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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerBARCLAYS CENTER – “We want to get paid,” Department of Justice worker Yolunda Silva said. “Stop holding our checks hostage.” Food and resources were provided to over 600 New Yorkers impacted by the shutdown at Barclays Center this afternoon. The pantry was put together by Food Bank for
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Hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli posing with an Enigma machine, used by the Nazis to decode communications. (Photo: Martin Shkreli [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10100963244517225&set=pb.16400586.-2207520000.1450377114.&type=3&theater] / Facebook)UPDATE: After a six week long trial, last Friday a
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A judge’s gavel. (Photo: Joe Gratz / Flickr)Ten people – including three Brooklynites – were arrested and charged for their roles in widespread alleged schemes to defraud Medicaid and Medicare through sham billing and illegal kickbacks in New York City, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office. These arrests were
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Masal Cafe tabletop. Photo by Sean Egan/Sheepshead Bites.Turkish media outlets are reporting [http://www.dailysabah.com/americas/2016/10/30/us-law-enforcement-raids-turkish-owned-new-york-cafe-house-with-links-to-gulen] that the FBI has raided Masal Cafe, a Turkish-American outpost on Emmons Avenue with ties to Turkey’s controversial Hizmet movement. Hizmet is the secretive organization blamed
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(Photo: Senator Chuck Schumer [https://www.facebook.com/chuckschumer/photos/a.440124729406.239210.15771239406/477565004406/?type=3&theater] / FacebookSenator Chuck Schumer says the Department of Justice must make it a “top priority” to extradite a man from Australia wanted for the brutal 2009 murder of a Brighton Beach shopkeeper.
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Trump Village (Source: Google Maps)It’s the latest legal kerfuffle involving a certain Trump Village co-op board and its embattled former president, Igor Oberman. The Department of Justice announced Wednesday that it has filed a lawsuit against the co-op at Trump Village Section 4, as well as Oberman, who
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The former location of Cropsey Medical Care PLLC, 1706 Cropsey Ave (Source: Google Maps)Dr. Okon Umana, 68, the “no show” doctor [/no-show-doctor-cropsey-medical-care-pleads-guilty-medicaid-fraud-scheme/#.Vc5TAixViko] at a Bensonhurst medical clinic embroiled in a $13 million health care fraud scheme [/nationwide-multi-million-dollar-medicaid-scheme-unfolds/], was sentenced to 24 months in prison in a federal court
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It’s been a while since there’s been an update into the federal investigation of Congressman Michael Grimm’s fundraising. In fact, the whole case has been pretty mum since we wrote last November that the House Ethics Committee halted their own investigation, deferring to officials at the Department
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Source: Redfishingboat (Mick-O) via FlickrThe scourge of prescription painkiller abuse across the country continues to rise, and the mayor’s office and the NYPD are instituting a new pilot program in an effort to prevent fatal overdoses. Politicker is reporting [http://politicker.com/2013/09/city-to-arm-staten-island-police-with-anti-overdose-drugs/] that cops in Staten
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Ofer Biton, an Israeli man who may have illegally raised $500,000 for Michael Grimm’s congressional campaign in 2010 [/fbi-continues-probe-on-congressman-michael-grimms-finances/], pleaded guilty to visa fraud in Brooklyn Federal Court on Friday. The New York Daily News is reporting [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/associate-rep-grimm-pleads-guilty-visa-fraud-article-1.1429304] that as part
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Park Ranger Colleen Sorbera Set Coley Free (Source: jamaicabayosprey.org)The privacy of Coley, the majestic Osprey, has finally been restored after months of intense and warrentless government tracking. Coley’s release was seen as a calculated move by the Obama administration in their overall effort to quiet critical response
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Source: DoctorTongs via FlickrThe following is a press release from the office of U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler: Today, in response to the weekend’s events in Zuccotti Park, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, and the representative of Lower Manhattan