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Search results for "Manhattan District Attorney" ...
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Bronx Prosecutors Drop Staggering Loads of Cases
A nine-month investigation by WNYC’s Ailsa Chang revealed that people accused of crimes in the Bronx have a greater chance of walking away without charges than anywhere else in New York City. Chang’s two-part series shows that the Bronx County District Attorney’s Office declines to prosecute thousands more cases than do the four other District Attorney offices. And the main reason is a troubling internal policy that no other prosecutors’ office in the city follows: In the Bronx, a case is dropped if a victim doesn’t cooperate within the first 24 hours after an arrest. Bronx prosecutors declined almost one quarter of all their cases in 2011. That’s nearly four times the average rate Manhattan and Brooklyn prosecutors declined cases.
Tags: Crimes; charges; prosecutors; declined cases; victim cooperation
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Conviction
This is a 10-year hidden camera investigation into a likely case of a wrongful conviction in New York City. Ultimately, our broadcast triggered the Manhattan District Attorney’s office to officially reopen and reinvestigate the case as part of its newly created “Conviction Integrity Unit.” Our investigation may also have led to the identity of the real murder suspect. It was reported by Luke Russert.
Tags: conviction; attorney; murder; suspect
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The Clarks: An American Story
The Huguette Clark story began as a feature, a tale of mystery. Investigative reporter Bill Dedman began with a simple question: Why are the mansions of one of America's richest women sitting vacant? The result morphed into a breaking story, spawning criminal investigation by the Manhattan district attorney and most recently the U.S. attorney's office.
Tags: Hugette Clark; mansion; William Clark; fortune; wealth
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"Iran's Manhattan Project"
This investigative report reveals how Iran has "been able to launder billions" of dollars, with assistance from New York banks, to improve their nuclear weapons program. The U.S. has relied on "unenforceable sanctions" that have allowed Iran to easily bypass the measures in place. After their permission to film was "revoked," the investigative team posed as tourists to get the rest of the story.
Tags: Dubai; Emirate; UAE; nuclear weapons; Islamic Republic; Tehran; Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; Manhattan District Attorney; Robert Morgenthau; Alavi Foundation
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I Didn't Do That Murder; New Light On Old Case
Based on questions reporter Christine Young raised in her reporting of a 1987 murder conviction, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, in a rare decision, is re-investigating the murder case of Michaelanne Hall, a prostitute brutally murdered in 1989. The man convicted for the crime, Lebrew Jones, was a mentally retarded security guard and his conviction rested on a nonsensical statement he gave to police. Now 51, Jones is awaiting DNA test results from the fingernail clippings of the murder victim. Also, a potentially viable suspect has emerged as a result of Young's work.
Tags: wrongful conviction; Manhattan medical examiner's office; prostitution; runaways; murder; DNA testing; Innocence Project; developmentally disabled
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The Newspaper Racket
Robbins profiles Doug LaChance, a former newspaper drivers union president and alleged mob associate. LaChance, who has a lifetime contract to deliver the New York Times that pays him about $200,000 a year, has been imprisoned twice and has also been the subject of an eight-year-old racketeering case brought by a Manhattan district attorney. Despite stepping down as president of the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union in 1993, many members still consider him the union's major power. And law enforcement officials believe that LaChance wields his influence on behalf of the Luchese crime family. Robbins explains that thugs like LaChance are descendents of gangsters hired by newspapers in the early 20th century to help them gain market share -- by any means necessary.
Tags: newspaper delivery; Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union; Luchese crime family; New York Times; newspaper business; Robert Morganthau; Doug LaChance
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Stadium Naples
This IRE story is actually the FOI requests, court filings, affidavits and correspondence relating to reporter Gina Edwards attempts to obtain court-related documents from the state of New York "involving A.S. Goldman, a Naples-based brokerage firm that has been implicated in a $100 million fraud. ... New York's committee on Open Government, an official state body, agrees that the documents constitute public records, yet Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau's office has refused our repeated FOIL requests to review discovery documents." The story corresponding with the documents is #17443.
Tags: FOIA; public records; court records; stadium; lawsuits; open records; Freedom of Information Law "FOIL."
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Vanity Fair Magazine looks at the investigation of Clark Clifford, a pillar in the Democratic Party, and his relationship with the BCCI banking scandal; profiles Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, who is leading the investigation, April 1992.
Tags: Brenner Altman
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No title (id: 7649)
Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.) reports on a real estate and savings and loan tycoon who conned $150 million from more than 2,200 investors, including celebrities; case is described as the biggest white-collar crime in the history of the Manhattan district attorney's office; man and 12 associates are convicted on fraud and larceny-related charges, Oct. 7, 1990.
Tags: NY Fee S&L