The computers nerds in an elite CIA unit were short on intelligence.
A trial about the most damaging leak in the Central Intelligence Agency’s history has revealed that boorish bros created a human resources nightmare while developing computer code for cutting-edge cyberweapons.
At the center of...
A woman who says she was Jeffrey Epstein’s first known victim claims in a new lawsuit that the multimillionaire sex offender introduced her to Donald Trump when she was 14, saying “This is a good one, right?"
Trump, according to the suit against Epstein’s estate, “smiled and nodded in agreement.”...
Former Upstate New York Congressman Chris Collins sobbed before being sentenced Friday to 26 months in prison for an illegal insider trading tip he shared while standing on the White House lawn.
“People feel sorry for me. They shouldn’t,” Collins, 69, said in Manhattan Federal Court, struggling...
Elderly and ailing former Gambino crime boss Peter Gotti lost his effort Wednesday to be released early from prison because the frail gangster is still dangerous.
“I reject the notion that Gotti is no longer a threat to the community. The danger posed by a Gambino family leader like Gotti is not...
Surveillance footage of the outside of Jeffrey Epstein’s cell at the troubled Metropolitan Correctional Center during his first suicide attempt has gone missing, prosecutors revealed Wednesday.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Swergold admitted nobody can find the footage of the outside of the cell...
Tekashi69′s father, who last saw his son when he was in the third grade, picked a heck of a time to pop back into the notorious Brooklyn rapper’s life.
The elder Daniel Hernandez was kicked out of the house by Tekashi’s mom for shooting heroin in the bathroom, Lance Lazzaro, an attorney for the...
Farewell to the land of lobster and moose. And hello, Rikers Island.
New city jail gang guru Matthew Clark crosses a huge cultural divide on his trip from Maine to New York City, where the wife of his old Augusta Police Department boss just hired him as the $175,000-a-year Department of Corrections...
A reputed Latin Kings member was back behind bars Friday after a Brooklyn court appearance for killing a total stranger in a street fight near an after-hours bar.
Defendant Joshua Hernandez was led from the hearing in handcuffs after entering a plea of not guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge...
His bomb threat didn’t pass the pee test.
A heroin dealer hoped to avoid a urinalysis by calling in a fake bomb threat to the Manhattan Federal Courthouse, prosecutors charged Monday.
Gregory Herman faced the drug test on June 5 after completing a nearly 5 1/2-year sentence for intent to distribute...
Accused Hudson River bike path attacker Sayfullo Saipov ranted again in court Monday as prosecutors revealed they would ask for an anonymous jury that could decide if gets the death penalty for killing eight people.
Speaking through an Uzbek interpreter, Saipov, 31, asked Judge Vernon Broderick...
A judge appeared skeptical Tuesday of Michael Avenatti’s claims that President Trump targeted him for prosecution before setting a trial date of April 21 on charges the loudmouth attorney stole money for a book deal from his client Stormy Daniels.
Avenatti’s attorney Dean Steward said in Manhattan...
Tekashi69, the rapping gangbanger who became a government witness, will be sentenced on December 18.
Attorneys for the rapper had asked Judge Paul Engelmayer to sentence him on an “expedited basis” following the guilty verdicts last week against two Nine Trey Bloods members. On Tuesday, Manhattan...
A federal judge in Florida ruled Monday that victims of Jeffrey Epstein are not entitled to money damages from the government though prosecutors violated their rights.
Judge Kenneth Marra previously determined that the government violated the Crime Victims’ Rights Act by keeping Epstein’s accusers...
A jails captain in Human Resources said he demanded a secretary who wasn’t black. His boss, Department of Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte, admonished him to “stop lying.” Then he got promoted to City Hall and worked on the plan to shut down Rikers Island.
New allegations about Jeff Thamkittikasem,...
A “fixer” for Adidas who testified he specialized in “black ops” involving secret payments to college basketball players was sentenced to one year of probation Tuesday thanks to his cooperation with the government.
TJ Gassnola, 47, was the first person to plead guilty in connection with federal...
A Queens teen plotted an ISIS-inspired knife attack along the Flushing Bay promenade and ordered an assortment of tactical gear online, prosecutors said Friday, detailing a lone wolf plot they said was on the verge of being executed.
Awais Chudhary, 19, is accused of attempting to provide material...
The sex trafficking case against Jeffrey Epstein is officially over.
A judge signed off Thursday on prosecutors’ request to close the case against the perverted financier because he killed himself on Aug. 10 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan.
Judge Richard Berman signaled...
