Bronx District Attorney says elaborate scheme involving thousands of bribes brought drugs, other contraband inside Seventeen people, involving inmates and at least two correction officers, have been arrested as part of a major Rikers Island smuggling investigation, the Bronx District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday afternoon. Two corrections officers and one Rikers Island …
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The New York City Board of Elections suspended a top official late Thursday. In a press release, the board announced that Chief Clerk Diane Haslett-Rudiano from the Brooklyn Borough office has been suspended without pay. After voters in Brooklyn found their names absent from voter rolls in Tuesday’s primary election–in …
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NYC residents coming out to vote in Tuesday’s primary elections were met with a bungled process across the board, if a record number of voter complaints were any indication. Now the city’s Board of Elections will undergo a full-scale investigation into what went wrong. The problems began to surface early …
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At a court hearing in Brooklyn on Wednesday, defense attorneys for convicted former NYPD officer Peter Liang accused one juror, Michael Vargas, of lying to get on the jury. Liang was convicted of manslaughter in February for firing his service weapon into the stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project while …
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The NYPD is investigating the former governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer for allegedly assaulting a woman at The Plaza hotel Saturday night. Spitzer served as the Attorney General of New York for eight years and then as the governor of New York for a little over a year before his …
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A rookie police officer, Peter Liang was convicted of manslaughter in Brooklyn today for the Nov. 20, 2014 shooting of Akai Gurley. The prosecution said Liang’s service weapon went off as he and his partner entered a dark stairwell where 28-year-old Gurley was walking with his girlfriend. The bullet ricocheted off …
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Corrections Officer Nicole Bartley, 30, has been arrested for having an illegal sexual relationship with an inmate and smuggling marijuana. Bartley is now the 26th officer at Rikers Island to have been arrested for misconduct since 2014. Drug-sniffing dogs indicated the smell of marijuana on Bartley Saturday morning and although officers …
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NYCHA officials admit that for years, they wouldn’t turn on the heat in public housing until the temperature hit bone-chilling levels. Full Story – NY Daily News
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On Tuesday morning, we brought you exclusive footage from a Black Lives Matter protest in New York met with unwarranted violence by the NYPD. Our friends at Act.TV have followed this up with a story covering the entire incident, including catching the NYPD perpetrating a lie that several media outlets covering …
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