Joe Bruno, formerly Majority Leader of the New York Senate and currently defendant in a political corruption trial, reminds us that he was merely a part-time legislator and entitled to make a living by collecting consulting fees from those who wished to do business with the state.
I had a right as a part-time legislator to [...]
The four men, arrested back in May for plotting to blow up Bronx synagogues and shoot planes at a National Guard base in Newburgh, NY, will be tried in June of next year. Lawyers for the four defendants had contended [...]
Lawyers for a Manhattan strip club say the 22-year-old beauty pageant queen whose photo they appropriated to advertise the club is just suing them to get attention. You may recall that back in April, former Miss Oklahoma Laci Kay Scott filed a lawsuit against [...]
Pedro Espada sent letters to workers at his perenially-investigated Soundview Healthcare Network in October instructing them to "immediately" contact Soundview lawyers Hafetz & Necheles if they'r...
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State Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. has, the Post reports, "advis[ed] staffers at his health-care charity to check with his lawyers before speaking to state investigators probing allegations of financial misconduct -- a move some see as an effort to" [...]
More than a week into deliberation on the fourth racketeering trial against one-time Gambino boss John Gotti Jr., the jury still hasn't come up with a verdict — and one of its members wants a vacation.
Eight days after lawyers rested their cases, the jurors' [...]
William Kunstler was one of America's most famous radical lawyers. In the 1960s and 1970s, he defended civil rights protesters, Martin Luther King, Jr., and The Chicago Seven. He was called in by the inmates [...]
When once prominent lawyer Marc Dreier was arrested for a $700 million scam, the lawyers at his firm fled and the company collapsed . One of the employees, copy machine operator and trainer Carlton Palmer, is featured in a NY Times "Neediest Cases" [...]
A Florida man whose defense said that he was too fat to have killed his former son in law was convicted of murder in Hackensack Superior Court. Edward Ates' lawyers argued that at almost 300 pound...
Continue reading "Fat defense fails in Jersey" >Reports released to the lawyers of some of the victims in the July crash which killed eight people on the Taconic contradict the husband of wrong way driver Diane Schuler, who said that his wife d...
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After Cyrus Vance Jr. was elected to Manhattan DA, his campaign issued a press release noting a 30+ person transition team, made up of other lawyers, union leaders, and others. The Daily News notes the inclusion of Rev. Dr. C. Vernon Mason, best known [...]
