Acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon resigned Thursday after refusing to obey an order by President Trump’s Justice Department to dismiss the pending indictment charging Mayor Eric Adams with bribery and participating in a scheme to obtain illegal campaign donations. In her letter to Attorney General Pamela Bondi a day before, Sassoon argued that the […]

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A taxpayer-funded program to house incarcerated people released from Rikers in hotels during the COVID-19 pandemic became an elaborate fraud conspiracy in which the founder and former CEO of Exodus Transitional Community, Julio Medina, pocketed millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks, Brooklyn federal prosecutors charged Thursday. Medina, Christopher Dantzler, the owner of an unlicensed […]

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A deputy commissioner and longtime associate of Mayor Eric Adams forced a real estate brokerage the city relies on to help secure leases to hire a friend he identified as “my broker,” new court papers allege. Jesse Hamilton, deputy commissioner for real estate services at the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS), told Cushman & […]

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Thomas D. Homan, who President Donald Trump has placed in charge of his deportation efforts, is set to meet with Mayor Eric Adams Thursday — three days after the Department of Justice requested federal prosecutors drop corruption charges against the mayor citing a need for his assistance on immigration enforcement. Homan, who served as the […]

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The MTA is trying to get a leg up on turnstile jumpers at the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers Street subway station. Crescent-shaped metal shields attached Tuesday to a bank of turnstiles at the Lower Manhattan complex are the MTA’s latest attempt to curb a fare-evasion crisis that last year cost the transit agency an estimated $360 […]

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