Hal Lieberman News Today

More than three years after his turn as a government mole ended, former Ald. Daniel Solis is finally set to answer to bribery allegations in court Wednesday — virtually, at least.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Amarjeet Bhachu said he learned of the city’s interest in filing a pleading in Solis’ case Wednesday morning. Neither he nor Solis’ attorney, Lisa Noller, objected to a short delay in Solis’ case so the city could make its argument.

Solis, who turned government mole to help federal investigators build cases against Ald. Edward Burke and ex-House Speaker Michael Madigan, was charged with a single bribery count on Friday.

arrow Rohan Bolt, George Bell, and Gary Johnson walking out of prison Klaus Enrique In March, a Queens judge freed three men—George Bell, Gary Johnson, and Rohan Bolt—from prison after they served 24 years for the 1996 murders of a check-cashing store owner and an off-duty police officer in East Elmhurst. Judge Joseph Zayas found the trio had been wrongfully convicted because Queens prosecutors made false statements at trial and failed to turn over critical evidence pointing t...

TERMINATOR: Nick Stahl Would Love to Return as John Connor By Mike Sprague Hunter Hunter star Nick Stahl played John Connor in director Jonathan Mostow’s Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. If you didn’t know. Or, you know, forgot. And today, he says he’d love to return to the series if given the chance. Stahl tells I would jump at the opportunity. I love those movies, I grew up watching Terminator movies and was just thri...

2000, who mounted his own bid for the top of the ticket in 2004. and early on, he was the front runner in the polls based largely on name recognition and a campaign season not really yet under way. liebermans closest rivals were the establishment candidates, congressman dick gephart of missouri and massachusetts senator john kerry. but then something happened in the summer of 2003. former governor howard dean began to surge. fueled by internet fundraising and popular rhetoric, dean became the hi...