On the afternoon of October 16—65 days into U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's reign of prosecutorial terror—the phone rang in the Murray Hill office of defense attorney Ravi Batra.
On the other end, a concerned hedge-fund executive wanted to schedule an emergency Saturday meeting to discuss the day's news: Mr. [...]
Don't worry Brooklynites — your borough might also play host to the terror trial excitement that's sweeping Manhattan.
Federal prosecutors are considering moving suspected Al Qaeda operative Majid Khan from Guantanamo Bay to Brooklyn, where he would' [...]
Controversy has kicked up around last week's reports that the city was considering Mylan Denerstein to replace Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta, who resigns at the end of the year. Denerstein, 42, a former federal prosecutor, would be the first female head commissioner, as [...]
Despite pleas for a stiff sentence from prosecutors and primatologist Jane Goodall, a New York woman who was convicted of illegally importing 720 pounds of baboon, endangered green monkey and wart...
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Yesterday, Rockland County prosecutor Stephen Moore revealed details about the death of gym teacher Jami Erlich, who authorities say was killed in her Valley Cottage apartment by neighbor Eric Lau. Moore said that Erlich's skull was fractured, "After the beating, he slit her throat" [...]
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Federal prosecutors ask for more jail time for former Judge Thomas Spargo, who was convicted of attempted bribery and attempted extortion. (TU)
Use those gift cards, or you may lose them… to the state. (TU)
Former Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno leaves CMA Consulting [...]
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Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau will stand against former Giant Plaxico Burress' request to take part in a work release program that would allow him to spend several nights a week at home, the Daily News reports.
Just' [...]
You get a good idea of what federal prosecutors were up against from the comments by a pair of jurors in the Joe Bruno federal fraud case in Albany where there's a bronze bust of the former top Re...
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Connecticut prosecutors have decided not to charge the owner of a chimpanzee that attacked the owner's friend and employee, leaving the woman severely disfigured. According to the Hartford Courant, "Stamford State's Attorney David Cohen said Monday that an investigation" [...]
Rockland County prosecutors say that the teacher allegedly killed by her neighbor had walked in on him in her apartment. According to the Journal News, DA Thomas Zugibe said of defendant Eric Lau, "We know he killed [Jami Erlich] in the apartment. It appears" [...]
The Brooklyn mother of four suspected of trying to abort and poison her husband's lovechild told investigators she would never hurt a kid. Prosecutors told the Daily News that 38-year-old Kisha Jones said she didn't trick her husband's pregnant mistress, Monique Hunter, into' [...]
During a pretrial in Brooklyn Federal Court, prosecutors said they would probably bring more charges against Najibullah Zazi. Zazi, a former NYC coffee cart vendor and recent Denver Airport shuttle driver, has already pleaded not guilty to a single terrorism [...]
It wasn't bumbling prosecutors, arguing jurors, or untrustworthy mob informants that kept mob scion John Gotti Jr. from being found guilty in his racketeering and murder trial. The former Gambino boss told reporters after his fourth mistrial yesterday that his deceased father' [...]
Melissa King, who handled management of the Sandhogs union's benefits plan, was charged with embezzling $42 million from those plans! According to the NY Times, federal prosecutors say King, who was paid $540,000/year, funneled the money into accounts she controlled and the money "went" [...]
Federal prosecutors aiming to convict mob scion John Gotti Jr. came up short for the fourth time in five years when a deadlocked jury failed to reach a verdict. After more than a year behind bars, Gotti Jr. was released [...]
Investigators uncovered the remains of an infant encased in cement and a Rubbermaid container when they broke up a suspected sex trafficking ring in Sunset Park. Federal prosecutors allege that Domingo Salazar, 33, smuggled a young Mexican woman into the country, forced her to [...]
It's past time for lawmakers, judges, prosecutors and police to step up for kids like Christian Acteopan, Diego Martinez, Hayley Ng and Axel Pablo, whose sober killers went unpunished.
Alexia Moore In July 2008, the Vice Enforcement Squad raided Big Daddy Lou's Hot Lap Dance Club on West 38th Street, which was ranked as the best of all strip clubs in the world by AskMen.com. Prosecutors say it was so beloved [...]
The 37-year-old suspected of slaying a straphanger in a grisly murder on the D train was not provoked before the vicious attack on Saturday, according to prosecutors. When suspect Gerardo Sanchez boarded the first car of the northbound train at around 2 am at [...]
