New York Needs A Moreland Commission to Restore to Democracy
Campaign finance reform will not longer fix with is wrong with government. As U.S. Attorney have already proven in this sick political culture of New York our elected officials are criminally selling their vote and and corruption public financing of campaigns. We need ongoing commission at least 5 years that will put our political system on trial to get the bottom of this criminal conspiracy and jail those who have taken advantage of their position. These bums have gamed out political system to the point that no one reform will change the criminal culture. In the 1930's the Seabury commission exposed judges, attorneys, police and bail bondsmen who extort money from defendants facing trial. The people of the state of New York have the same rights to have a commission to expose the political culture corruption. Everyone in government is trying to find a way to go around, ignore or find some public relations way to keep the system going. Bharara calls that strategy Groundhog day. A band aid will not fix this. Organize crime elected officials are a cancer that is destroying our democracy.
New Yorkers Have A Right to A Corruption Free Government
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Today's Arrest
NYS Corruption Epidemic
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara wasn’t kidding Tuesday when it feels like it’s “Groundhog Day.”
Preet to Legislators: Your colleagues might be snitching on you. Be paranoid. Dont do anything illegal. DN Johnson: "We will continue to pull at every thread." Bronx DA Robert Johnson: "the events of today shake the confidence of citizens... the events today show people who are selfish" * Bharara again railing against Albany's political culture, says too many people are looking the other way. Bharara taking shots at Albany big time. complains how many saw these actions & said nothing. Preet Bharara: what I hope happens is that if you are an elected official or work for one and you see corruption, call the feds or we..Preet, correction, our report said ppl more likely to leave office for corruption rather than die or be redistricted.Preet:
The feds had a mole (Nelson Castro) in Albany's inner workings for four years. Closed-door conferences, fundraisers
"If you are a corrupt official in NY, you have to worry that one of your colleagues is working with us." Preet Bharara: If you are a corrupt official in New York, you have to worry that one of your colleagues is working with us. Bharara: How many bills and budget items were the product of bribery?Bharara: "How many other pending bills were born of bribery? And, worse, how many past bills were born of bribery?""The people of NY should be more than disappointed. They should be angry." - Preet Bharara* 
Just When You Thought You Had Enough Corruption For the Day
Vito Lopez forms City Council campaign cmt
He’s In! Vito Lopez Prepares City Council Run(City and State)
A source familiar with Lopez’s plans expects he will indeed run: “(W)e don’t form committees just to play around.”
Sen. Diaz aide sentenced to two-to-six years in prison for embezzling $560K
(NYP) A top aide to Bronx state Sen. Ruben Diaz will be doing hard time for
embezzling more than a half-million dollars from two charitable groups
founded by Diaz,
Another Pol Indictment By US Attorney
Eric A. Stevenson - New York State Assembly - Member SectionMoments ago, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s office announced yet another
New York State elected official, Bronx Assemblyman Eric Stevenson, has
been arrested and accused of taking bribes “Stevenson is accused of taking bribes in exchange for official acts,
which included drafting, proposing, and agreeing to enact legislation
that would benefit the co-defendants’ businesses,” the release
announcing the press conference read. NY Assemblyman Eric Stevenson, 4 others charged with corruption 4 'taking bribes for official acts,' attorney* Stevenson: ‘Half of Albany’ could be in prison * A key confidential witness in the federal bribery case filed today
against Bronx Assemblyman Eric Stevenson is Sigfredo Gonzalez, who in
2008 unsuccessfully sought the statehouse seat that Stevenson now holds,
The Post has learned.* So sad to become fully aware of existence of an Assemblyman upon his indictment. Eric Stevenson, I hardly knew ye:
Wall Street Sheriff who bagged NY's corrupt politicians(NYP)
Stevenson: If Half of the People In Albany On the Take
Assemblyman Eric Stevenson Is Accused of Taking Bribes(NYT) * Feds charge Bronx assemblyman took $20K in scheme to help pals' adult daycare centers(NYP) * Bronx Assemblyman Is Accused of Accepting Bribes(NYT) * BREAKING: Another NYC pol busted! Bronx Assemblyman arrested for taking cash to benefit local business pals(NYDN) * When he ran for reelection last year, Eric Stevenson was cross-endorsed by the Bronx GOP. Of course.
