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CUBA GOODING JR. HIRES ATTORNEY EDWARD SAPONE TO UNRAVEL DEFAULT JUDGMENT IN CIVIL RAPE CASE
Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. has hired prominent Manhattan criminal defense attorney Edward Sapone after a federal judge found him civilly liable for allegedly raping a woman in a New York City hotel room in 2013…View Article
BROOKLYN FEDERAL JUDGE DROPS NARCO-CORRUPTION CHARGES AGAINST MEXICO’S FORMER TOP DEFENSE OFFICIAL
A Brooklyn federal judge agreed Wednesday to dismiss drug trafficking charges against Mexico’s former defense secretary and send him back to his home country…View Article
SUSPECTED HACKER FACES MONEY LAUNDERING, CONSPIRACY CHARGES
A New York City man is facing federal charges after FBI agents arrested him at John F. Kennedy Airport with a PC allegedly containing thousands of stolen credit card…View Article
WOMAN GETS 5 YEARS FOR $7M FRAUD AGAINST GOVERNMENT
Home-Care Aides Making $10 an Hour Seen Proliferating U.S. Labor. A federal judge sentenced Irina Krutoyarsky for leading a home health care scheme…View Article
COP ADMITS TO SEXUALLY ASSAULTING WOMAN IN INTERROGATION ROOM
A veteran Suffolk County police officer sexually assaulted a woman he’d just arrested, prosecutors charged Thursday. Officer Christopher McCoy, 38, allegedly forced the victim to perform…View Article
HOW A WEB OF SLIP AND FALL CASES PUTS A NEW SPIN ON AN OLD FASHIONED SCHEME
Neighborhood scouts lined up victims willing to fall in potholes or deliberately trip outside of restaurants, bodegas and dry cleaners. Doctors treated patients for broken limbs, busted knees and internal injuries, including some that were fake. View Article
FORMER SUFFOLK POLICE OFFICER GETS 3 TO 9 YEARS IN FATAL DWI CRASH
A former Suffolk police officer who admitted driving drunk in a fatal wrong-way crash in West Islip vowed at his sentencing Monday to work to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Robert Scheuerer, addressing the court in Central Islip and members of the victim’s family, said he accepts full responsibility…View Article
FORMER CORRECTIONS OFFICER GETS SEVEN YEARS FOR PLOTTING HAMMER ATTACK ON ESTRANGED WIFE, NEW LOVER
A former federal corrections officer who tried to hire gang members to smash the spines of his estranged wife and her lover with a hammer will spend seven years on the other side of the bars. George Gonzalez thought he was talking to goons for hire…View Article
DETECTIVE IN NYPD’S CRIME STOPPERS UNIT PLEADS GUILTY TO BANK FRAUD
An NYPD detective who served in the Crime Stoppers unit pleaded guilty Friday to being a crime committer. Det. Michael Bonanno admitted he was guilty of bank fraud for using New Yorkers’ stolen checks…View Article
TEACHER PLEADS GUILTY TO RAPING STUDENT
A Valley Stream man who taught at a private Woodmere school pleaded guilty Monday to raping a student following his arrest last year, court records show. View Article
SPITZER ‘MADAM’ KRISTIN DAVIS WASN’T THE ONLY TRUMPSTER CAUGHT IN FBI PILL-RING BUST
Special counsel Robert Mueller has spent a year and a half digging into every seedy corner of Donald Trump’s past and present in an attempt to prove that Russia colluded with his campaign during the 2016 presidential election. View Article
EX-METS PITCHER DWIGHT GOODEN ARRESTED FOR COCAINE POSSESSION LAST MONTH IN NEW JERSEY
The former major-league pitcher, who played for four teams during a 16-year career, was arrested last month in New Jersey for cocaine possession, according to the criminal complaint obtained by USA TODAY Sports. View Article
EX-TEKASHI 6IX9INE BODYGUARD GETS LIGHT SENTENCE THANKS TO COLOSTOMY BAG
Justice is dung. A Manhattan federal court judge handed a former Tekashi 6ix 9ine guard a low-ball sentence for gun possession on Wednesday, arguing that a colostomy bag the man must wear for the rest of his life as the result of being shot in the stomach will teach him to stay away from firearms. View Article
‘RIGHT-HAND MAN’ OF 6IX9INE’S MANAGER SHOTTI SENTENCED TO 62 MONTHS IN PRISON
On Wednesday morning at Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse in New York City, a second defendant was sentenced in the ongoing Daniel “6ix9ine” Hernandez racketeering case, receiving 62 months in prison. View Article
TEKASHI69 BODYGUARD SENTENCED TO MORE THAN 5 YEARS BEHIND BARS FOR RESTAURANT SHOOTING
Brooklyn rapper Tekashi69’s former bodyguard was sentenced Wednesday to 62 months in prison for his admitted role in a shooting at an Upper East Side restaurant. View Article
‘MY FRIENDS AND I USED TO GOOGLE WHAT COULD BE WRONG WITH HIM’
Ex-girlfriend of ‘dad killer’ Thomas Gilbert Jr reveals her serious concerns about his mental state as she testifies at his murder trial… View Article
FIFTH DEFENDANT IN 6IX9INE CASE PLEADS GUILTY
On Wednesday (April 4), the same day that Jamel “Mel Murda” Jones admitted guilt, there was a second guilty plea in 6ix9ine’s racketeering case. Read More
MURDER CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST WOMAN WHO SPENT FOUR YEARS IN RIKERS
BROOKLYN MAN INDICTED AS CONSPIRATOR IN WAREHOUSE ROBBERY
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF MELVIN JULES BUKIET
SODOMY CHARGES AGAINST POLICE OFFICER DROPPED
PRIEST NOT GUILTY OF EMBEZZLEMENT
JUDGE WHO STABBED WIFE WON’T SERVE ANY JAIL TIME
MURDER CHARGES DROPPED IN MOTORCYCLE GANG FIGHT
RAPE CHARGES AGAINST QUEENS TEACHER DROPPED