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Source: Nodar Kherkheulidze via Wikimedia CommonsA disbarred lawyer has been indicted for allegedly stealing over $1 million from an investor, potential home buyers, and a title insurance company in various scams connected with two distressed properties in the wider Bensonhurst area, announced Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson today. Domenick Crispino,
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Photo by Ditmas Park CornerA year-long investigation into drugs and violence in our neighborhood resulted in a major raid yesterday, August 5, in which police arrested 15 people for narcotics trafficking, as well as one teenager for the murder on Newkirk Avenue and E. 17th Street [/blog/crime/teenager-arrested-charged-with-murder-of-adetunji-ajakaye-at-newkirk-avenue-e-17th-street-nypd] last
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Four Mill Basin youths have been indicted for their connection to an attack on two NYPD officers outside of a Bensonhurst home last month, which left an off-duty detective badly beaten. Joseph Nacmias, Jason Chalhon, Vito Morgera, and Michael Peterson, all 17-year-olds, have been variously charged in a six-count indictment
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The official Ocean Avenue address of Merkaz, which is also Fetman’s home address and an organization under his control, through which he allegedly embezzled the funds. (Source: Google Maps)The chief financial officer of Manhattan-based nonprofit Aish HaTorah, Jacob Fetman, of Midwood, was charged yesterday with embezzling more than
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The location of the 2010 fire. (Source: Google Maps)A Bensonhurst landlord pleaded guilty last month for his role in the deaths of five immigrants from Guatemala [/after-two-years-wifes-death-in-fire-still-haunts-miguel-chan/] in a 2010 blaze. Vasilios Gerazounis, whose building at 2033 86th Street was subdivided illegally when it caught fire, pleaded guilty on
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The Midwood building where Hussein beat his wife to death. (Source: Google Maps) Noor Hussein, 75, was sentenced yesterday to 18 years to life for beating his 66-year-old wife to death in their Midwood home in 2011 after she cooked him the wrong meal. Hussein was convicted of second degree
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Borgella, left, and Evans, right.Convicted murderer Woody Borgella has been sentenced to 15-years-to-life in prison for the 2011 shooting death of his live-in girlfriend in their Midwood apartment. A jury convicted Borgella, 31, earlier in March for shooting Lora Ann Evans in the chest, killing her. Borgella and Evans,
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Thompson (Source: BrooklynDA.org)Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson announced the launch of a Public Integrity Hotline this week, giving Brooklynites a place to call to report public corruption. “My office is committed to rooting out public corruption in Brooklyn, and we take every complaint about corruption seriously. For that
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With school in session and the days getting shorter, keeping our kids, and our community, safe is a high priority. If you’re a local business owner, one way you can help is by becoming a Safe Stop [http://www.brooklynda.org/safe_stop/safe-stop.html]. A community outreach initiative
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Dov Hikind (Source: assembly.state.ny.us)Assemblyman Dov Hikind, the influential Orthodox power-broker, has endorsed Ken Thompson for Brooklyn District Attorney. The New York Times is reporting [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/nyregion/legislator-with-sway-in-orthodox-jewish-community-endorses-hyness-opponent.html?_r=0] that Hikind’s endorsement comes as somewhat unexpected considering the
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[SlideDeck2 id=408 ress=1] By Priscila Ortiz Green thumbs are popping up in P.S. 20 [http://ps20.org] with a parent-led initiative to expand the school’s garden program to all 300 students. Starting in 2011, The Clinton Hill School’s farm program originally only catered to two
anti-bullying
Attention budding filmmakers and young district attorney dreamers! Kings Country District Attorney Charles J. Hynes [http://www.brooklynda.org/] is holding his Third Annual Anti-Bullying Video Contest [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLOLT77Fig0] for Brooklyn students in grades four through nine. The winner will become Brooklyn district attorney for
Charles Hynes
The following is a press release from the offices of Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes: Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes has received $103,000 in public protection funds from Brooklyn State Senator Martin J. Golden that will provide support the District Attorney’s existing alternative to incarceration programs
antisemitism
The following is a message from the offices of Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz: In a push to punish those responsible for hate crimes, including the latest epidemic of anti-Semitic crimes plaguing our community, as a member of the Assembly’s Codes Committee, I called on the City’s District Attorneys to
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The Brooklyn District Attorney has not yet filed charges related to yesterday’s multi-agency rescue of 23 dogs living in squalor in a Sheepshead Bay couple’s two homes [/breaking-bay-couple-arrested-for-cruelty-to-animals-20-dogs-recovered-from-two-homes/] , though the city did issue a slew of health- and safety-related violations. The DA’s office is still investigating the
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[http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/2606875388/in/photostream]Courtesy of wallyg via FlickrSeventeen men were indicted and a dozen medical supply companies were raided last week for their alleged involvement in a health care scam that netted more than $3 million for the conspirators. Most of those involved hailed