A woman who climbed the base of the Statue of Liberty on July 4 to protest the separation of families at the Mexican border was convicted Monday of misdemeanor charges by a judge who said a person’s viewpoint can’t be a factor in whether laws are enfor… Continue reading →
{FD} Lawyers seek to exclude evidence at NYC truck attack trial
Lawyers for a man charged with killing eight people in a terrorist attack on a New York City bike path said in a court filing Friday that they had learned the FBI had intercepted his communications, though it was unclear when that surveillance began. Continue reading →
{FD} Bangladeshi immigrant convicted in NYC subway bombing
A Bangladeshi immigrant convicted Tuesday of terrorism charges after setting off a pipe bomb in New York City’s busiest subway station at rush hour told the trial judge he was angry at President Donald Trump and didn’t carry out the attack for the Isla… Continue reading →
{FD} Feds accuse ex-CIA employee of continuing leaks from prison
Federal prosecutors beefed up charges against a former CIA employee Wednesday, saying he has leaked classified national defense materials while incarcerated. Continue reading →
{FD} London imam’s conviction for supporting terror is upheld
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld the conviction and life prison sentence given to a London imam for supporting terrorism. Continue reading →
{FD} Fyre Festival promoter sentenced to six years in prison
The creator of the Fyre Festival, a highly publicized and famously failed music bash in the Bahamas, was ordered Thursday to spend six years in prison by a judge who called him a “serial fraudster.” Continue reading →
{FD} Lawyer tries Trump argument that flippers should be outlawed
A New York defense lawyer wasted no time in trying to use President Donald Trump’s argument that cooperators, or flippers, in criminal cases “almost ought to be illegal.” Continue reading →
{FD} Prosecutor: $60,000 bribe fit easily in fancy bag
A prosecutor at the bribery retrial of a once-powerful New York union boss slipped about $20,000 in cash into a luxury bag to show that it easily fit as he made his closing argument Monday. Continue reading →
{FD} NYC releases documents connected to Central Park 5 case
A lawyer for five men wrongly convicted in the vicious 1989 rape of a Central Park jogger said Friday that the release of investigative records leaves them “reliving the horror” of their experiences. Continue reading →
{FD} Corruption trial begins in Buffalo Billion case
A former president of the State University of New York’s Polytechnic Institute was alternately portrayed as a hero or a scoundrel at the opening of a corruption trial Monday over upstate construction projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Continue reading →
{FD} Civilian on NYPD-probes panel reports fewer investigations
A civilian helping review New York Police Department probes involving Muslim communities says there were fewer requests in the last year for investigations affecting First Amendment rights covered by a longstanding court order. Continue reading →
{FD} Bomber faces life in prison for New York, New Jersey attacks
A terrorist who set off small bombs in two states, including a pressure cooker device that blasted shrapnel across a New York City block, is set to be sentenced Tuesday to a mandatory term of life in prison. Continue reading →
{FD} Prosecutors: New Jersey bomber tried to corrupt inmates
An unrepentant New Jersey man who injured 30 people in a Manhattan bombing and then promoted his extremist ideology to other prisoners deserves the mandatory life in prison as required by his conviction, prosecutors told a judge on Tuesday. Continue reading →
{FD} Ex-Rikers guard gets 30 years in prison in inmate’s death
A former guard at New York’s Rikers Island jail was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday for violating the civil rights of a restrained ailing inmate when he kicked him to death outside a jail doctor’s office. Continue reading →
