Greg D. Andres was deputy assistant attorney general for the criminal division before returning this month to the United States attorney's office in Brooklyn, where he had been a prosecutor for nearly a decade. »
The activation of the administration's long dormant task force on criminal misconduct in the financial collapse, with New York's progressive attorney general Eric Schneiderman as co-chair, could be the most fateful political and economic development of... »
Declaring it “unconscionable” that the U.S. should send men and women overseas to preserve democracy and deny them the vote back home, U.S. District Court Judge Gary Sharpe has ruled in a suit brought by the Department of Justice against the state that... »
This post is being updated as we learn more about the ruling and the reaction. U.S. District Court Judge Gary Sharpe has set June 26 to become the new primary date for federal elections in New York in a long-awaited ruling handed down this afternoon. “... »
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is in NYC with no public schedule. Although his press office has not seen fit to remind us of this fact, (and thanks to CapCon for jogging my memory), the governor is attending the Democratic Governors Association winter policy confer... »
9th Precinct police officers Gregory Foster and Rocco LaurieOn the night of January 27, 1972, rookie NYPD officers Rocco Laurie and Gregory Foster were ambushed while on patrol along Avenue B at East Eleventh Street.Only recently joining the police for... »
BY ARI EZRA WALDMAN Upon your daily Internet search for pretty much anything, you may hit something like Google's modified blackout or Reddit's dark home screen that urge you to sign a petition because "SOPA and PIPA damage the Internet."... »
The activation of the administration's long dormant task force on criminal misconduct in the financial collapse, with New York's progressive attorney general Eric Schneiderman as co-chair, could be the most fateful political and economic development of... »
