HUNTERDON: NJ Comptroller Matthew Boxer to address Hunterdon County Chamber of Commerce

   New Jersey State Comptroller Matthew Boxer will address the Hunterdon County Chamber of Commerce and the NJBIA, New Jersey Business & Industry Association’s monthly ELC, Employer Legislative Committee Breakfast. This will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 27 at 8 a.m. at Beaver Brook Country Club in Annandale.
   Mr, Boxer was sworn in as New Jersey’s first independent state comptroller on Jan. 17, 2008.
   Mr. Boxer, 42, leads a staff responsible for conducting audits, investigations and performance reviews at all levels of New Jersey government. The office audits government finances, examines the efficiency of government programs, investigates misconduct by government officers, scrutinizes the legality of government contracts and recovers improperly expended Medicaid funds.
   Under Mr. Boxer’s leadership, the Office of the State Comptroller serves as an aggressive advocate for New Jersey taxpayers and regularly releases reports focused on bringing greater efficiency, transparency and cost savings to the operation of government in New Jersey. Mr. Boxer has appeared as an invited guest on various news programs throughout the region to discuss the impact of those reports.
   Prior to his appointment as state comptroller, Mr. Boxer directed the state Authorities Unit from 2006 to 2008, where he developed new regulations concerning procurement reform and ethics reform that led to greater transparency and efficiency at New Jersey’s 58 independent state authorities.
   As a federal prosecutor from 2001 to 2006, Mr. Boxer served in the terrorism unit, the criminal division and the special prosecutions division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office. While there, he oversaw the investigation and prosecution of numerous public officials on corruption charges. Among them were the “Monmouth 11,” a group that included three sitting mayors, four sitting councilmen and a police commissioner, making it one of the largest single-day corruption takedowns in state history.
   A New Jersey resident for more than three decades, Mr. Boxer graduated as the class valedictorian from Lakewood High School in 1988, graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1992 with a bachelor’s degree in politics and earned a juris doctor from Columbia University School of Law in 1995.
   Mr. Boxer and his wife live in Bridgewater with their three children.
   If you would like to attend the breakfast, please visit the Hunterdon County Chamber of Commerce’s website at www.hunterdon-chamber.org or call 908-782-7115 or [email protected].