On Tuesday, 31 year old Isaiah Edwards-Stewart of Mays Landing and thirty-five others were indicted for charges stemming from a large-scale money laundering operation. The 120-count indictment charged Isaiah Edwards-Stewart with multiple
counts of money laundering, theft, forgery, computer crimes, identity theft, trafficking of personal identifying information, and other offenses. The investigation, which began in 2022, revealed Edwards-Stewart’s alleged involvement with the financial operation that included the deposits of stolen checks into different bank accounts belonging to various other individuals, from which the funds would be transferred to Edwards- Stewart’s personal bank accounts at multiple different establishments to the tune of $9.7 million dollars.