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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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Breaking News
Glen Rock hedge-fund manager admits role in $4 million scams Glen Rock hedge-fund manager admits role in $4 million scams Glen Rock hedge-fund manager admits role in $4 million scams
Glen Rock hedge-fund manager admits role in $4 million scams YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Glen Rock hedge fund manager admitted today that he drained a disabled elderly woman’s annuity while defrauding other victims of more than $4 million that he and a pair of cohorts spent on high-end vehicles, luxury travel and five-figure bar tabs. In pleading guilty to wire fraud, conspiracy and tax evasion, George Sepero, 40, said he used bogus screen shots to convince investors that they had a secret computer algorithm that would yield outrageous returns of 170 percent or more at a time when financial markets were in flux. Sepero, whose plea was heard in U.S. D…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Westport, CT
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NJ federal prosecutor seeks forfeit of more than $15 million of artwork NJ federal prosecutor seeks forfeit of more than $15 million of artwork NJ federal prosecutor seeks forfeit of more than $15 million of artwork
NJ federal prosecutor seeks forfeit of more than $15 million of artwork YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The government today filed a civil forfeiture suit in U.S. District Court in Newark seeking a collection of artwork containing more than 2,200 pieces and valued at more than $15 million, which U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said was bought as a way of laundering the proceeds from the sale of fraudulent credits for renewable fuel. Fishman’s office supplied the following to CLIFFVIEW PILOT: Federal law requires gasoline and diesel refiners and importers to introduce renewable, non-fossil fuel into the national fuel mix. To ensure this, the Environmental Protection Agenc…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
Breaking News
Bergenfield man charged in sex assault on boy, 5, in 2000 Bergenfield man charged in sex assault on boy, 5, in 2000 Bergenfield man charged in sex assault on boy, 5, in 2000
Bergenfield man charged in sex assault on boy, 5, in 2000 YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 59-year-old kitchen worker from Bergenfield is charged with inappropriately touching a 5-year-old boy a dozen years ago. Jorge Molina of East Clinton Avenue is being held on $200,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, chargd with aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and child endangerment. The boy, now 17, “recently reported the allegation to law enforcement authorities,” Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon. An investigation by Bergenfield police and Molinelli’s Special Victims Unit followed, he said. Molina, who is single, is emp…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgewood, NJ
Breaking News
Insurance fraud shooting Insurance fraud shooting Insurance fraud shooting
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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Indictments in Bergen synagogue firebombings Indictments in Bergen synagogue firebombings Indictments in Bergen synagogue firebombings
Indictments in Bergen synagogue firebombings YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Bergen County grand jury today handed up a 30-count indictment charging a Lodi man and a companion with a series of firebombings, including one at a rabbi’s home and another at a Paramus synagogue — and for the first time applies a New Jersey anti-terror law. Anthony Marco Graziano is charged with  nine counts of attempted murder and three each of bias intimidation, conspiracy to commit arson and aggravated arson, among other counts. Aakash Dalal, who used to live in Lodi, is charged with nearly all of the same offenses except for attempted murder. Both also fa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Breaking News
Port Authority police find cars stolen from Paramus, Newark airport, make arrests Port Authority police find cars stolen from Paramus, Newark airport, make arrests Port Authority police find cars stolen from Paramus, Newark airport, make arrests
Port Authority police find cars stolen from Paramus, Newark airport, make arrests YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Police who were searching for a newly-bought Range Rover swiped from a Newark Airport terminal after the driver left the motor running got an added bonus when they recovered a luxury sports car stolen out of Paramus, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. Detectives from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey had just found the Range Rover on the Newark/Irvington border after it was taken from Terminal C when the driver of a shiny white Jaguar XJ pulled up and parked nearby, a source with knowledge of the incident said. As the officers watched, the driver got out and …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
State court upholds Donovan request for delay in Bergen sheriff’s contract State court upholds Donovan request for delay in Bergen sheriff’s contract State court upholds Donovan request for delay in Bergen sheriff’s contract
State court upholds Donovan request for delay in Bergen sheriff’s contract YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A state appeals court has ordered a delay in the implementation of new contract for the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office until it can determine whether county Executive Kathleen Donovan had the right to be part of the negotiations. The stay blocks what Donovan said is more than $10.5 million in raises for the department over a four-year span in a new contract that was negotiated by Sheriff Michael Saudino with Local 134. Saudino said the total is about a fifth of that when retirements and attrition are factored in. “We’re not prepared to say anything at this point,” …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Breaking News
Judge OKs restraints on bogus Sandy charity to protect donations Judge OKs restraints on bogus Sandy charity to protect donations Judge OKs restraints on bogus Sandy charity to protect donations
Judge OKs restraints on bogus Sandy charity to protect donations YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A judge today temporarily banned the operators of a purported Superstorm Sandy charity from soliciting additional donations and ordered them to preserve the money and items donated to date — of which, state authorities said, less than 1% has gone to help victims. State authorities obtained the order from Superior Court Judge Robert Contillo in Hackensack after accusing John Sandberg and Christina Terraccino of steering donations into their personal accounts and stealing the name of New Jersey First Lady Mary Pat Christie’s Hurricane Sandy Relief charity to do so. T…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Breaking News
Christie: $2.85M hike in education aid for Bergen Christie: $2.85M hike in education aid for Bergen Christie: $2.85M hike in education aid for Bergen
Christie: $2.85M hike in education aid for Bergen THE TOWN-BY-TOWN BREAKOUT: Nearly $208 million in aid for Bergen County school districts built into Gov. Christie’s proposed 2014 fiscal year budget — and announced this afternoon — represent the largest appropriation of K-12 education dollars in the state’s history, his office said today. The biggest boost, by far, is the $500,000 earmarked for Elmwood Park — a 20 percent boost that would increase state aid for education to the district to $3 million from $2.5 million (SEE FULL CHART, BY DISTRICT, BELOW). Other big increases include $732,370 to Garfield (to $55.8 million from $55 million…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
Breaking News
Accused pimp charged in sex slave trade, $500,000 in stolen diamonds Accused pimp charged in sex slave trade, $500,000 in stolen diamonds Accused pimp charged in sex slave trade, $500,000 in stolen diamonds
Accused pimp charged in sex slave trade, $500,000 in stolen diamonds YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An accused pimp charged with human trafficking and enslavement in a New Jersey-based prostitution ring was arrested by federal agents following an investigation that also found proof that his girlfriend swiped $500,000 worth of diamonds from a john at Manhattan’s Cosmopolitan Hotel. Percival R. Williams — also known as Tayvann Dunston — was tracked down and picked up Tuesday night by U.S. Marshals in Dallas as a result of a probe by the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice and Edison police, state Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa said this afternoon. Percival …

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