Posted by Steven G. Brill | Feb 10, 2012 |
A woman was sexually assaulted after getting off the subway just after 1 a.m. on Wednesday. The suspect, Michael Torres, 29, allegedly grabbed the 36-year-old on the escalator as she exited the J train at the bowery station in Manhattan. According to authorities, Torres was armed with a screwdriv...
Posted by Steven G. Brill | Feb 08, 2012 |
Opening statements were heard today on the case of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player who is accused of fatally beating his ex-girlfriend in May of 2010. The prosecution and criminal defense attorney gave their statements and described the rocky relationship between the accused, Geor...
Posted by Steven G. Brill | Feb 08, 2012 |
In January, police arrested former US marine Itzcoatl Ocampo, for the killings of four homeless men in California. Prosecutors were expected to file formal murder charges for the stabbings that occurred in late December. Those closest to him claim that Ocampo was never the same after returning fr...
Posted by Steven G. Brill | Feb 07, 2012 |
Mark Meckler, the co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, was arrested on federal charges after taking a gun into LaGuardia Airport in New York City. The incident occurred when Meckler attempted to check in for a Detroit flight with a locked gun box containing a Glock pistol and 19 cartridges of am...
Posted by Steven G. Brill | Feb 07, 2012 |
A New York City police officer was shot in the head while pursuing a man at a Brooklyn housing project and narrowly evaded losing his life. Kevin Brennan, the 29 year old six year veteran of the force, was brought to Bellvue Hospital Center where the doctors removed the bullet from his skull. He ...
Posted by Steven G. Brill | Feb 07, 2012 |
Peter Figoski, a veteran officer of the NYPD was shot at close range and killed with an illegal semi automatic weapon. The officer was responding as backup to a robbery in progress at a basement apartment in East New York. The first two responding officers who arrived on the scene found the robbe...
Posted by Steven G. Brill | Jan 13, 2012 |
On October 13, 2011, Denise Darbeau and Rachel Edwards entered a McDonald's in Greenwich Village after a night of drinking. Shortly after arriving they were involved in a confrontation with an employee, Rayon McIntosh, after the women allegedly tried to pass off a counterfeit fifty dollar bill. T...
Posted by Steven G. Brill | Apr 16, 2011 |
In what seems like a new arrest every day, federal prosecutors in both New York and New Jersey have sought indictments against everyone from hedge fund managers to lawyers alleging insider trading activity. At the forefront is the high-profile indictment of Raj Rajaratnam, a hedge fund manager, w...
Posted by Steven G. Brill | Apr 16, 2011 |
In a pending trial in the Eastern District of New York, former mafia Don Joseph Massino is cooperating with the federal government and testifying against his successor Don Vinny Basciano. This event is a major shift in what is generally known about the mafia the mob families bosses. While there h...
Posted by Steven G. Brill | Apr 16, 2011 |
In an aggressive and bold move, the US Attorney's Office of the Southern District of New York have indicted executives of 3 on-line poker sites. The charges are money laundering and bribery which stem from the the allegation that the gambling proceeds were funneled away from the poker sites and i...
Posted by Steven G. Brill | Apr 12, 2011 |
Madoff Says Big Banks Complicit in Historic Ponzi Scheme
Bernie Madoff, sentenced to 150 years for masterminding a massive Ponzi scheme believed to have bilked investors out of tens of billions in the largest such scam in history, just told the Financial Times that many key banks knew of, and ...
Posted by Steven G. Brill | Dec 02, 2010 |
Let's face it. Nothing is private anymore. If you use Face book, most of your friends probably share their most intimate, as well as their most mundane moments with you and the rest of their virtual world. We live in no ordinary time.
So, what happened in New Jersey this past September when two ...
Posted by Steven G. Brill | Nov 18, 2010 |
With the news today that Ahmed Ghailani was acquitted of all but one of 280 charges of conspiracy and murder in the 1998 terrorist bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, there is no doubt that a lot of people will be shocked and downright angry. The ink is not even dry on the verdict s...
Posted by Steven G. Brill | Sep 16, 2010 |
(NEW YORK, N.Y., Nov. 20) – Police on eastern Long Island are investigating reports that more than a dozen cars were spray painted with racist graffiti; 10 days later seven white teenagers reportedly insulted an Hispanic man with racial slurs before attacking and killing him at a Long Island Rail...
Posted by Steven G. Brill | Sep 16, 2010 |
NEW YORK, NY (Feb. 17) – If a perjury indictment is returned against 7-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens, one noted New York criminal defense lawyer fully expects the federal government to make an example out of the superstar pitcher in a bid to deter anyone in the future from lying during...
Posted by Steven G. Brill | Sep 16, 2010 |
He Also Has Advice for Joba Chamberlain's Attorney
New York Defense Lawyer says courts abuse celebrities' rights NEW YORK, NY (Nov. 19) – If Yankee pitcher Joba Chamberlainis convicted of driving while under the influence, a Nebraska court, in addition to enforcing the mandatory jail sentence of...
Posted by Steven G. Brill | Mar 26, 2009 |
NEW YORK, NY (March 24) – You're driving up Sixth Avenue at night in Manhattan. You see a rare opportunity to make some time as one traffic light after another begins changing from red to green in perfect sequence. You press down hard on the accelerator as your vehicle picks up speed with each pa...