Tom Hays

May 27, 2015 | New York Law Journal

The leaders of soccer federations corrupted the sport for nearly a quarter century by taking $150 million in bribes and payoffs, U.S. prosecutors said Wednesday as they laid out a sweeping case involving 14 people and marquee events as the World Cup.

By Tom Hays and Jennifer Peltz

4 minute read

May 19, 2015 | New York Law Journal

New York's court system has about 1.2 million open warrants, affecting people who run the risk of arrest for failing to resolve sometimes decades-old infractions for low-level offenses.

By Jake Pearson and Tom Hays

5 minute read

May 18, 2015 | New York Law Journal

New York's court system has about 1.2 million open warrants, affecting people who run the risk of arrest for failing to resolve sometimes decades-old infractions for low-level offenses.

By Jake Pearson and Tom Hays

5 minute read

April 30, 2015 | New York Law Journal

For nine days, the 12 jurors asked to see dozens of exhibits, to have hours and hours of trial transcripts read to them and for access to a computer to organize their thoughts about the murder trial of a man accused of killing 6-year-old Etan Patz nearly 36 years ago.

By Colleen Long and Tom Hays

3 minute read

March 05, 2015 | New York Law Journal

A Pakistani man was found guilty Wednesday in a failed al-Qaida bomb plot after a New York trial that featured spies in disguise, evidence from the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound and the defendant's questioning of an admitted co-conspirator.

By Tom Hays

5 minute read

March 04, 2015 | New York Law Journal

A Pakistani man was found guilty Wednesday in a failed al-Qaida bomb plot after a New York trial that featured spies in disguise, evidence from the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound and the defendant's questioning of an admitted co-conspirator.

By Tom Hays

5 minute read

December 04, 2014 | New York Law Journal

A white New York City police officer was cleared Wednesday in the alleged chokehold death of an unarmed black man stopped on suspicion of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes, a case that sparked outrage and drew comparisons to the deadly police shooting in Ferguson, Mo.

By Tom Hays and Colleen Long

6 minute read

December 03, 2014 | Daily Report Online

A grand jury cleared a white New York City police officer Wednesday in the videotaped chokehold death of an unarmed black man who had been stopped on suspicion of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes — a case that sparked outrage and drew comparisons to the deadly police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri.

By Tom Hays and Colleen Long

4 minute read

September 30, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Bernard Madoff's last surviving son was under investigation for possible involvement in his father's multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme until the day he died from cancer earlier this month, but scrutiny over his $16 million estate lives on.

By Tom Hays and Larry Neumeister

5 minute read

September 23, 2014 | Daily Report Online

A New York judge has sentenced Osama bin Laden's son-in-law to life in prison for his conviction in a terrorism case.

By Tom Hays

1 minute read