Lawyers for New Jersey insurance executive and political power broker George Norcross III say the state’s 111-page indictment against him and others for alleged racketeering is a “crime thriller with no crime.”
In calling for dismissal of the charges, Norcross ‘ defense team says the indictment is less like a legal document and “more like a screenplay for a putative summer blockbuster” as it seeks to turn routine politics and everyday business negotiations undertaken to revitalize an economically depressed Camden waterfront into crimes of extortion, racketeering, kickbacks and bribery.
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