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Sean 'Diddy' Combs shouldn't expect special treatment at a notorious Brooklyn jail that's like 'hell on earth'
A former federal prosecutor described the jail where Sean Combs is being housed as "hell on earth f…
Natalie Musumeci
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Half of all Brooklynites are white, but 97.5% of the borough's social distancing arrests were of people of color
The arrest data aligns with concerns that the New York Police Department's social-distancing enforc…
Isaac Scher
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Trump Org CFO's ex-daughter-in-law hired a former top financial fraud prosecutor to pore over 'boxes of documents'
Duncan Levin formerly oversaw complex financial crimes for the Manhattan DA, who is now investigati…
Jacob Shamsian
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Sam Bankman-Fried is in an 'inhumane' Brooklyn jail often criticized for its condition, and where Ghislaine Maxwell previously complained of rodents
Sam Bankman-Fried has been remanded to the Metropolitan Detention Center, where prisoners protested…
Pete Syme
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Ivanka Trump could be the next target for Manhattan's district attorney, according to a former federal prosecutor
"They're trying to tell other people, 'You have got to flip, because we have everything,'" said Cyn…
Thomas Colson
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Brooklyn subway shooting suspect faces life in prison on a federal charge prohibiting terror attacks on public transit
James was arrested Wednesday afternoon in New York's East Village after a manhunt following the Tue…
Jake Epstein
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Target of Chinese spy's 'honey-trap' plot says he's still running for Congress
Tiananmen Square dissident-turned-New Yorker Xiong Yan laughs off the plot to frame him with porn o…
Laura Italiano
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Half of Queens residents are white, but 90% of social distance arrests just this week were of people of color
20 people were arrested for alleged social distancing violations this week in Queens, New York. Onl…
Isaac Scher
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Sam Bankman-Fried's attorneys are bringing experience working on 'El Chapo' and Ghislaine Maxwell cases to the crypto exec's defense
Sam Bankman-Fried, who is facing two counts of wire fraud and six conspiracy counts, pleaded not gu…
Morgan Chittum
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Trump attorney says Manhattan is an 'unfair venue' for the former president, calling it 'pro-Joe Biden.' Yet, that's where he built his empire.
In 1999, Donald Trump lauded Manhattan as a place he could have "all to myself" as a developer. Now…
Katie Balevic
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Inside the Brooklyn jail holding Ghislaine Maxwell and R. Kelly, where the toilets don't work and a judge said it's 'run by morons'
The federal jail in Brooklyn routinely flouts civil liberties and staffers allow fights and drugs t…
Jacob Shamsian
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The former Minnesota cop who shot and killed Daunte Wright will be charged with 2nd-degree manslaughter
Kimberly Potter resigned from the Brooklyn Center Police Department on Tuesday, two days after fata…
Kelly McLaughlin
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Brooklyn prosecutors want to throw out 90 convictions after an ex-NYPD detective was accused of framing innocent people
All 90 convictions were cases in which ex-NYPD detective Joseph Franco was an essential witness, Br…
Michelle Mark
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Kyrie Irving helped buy George Floyd's family a house: 'I was trying to do my part'
Kyrie Irving confirmed that he helped buy a house for George Floyd's family, saying he wants to hel…
Scott Davis
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13 NYPD cops were convicted of abusing their power. Now a Brooklyn prosecutor wants to throw out nearly 400 convictions that were based on their work.
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said he has "lost confidence" in cases where the convicted…
Jake Epstein
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How New York's messy congressional primaries are bringing intra-party 'wounds' to the fore
With two separate dates splitting New York's congressional and state-level primaries, three House r…
Jake Lahut,John L. Dorman
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R. Kelly's attorney says the 'musical genius' doesn't deserve 25 years in prison for his crimes because he was sexually abused as a child
A lawyer for R. Kelly asked a federal judge to sentence him to no more than 10 years in prison. Pro…
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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Increasing police presence on the subway didn't prevent Brooklyn mass shooting, and adding more won't increase public safety either, advocates say
NYC subway crime is up 70% possibly because of pandemic-related hardships and a neglect of the city…
Taiyler Simone Mitchell
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed civil rights attorney Maya Wiley for New York City mayor
For Wiley, the endorsement could provide a boost over her most direct rivals, City Comptroller Scot…
John L. Dorman
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REPORT: Obama Will Appoint Brooklyn's Top Prosecutor To Be The Next Attorney General
Lynch only emerged in recent days as a top candidate. Many progressive and Latino advocates had bee…