Michael Cohen suffered a setback Thursday in his effort to force President Trump to pay over $1 million in legal bills.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Joel Cohen ruled that the supposed agreement to cover the legal fees of Trump’s former personal lawyer, if it existed at all, only covered investigations...
Marshawn Lynch’s silence speaks volumes.
That’s the premise of a new documentary, “Lynch: A History,” which compiles a dizzying barrage of more than 700 video clips from news reports, football games, commercials and interviews to make the case that the NFL running back is both a beast on the gridiron...
The NYPD rejected all requests from the feds to detain immigrants in custody over a one-year period, new data shows.
From July 1, 2018 to June 30, the NYPD received 2,916 so-called detainer requests from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The detainers ask the NYPD to hold a person past their...
Two former on-air journalists at NY1 charged in a new lawsuit Wednesday that getting pregnant was a career ender at the 24-hour news network.
Thalia Perez and Michelle Greenstein allege in the suit filed in Manhattan Federal Court that they were denied opportunities and ultimately fired because...
A Manhattan judge tossed several claims Wednesday in Woody Allen’s lawsuit against Amazon for abruptly abandoning a $73 million movie deal.
Judge Denise Cote ruled that Allen must litigate Amazon’s cancellation of contracts for four movies. She tossed claims revolving around a “multi-picture agreement”...
Jeffrey Epstein showed no signs of a suicide attempt during a brief court appearance Wednesday in which prosecutors said they wanted him to face trial in June 2020.
The multimillionaire sex offender sported the same blue jail uniform and tan shirt that he wore during previous in Manhattan Federal...
An Iowa man was arrested Tuesday on accusations that he threatened a New York City-based Jewish organization with slaughter, prosecutors announced.
According to a complaint filed in Manhattan Federal Court, Garrett Kelsey, 31, called the Jewish organization on May 23, incensed over a video the...
The CEO of a now-shuttered credit union was charged Thursday with accepting bribes from a taxi mogul in exchange for refinancing over $60 million in loans — the latest sign of a crackdown on a predatory industry accused of driving some cabbies to suicide.
Alan Kaufman ran Melrose Credit Union,...
ICE detainees at Bergen County Jail in New Jersey were recently sweating through the summer heat due to broken air conditioning at the facility still under quarantine due to a mumps outbreak.
The wife of an Ecuadorean detainee at the jail told the Daily News on Wednesday that her husband has lost...
A pill-pushing doctor was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison for doling out nearly 1 million Oxycodone pills without giving most of his patients any sort of examination.
Disgraced Dr. Ernesto Lopez charged patients visiting his offices in Manhattan, Queens and Nassau County, as much as $300...
NBA legend Chuck Person was deeply in debt when he joined an NCAA corruption scheme that scored him $91,500 in bribes, an attorney for the player revered as “The Rifleman” said in court papers Tuesday.
Person, 54, pleaded guilty in March to taking the bribes in exchange for directing players at...
Every day is a nightmare for a former Manhattan high school student who was disfigured in a fiery botched chemistry experiment.
Unwanted, awkward stares have become a part of life for Alonzo Yanes since the January 2014 fireball that left him with scars covering his face and arms, he testified...
A teenage social media influencer’s brand took a devastating blow Friday when he was indicted for stealing a Long Island woman’s identity.
Christian Aaron, 19, who lives in Hollywood and boasts more than 185,000 followers on Instagram, was arraigned on charges that he spent $19,000 on luxury vacations,...
The search warrant that resulted in a raid on Michael Cohen's law office and residence in New York last year will be published Tuesday, possibly shedding light on the early stages of the investigation into President Trump's former fixer.
Manhattan Federal Judge William Pauley ordered prosecutors...
The former vice president of a prominent upstate development company was sentenced to two years probation Friday for his testimony detailing corruption in Gov. Cuomo's Buffalo Billion project.
Kevin Schuler, 47, apologized for role in rigging a $750 million development contract for his former company...
A court has ruled President Trump is not above the law — again.
Three mid-level appeals judges wrote Thursday that President Trump is not immune from a defamation lawsuit filed by former "Apprentice" contestant Summer Zervos while he's in the Oval Office.
The 3-2 decision by a five-judge panel...
The Justice Department has opened an inquiry into the sweetheart deal that gave multi-millionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein only 13 months in the private wing of Palm Beach County jail.
The inquiry was revealed in a letter released Wednesday from Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd to Nebraska...
President Trump has “rejected” a subpoena to testify in an upcoming trial over four Mexican protesters roughed up at Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign.
