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June 21, 2021 at 3:10 pm

NYPD officers describe arrest quota system for Black and Latino New Yorkers in new affidavits

The new documents add further detail to a lawsuit launched by four minority officers in 2015 who claim they faced retaliation for not arresting enough...

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FILE – This Feb. 29, 2020 file photo, National Rifle Association Executive Vice President and CEO Wayne LaPierre speaks at Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2020, at the National Harbor, in Oxon Hill, Md. Houston. The National Rifle Association announced Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, it has filed for bankruptcy and will seek to incorporate the nationâ€™s most politically influential gun-rights group in Texas instead of New York. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File) CER204

April 5, 2021 at 3:37 pm

‘Thank God I’m safe’: NRA leader sought refuge from public outrage aboard yacht after mass school shootings

NRA leader Wayne LaPierre says he faced an unprecedented “security threat” in the wake of bloody rampages at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut and a...

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January 4, 2021 at 3:35 pm

Attorney General William Barr personally questioned Jeffrey Epstein’s cellmate after his suicide, source says

NEW YORK — Attorney General William Barr personally questioned the last inmate to share a cell with Jeffrey Epstein before the multimillionaire sex offender died...

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December 28, 2020 at 8:01 am

Harassed by guards and extorted by inmates, Jeffrey Epstein shared suicidal thoughts at NYC federal jail

NEW YORK – Before he died by suicide, Jeffrey Epstein got an early taste of hell. The multimillionaire sex offender was extorted by inmates and...

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November 17, 2020 at 10:16 am

Trump’s lawyer puts Philadelphia mobster ‘Skinny Joey’ Merlino at center of election conspiracy

Reputed Philadelphia mob boss “Skinny Joey” Merlino wants no part of President Donald Trump’s desperate efforts to flip the results of his loss to President-elect...

September 8, 2020 at 5:28 pm

Justice Department bids to defend Trump in rape accuser’s lawsuit

NEW YORK — Justice Department attorneys are seeking to replace private lawyers for President Donald Trump in his legal battle against an advice columnist who...

August 13, 2020 at 4:13 pm

Ghislaine Maxwell isolated from other inmates for her own safety: feds

NEW YORK — Ghislaine Maxwell is being held separately from other inmates at a Brooklyn federal jail for her “safety, security, and the orderly functioning...

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FILE – This March 28, 2017, file photo, provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry, shows Jeffrey Epstein. Attorney Bennet Moskowitz, a lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein’s estate said Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019, that he is disappointed that women who say the financier sexually attacked them aren’t suspending lawsuits to join a special compensation fund, but an attorney for one woman says lawsuits are the better route, at least for now. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File) NYDD201 NYDD201

December 18, 2019 at 4:47 pm

Surveillance footage outside Jeffrey Epstein’s cell during suicide attempt is missing

NEW YORK — Surveillance footage of the outside of Jeffrey Epstein’s cell at the troubled Metropolitan Correctional Center during his suicide attempt has gone missing,...

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August 19, 2019 at 3:40 pm

Jeffrey Epstein signed will worth $577M only 2 days before suicide, with El Chapo lawyer as witness

NEW YORK - Multimillionaire pervert Jeffrey Epstein signed a will declaring he was worth $577 million only two days before he hanged himself in a...

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