Just weeks before the trial of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the presiding judge issued a warning to his lawyer Friday for sending a text message to the attorney for a cooperating witness in the case.
Read morePulled into a legal battle 15 years in the making, lawyers for the U.S. government apprised the court Friday of its efforts to declassify documents that could link Saudi Arabia to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Read moreIn a rare but not unprecedented move, the federal judge weighing the fate of former New York Assemblywoman Pamela Harris ended a 90-minute sentencing hearing Friday without resolution.
Read moreFyre Festival promoter Billy McFarland was sentenced Thursday to six years in jail and $26 million in restitution for frauds that ran long after a disastrous 2017 concert in the Bahamas led to his arrest.
Read moreThe judge presiding over the prosecution of disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein dropped a charge Thursday related to allegations that he forced oral sex from an actress.
Read moreNo longer seeking to jail the Ecuadorean man whom agents picked up in June at the Army base where he was delivering a pizza, the U.S. government dropped an appeal Friday that it filed just three days earlier.
Read moreThe Second Circuit gave poor marks Thursday to a Bronx designer who says Jay-Z owes him royalties for the Roc-A-Fella logo and product lines.
Read moreSix months after Governor Andrew Cuomo restored the voting rights of 35,000 New Yorkers on parole, the New York City Council met Wednesday to focus on drumming up awareness.
Read moreA Russian billionaire who allegedly overpaid to the tune of $1 billion for his collection of Picassos, da Vincis, Rothkos and Modiglianis ramped up his litigation efforts Tuesday with a suit against Sotheby’s.
Read moreTipping off the first federal trial of the NCAA pay-to-play corruption scandal, a prosecutor focused his opening statement Tuesday on money changing hands between universities and major sportswear companies to groom young hoopsters.
Read moreDuring his debut speech a little more than a year ago at the U.N. General Assembly, President Donald Trump provoked audible gasps in the hall of diplomacy by threatening to “totally destroy” North Korea. What a difference a year makes.
Read moreAfter the New York City Council took measures to ensure there is no racial bias in subway arrests for fare evasion, a new lawsuit claims the NYPD is refusing to disclose telltale numbers.
Read moreThe same day New Yorkers voted on nominees to replace former Assemblywoman Pamela Harris, a federal judge in Brooklyn ordered the Democrat who was arrested in January to forfeit $10,000.
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Saying he got “caught in the cross-fire” of the war on ticket resellers, a stock broker sued the New York Yankees on Thursday for voiding the nine season tickets he purchased for a whopping $134,000.
Read moreAmericans are commemorating 9/11 with somber tributes, volunteer projects and a new monument to victims, after a year when two attacks demonstrated the enduring threat of terrorism in the nation’s biggest city.
Read moreAttorneys for the man accused of mowing down New Yorkers in a 2017 truck attack said Thursday that President Donald Trump’s repeated calls to have their client executed taint his chances of a fair trial.
Read moreMoving the overtime battle to arbitration, President Donald Trump’s longtime personal driver quietly dismissed his case Thursday against the Trump Organization.
Read moreTwo months after accusing Sahara US of breaching a contract to sell it majority shares in The Plaza on Fifth Avenue and the The Dream Hotel Downtown, United Capital Real Estate Development Corp. wants a restraining order to keep Q Hotel New York from swooping in on the deal.
Read moreA federal judge sentenced Paraguayan soccer official Juan Angel Napout to nine years in prison Wednesday afternoon for his role in FIFA corruption.
Read moreScoffing at the chance of a plea deal, a defense attorney for Statue of Liberty protester Therese Patricia Okoumou pushed Tuesday to have her act of civil disobedience weighed by a jury, rather than a judge.
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