According to Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes, a scamming former stock broker managed to cheat and lie his way back into the 1% at the expense of fellow one percenters and on the backs of the 99% as well. While the arrest and indictment of Boris Shteyngart will likely not…
In the end, the Dominique Strauss Kahn case ended where it all began…the gutter. Detectives with the New York City Police Department arrested the former IMF leader and paraded him before the media. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. obtained an indictment only to dismiss it months later. The press…
After a string of high profile defeats, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance is going back to the well with the hope that a tested formula will deliver a conviction to public eyes. Like its predecessors, Testwell Laboratories and V. Reddy Kancharla, American Standard Testing and Consulting Laboratories Inc. (ATSC), along…
Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman has a long way to go to fill his predecessor Andrew Cuomo’s shoes, but he announced an indictment today that will certainly keep a crew of criminal defense attorneys busy over the next few months. The indictment, the culmination of a significant investigation where undercover…
Although not arrested by Detective Frank Drebin, for seventeen individuals indicted in Brooklyn because of their alleged involvement in High Class NY, a New York City escort ring, this certainly is “some kind of a bust.” Unfortunately for them, however, there is nothing funny about the predicament they face. According…
Jeremy Saland, a New York criminal defense attorney and former Manhattan prosecutor, was interviewed for a Wall Street Journal article published today addressing the intersection of modern day lawyering and social media. An interesting article, one of the main themes of the piece was how social media – blogs, twitter…
Oscar Fuller, the man accused by prosecutors of obliterating the petite Lana Rosa with one punch, was arraigned on an indictment charging Assault in the Second Degree in Manhattan Supreme Court earlier this April. According to District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr., what began as a dispute over a “trivial matter…
James Whittemore, the twenty-something Manhattan man arrested for an alleged drunken rampage at the fabled Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York City, is going to a get a sobering reality check when he sees a criminal court judge for the first time. It is alleged by police that Mr. Whittemore…
Make no mistake. 34 year old wannabe rapper, Raymond Velasquez, is a little past his “aspiring” years, but deserves some credit for his energy and ambition. While his arrest for disrupting NYC traffic and intentionally disregarding the police may not be worth the attention he has brought upon himself, prosecutors…
If true, Mahmoud Abdel-Salam Omar and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, both arrested in Manhattan after allegedly making sexual advances (and then some) on two members of hotel staff at NYC’s Pierre and Sofitel respectively, are both in serious criminal trouble. While the two men have much in common, both are top financial…