* Silver To Stevenson: Resign(YNN) * These Weren’t Registered Lobbyists(YNN) * In 2nd Alleged Bribe Scheme, a Legislator Was in on the Case(NYT)
Albany is Selling Their Votes Nothing to Do With Campaign Finance Reform
A Organized Sub Culture
"Stevenson is accused of taking cash to benefit a business pal interested in getting a lucrative Con Edison contract" * To better understand Albany scandals, read up on Daniel Elazar's "3 American political subcultures." Seriously. http://academic.regis.edu/jriley/421elazar.htm … * A bribe to Carl Kruger (finance committee chair, swing vote in Senate majority) makes some pragmatic sense. But a back-bench assemblyman?
New York Times reporting Assemblyman Nelson Castro will resign, was "Assemblyman 1" in the complaint against Assm. Stevenson bribery case
“ASSEMBLYMAN-1 has been cooperating in this investigation since prior to
January 2012. In exchange for that cooperation,” the complaint reads.
“ASSEMBLYMAN 1 has agreed, among other things, to continue to cooperate
with the USAO and the Bronx County District Attorney’s Office and to
resign his office with the New York State Assembly following the arrests
of the defendants in this complaint.”* Another New York Politician Arrested for Another Bribery Plot(NY Mag) * Assemblyman Nelson Castro, who was indicted in 2009 & has been
cooperating w/ prosecutors, announces he will resign on Monday.* In Other Corruption News: Diaz Aide Sentenced(YNN) * Castro To Resign Monday, Has Been Longtime Informant
Jerk Statement of Today
"Under Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the government is working better than it has in decades." — David Paterson
Cuomo calls corruption allegations "appalling."Cuomo Calls Corruption Cases ‘Appalling’(YNN)
So how many remaining NY legislators have already been forced into cooperating with prosecutors on cases yet to break?
_____________________________________________________________________________Wall Street Sheriff who bagged NY's corrupt politicians(NYP)Stevenson: If Half of the People In Albany On the Take
* Silver To Stevenson: Resign(YNN) * These Weren’t Registered Lobbyists(YNN) * In 2nd Alleged Bribe Scheme, a Legislator Was in on the Case(NYT)
A Organized Sub Culture
"Stevenson is accused of taking cash to benefit a business pal interested in getting a lucrative Con Edison contract" * To better understand Albany scandals, read up on Daniel Elazar's "3 American political subcultures." Seriously. http://academic.regis.edu/jriley/421elazar.htm … * A bribe to Carl Kruger (finance committee chair, swing vote in Senate majority) makes some pragmatic sense. But a back-bench assemblyman?
New York Times reporting Assemblyman Nelson Castro will resign, was "Assemblyman 1" in the complaint against Assm. Stevenson bribery case
"Under Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the government is working better than it has in decades." — David Paterson
Cuomo calls corruption allegations "appalling."Cuomo Calls Corruption Cases ‘Appalling’(YNN)
So how many remaining NY legislators have already been forced into cooperating with prosecutors on cases yet to break?
The BOE and the Arrests
The Department of
Robert Hornak who at the same time he was working at the Board of Elections was illegally getting paid by Councilman Dan Halloran through his consultant company Lexington Public Affairs. It is illegal for BOE employees to run a consultant company. Hornak is Executive director of Queens County GOP. His former boss and pal in the Queens GOP party was Vincent Tabone until he quit yesterday after getting arrested the day before
Hornak Also Worked for An Employee of the BOE Who Office Was Raided By the FBI
In April of 2012 True News reported that Hornak was working with Steven Graves who office at the BOE was raided by the FBI as part of their investigation of corruption in the purchase of the new voting machines.Hornak also worked worked with Jay Golub and with accused BOE briber Steven Graves on the Victor Babb City Council Campaign. Sources: Queens GOP Leader Facing Major Corruption Charges Resigns(NY1)
DOI Going After the Secret Lobbyist Can Start the Clean Up of Corruption at the BOE
The
city’s Board of Elections was notified two years ago that Graves
wascaught on tape soliciting a $25,000 “finder’s fee” from a company
competing for a $65 million voting machine contract in 2009. “He was
recommending the use of a particular lobbyist,” said one source. “In
exchange for that he wanted a finder’s fee.” The lobbyist, who was not
identified, was supposed to receive $250,000 a year for five years, the
source said. All DOI has to do is
expose who was the lobbyist who Graves want to receive the
$1.250,000. The chances are that lobbyist is a BOE lobbyist insider
or Queens GOP operator who knows where many of the commissioner who
run the board bodies are buried. Note the sting tapes on Graves were
made by the BOE vender not DOI
What About the Sworn Papers Filed in Court by Ragusa to Save His BOE Commissioner?
