Tom Hays

January 26, 2022 | Daily Business Review

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected claims that Judge Brian Cogan made rulings allowing a jury to hear faulty evidence at notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's 2019 trial.

By Tom Hays

2 minute read

October 16, 2019 | Daily Business Review

A West Palm Beach man is the last of four defendants arrested on a campaign finance indictment tied to Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal attorney.

By Tom Hays

3 minute read

November 15, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Media giants Globo and Televisa teamed with a marketing firm to make a $15 million bribe to a FIFA executive to help them secure lucrative broadcasting rights to the World Cup in 2026 and 2030, the firm's former CEO testified on Wednesday.

By Tom Hays, The Associated Press

4 minute read

August 15, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Private lawyers seeking to represent Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in his U.S. drug-trafficking case failed to get assurances that they'll get paid, leaving the Mexican drug lord's defense in limbo.

By Tom Hays

3 minute read

April 11, 2017 | New York Law Journal

For years, a woman named "Mel" mingled with young Muslims in New York, telling them she was a Turkish convert to the faith looking for friends. In reality, she was an NYPD officer. Her true identity and the full nature of her work remains a guarded secret, but, thanks partly to social media, she may be unmasked as part of an upcoming trial of two women accused of plotting a homemade bomb attack.

By Tom Hays

9 minute read

October 24, 2016 | Daily Business Review

In the photos, Alejandra Salgado and her little brother Francisco look like ordinary tourists strolling the streets of midtown Manhattan. He carries a shopping bag. She wears a white dress, a necklace and a leather tote slung over one shoulder. But the outings were hardly innocent.

By Tom Hays, Associated Press

8 minute read

August 02, 2016 | New York Law Journal

New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton is leaving the nation's largest police force, after a tenure in which he received credit for keeping crime down and navigated tension between police and minority communities.

By Tom Hays and Jennifer Peltz

13 minute read

June 13, 2016 | Daily Business Review

In the nationwide sweepstakes among federal jurisdictions to put Mexican drug kingpin and escape artist Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman on trial, the place currently leading the pack is far from the border: Brooklyn.

By Tom Hays Associated Press

8 minute read

June 09, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The longtime head of the nation's largest municipal jail guard union was paid tens of thousands of dollars in cash, delivered in a Ferragamo handbag, in exchange for steering $20 million in union money to a hedge fund, according to a criminal complaint.

By Jake Pearson and Tom Hays

10 minute read

October 09, 2015 | Daily Report Online

Atlanta Hawks' player Thabo Sefolosha was acquitted Friday in a case stemming from a police fracas outside a trendy New York City nightclub.

By Tom Hays

3 minute read