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George E. Norcross III, a wealthy political powerbroker considered among the most influential unelected people in New Jersey, sat in the front row of a Monday press conference as the state Attorney General announced an indictment against him. Facing wide-ranging corruption charges in a scheme involving lucrative real estate deals in Camden, the city in which he has long been kingmaker, Norcross took the seat directly in front of Attorney General Matthew Platkin as the state’s top law enforcement officer laid out the charges: Extortion. Criminal coercion. Corporate misconduct. “When we say no o…