[2] Palatucci has served as the Finance Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee and acted as a senior advisor for the 2000 presidential campaign of George W.

[4] Co-creating The Battling Bills with William J. Pascrell, Palatucci was nominated for Outstanding Talk Program Series at the 2005 Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards.

[11] In 2002, Palatucci's recommendation to Karl Rove, Senior Advisor to then-President George W. Bush, supported Christie being nominated to serve as United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey.

[3] In November 2010, Palatucci was nominated to serve on the New Jersey Apportionment Commission, redrawing legislative and congressional districts based on the demographic information of the 2010 United States census.

[14] Among his significant donations to political campaigns, Palatucci has generally supported Republican candidates running for New Jersey and federal offices.

[6] Palatucci served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Public Affairs at Community Education Centers (CEC), a nonprofit organization operating halfway homes to reintegrate those with criminal backgrounds through partially supervised housing.

[4] Leveraging his close relationship with then-governor Chris Christie, Palatucci successfully lobbied the state to provide financial aid and divert inmates from public prisons, despite lacking statutory authority.

The scheme involved CEC donating to politicians like Essex County Executive Joe DiVincenzo, convincing them to award government contracts to its non-profit affiliate Education and Health Centers of America (EHCA) in avoidance of New Jersey's "pay-to-play" regulations.

Avoiding mandates that state-funded halfway homes be operated by non-profits, contracts awarded to EHCA had their financial returns diverted to CEC executives.

[26] The state was criticized for sentencing one of the killers to life in prison, while clearing Delaney Hall officials of any wrongdoing despite the gang-controlled environment fostering violence.