By Jane Wester | March 16, 2022
One victim of the scheme is Xiong Yan, today a candidate for a Long Island congressional seat, who was a leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests while a Beijing University law student, according to court records.
By Andrew Denney | March 16, 2022
In 2021, homicide and shooting incident counts fell in Brooklyn as those numbers rose citywide.
By ALM Staff | March 16, 2022
The defendant is a leading member of of the extremist Jewish sect Lev Tahor who was convicted last year of masterminding a conspiracy to kidnap two minors from their mother's home in upstate New York. The ruling and a summary by the Law Journal's decision editors can be found here.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Linton Mann III and William T. Russell Jr. | March 15, 2022
The Court of Appeals in 'Matter of Endara-Caicedo v. NYS Department of Motor Vehicles' recently addressed the circumstances in which a motorist will be subject to revocation of her driver's license for refusing to submit to a chemical blood alcohol test. The majority held that a motorist cannot avoid revocation even when the request to submit to a test takes place more than two hours after the arrest.
By Andrew Denney | March 14, 2022
The alleged scheme involved funneling foreign money into U.S. political campaigns during the 2018 election with the aim of acquiring retail licenses to sell cannabis.
By Avalon Zoppo | March 13, 2022
The Second Circuit was one of six that granted release above the national average.
By Tom McParland | March 10, 2022
Attorney Joseph Bondy, who defended the Ukrainian-born businessman against criminal campaign-finance charges last year, requested a change-of-plea hearing ahead of a planned second trial in the Southern District of New York.
By Jane Wester | March 10, 2022
Whether the government will ask U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan to apply a terrorism enhancement in the case, which would result in a sentence of 10 years in prison, has been a major issue.
By Tom McParland | March 9, 2022
The panel on a 2-1 vote ruled that former District Attorney Tom Spota and his former insurance crime bureau chief could not be sued for bringing a criminal case, which was later shut down by a New York state appellate court. In their ruling the majority rejected plaintiffs' request to narrow the protections in cases where "prosecution is unconstitutional from the start."
By Tom McParland | March 8, 2022
It was an "honest mistake," not to divulge that he had been the victim of sexual abuse as a child, the ex-juror said at a hearing in Manhattan federal court. There was no intent to deceive, he said.
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