A federal jury convicted a former New York state judge Thursday of attempted extortion and attempted soliciting of a bribe for pressuring a lawyer to give $10,000 to his defense fund.
Federal prosecutors said Thomas Spargo pressured the lawyer, who had cases pending before Spargo when he was a state Supreme Court justice in 2003, [...]
Richard Aborn is continuing his unexpected surge of endorements in the race to succeed Robert Morgenthau as Manhattan district attorney, picking up the support of Catherine Abate and Richard Davis–two people who once wanted the job themselves.
Abate, a former state senator, state corrections commissioner and chair of the state crime victims board, whose elected career [...]
Governor David Paterson has appointed Justice Sheila Abdus-Salaam to fill the seat in the state court’s Appellate Division.
She has been a Justice in the Supreme Court of New York since 1994, after serving two years as a Civil Court Judge in the city.
Abdus-Salaam also served as General Counsel to the City Division of Labor Services, [...]
New York City paid out $567.9 million for personal injury, property damage and other law suits last year, a slight increase over the $558.3 million given out the year before, Comptroller William Thompson said yesterday.
NYPD settlements for false arrest, excessive force or assault — $35.2 million — were up 40 percent from 2007, the report [...]
Assistant District Attorney Cyrus Vance Junior officially announced his candidacy Monday for the Manhattan DA’s office.
The 54-year-old said he would continue the office’s commitment to investigate and prosecute white collar crimes as well as work to keep the city’s streets safe.
Vance has been an assistant DA for 26 years.
In a statement, he says, “From years [...]
The United States Supreme Court rules against the city and victims of gun violence.
The court threw out a complaint seeking to revive lawsuits against the firearms industry, charging they knowingly sold guns that could be sold on illegal markets.
This puts an end to lawsuits first filed in 2000.
Federal appeals courts in New York and Washington [...]
After years of not getting any traction in the Senate, a proposal to place nickel bottle deposits on water and juice containers got its first public hearing in that house Wednesday.
For three of the past four years, the Democrat-led Assembly passed bills to expand the state’s 27-year-old 5-cent deposit law on soda, sparkling water, malt [...]
Democratic lawmakers and the governor are pushing changes in New York drug laws that would send more nonviolent drug offenders to probation and addiction treatment.
The Assembly scheduled a vote Wednesday on drug sentencing legislation that includes Speaker Sheldon Silver among dozens of co-sponsors. It would eliminate minimum required prison terms for lesser felonies, establish at [...]
On a fall afternoon in 2002, the New York City police broke up a protest in front of Gov. George E. Pataki’s office in Midtown Manhattan and hauled a dozen demonstrators away.
The protesters were demanding that Mr. Pataki repeal the state’s 30-year-old drug sentencing laws, widely regarded as the nation’s most unforgiving. One of those [...]
The state Commission on Judicial Nomination recommended seven candidates to Governor David A. Paterson Monday as possible successors to Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye, including two current members of the Court of Appeals and three private practitioners with no prior judicial experience.
In a surprise, the commission did not nominate Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick, an associate judge [...]
