Tom Hays

September 08, 2014 | New York Law Journal

The New York Police department announced Thursday it is launching a pilot program to test 60 cameras worn by officers, becoming the latest and largest police department in the country to accept the technology as a tool of modern law enforcement.

By Tom Hays

5 minute read

August 20, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan said he would ask a grand jury to consider charges in the death of a black man placed in an apparent chokehold by a white police officer.

By Michael R. Sisak and Tom Hays

3 minute read

August 19, 2014 | Daily Report Online

A New York prosecutor said Tuesday he would ask a grand jury to consider charges in the death of a black man placed in an apparent chokehold by a white police officer.

By Michael R. Sisak and Tom Hays

4 minute read

April 29, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Following a two-year investigation of his campaign financing, U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm was indicted Monday on federal mail, wire and tax fraud charges stemming from a restaurant he operated before entering Congress—a case he says is trumped up.

By Tom Hays

5 minute read

March 19, 2014 | Daily Report Online

In surprise testimony in a Manhattan courtroom Wednesday, Osama bin Laden's son-in-law recounted the night of the Sept. 11 attacks, when the al-Qaida leader sent a messenger to drive him into a mountainous area for a meeting inside a cave in Afghanistan.

By Larry Neumeister and Tom Hays

5 minute read

February 24, 2014 | New York Law Journal

The NYPD's intelligence unit did not discriminate against Muslims with far-reaching surveillance aimed at identifying "budding terrorist conspiracies" at mosques and other locations in New Jersey, a federal judge has ruled.

By Tom Hays

3 minute read

January 07, 2014 | Daily Report Online

JPMorgan Chase & Co., already beset by other costly legal woes, has agreed to pay $1.7 billion to settle criminal charges that it ignored obvious warning signs of Bernard Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme, federal authorities said Tuesday.

By Larry Neumeister and Tom Hays

5 minute read

December 02, 2013 | Daily Report Online

The way Frank DiPascali tells it, Bernard Madoff planted the seeds of deception for his $17 billion Ponzi scheme back in the 1970s, when his firm was in a small office at 110 Wall Street.

By Colleen Long and Tom Hays

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November 06, 2008 | Daily Report Online

NEW YORK AP Federal prosecutors said Thursday that they will not bring criminal charges against Eliot Spitzer for his role in a prostitution scandal, removing a legal cloud that has surrounded the former New York governor since his epic downfall eight months ago.U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia said investigators found no evidence that Spitzer or his office misused public or campaign funds for prostitution.

By TOM HAYS and ADAM GOLDMAN

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June 08, 2009 | Daily Report Online

NEW YORK AP - Some elderly investors have sued the trustee overseeing the liquidation of Bernard Madoff's assets, saying the system being used to pay claims against the disgraced financier is unfair.The lawsuit filed in bankruptcy court Friday in Manhattan said six longtime investors wiped out by the scandal together lost life savings of $9 million - the amount on fictitious statements issued by Madoff's defunct firm in 2008.

By TOM HAYS

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