Is DOI, the DA or the AG investigating if the papers were real or forged? Robert Hornak the director of machines for the Board of Election testified in sworn statements to the court that the Queens leadership executive committee members met and voted
Nov. 1 to reappoint Stupp, and that on Nov. 3, Ragusa signed a
certificate saying so. That information was to have been mailed to the
City Clerk and City Council on Nov. 19 -- although apparently neither
envelope ever arrived. Hornak sworn statement said he mail the papers to reappoint Stupp on Nov. 19. to the executive committee.Ognibene
said the gathering at which the organization members supposedly
agreed -- having met at Dante's Caterers on Nov. 1 -- to re-nominate
Stupp would have coincided with "GOP night," which is more of a cocktail
party than a formal party proceeding. "I don’t know if there was ever a
notice" of such a meeting, Ognibene continued. "I think they looked
back and said, 'Where we all together where we can say we did this?'"
In 2007 Knew About Savino Involvement In FBI Probe of the BOE Voting Machines
But his sentence is expected to be a fraction of that in exchange for his cooperation in two ongoing probes in which he is involved New York City's Board of Elections.
A few years back, the Westchester lawyer Anthony J. Mangone,
law partner of Jay Savino, the Bronx Republican leader,
earned a cool $100,000 lobbying the board on behalf of a voting machine
company, Election Systems and Software. In 2010, the board gave the
company a $50 million contract. The next day, federal prosecutors
indicted Mr. Mangone in an unrelated bribery case. Mr. Mangone has
pleaded guilty and is talking with investigators. Mr. Savino received a
subpoena two years ago.Bronx GOP Chairman Jay Savino, and his deputy and
NYC Board of
Elections Commissioner J.C. Polanco, were hit with Federal subpoenas, as
part of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s investigation into political
corruption, in Westchester and in New York City. Here is a compilation
of stories that ran in the New York Post, The
Daily News and The Gothamist in 2010. According to the Post-”the
subpoenas were sent ‘all over the place,’ said one source.” “Another
source said Bharara began focusing on the voting-machine
contract after indicting Anthony Mangone, a politically connected
lawyer, for allegedly bribing a former Yonkers city councilwoman to
switch her vote on two development projects. Mangone, who has ties to
the Queens Republican Party, was one of several lobbyists hired by
ES&S.” Guilty Westchester attorney Anthony Mangone will help feds in two seperate probes(NYDN)* Bronx GOP Chairman Jay Savino will reportedly resign his party post in the near future. Did the BOE Purchased the New Scanners Because They Were the Best Voting System for NYC or Because The Party Leaders and BOE Commissioners Got the Most Bribes From the Company?
Pay to Play BOE's Lemon Contract
According
to True News tipster Phil Ragusa has been paid over 50,000 from
ES&S last year in a two month period. That means that grandson
Ragusa was paid from the same voting machine vendor that his
grandfather's BOE commission approved after a battle of the lobbyists
for which machine the BOE would buy. Grandson Ragusa was paid $1800 by a
day by ES&S at the same time we was on the BOE payroll. On one 4
day pay period Grandson Ragusa was paid over $9000 for 4 days work on
and hourly rate that would have taken two weeks to reach the $9000 bill,
True News Has Also Learned
Grandson Phil Ragusa lives in Long Island and use his father address in Queens to quality for the BOE job. According to True News Tipster the address used is his father's Biagio Ragusa. Who retired in 2012 after 20 years of service at the Queens warehouse, and his son, Phil, ended up getting that job.
