A high-profile New York attorney fighting a sexual harassment lawsuit denied allegations that he told a receptionist seeking employment at his office to strip, have sex with him and have herself checked for venereal diseases.
A top aide to Mayor de Blasio had warned against putting the businessmen now at the center of the NYPD corruption scandal onto Hizzoner’s 2014 inaugural committee.
NEW YORK – A businessman at the center of a federal corruption probe involving New York police officers and Mayor Bill de Blasio’s fundraising helped arrange an investment by the correction officers’ union in a hedge fund, a person familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
Brooklyn, NY – The Brooklyn waterfront Watchtower property owned by a missionary group has been sold to a group that includes Donald Trump’s son in law, Jared Kushner for $700 million.
An electronic device that tricks cellphones into revealing a user’s location is becoming a key weapon for law enforcement in its battle against drug traffickers, terror suspects and other dangerous criminals — but its potential misuse against innocent Americans and the secrecy surrounding which agencies have the devices is of growing concern by civil liberties…
DetailsMicrosoft has sued the US government for the right to tell its customers when a federal agency is looking at their emails, the latest in a series of clashes over privacy between the technology industry and Washington.
A chimpanzee named Cha Cha escaped from a zoo in Sendai, Japan, and led police and zoo staff on a dramatic two-hour chase through a residential neighborhood, according to NHK, Japan’s largest broadcaster.
New York – U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara had harsh words for Town of Ramapo Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence and Aaron Troodler, former assistant attorney for the Town of Ramapo and executive director of the Ramapo Local Development Corporation, charging the pair with 22 counts of fraud and conspiracy in connection with municipal bonds issued by…
DetailsIsrael ought to go rogue on Iran, suggested a prominent British military expert on Tuesday, saying that the Jewish state was “an outpost of strength” that should target Iran’s nuclear program.
