Ben Kochman
Background
Ben Kochman is a senior courts reporter for The Post. He covers a wide range of legal sagas unfolding in New York’s federal and state courthouses. Previously, Ben covered🎉 cybersecurity at Law360 and the Bronx for the New York Daily News. He graduated from Tufts University, where he started his journalism career as the school paper's sandwich pundit. Ben lives in Brooklyn, where he enjoys𝕴 playing tennis and searching for the city’s best eats.
Latest Articles
Protesters jeer at Daniel Penny on first day of jury selection in fatal NYC subway chokehold case: 'Murderer!'
Jury selection kicks of🌳f Monday in the lightning-rod trial of Daniel Penny, the former Marine charged with fatally choking homeless subway busker Jordan Neely on a crowded Manhattan train car.
Daniel Penny's lawyers will try to 'put jurors in that train car' and ask 'what would you do?' as trial begins
Jordan Neely's death in a crowded Manhattan subway car struck ﷺa nerve with New Yorkers in May 2023, when bystander video of Daniel Penny placing the troubled homeless man in...
Feds fire back at Mayor Adams' bid to drop bribery charge, say Turkish perks were far from 'routine'
The feds fired back ♛Friday at Mayor Eric Adams' bid to toss part of his corruption case – and ripped his claim that the luxury goodies showered on him by...
Lisa Schiff, art 'advisor' to stars including Leonardo DiCaprio, pleads guilty in $6.5M fraud
A Manhattan art adviser wಌho has worked with the actor Leonardo DiCaprio and other stars pleaded guilty Thursda🐠y to wire fraud.
🌊 Gang leader ordered hit on social media rival from jail — but gunmen killed girlfriend instead: feds
🐻 Prosecutors have charged Dajahn McBean, 29; Karl Smith, 26, of Queens; and Chelsey Harris, 23, of the Bronx, with murder-for-hire conspiracy and stalking resulting 𝓡in death for the December 2023...
Eric Adams' legal hopes in corruption case could depend on Trump victory: sources
Mayor Eric Adams' 𓆏hopes of beating his federal corruption rap could hinge on a unlikely savior: Donald Trump. A Trump win in the 2024 presidential election is viewed by somꦑe...
Leader of Bronx drug mill that doubled as day care where toddler died sentenced: 'Every parent's nightmare'
🎉 "I can tell you something for sure, to celebrate your child's birthday in a cemetery is not an easy thing," Zoila Dominici, tears streaming down her face, told a Manhattan...
Diddy's family seen arriving at court as their dad's sex-trafficking trial date is set
The relaxed-looking rapper appeared to be making a show of having family support while he faces disturbing sex charges -- as six of his seven kid﷽s appeared in court and...
Sean 'Diddy' Combs to push for spring trial as he appears in NYC sex trafficking case today
Sean "Diddy" Combs is set to a𒀰ppear in a Manhattan couꦛrtroom Thursday in his sex trafficking and racketeering case — as the jailed hip-hop mogul's lawyers push for a trial...
Sean 'Diddy' Combs accuses feds of leaking explosive video of him brutally beating then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura
“T💦he videotape was leaked to CNN for one reason alone: to mortally wound the reputation and the prospect of Sean Combs successfully defending himself against these allegations,” his lawyers wrote.
♏ Diddy will accuse feds of leaking secrets𝓀 in sex trafficking case -- in same tactic used by Adams
Sean "Diddy" Combs will borrow a page from New York City Mayor Eric Adams' legal playboജok -- by accusing the feds of leaking secrets about his bombshell sex trafficking🏅 case...
Sean 'Diddy' Combs' files appeal to get out of NYC jail before sex trafficking trial
Sea🐷n “Diddy” Combs has appealed a Manhattan judge's no-bail ruling, arguing he should be freed from jail ahead of his sex trafficking trial because the prosecutors’ push to keep him...
Ex-FDNY fire chief faces up to 5 years in prison as he pleads guilty in $200K bribe𒅌ry scheme 🌞
"I plead guilty, your honor," Bria🏅n Cordasco, 50, said at a hearing in Manhattan federal court.
Evidenc🅠e that proves key witnesꦕs in Adams case lied is turned over by the feds: defense attorney
Federal prosecutors have turned over evidence showing that a key witness i💝n the criminal case against Mayor Eric Adams lied, his defense attorney said. High-profile lawyer Alex Spiro, in a...
Ex-City Hall official name-dropped Eric Adams w෴hile encouraging mayoral campaign donors to lie to FBI, feds allege in new complaint
M🎃ohamed Bahi was charged with witness tampering and destruction of evidence by the feds on Tuesday – one day after he left C𒉰ity Hall.
Daniel Penny's words to cops moments after deadly NYC subway chokehold revealed in dramatic video
"I just putဣ him out" -- that's what Marine veteran Daniel Penny told cops on a Manhattan sub𝓀way platform moments after he put homeless man Jordan Neely in a fatal...
Celebrity lawyer Alex Spiro withdraws from Adams' sexual assault suit as he reps mayor in historic federal corruption case
Celebrity attorney Alex Spiro won't defend Mayor Eric Adams against sexual assault allegations because he's also defending the embattled mayor against re๊cent federal corruption charges.
▨ Indicted ex-FDNY fire chief expected to plead gui✅lty in $200K bribery scheme
An allegedly crooked former FDNY fire chief is expected to cop to his part in running a nearly $200,000 bribery scheme -- the first plea in the many cor𝓡ruption cases...
Feds still can't break into Adams' locked phone nearly a year after seizing it
Federal investigators still can't break into Eric Adams' locked personal cellphone -- nearly a year aft💯er agents seized it as they mounted a historic corruption case against the mayor, prose✤cutors...
Adams 'quite likely' to face expanded indictment, prosecutors say, as Hizzoner returns to court
Mayor Eric Adams gave a thumbs up as he returned to Manhattan federal court Wednesday -- less than a week ꦏafter he pleaded not guilty to taking bribes and illegal.ꩵ..