Organized Crime Politics
Ballot Corruption by Political Mob Bosses
The leaders of New York’s Political Mob are the City’s party leaders who exist with the Tammany Hall power control template, unchallenged and unaccountable to the voters in New York’s broken down election system. Their headquarters is the Board of Elections. Political mob bosses soldiers are campaign consultants who also operate as lobbyists and have the same relationship with the voters as Bernie Madoff had to his investors. In this war the 4th estate are enablers of the political mob bosses covering campaigns only as horse race and simply reprinting the candidate’s press releases. In this swamp culture the political party leaders have become the new gangs of New York. Protect by the DA who need them to get elected. .NY Political Parties for Sale: Ballot Corruption(True News) * Tammany’s Ballot Control Again and Again (TN) * Organized Crime Politics - Episode Two: The Rigged Election System * The DN argues against a special election, which would enable major party bosses to pick the candidates. * Bob McManus takes a contrary view to the bribery scandal, saying a public campaign financing system is “foolishly touted as an elixir for New York’s loathsome political culture.”
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More on those Arrested
Smith had no chance of winning, he likely had his sights on the Campaign Finance Board’s 6-to-1 fund matching. As a mayoral candidate, he could get a maximum match of $1,050 for each $175 donation.
Smith blew $2M in elex cash (NYP) State Sen. Malcolm Smith blew through more than $2 million in campaign cash over five years — bunking at ritzy hotels, dining at four-star restaurants and even traveling to China, campaign- finance records show. The lavish spending included a November 2011 junket to China, where Smith and his entourage forked over $1,148 to stay at the Beijing Grand and about $2,500 for other lodgings. That same month, the one-time Democratic Senate leader shelled out more than $1,000 at four of the city’s top steakhouses — Ben Benson’s, Capital Grille, Bobby Van’s and Smith & Wollensky. FBI agents yesterday served a subpoena on Smith’s Queens office as the senator stayed out of sight.*The king of Queens graft(NYP Ed) Smith has been linked to so many dubious schemes the FBI must have had an entire branch on his tail: Bid-rigging for the Aqueduct racino. Co-founding a Katrina charity that saw nearly $30,000 vanish. Diverting campaign funds for lavish personal trips and meals. Even opening (and then ruining) a Queens charter school in what appears to be a plot to boost home sales for a developer and big-time donor.*Following his arrest on Tuesday, Smith was stripped of his chairmanships and other perks of office by state Sen. Jeff Klein, leader of the Independent Democratic Conference, meaning that Smith’s staff will be punished by extension, the Times-Union reports: * Jim Dwyer: “You could drag Malcolm A. Smith out of bed at 6 in the morning, and he’d still look like a million dollars.”
Smith and Halloran Never Google The Informer
If they Did They Would Have Detective Something Was Not Kosher
Savino Not A Bronx Resident Says Ne Needed Money to Pay the Rent
The Only Power GOP Leaders Have Now is to Make Money Off of Ballot Acess
Savino's Double Dipping Bribe
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The Arrests: Mayoral Race
Hitting Quinn On Member Items and Term Limits
Fellow Dems team up vs. Quinn at debate
Democratic mayoral hopefuls piled on front-runner Christine Quinn last
night over term limits at a candidate forum, in one of the liveliest
exchanges yet in the race.* A wiretap conversation of New York City
Councilman Daniel Halloran boasting that he could extract thousands of
dollars from the Council for bribes resurrected questions of Council
Speaker Christine Quinn’s oversight of the City Council earmark program,
The New York Times reports: * NYC Mayoral Candidates Spar After Ballot Bribe Scandal(NBC)* Quinn defended the current system of distributing member items. [Dana Rubinstein]More on the Debate
Lhota Demands IG for the City Council In Response for Quinn Bill for NYPD IG
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NYS Budget
In the Times-Union, former Gov. David Paterson praises Cuomo for passing a third consecutive on-time budget and lauds the budget for being “smart, bold, and progressive”:* Cuomo touted the 2013-14 budget in Central New York, saying the region will see an overall funding boost of $150 million.
Thruway Layoffs
More than 200 state Thruway workers lost their jobs yesterday after agency and union officials were unable to agree on money-saving concessions.
Guns
Cuomo again defended the SAFE Act, telling the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle editorial board: “I don’t believe I was fast. I believe I was incredibly slow.”
