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Queens pol gets 18 montღhs for ไillegal campaign contributions
February 3, 2015 | 12:49amAlbert Baldeo won’t be running for City Council again anytime soon. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison Monday🗹 for funneling illegal campaign contributions into his unsuccessful bid for...
Former city worker gets five years prison for Medicaid scam 𓂃
February 2, 2015 | 11:55pmA former city worker will spend five years in behind bars for exploiting his position to use Medicaid as his pe🌱rsonal piggy bank. Akim Murray, an ex-eligibility specialist𓆏 at the...
Dismissed juror says she would've voted to convict Malcolm Smith
January 30, 2015 | 2:12pmཧ An alternate juror in the corruption trial of former state Sen. Malcolm Smith says she believes the disgraced Queens Democrat spearheaded a failed $200,000 bribery scheme to get the Republican...
༒ Ex-GOP boss Isaacs nixed Malcolm S𝔍mith bribe
January 17, 2015 | 1:54amQuid pro quos are OK — but he draws the line at being bribed. Ex-Manhattan GOP Chairman Dan Isaacs testified Friday that he was ready to provide former Democratic state... 🗹 ༒
Obama's win in 2012 catalyst for Malcolm Smith bribery scandal
January 16, 2015 | 1:50amIt’s all President Obama’s fault! A $200,000 bribery scheme to secure the Republican line in the 2013 mayoral rac💫e for then-state Sen. Malcolm Smith, a♒ Queens Democrat, was the result...
Malco⛦lm Smith boasted ab💙out plan to bribe senators: undercover agent
January 8, 2015 | 6:23pmPols like money in their pockets — not just their campaign c🎃offers. A federal agent who went undercover as a wealthy developer to boost the government’s bribery case against former...
𝓡 Undercover agent says Malcolm Smith knew of bribery scꦿheme
January 8, 2015 | 2:53amA federal agent who went undercover as a wealthy businessman for the government’s case against former state Sen. 🗹Malcolm Smith testified Wednesday that the disgraced politician was well aware he🐈...
Malcꦉolm Smith tried to buy election iไn alleged $200K bribery scheme
January 7, 2015 | 1:53amDisgraced former Democratic state Sen. Malcolm Smith wante🉐d so badly to become the next mayor of New York that he allied himself with equally crooked Republicans in a $200,000 scheme...
♐ De Blasio reappoints judge who freed men w🔜ho threatened cops
December 31, 2014 | 5:37pmMayor Bill de Blasio delivered another blow to New York’s Finest on Wednesday when he reappointed a Brooklyn judge who freed without 🍰bail two men who tไhreatened cops just days...
Personal trainer accused of threatening cop ch💧arged with harassment 🌱
December 30, 2014 | 4:08amA Brooklyn personal trainer was charged with aggravated harassment Monday for✨ threatening an NYPD officer just one day after two cops were gunned down in Bed-Stuy. Clifton Jean-Pierre sent a...
Feds 'vote sale' tactic nixed in Malcolm Smith bribery case
December 19, 2014 | 1:13amIndic🌃ted state Sen. Malcolm Smith caught a big break Thursday when a federal judge shot down a bid by prosecutors to tell jurors at his bribery trial next month how... ꦜ
Mob turncoat gets 12 years after ✃copping to 5 hits
December 10, 2014 | 4:25amA mob turncoat who admitted to helping kill five people — including a Brooklyn cop — landed just 12 years behind bars💖 Tuesday. And, thanks to time served, Colombo soldi𝔍er...
Parents of student killed by bus꧙ get huge payout from🤡 MTA
December 2, 2014 | 1:48pmThe MTA has🌞 agreed to pay $1.8 million to the parents of an FIT student killed by a bus driver on his first day back fr🔯om a three-month texting-while-driving suspension,...
Mentally ill w🐭oman championed by Bharara safe—for now
November 27, 2014 | 2:34amA mentally ill woman whose fight aꩵgainst eviction from her Manhat🎃tan apartment has been championed by US Attorney Preet Bharara is safe — for now. Stephanie Aaron has been warring...
Sharpton denies fathering ex-City Hall aide's troubled teen
November 19, 2014 | 4:24pmThe Rev. Al Sharpton unexpectedly denied fathering ex-City Hall aide Rachel Noerdlinger's troubled teenage son during a news conference about his long-standing tax debts on Wednesday. Without prompting, Sharpton brought... 🃏
Sharpton claims to have se💜ttled his debts with the IRS
November 18, 2014 | 1:07amThe Rev. Al Sharpton seized on ex-spokeswoman Rachel Noerdlinger’s departure from City Hall Monday to dredge up his own old compᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚlaints about the government’s probe into his shady tax returns...
ꦑ A-listers mourn Oscar de l🐷a Renta
November 3, 2014 | 2:12pmThe biggest names in politics, fashion a꧙nd the arts bid a tearful farewell Monday to designer Oscar de la Renta, whose enduring eye for style touched virtually all aspects of...
Students lug mattresses to campus to protest🧜 sexual assault
October 29, 2014 | 3:09pmHundreds of angr▨y college women went to the mattresses Wednesday 𝓡as protests erupted over the handling of sexual-abuse claims at Columbia University and other area schools. Some 200 demonstrators piled...
⛦ NYPD lieutenant found guilty in ticket-fixing scandal 🦩
October 15, 2014 | 1:38pmAn NYPD lieutenant was found guilty Wednesday — anꦯd faces up to one year in jail — for leaking information to colleagues about the massive NYPD ticket-fixing scandal. Judge Martin Marcus found...
Ex-officer in ticket-fix scandal 'wasn't a great cop' but isn't guilty: lawyer
October 8, 2014 | 4:35pmHe’s not the best cop — but that doesn’t mean he’s guilty of ♌robbery and transporting drugs. That’s what lawyers for Jose Ramos — the NYPD cop who ꧃spurred the...