Federal District Judge Dale E. Ho on Wednesday issued a 78-page ruling that dismissed the criminal corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York. In his decision, Judge Ho granted a motion by the Justice Department to drop the charges but denied its request to allow them to be resurrected later, saying that doing … Read more
On Wednesday the judge, Dale Ho, gave Adams what he wanted, a dismissal of the charges. That was also what the Trump administration wanted, though it preferred that the charges be dismissed with the right to bring them back, which the judge refused. That — and Adams’s apparent chumminess with the president — made some … Read more
Two women accused in Brooklyn of mistreating employees of their “orgasmic meditation” group argued that key evidence against them had been concocted for a true-crime documentary and had it thrown out of court. The women, Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz, won a major pretrial decision in March when prosecutors said in court papers that they … Read more
The Ex-Convict Who Turned Down Columbia’s Ph.D. Offer
A striking and headline-making fraud case resulted in a conviction last Friday, when Charlie Javice was found guilty in federal court of conning JPMorgan Chase out of $175 million. The bank has also sued Ms. Javice, a 32-year-old entrepreneur who once made the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, for elaborately falsifying her student-finance start-up’s customer … Read more
Mayor Eric Adams got his best-case scenario on Wednesday, when Judge Dale E. Ho dismissed his federal corruption indictment. With the stroke of a pen, the prospect of a trial-turned-media circus had been eliminated, along with the prospect of prison time. And because the indictment was dismissed with prejudice, prosecutors can no longer revisit the … Read more
When it comes to the New York City subway, what once was old is new again. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Wednesday revealed a revamped map of the city’s subway system that takes its cues from a 1970s throwback that was cheered by design connoisseurs and reviled by many traditionalists. It is the first major … Read more
“Anyone who thinks this city is in chaos, they just don’t know this city,” Mayor Eric Adams said during a news conference at police headquarters on Thursday. “New York City remains the safest big city in America, bar none. The numbers prove that.” Crime reached record lows before the pandemic and then spiked afterward. Now, … Read more
Paul McDonough, whose evocative candid photographs, often of crowds, captured what he called the galvanizing energy of turned-on New Yorkers and the tired West Coast venues where urbanites had fled to tune out, died on March 25 in Brooklyn. He was 84. His wife, the author Yona Zeldis McDonough, said he died in a nursing … Read more
Two weeks ago, Brad Karp, chairman of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, announced that President Trump would dismiss an executive order aimed at the law firm in return for commitments that included $40 million in pro bono legal services for causes Mr. Trump championed. Mr. Karp said in an staffwide email that the deal … Read more