A Bronx Supreme Court judge has already ruled that a jury must determine whether Trump is liable for the conduct of his longtime security guard,...
A judge allowed four people who sued President Trump and his family over their endorsements of shady business opportunities to remain anonymous, citing the President's tendency to comment on pending cases.
The ruling by Judge Lorna Schofield came in a case brought by four working-class people who...
A protester who scaled the Statue of Liberty on July 4 to call attention to President Trump’s child detention policy has a new bulldog on her legal team: Michael Avenatti.
The publicity-loving lawyer for porn star Stormy Daniels announced he was joining Patricia Okoumou’s team in a tweet.
“Patricia...
A corrupt donor to Mayor de Blasio who is cooperating with federal prosecutors said Wednesday that he is not banking on a pardon from President Trump.
The admission from rich wannabe big shot Jona Rechnitz came in response to a series of unexpected questions regarding his father’s political connections....
The Trump administration cannot withhold $29 million in federal money from New York and five other states that do not embrace harsh immigration policies, a judge wrote Friday, ruling that the effort violated the separation of powers.
Manhattan Federal Judge Edgardo Ramos said the money from the...
The Florida strip club DJ accused of mailing letter bombs to President Trump's political enemies is due at a Manhattan court hearing Tuesday.
Cesar Sayoc’s appearance in Manhattan Federal Court was revealed in a letter filed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Sam Adelsberg.
Prosecutors intend to ask a...
A Treasury Department employee was charged Wednesday with leaking confidential reports relevant to the special counsel’s probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election, including suspicious money transfers involving President Trump’s former campaign chairman.
Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards,...
A prestigious group of American writers hopes to show President Trump that the pen is mightier than the tweet.
The nonprofit — known as PEN America — filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Manhattan Federal Court challenging Trump for his repeated threats against the media.
The 26-page lawsuit alleges that...
President Trump’s tweet last year that the accused West Side bike path attacker “SHOULD GET DEATH PENALTY” means that Attorney General Jeff Sessions can’t make a fair, independent decision on whether to seek his execution, the accused terrorist argued in new papers Thursday.
Sayfullo Saipov is...
President Trump’s disgust with snitches is catching on in court.
An attorney for a crack dealer began to argue in closing statements last week that a cooperating witness can’t be trusted — but a judge stopped him before he could cite a “presidential tweet.”
The hint of a new legal trend came Wednesday...
About two dozen cities and states have made a “strong showing” that the Trump administration acted in “bad faith” by ordering a question regarding citizenship status to be included on the 2020 census, a Manhattan Federal Court judge said Tuesday.
New York is among the states that have sued the...
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan finally got their hands on 1,310,365 documents, emails and text messages seized from Michael Cohen’s law office and residences Monday amid an ongoing review for attorney-client privilege.
The major step in the Cohen investigation was revealed in a letter submitted...
Michael Cohen revealed for the first time Monday how many of his documents, text messages and emails he believes are protected by attorney-client privilege: 12,061 out of over 4 million.
Barbara Jones, a retired judge overseeing the review of material seized by the FBI from Cohen’s law office and...
President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen got slapped with a new $338,421 legal bill Thursday for the ongoing review of his documents and electronics for attorney-client privilege.
Manhattan Federal Court Judge Kimba Wood wrote that the hefty invoice from the attorney overseeing the review,...
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have reassembled 16 pages of shredded documents seized from President Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen and recovered 731 pages of encrypted text messages.
Prosecutors provided the update Friday on material seized from Cohen’s law office and residences during...
President Trump wants to make sure some of the papers the FBI seized from his lawyer Michael Cohen stay out of public view -- and he wants to explain why using an extra degree of confidentiality.
A new letter filed by Trump attorney Joanna Hendon in connection with the FBI’s investigation of Cohen...
A question on the 2020 census regarding a person’s citizenship status is “a naked act of intentional discrimination” that will lead to an inaccurate count of the U.S. population, a new lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union against the Trump administration charges.
On March 26, Commerce...
Michael Cohen’s privileges are limited.
The retired judge reviewing the trove of materials seized by the FBI from the law office and residences of President Trump’s personal attorney found less than 1% of the hundreds of thousands of items she’s reviewed so far are protected by attorney-client...
Michael Cohen’s privileges are limited.
The retired judge reviewing the trove of materials seized by the FBI from the law office and residences of President Trump’s personal attorney found less than 1% of the hundreds of thousands of items she’s reviewed so far are protected by attorney-client...
