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For months, two cryptocurrency investors pressured their longtime friend to hand over his electronic devices and the passkey to a crypto account worth millions of dollars, according to prosecutors and an internal police report. The investors, John Woeltz and William Duplessie, asked the man to meet three different times. At the first meeting, outside Manhattan, … Read more

The New York attorney general was an hour into a Westchester County town hall, expounding on her view of her mission during President Trump’s second term — on democracy and the need to defend it, on courage and the need to display it — when a middle-age man stood up and told her she was … Read more

Brad Lander took a risk last summer when he entered the New York City mayor’s race instead of running for a second term as comptroller. But he was worried then, he says, about the city’s future under the leadership of Mayor Eric Adams — and later about the possibility that former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo … Read more

Harvey Weinstein on Wednesday was convicted of a sex crime in Manhattan for the second time in a little more than five years, reaffirming his guilt in the eyes of New York’s legal system. But a jury of 12 Manhattan residents acquitted Mr. Weinstein on another of the charges against him, and reached no decision … Read more