Posted inCriminal Justice
Feds Arrest Mayor Adams’ Pastor Pal for Alleged Fraud
Bishop Lamor Whitehead is also accused of extorting a businessman and lying to FBI agents.
Criminal Justice
Posted inRikers Island
Lawsuit Asserts If Rikers Can’t Provide Medical Care, It Should Cap Population
Public defender groups want the Department of Correction to pay $250 for each detainee denied scheduled treatment at clinics and hospitals.
Posted inCriminal Justice
City Hall Shake-Up: Mayor Adams Shifting ‘Violence Interrupter’ Oversight Agencies
Scheduled to begin next month, the switch takes power away from the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, an agency that greatly expanded under the de Blasio istration.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Manhattan DA Seeks ‘Red Flag’ Gun Ban for Comptroller Employee
Prosecutors cited alleged threats to Comptroller Brad Lander’s staff, in rare city use of state law that allows authorities to remove firearms from people considered potential risks for violence
Posted inNYPD
Feds Investigating Drug-Planting Allegations Involving NYPD Officers
The allegations had previously been dismissed by the NYPD and the Staten Island District Attorney’s Office despite explosive video footage from two separate car stops in Staten Island in 2018.
Posted inCriminal Justice
For ‘Clemency Season,’ Prisoner Advocates Want Hochul to Keep Promise All Year
Last December, the governor said she would change the way pardons and clemency applications were handled. But little has changed since.
Posted inJuvenile Justice
Lawyers, Advocates Prod Albany for More Legal Protections for Kids Under Arrest
A broad coalition of groups plan to rally Dec. 15 for a proposed bill that would prevent cops from interrogating minors without counsel or taking them to a precinct without consulting parents first.
Posted inDrugs
Weed Home Delivery Orders Pending From New York Cannabis Regulator
With high-maintenance retail outlets slow to open, state fast-tracks launch of courier services.
Posted inIncarceration
CEO of Nonprofit That Ran Scandal-Plagued Inmate Hotel Program Steps Down
Julio Medina, the founder of Exodus Transitional Community, resigns as the nonprofit faces five separate investigations.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Two Dead, Canceled Contracts and Abrupt Board Resignation from Exodus CEO
Julio Medina quietly resigned his role on the that oversees city jails, THE CITY has learned, as his group that provides post-incarceration services faces new scrutiny.