In doing so, Mr. Trump’s team precipitated a serious crisis inside the department’s besieged unit responsible for investigating and prosecuting political corruption, and the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office. The astonishing move also drew Mr. Adams, who had begun to cultivate a close relationship to Mr. Trump, closer to the White House — at a time … Read more
This interview contains spoilers from Season 2, Episode 5 of “Severance.” It’s hard to imagine Seth Milchick being late for anything. The manager of the “severed” floor in Apple TV+’s darkly satirical workplace thriller “Severance,” Mr. Milchick, as he is mostly known, is the consummate company man. He is a silky-voiced, coldhearted enforcer and is … Read more
For the Lady Gaga impersonator Nick Gaga, Sundays get increasingly intense toward the end of the month, when preparations start ramping up for a new installment of Gaga Ball, the drag performer’s signature event. This month’s Gaga Ball happens Feb. 22 at Balcon Salon in Midtown Manhattan. Adding to the usual buildup is the release … Read more
On hallowed ground in Maplewood, N.J., a small group of impassioned athletes braved the January cold to fling a disc. Some had gray hair beneath wool caps. Some were in street clothes. One wore shorts and a beard to rival Father Time’s. They can be found there most Thursday nights, even in the bleakest midwinter, … Read more
About two dozen lawyers in the Justice Department’s public integrity section conferred on Friday morning to wrestle with a demand from a Trump political appointee that many of them viewed as improper: One of them needed to sign the official request to dismiss corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams. The acting deputy attorney general, Emil … Read more
Federal judges have almost no ability under the law to refuse a government request to drop criminal charges. The corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York may be the exception. On Thursday, Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, Danielle R. Sassoon, resigned rather than obey an order to seek dismissal of the charges against the … Read more
Federal prosecutors in Washington formally asked a judge on Friday to drop corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York City after the acting U.S. attorney in Manhattan resigned in the face of an order to carry out the request. The prosecutors, Emil Bove III, Edward Sullivan and Antoinette T. Bacon, filed the request … Read more
Seven former top Manhattan federal prosecutors, including several who served under Republican presidents, issued a statement Friday praising Danielle R. Sassoon’s decision to resign rather than obey an order to seek dismissal of corruption charges against New York City’s mayor. “Her commitment to integrity and the rule of law reflects the finest traditions of the … Read more
Before she resigned in protest of the Justice Department’s order to dismiss a corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan made a troubling claim. In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, the prosecutor, Danielle R. Sassoon, said the Justice Department was essentially offering a quid pro … Read more
Ken Wydro, a playwright, director and producer who with his wife, Vy Higginsen, poured their life savings into the Off Broadway gospel musical “Mama, I Want to Sing,” an enduring work of Black theater that ran for more than 2,800 performances, died on Jan. 21 at his home in Harlem. He was 81. The cause … Read more