Attorney General William Barr said Monday that there were “serious irregularities” at the federal jail in New York City where Jeffrey Epstein, the financier who was long dogged by accusations of sexual abuse of girls, was found dead on Saturday morning after he had apparently hanged himself.
NEW YORK — While Gene Gotti was in prison in the 1990s, he hatched a plan with a Gambino family associate: They would keep up a strict workout routine at the prison gym, federal agents learned. They had to stay in shape, Gotti reportedly said, because once they got out, he was going to retake control of the Gambino enterprise.
NEW YORK — Anthony Comello was known as an aimless young man on his family’s block in Staten Island, where he lived in his parents’ house. He could be helpful, offering during snowstorms to plow the streets with his pickup and to clear snow from neighbors’ driveways. But he also believed in far-right conspiracy theories, had an OxyContin habit and could be aggressive when he was high, people who knew him said.
NEW YORK — For three short days in September, the rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine was back in his element: blowing up the internet. Abandoning his brand as a professional agitator, the Instagram celebrity became a star witness for the federal government, and testified at length about fellow rappers and his former crew, the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged Epstein on Monday with sex trafficking, dealing an implicit rebuke to that plea agreement, which was overseen by Alexander Acosta, then the U.S. attorney in Miami and now President Donald Trump’s labor secretary.
The top law enforcement official in Elizabeth, one of New Jersey’s largest and most diverse cities, routinely referred to police officers in his department using racist and sexist slurs, according to an inquiry, and is now rebuffing calls for his resignation.
NEW YORK — Court officers took no chances Monday as a judge arraigned a 24-year-old man accused of gunning down a Gambino crime family boss on a murder charge in Staten Island.
NEW YORK — While Gene Gotti was in prison in the 1990s, he hatched a plan with a Gambino family associate: They would keep up a strict workout routine at the prison gym, federal agents learned.
The bundles turned out to be 3,200 pounds of cocaine, the largest drug shipment to be intercepted at Port Newark in a quarter-century, a bounty worth $77 million on the street, authorities said Monday.
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