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NY man admits illegally trading stock for 2nd time

May 9, 2012

NEW YORK (AP) – A onetime powerful biotechnology financier who was among America’s wealthiest before a 1990s criminal fraud conviction pleaded guilty to fresh securities fraud charges Wednesday, admitting that his ban from acting as a securities broker or dealer didn’t stop him from plunging illegally back into the world of biotech companies. David Blech, [...]

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Types of Criminal Defenses

May 9, 2012

If you have been accused of a crime, you will have to appear in court. The accused in this situation is known as thedefendant. As the defendant, you and your criminal attorney will likely want to establish some sort of criminal defense to prevent a guilty verdict. A criminal defense is a strategic argument that attempts to [...]

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Ex-NYC cop gets 25 years for robbing drug dealers

May 9, 2012

NEW YORK — In 2004, a crew of street-hardened bandits abducted a drug courier carrying two kilograms of cocaine in Upper Manhattan and threw her into a van with an armed Emmanuel Taverez lurking inside. Tavarez, 33, was no ordinary criminal: He was an off-duty New York Police Department officer moonlighting as muscle for the [...]

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Thomas Gioeli, Reputed NYC Mob Boss, Cleared Of Killing Officer

May 9, 2012

NEW YORK — A reputed Mafia boss and a co-defendant were convicted Wednesday on racketeering charges. But in a blow to the government, they were acquitted of the most shocking crime in their federal case: the unsolved gangland slaying of an off-duty New York Police Department officer in 1997. A jury delivered the mixed verdict [...]

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Lawyer: Reputed NYC mobster quit crime family

May 9, 2012

NEW YORK – Borrowing a legal strategy that worked for John “Junior” Gotti, an accused killer for the mob is defending himself against murder charges in federal court by claiming he quit the Gambino organized crime family nearly a decade ago. One-time Gotti associate John Burke realized “his so-called friends were not that at all. [...]

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Activists arrested at NYC police stop-and-frisk protest use trial to highlight their message

May 4, 2012

NEW YORK — Seizing an opportunity to spotlight their message, 20 critics of police stop-and-frisks began telling a judge Wednesday that they shouldn’t have been arrested during a demonstration last fall. While arguing that they hadn’t broken the law while protesting in front of a police station last fall, some said they willingly risked arrest [...]

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Delmon Young arrested in NYC

May 4, 2012

NEW YORK – Detroit Tigers left fielder Delmon Young apologized to his team and fans Friday, just before getting arraigned on a hate crime harassment charge for a fight at his hotel during which police say he yelled anti-Semitic epithets. Young posted a $5,000 bond at a brief hearing in Manhattan court and was released less than an hour [...]

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Corpse leaves $180K mystery at NYC train station

May 4, 2012

NEW YORK — The mystery began with a heart attack, a man with a past, and a bag of money that federal authorities now want to keep. In August, a retired Teamster from Boston stepped off an Amtrak train in New York City and collapsed on the platform at Pennsylvania Station. As medics tried to [...]

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Thieves steal 30 NYC manhole covers in two months

May 4, 2012

NEW YORK — Roving gangs of thieves are stealing manhole covers from the streets of New York, in the city’s latest crime wave. Thieves are prying up the 320-pound (145kg) cast-iron lids and hauling them off to scrap yards. More than 30 of the covers have vanished from streets in Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx [...]

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