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Crime

WTC Construction Delays = Fraud?

16 July 2008

There’s a new call to expose exactly what is going on with the redevelopment at the World Trade Center site. It seems that Anthony Shorri, former executive director of the Port Authority, may have violated federal securities rules when he touted overly-optimistic construction timelines and budgets for WTC redevelopment and in effect misled investors who [...]

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Sean Bell Shooting Cops May Be Disciplined by Police Department

Seven officers who were involved in the 2006 shooting of Sean Bell were notified today that they may face NYPD administrative charges for their role in the incident. The notices of disciplinary action come almost a month since a judge found that Detectives Marc Cooper, Gescard Isnora, and Michael Oliver were not responsible for the [...]

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Charting the Newtown Creek Oil Spill

This week, as part of the Coast Guard Reauthorization Act passed by the House of Representatives, a new commitment was made to try to determine the true extent of the decades-old Newtown Creek oil spill. The language in the bill gives the the Environmental Protection Agency $5 million and a year to create a [...]

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Bell Shooting Cops Found Not Guilty

The three police officers who opened fire and killed Sean Bell with 50 bullets on November 25, 2006 (what would have been his wedding day) were today acquitted of all charges against them.
In a statement today, Judge Arthur Cooperman said that he felt that the prosecution’s case was undermined by “prior inconsistent statements” and doubted [...]

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More Lawsuits From Deutsche Bank Fire

Four city firefighters injured while battling the Deutsche Bank building fire last summer are suing the city, state, and building contractors for their injuries. The fire also claimed the lives of firefighters Robert Beddia and Joseph Graffagnino when they became trapped on the 14th floor.
The new lawsuits are being brought against the Lower Manhattan [...]

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Quinn Hires Lawyers, Proposes Reforms

Embattled City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has hired a criminal defense attorney, Lee S. Richards II, to represent her in the continuing investigations into the Council’s budget practice of allocating funds to nonexistent organizations, and then spending the cash set aside at different times and for different projects. Richards and Sullivan & Cromwell, another firm [...]

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Stolen Memorial Trees To Be Replaced

Fifteen trees that were planted in November in Ferry Point Park in the Bronx were stolen out of the ground this week. The grove of trees were part of a set of over 2,000 trees donated as by Prince Albert II of Monaco to honor those who perished in the attacks on the World [...]

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