According to New York court documents, a business partner of a man who died leaving an $86 million estate allegedly embezzled $4 million from the estate while serving as a co-executor. The man is contesting that he embezzled the money and instead said he was...
Last April, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito announced that she wanted to go easier on several low-level offenses in New York. Her list of bullshit crimes we shouldn't be sweating too much included urinating in public, making unreasonable noise, and hanging out in a park...
While New York residents may know that drivers with a blood alcohol level of .08 percent or higher are considered intoxicated, but they may be surprised to learn that the limit is far lower in most other countries. According to the National Transportation Safety Board,...
According to court documents, one of the former owners of the New York Islanders recently had his assessed 10-year sentence vacated by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in Manhattan. Reportedly, the appellate court found that the record made by the sentencing...
Prosecutors in New York have said that two men who worked at a Chase bank branch in Brooklyn stole in excess of $400,000 over a two-year period from account holders. The men are said to have carefully selected inactive accounts that had high balances and...
Prosecutors say that two New York bank employees stole more than $300,000 from the accounts of elderly or deceased individuals. The men worked as personal banking representatives at a JP Morgan Chase branch in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood where they are said to have targeted dormant...