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A veteran Jersey City police officer who is coming off a 90-day suspension is now faces charges of breaking ethics rules in his other job as a first-year Jersey City Board of Education member. School board President Natalia Ioffe filed an ethics charge against DeJon Morris Wednesday that says Morris lobbied too “vigorously” for the school district to hire a Newark law firm as special counsel to the board. The complaint comes less than 48 hours after Morris, who was elected in November, attempted to pressure the board to vote on the hiring of Souder, Shabazz and Woolridge Law Group during the c…

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