Crime

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 Trade [...]

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AWNY Linkomat

After returning home after her shift at a Hollis bar at 3:20 A.M. on March 13th, 1964, Catherine “Kitty” Genovese parked in the Kew Gardens LIRR station parking lot adjacent to her apartment complex (1). Noticing a man in the lot, she left the lot and headed along Austin Street toward a police call box. [...]

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Pay For Your Mistakes, Oh, and Your Incompetence and Shady Deals Too

The family of Joseph Graffagnino, one of the two firefighters who died in the line of duty in the August 2007 fire at the former Deutsche Bank building, has filed a wrongful death suit against the FDNY and Department of Buildings. The lawsuit comes less than two months after the family of the other firefighter [...]

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Gotbaum Family Plans to Sue

The family of Carol Gotbaum has filed a notice of claim today against the City of Phoenix, opening up the door to a lawsuit in the wake of Ms. Gotbaum’s death. Carol Gotbaum, the daughter-in-law of Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, died last September while being held by police in a cell at the Phoenix Airport. [...]

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Happy Land: 18 Years Later

On this date in 1990, a fire set by a spurned boyfriend at the Happy Land nightclub in the Bronx killed 87 people, mostly Honduran immigrants celebrating the Punta Carnivale weekend. Recently unemployed and just dumped by his girlfriend (who worked in the club’s coat check), Julio Gonzalez purchased $1 worth of gasoline from the [...]

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In Other Scandal News…

Queens City Council Member Dennis Gallagher, mired in a sexual assault scandal, has made a deal to plead guilty to a misdemeanor offense. He will apologize in court, undergo alcohol treatment, and will resign from office. As part of the deal, he will not be subjected to any jail time for his crime and will [...]

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