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Reports on the arrest in Brooklyn, New York of Pakistani Tavneer Choudhry on charges that he lied to U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents by fabricating a story about a terrorist plot in an effort to ingratiate himself with the federal authorities.

The article reports on the arrest of Aaron Mostofsky, who is allegedly a son of Kings County Supreme Court Judge Steven Mostofsky, for his role in the riot at the U.S. Capitol in January 2021 to prevent the certification by Congress of the results of the 2020 presidential election.

The article focuses on two lawyers Mattis and Rahman were charged with causing damage to a police vehicle by fire and explosives. It mentions that both were arrested shortly after the incident during protests against the killing of a black man George Floyd; and also mentions that they were expected to be appear before a federal magistrate.

The article describes the case of a Brooklyn, New York, man, Kevin Walker, who assumed the identity of several other people, including his son and a terminally ill cancer patient, in order to avoid a jail sentence. Walker has also been charged with bank fraud and has been known to fake several illnesses to try to escape criminal convictions.

This article presents information about the testimony of an undercover police officer in a trial of a Muslim in Brooklyn, New York for a plot to blow up the Herald Square subway station. Shahawar Matin Siraj's attorney alleges that Siraj was entrapped and never would have thought about a bombing without being urged into it by a paid police informer. The under cover police officer testified that Siraj was making statements that implicated him long before he met the informer.

This article presents information about a decision from Judge John Gleeson of the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, N.Y. which ruled that the system for choosing judges in New York is unconstitutional. The ruling bars the State board of elections and Republican and Democratic officials from selecting candidates for the Supreme Court positions. A citizens group brought the action protesting the patronage system that prevented voters from having a say in the selection process.

Reports there is a surveillance video that shows a police officer failed to help his injured partner in Brooklyn. Investigation of Officer Gilberto T. Marrero for leaving his partner who was shot three times during a car stop; The routine inquiry by the Police Department's Firearms Discharge Review Board; The wounded officer, Patrick Caprice, saved by a bullet-proof vest; Where the camera was located.

A 70-year-old Brooklyn man who was found dead in his duplex apartment on Thursday was a longtime mob figure, the authorities said Friday. The man, William Romano, was found submerged in a bathtub upstairs, and his companion, Elviza Aronova, 36, was found partially clad in a bedroom on the lower floor, the police said. She had apparently been beaten and stabbed to death, and Mr. Romano apparently died of head injuries, the medical examiner's office said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Police Department on Monday reassigned to desk duty four officers who are under scrutiny over charges by a man who said he was sodomized with a piece of police equipment during a scuffle in a Brooklyn subway station, a police spokesman said. The decision to place the officers on modified assignment requires them to surrender their guns and shields, and suggests a change in the position of the department, which had insisted that it saw no evidence of misconduct by the officers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An affidavit filed in federal court in Brooklyn suggests that officials with the Schiavone Construction Company, a contracting giant working on some of the largest public works projects in New York City, were involved in variety of schemes involving organized crime in recent years. The affidavit, filed in 2005 as part of an organized crime investigation that has led to scores of arrests, says that Schiavone executives plotted to evade a requirement that they seek to hire businesses owned by women on a city project by using a front that was actually meant to funnel money to a mob-connected trucking executive. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that drug dealer Kenneth McGriff who was convicted of ordering two murders in 2001 and other crimes escaped the death penalty on February 09, 2007 in a federal court in Brooklyn, New York City. A jury failed to get unanimous verdict to execute McGriff for the murders. However, the dealer was sentenced to life in prison without the hope of release.

The article reports on Baldassare Amato, a criminal involved in two killings who was sentenced to life imprisonment by a federal judge in Brooklyn, New York City, on October 27, 2006. Amato was charged on murder of two 1992 mafia. Amato belonged to the Bonanno crime family, a group that controls organized crime activities in the New York City. While pronouncing the verdict, the judge Nicholas G. Garaufis of United States District Court said to Amato of offering the sentence as a gift.

The article reports on the verdict of Sterling Johnson, judge of U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, on Abad Elfgeeh, a Yemeni-born who has lived in the U.S. for a long time, for illegal money transfers.

Reports that the federal prosecutors in Brooklyn has filed a civil racketeering suit against the International Longshoremen's Association in an effort to take over the union, which they said has been controlled by two New York mob families for 50 years.

Reports on the presumption of detectives that whoever dismembered the body of Rashawn Brazell whose limbs and torso were found in a subway tunnel and at a recycling plant in Brooklyn, New York City has some knowledge of anatomy. Possibility that Brazell might have met his killer on a telephone chat line; Details on the discovery of the body parts of Brazell; Effort of detectives to find out where the victim had been killed.

Reports on the justification of the shooting of a homeless man Jose Feliciano by a police officer in Brooklyn, New York City on November 22, 2004.

