George E. Norcross III urged a judge Tuesday to throw out racketeering charges filed against him and five allies earlier this year, deriding state prosecutors’ case as one filled with “trite” and “banal” allegations that amount to little more than “a crime thriller with no crime.

The motion is the first substantive legal filing since the state attorney general announced the indictment in June.

South Jersey power broker George Norcross III is seeking to dismiss racketeering charges brought against him by the New Jersey Attorney General.

The insurance executive and his five co-defendants argue New Jersey prosecutors did not establish any crimes, calling their alleged threats 'everyday, hardball business.'

Attorneys for Democratic powerbroker George E. Norcross III and others today filed a motion to dismiss a 13-count indictment for making unlawful threats

The 111-page indictment charging George Norcross and his allies with extortion and other crimes is "a crime thriller with no crime," Norcross' attorneys allege in a new filing.