Those nominations will now go before the Judiciary Committee in the State Senate, which will then decide if they’ll get a full vote before the entire chamber. It’s likely that they will.
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A man who worked as a livery driver in 1996 has been charged with raping a passenger 25 years ago, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Thursday.
Danny Stewart, 58 and of Manhattan, was indicted by a grand jury and arraigned in Queens Supreme Court on a charge of rape in the first degree for the 1996 rape of a female passenger.
Stewart – a livery driver at the time – allegedly picked up the victim from her workplace in Jamaica and sexually assaulted her in his car after displaying what appeared to be a gun.
A man who worked as a livery driver in 1996 has been charged with raping a passenger 25 years ago, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Thursday.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo has finalized his picks to fill two seats on the state Court of Appeals, the highest state court in New York: Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas and Justice Anthony Cannataro, the administrative judge of the New York City Civil Court.
Those nominations will now go before the Judiciary Committee in the state Senate, which will then decide if they’ll get a full vote before the entire chamber. It’s likely that they will.
“New York State s courts deserve the best and brightest minds to uphold principles of law and fairness and move our state forward, and these judges are no exception, Cuomo said.
A 70-year-old woman is accused of lacing her husband’s coffee with ant and roach killer multiple times, causing him to become sick. Suncha Tinevra was caught on home surveillance video Jan. 12 retrieving a bottle from beneath a sink and squeezing its white powdery contents into her husband’s coffee, Queens County District Attorney Melinda Katz said Saturday. “The victim. conspiracy Oct 30, 2020
Six people, including two former airport workers, have been indicted for allegedly stealing more than $6 million worth of designer merchandise, including Chanel handbags and jewelry, using tractor-trailers in a series of complex heists at John F. Kennedy Airport this year, prosecutors in Queens announced Thursday.
There were four attacks, including an assault with a hammer, on Asian Americans in New York over the weekend
There were at least four attacks on Asian Americans, including an assault with a hammer, in New York City over the weekend, according to the New York Police Department.
The spate of attacks occurred as the city is grappling with a rise in bias crimes on Asian Americans this year, with 42 incidents reported in the first four months of 2021, according to the NYPD Hate Crimes Dashboard.
During that period, 17 arrests were made, according to the data.
In comparison, the NYPD dashboard shows 28 anti-Asian incidents in all of 2020, with 23 arrests.