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Education
Twenty new schools will open in Bronx next school year(NYDN)The New York City Department of Education’s most prominent parent activist found herself in an uncomfortable position Wednesday – defending her surprising decision to send her children to private school.
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Sandy
South Ferry station reopens today(NYP) * Wipeout of Pier Is Blow to Town's Surf Scene(WSJ) * MTA to Restore No. 1 Train Service to South Ferry(WSJ) * Subway Service To Old South Ferry Station To Be Restored Thursday * Post-Sandy Coney Island Construction Unnerves Residents(NBC) 
Evicted Pier 17 shops face final summer at Seaport(AMNT)
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Church
Dolan welcomes release of Milwaukee deposition documents
(NYP)MILWAUKEE — New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan says he welcomes the
upcoming release of documents related to sexual abuse lawsuits filed
against the Archdiocese of Milwaukee* Archdiocese Of Milwaukee To Release Dolan Testimony, Other Documents In Child Sex Abuse Scandal(NY1)________________________________________________________________________________
Media
Big Apple is becoming the new Hollywood for A-list TV production: Report (AMNY)
Roger and Gene together again. End of an era.
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Guns
Obama takes tough gun fight to Colorado(NYP)Upstart Group Pushes Harder Than the N.R.A.(NYT)Although dwarfed by the National Rifle Association, Gun Owners of America, a pro-gun lobbying group, has grown in influence since the debate over gun control has surged.* Lawmakers in Connecticut Approve Gun Limits Bill * Gun Curbs Lose Ground in States(WSJ)
* Conn. Lawmakers Pass Gun-Control Bill(WSJ) * Maloney To Continue Push For Gun Legislation Despite Death Threats(NY1) * Rep. Carolyn Maloney vowed to continue fighting for gun control legislation, a day after receiving death threats for her support of legislation to require liability insurance for gun owners, Newsday writes: * Connecticut Governor Signs Gun Measures(NYT)
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Washington
President Giving Back 5% of Salary(WSJ)
Schools Push Curriculum of Propaganda - George Will, Washington Post
Ben Carson: He Wears the Mask - Ta-Nehisi Coates, New York Times
Can Republicans Dig Out of Their Hole? - Roger Simon, Politico
After 2012, Republican Woes Overstated - Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics
ObamaCare Continues to Unravel - Philip Klein, Washington Examiner
Gun Control Can Come With Love - Jimmy & Nelba Greene, USA Today
The NRA Is Beating Obama on Gun Control - Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast
The Gun Debate: What Liberals Leave Out - Larry Elder, Townhall
Obama Gives Hollywood a Pass - Campbell Brown, Wall Street Journal
Keystone XL: The Pipeline to Disaster - James Hansen, Los Angeles Times
Global Warming: End of an Illusion - Robert Tracinski, RealClearMarkets
Maryland Becomes a Liberal Paradise - Thomas Schaller, Baltimore Sun
How the IRS Hurts Mothers - Lilian Faulhaber, New York Times
Is Disability the New Welfare? - Jonah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times
Financial Reform Is Coming to America - Barney Frank, Financial Times
Too Big to Fail and the False Prophets of Capitalism - Bill Frezza, Forbes
Gabriel Sherman a Window Into Shoddy "Journalism" - Pat Caddell, FOX
North Korea's Twitter and Flickr accounts hacked(NYP)Hillary Clinton Got a Book Deal(NY Mag)
Atlanta Test Scores: Cheating Is Cheating - Los Angeles Times
Obama's Chump Change - New York Daily News
Congress Can Still Mess Up Immigration Reform - Bloomberg
Exit Jim Hansen: NASA's Hot-Air Scientist Cashes In - Washington Times
Clues to look for to determine whether Hillary 2016 is indeed a reality.
