According to the New York Post, Manhattan District Attorney, Cyrus Vance, Jr. and his fellow chief prosecutors throughout New York City may have a problem on their hands. Mariem Megalla, an NYPD civilian lab technician, has been suspended by the NYPD from her job testing drugs and narcotics recovered by…
Former New York Giant Linebacker, Lawrence Taylor (L.T.), was arrested in Ramapo, New York after he allegedly raped a fifteen year old girl at a Holiday Inn. Although the allegations are slowly coming out, it appears that Taylor will be charged with Rape in the Third Degree (New York Penal…
Manhattan District Attorney, Cyrus Vance, Jr. is flexing his new found muscles. While his predecessor, Robert Morgenthau, routinely tackled schemes into the multiple millions of dollars, District Attorney Vance is just beginning find his feet and to make a name for himself. Far from a “big money” splash, the chief…
According to the Brooklyn (Kings County) District Attorneys Office, 32 people have been arrested and indicted in connection to individual incidents of Welfare Fraud amounting to nearly $1 million. Although not part of a ring, these individuals face varying felonies including Welfare Fraud in the Second Degree (NY PL 158.20)…
According to Queens District Attorney Richard Brown, a spa owner, Barbara Nieto, is alleged to have performed liposuction suction to a patient’s stomach and injected the fat into her buttocks for a $500 fee. Unfortunately, not only is Ms. Nieto allegedly not licensed to practice medicine or similar procedures at…
The political nightmare and familial anguish that has enveloped White Plains (Westchester County) Mayor Adam Bradley was magnified exponentially yesterday when he was arrested and arraigned on new charges of alleged domestic violence against his wife Fumiko. According to the court complaint against Mayor Bradley, the former Assemblyman is charged…
Yet again, Manhattan prosecutors have come after another individual and his company for allegedly defrauding New York out of tax revenues. According to a press release by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, Abdur Rashid Salaam and his companies, Safe & Secured Protective Services, Inc. and T.S.I. Special Services, Inc., have…
Queens County, the new hotbed of white collar crime and prosecutions, is the home of another alleged fraudulent scheme being prosecuted by the Queens County District Attorney’s Office. According to a Queens County District Attorney’s Office press release, Roger Arias, Martina Duran (a.k.a. Gladys Arroyo), Aldo Bussi, Ramon Gaston, and…
The Brooklyn, Kings County, District Attorney’s Office has announced that a Grand Jury indicted three individuals for Grand Larceny in the Second Degree for allegedly bilking the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) out of approximately $150,000. According to the press release, Jacqueline Jackson, a NYCTA supervisor, John Headley, an…
Robert Halderman, the man who was accused by prosecutors of extorting and blackmailing “Late Show” host David Letterman, finally gave up on his concocted “screenplay” defense and pleaded to Attempted Grand Larceny by Extortion in Manhattan Supreme Court. In return for his plea, Mr. Halderman will be sentenced to six…