Man Testifies Psychic Earned Trust Before Swindling Him
Rob Millet testified that he sought the help of fortune teller Sylvia Mitchell after learning his boyfriend was moving away and his mother was ill.
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Rob Millet testified that he sought the help of fortune teller Sylvia Mitchell after learning his boyfriend was moving away and his mother was ill.
A Greenwich Village fortune teller is accused of scamming a desperate single mom that she was an ancient Egyptian princess out of $27,000.
Charles Hynes, who's served as Brooklyn's top prosecutor for 24 years, lost in the Democratic primary to Kenneth Thompson. He had said he would not actively campaign after losing.
Police are continuing to piece together the chain of events that led to the confrontation, which was all caught on a camera mounted on the helmet of a fellow biker and posted to YouTube.
The charges were announced by prosecutors in Manhattan, where an indictment unsealed in federal court portrayed a trio of ex-soldiers eager to kill for money.
Leroy Webster was sentenced to 40 years in prison for gunning down Eusi Johnson and then shooting at responding police officers.
A Queens man will serve 20 years behind bars for his part in the killing of a teenager over his iPhone.
A Pakistani man living in Brooklyn ordered the deaths of two people in Pakistan as retaliation after his daughter was freed from an arranged marriage there, prosecutors said.
A New York state assemblyman charged in a corruption case has backed out of a scheduled guilty plea.
Franklin Reyes, 17, kept his head down during Tuesday's court appearance. The little girl's father, Alan Russo, cried out "she was only 4, only 4," while his wife Sophia sobbed at his side in the courtroom.
Three men facing federal terrorism charges in New York City have strong ties to the same extremist Islamic group that's claimed responsibility for the deadly attack on an upscale Kenyan shopping mall, U.S. authorities say.
At the conclusion of his sentence Cortez-Granados will face five years of supervised release, he has also been ordered to pay $145,815 in restitution to his two victims.
Abdel Hameed Shehadeh was sentenced to 13 years in prison Friday in Brooklyn federal court.
Federal Judge Sterling Johnson Jr. agreed with prosecutors that the jury would certainly benefit from protection in the upcoming trial of the leader of violent Brooklyn drug gang, but denied the request because the court had to "be mindful of today's economic climate.''
Roberto Espinal and Danny Cano are accused of taking bribes ranging from $40 to $1,500 for copies of official NYPD accident reports.
Alfonso Lainer, 23, was arrested Tuesday and charged with aggravated harassment and assault as a hate crime, police said.
Victor Santana, 20, pleaded guilty to first degree robbery last month and was sentenced on Wednesday.
Hynes lost to Kenneth Thompson, a former federal prosecutor, 55 percent to 45 percent in the Sept. 10 Democratic primary.
A judge has denied the Bloomberg administration's request to stay changes ordered to the city's controversial stop, question and frisk policy.
Glafira Rosales has admitted to running a 15-year scam on the art world, selling millions of dollars in counterfeit paintings.
A New York City woman who ran a daycare center from her house, her husband and another man have been arrested on multiple drug charges.
Charles Hynes has been Kings County District Attorney for 24 years. No sitting DA had been voted out of office in New York City since 1955.
The defendant's father came to court with a bag of antique gold coins and jewelry passed down from generation to generation since the 1800s.
Ronell Wilson, 31, was convicted of killing undercover detectives Rodney Andrews and James Nemorin on Staten Island in 2003. The two were posing as gun buyers.
The three are charged with conspiring to violate the Arms Export Control Act and unlicensed firearms dealing, U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch said.