Schools Push Curriculum of Propaganda - George Will, Washington Post
Ben Carson: He Wears the Mask - Ta-Nehisi Coates, New York Times
Can Republicans Dig Out of Their Hole? - Roger Simon, Politico
After 2012, Republican Woes Overstated - Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics
ObamaCare Continues to Unravel - Philip Klein, Washington Examiner
Gun Control Can Come With Love - Jimmy & Nelba Greene, USA Today
The NRA Is Beating Obama on Gun Control - Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast
The Gun Debate: What Liberals Leave Out - Larry Elder, Townhall
Obama Gives Hollywood a Pass - Campbell Brown, Wall Street Journal
Keystone XL: The Pipeline to Disaster - James Hansen, Los Angeles Times
Global Warming: End of an Illusion - Robert Tracinski, RealClearMarkets
Maryland Becomes a Liberal Paradise - Thomas Schaller, Baltimore Sun
How the IRS Hurts Mothers - Lilian Faulhaber, New York Times
Is Disability the New Welfare? - Jonah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times
Financial Reform Is Coming to America - Barney Frank, Financial Times
Too Big to Fail and the False Prophets of Capitalism - Bill Frezza, Forbes
Gabriel Sherman a Window Into Shoddy "Journalism" - Pat Caddell, FOX
North Korea's Twitter and Flickr accounts hacked(NYP)Hillary Clinton Got a Book Deal(NY Mag)Atlanta Test Scores: Cheating Is Cheating - Los Angeles Times
Obama's Chump Change - New York Daily News
Congress Can Still Mess Up Immigration Reform - Bloomberg
Exit Jim Hansen: NASA's Hot-Air Scientist Cashes In - Washington Times
Clues to look for to determine whether Hillary 2016 is indeed a reality.
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Law and Order
Police Surveillance May Earn Money for City(NYT) Microsoft, which developed the Domain Awareness System with the New York Police Department, says it is actively negotiating with a number of prospective buyers.
Stop, frisk hype exposed(NYDN) The star witness in the federal case against the NYPD testified Wednesday that as far as he could determine, the cops have hardly ever abused the rights of people who have been stopped, questioned and sometimes frisked.* Did the prosecution's star witness, Columbia professor Jeffrey Fagan, just blow up the case against the NYPD and its stop-and-frisk policy? [Daily News] * Video: NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly defended his department's stop-and-frisk strategy without saying the word "frisk." [Azi Paybarah]
Question Lingers as Man Is Sentenced in Fatal Brooklyn Fire(NYT)
63 Gang Members Are Indicted in East Harlem Shootings(NYT)
Cops arrest ex-con in rape spree(NYDN)Police Investigate Possible Hate Crime At Greenwich Village(NY1)
Police Arrest Suspect In Alleged String Of Bronx Sexual (NY1)
City Police Officer Charged In Connection With Alleged Conspiracy To Rob Drug Dealers(NY1)
NYC police operation aims to prevent car theft(WSJ)
For the second time in a case stemming from Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, NYC lawyers are not stepping forward to defend a police commander accused of mistreating protesters.
Police Search For Suspect In Alleged Brooklyn Forcible Touching Incidents (NY1)
NY1 Online: Journalist Examines Prosecutorial Misconduct In NYC
Bronx community leader working with NYPD to form peace (NYDN)
Off-Duty NYPD Officer Arrested at JFK Airport: Official (NBC)
Frat house animal
(NYP) A frat boy caught on video allegedly beating and robbing a woman in a
Brooklyn subway station was easy to catch — he was wearing a hoodie with
the fraternity’s Greek letters and his nicknameOfficer Charged in Robberies of Drug Dealers(NYT)
Mentally Ill, but Insanity Plea Is Long Shot(NYT)
Violent fiend busted after 4 alleged sex assaults in Bronx(NYP)
CDC: Percentage Of NYC Teens Carrying Guns At All-Time Low
Manhattan DA recommends decade in jail for man who posed as correx officer to sneak into jails(NYP)
Cops arrest gas station heist suspects(NYDN)
SEE: Footage shows Crown Heights shooting spree, suspect (NYDN)Man Charged In Beating, Robbery Of Woman On Stairs At Brooklyn(WABC)
Video Captures Man Stealing Woman's Laundry(NBC)
NYPD Officer Arrested For Allegedly Helping Group Rob Drug(WABC)
NYPD cop arrested at JFK on robbery, drug charge
Crown Heights Shooting Spree in Broad Daylight
63 indicted in NYC gangs crackdown: Authorities say 63 people have been indicted in a crackdown against three ...
