rubinetti with defense attorney Raymond Flood. STORY/PHOTO: Mary K. Mirag…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Sandy ripoffs top list of NJ consumer complaints Sandy ripoffs top list of NJ consumer complaints Sandy ripoffs top list of NJ consumer complaints
Sandy ripoffs top list of NJ consumer complaints YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: New Jersey consumers filed 2,164 complaints of price gouging in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, making it the largest category of ripoffs reported to the state Division of Consumer Affairs, state officials reported this morning. Home improvement complaints — 1,528 — were the second-highest of the 14,416 total that the DCA received. “We alerted consumers to look out for price gouging before Superstorm Sandy hit and encouraged them to contact us if they saw prices jump more than 10 percent,” state Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa said.  “Our top priority immediately f…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Couple on tandem bike struck in Rockleigh, driver flees Couple on tandem bike struck in Rockleigh, driver flees Couple on tandem bike struck in Rockleigh, driver flees
Couple on tandem bike struck in Rockleigh, driver flees ONLY ON CVP: A 67-year-old Rockland motorist who Northvale police said kept going after her SUV struck a husband and wife riding a tandem bicycle near the New York State border faces possible criminal charges in the crash, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. The 53-year-old woman and 55-year-old man were struck just after 2:30 yesterday when the driver, headed south on Piermont Road in Rockleigh, turned her black Toyota Highlander right onto King Road. A good Samaritan rushed to their aid and summoned help as the DUV driver kept going, Northvale Police Lt. William Essmann told CLIFFVIEW PILOT th…

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Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Fort Lee traffic stop: 2 loaded guns, illegal ammo, heroin Fort Lee traffic stop: 2 loaded guns, illegal ammo, heroin Fort Lee traffic stop: 2 loaded guns, illegal ammo, heroin
Fort Lee traffic stop: 2 loaded guns, illegal ammo, heroin YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Officers found a loaded .38-caliber handgun and a .22-caliber Magnum, along with hollow-point ammunition and drugs, after a motorist pretended to be sleeping in a car stopped at a Bergen Boulevard service station, Fort Lee police said tonight. It was just before 10 o’clock Friday night when Officer Dennis Pothos said he saw a four-door 2004 Toyota Camry unsafely cut across a lane on Route 1 & 9, coming from the area of the George Washington Bridge, before heading into a Gulf Gas Station. While talking with the driver, 23-year-old Edward Rosario of the Bronx, Po…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Family tells frightening tales at sentencing of Garfield sex abuser Family tells frightening tales at sentencing of Garfield sex abuser Family tells frightening tales at sentencing of Garfield sex abuser
Family tells frightening tales at sentencing of Garfield sex abuser EXCLUSIVE REPORT: He won his way into the heart of a developmentally disabled woman before sexually abusing her three young children — and beating her — for which a career predator from Garfield may never know freedom again. Emanuel Hernandez is a “candidate for life incarceration,” said Superior Court Judge Edward Jerejian, who sentenced him Friday to 12 years – eight of which he must serve at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center in Avenel before being re-evaluated. Under state law, Hernandez could remain there indefinitely if examinations show that he’s a risk to strike again. As…

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Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Police locals compete in Special Olympics Snow Bowl at MetLife Stadium Police locals compete in Special Olympics Snow Bowl at MetLife Stadium Police locals compete in Special Olympics Snow Bowl at MetLife Stadium
Police locals compete in Special Olympics Snow Bowl at MetLife Stadium SHOUT OUT: “This boy’s smile says it all,” (above) Hackensack PBA Local #9 President John Herrmann told CLIFFVIEW PILOT after the first round of games in the 7th annual Snow Bowl for Special Olympics at MetLife Stadium yesterday. Law enforcement officers from North Jersey aim to make a strong showing in the weekend-long, 6-on-6 flag-football tournament: Besides the Hackensack local, there’s East Rutherford PBA Local 155 (below), Little Ferry PBA Local 102, Elmwood Park PBA Local 185, Mahwah PBA Local 143 and a group of detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office who call themsel…

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Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Breaking News
Ramsey lawyer who bolted court has sentence in attacks reduced Ramsey lawyer who bolted court has sentence in attacks reduced Ramsey lawyer who bolted court has sentence in attacks reduced
Ramsey lawyer who bolted court has sentence in attacks reduced ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: A Ramsey lawyer who angered a judge last month when she defied his order to stay in the courtroom returned contrite and repentant today — and got her one-year jail term slashed to 60 days. Superior Court Judge Patrick Roma (STORY / PHOTOS: Mary K. Miraglia) Yana Chechelnitsky stood before Superior Court Judge Patrick J. Roma with a new attorney at her side — noted defense lawyer Brian Neary — during an emotionally-charged hearing. She was stressed and out of control the night she tried to stab her husband in the back and, a short time later, assaulted two Ram…

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Paterson, NJ
Breaking News
‘Al Capone of contractors’ sentenced in Bergen home improvement ripoffs ‘Al Capone of contractors’ sentenced in Bergen home improvement ripoffs ‘Al Capone of contractors’ sentenced in Bergen home improvement ripoffs
‘Al Capone of contractors’ sentenced in Bergen home improvement ripoffs YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A home improvement scammer dubbed “the Al Capone of contractors” was sentenced to three years in prison today after being convicted of ripping off six victims from Bergen County. Joseph Fienga, 66, of Middletown, N.Y. (and previously of Monroe, N.Y.) spoke for nearly 45 minutes, claiming that he was kind to his customers and was repaid with a slew of complaints that put him out of business. Superior Court Judge James J. Guida (STORY / PHOTOS: Mary K. Miraglia, CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter) Both he and his wife (above) also alleged that some of the stiffed …

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