Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. is in an unenviable predicament. One one hand he has Oscar Fuller, a man with a criminal record who is not a particularly sympathetic fellow, and in the other, Lana Rosas, a petite woman potentially on the edge of death or a vegetative life.…
While merely “chopped liver” compared to Ponzi King Bernie Madoff, Brian Kim, the founder of Liquid Capital Management, was indicted by a New York County Grand Jury for his own Ponzi scheme that allegedly defrauded 45 people out of approximately $4,000,000. To his alleged victims, however, Mr. Kim and Liquid…
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. announced earlier today that his office’s Cybercrime and Identity Theft Bureau has taken down and arrested a 27 person Identity Theft ring based out of Brooklyn, New York. Prosecutors allege that “S3,” as the crew calls themselves, “compromised hundreds of bank accounts,and fraudulently purchased…
According to the Staten Island District Attorney’s Office, Kami Purvis, an employee at a physician’s office, was arrested after an alleged prescription drug scheme that spanned 19 months. District Attorney Daniel Donovan claims that not only did the crime span well over a year and a half, but it is…
According to reports, ex-Giant Lawrence “L.T.” Taylor pleaded guilt to the misdemeanors of Patronizing a Prostitute and Sexual Misconduct this afternoon in full satisfaction of his arrest and charges stemming from his alleged statutory rape of a 16 year old girl. It is likely that LT saw the “writing on…
According to the New York Post, Heidi Jones, WABC’s weatherwoman and meteorologist on channel 7, was arrested after she claimed she had been raped this past fall. It is alleged that Ms. Jones claimed that a man had tried to drag her into an area of Central Park in Manhattan,…
Adam Bradley, the mayor of White Plains New York and a former New York State assemblyman, was convicted after a bench or “judge” trial in White Plains. Initially charged with Assault in the Third Degree, Witness Tampering and Criminal Contempt, a judge convicted Mayor Bradley of Criminal Contempt, Attempted Assault…
According to the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor, a Manhattan based prosecutors office with jurisdiction over narcotic and drug crimes throughout New York City, five Columbia University students were arrested and charged with selling drugs (Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the Third Degree – New York Penal…
According to Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan, a jury convicted Kevin Parker, a New York State Senator from Brooklyn, New York, on two counts of Criminal Mischief in the Fourth Degree. “A” misdemeanors, Senator Parker faces up to one year in jail (Rikers Island) on each count. It is…
Hao “Howie” Wang, a JPMorgan Chase banker formerly employed at a Manhattan branch, was arrested and arraigned in New York County Supreme Court earlier today in connection with an alleged theft of over $1 million. According to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., Mr. Wang stole the identities of four…