Reports on the progress of the case involving the murder of college student Mark Fisher in Brooklyn, New York City. Preparation of a memorial service by Fisher's parents on the spot where the body was found; Refusal of authorities to provide details about the new developments in the case; Role of John Guica in the case.

Reports that Thomas Houston, a convicted felon, was arrested and charged with robbery and sexual assault of three young women in Brooklyn, New York City. Specific charges filed against Houston for each of the victims; Details of the investigation and Houston's arrest.

Reports that the decision of a Brooklyn grand jury not to indict a police officer who testified that he accidentally shot and killed an unarmed 19-year-old on a housing project was following a pattern in such cases set not just in New York City, but around the nation. Calls for a review by federal authorities and accusations that state prosecutors work with the police to investigate and prosecute police shootings; Unwillingness of grand juries to find fault in instances in which officers make mistakes in settings where they either had reasons to be fearful or appeared to be acting in good faith.

Reports that the autopsy on the decomposed body of a man who was found in a duffel bag in the trunk of a car in Bay Ridge, New York City, determined that he had died from a single gunshot wound to the head. Discovery of the body in the trunk of a Mazda which had been parked there for about three weeks.

Reports on an accident where a 12-year-old boy was fatally injured by a car in Brooklyn, New York. Minor injuries and death from the accident; Identification of the driver of the sport utility vehicle who killed the boy; Charges against the driver which includes an unauthorized use of a vehicle and driving with suspended license.

Reports on a robbery in Brooklyn where two police officers were wounded and one suspect was killed. Events leading up to the police injuries; Shooting death of a suspect in the robbery; Condition of the injured police officers.

Grand jurors investigating claims by a 24-year-old man that he was beaten and sodomized with an object by police officers inside a Brooklyn subway station in October have voted to indict three of the officers involved, people briefed on the matter said on Saturday night. One of the officers, Richard Kern, 25, faces an assault charge, the most serious of the charges in the indictment, which is expected to be unsealed on Tuesday. The charges stem from accusations by the man, Michael Mineo, that one of the officers jabbed a piece of police equipment -- later identified in testimony as a baton -- into his buttocks, causing internal injuries. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A police officer told a grand jury this week that he saw a fellow officer jab a baton into the buttocks of a man being subdued at a Brooklyn subway station, a law enforcement official said on Friday. The testimony supports elements of the man's accusation that he was assaulted by officers during the October confrontation. Officer Kevin Maloney testified that Officer Richard Kern ''dragged the Asp across the guy's buttocks,'' using the brand name of the retractable police baton, ''and then when he got to the middle of the buttocks he jabbed it into him,'' the law enforcement official said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Grand jurors investigating a 24-year-old man's claims that police officers beat and sodomized him with a hand-held object in a Brooklyn subway station last month heard from two key witnesses on Thursday: the man himself and a police officer present during the encounter. The testimony by the two men -- Michael Mineo, who has accused four officers of brutalizing him on Oct. 15, and the 26-year-old officer whose account is said to bolster aspects of Mr. Mineo's claims -- came 10 days after the grand jury was impaneled. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CORRECTION APPENDED EVEN in a city that celebrates unbridled ostentation, the sprawling estate at 139 Bassett Avenue in the seaside enclave of Mill Basin, Brooklyn, seems to redefine conspicuous consumption. The front yard is a gaudy stab at Versailles, with four-foot obelisks at each corner of the driveway, intricately tiled fountains and a series of steel sculptures that depict dolphins mid-dive, children at play and birds in flight. The 7,000-square-foot home, whose aesthetic is cruise-ship-meets-mob-mansion, has five terraces, a curved-glass elevator and an arcade room outfitted with gumball machines. On the second floor, there is what the residents call their ''ice cream room,'' furnished with an old-fashioned counter and soda fountain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Officer Richard Kern's former police supervisor says that a little more than a year ago, Officer Kern won the top evaluation in a 15-person squad that patrolled the 71st Precinct in Brooklyn. Officer Kern's lawyer, John D. Patten, says his client has never been disciplined in four years on the force and has never gotten a parking ticket. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Grand juries are usually presented with a set of witnesses and facts neatly packaged by the district attorney, with the decision to indict often an easy one. This is not the case with the special investigative grand jury meeting now to examine the claim of a Brooklyn man that police officers sodomized him with a piece of equipment on Oct. 15. About the only facts each side can agree on is that the man, Michael Mineo, 24, a body piercer from the Prospect-Lefferts Gardens neighborhood, ended up in a hospital after the police, believing he was smoking marijuana, chased him into a subway station, tackled him and, after finding no drugs, let him go with a summons for disorderly conduct. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Presents news briefs in New York and New Jersey, as of May 9, 2003 including the suspension of a police detective in Brooklyn, after a prisoner escaped.