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Share via Shortlink Turner Construction CEO Peter Davoren (front) and Michael Bloomberg with 120 Park Avenue (left) and 919 Third Avenue, Bloomberg buildings where renovation costs were inflated in exchange for kickbacks, authorities say. A small Queens glass company sent out a letter in 2017, alerting clients that it had fired three of its employees. It did not say why, but that became clear soon enough. Authorities had discovered an alleged bribery scheme centered not on little-known ...

Decades after The Terminator, it’s more believable than ever that tech companies will someday send us hurtling toward the apocalypse. In real life, that’s happening because they let elections get stolen, but Fox’s Next—the latest in a long line of fiction about how cell phones are actually scary—suggests that it’s not the skull-stomping Terminators we need to be afraid of, but SkyNet itself. Or, as it’s called here, “neXt.” John Slattery stars as the head of a big tech compa...

Some New York police officers, even those who respond to cases of antisemitic graffiti in Orthodox swaths of Brooklyn, don’t seem to know how to spell “swastika” or “yarmulke.” Surveillance cameras, even those in the subway, cannot always be relied upon to capture vandals who paint or carve hateful messages. And police officers frequently either fail to inform victims about their rights to seek compensation from the state, as is required by law, or fill out the related forms inaccurat...

EX-TINIAN MAYOR, THREE OTHERS INDICTED FOR CATTLE RUSTLING Submitted by admin on Wed, 12/01/1999 - 00:00 By Lindablue F. Romero SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (Nov. 30, 1999 – Saipan Tribune)---Former Tinian Mayor James Masga Mendiola and three others have been indicted by a grand jury for four counts of federal criminal violations in connection with cattle rustling on Tinian. Mr. Mendiola, 50, surrendered to the Federal Bureau of Investigation Nov. 19, 1999 and was arraigned in t...

Eighth Circuit State Attorney Bill Cervone did not want a fuss made over his retirement after 20 years in office and another 20 or so as a prosecutor. But he and longtime chief assistant Jeanne Singer got a surprise send-off Friday morning in true COVID-19 fashion. A police car drive-by, with lights and sirens, paraded past Cervone and Singer as they sat on the tailgate of a pickup truck behind the office in downtown Gainesville. Staffers and friends from the legal community joined in. “It wa...

No one will provide a photo of the swastika Columbia University and the New York Police Department have remained almost completely quiet on the status of an investigation into a swastika allegedly found on the Ivy League campus on October 6. Someone discovered the symbol shortly after students voted in favor of the school divesting from Israel. The university quickly condemned the Nazi logo and anti-Semitism. While university officials were quick to condemn the swastika, they have been slow to ...