Kashmir Snowdon-Jones–a 21-year-old “sometime model and increasingly well-known Manhattan party girl”–has been charged with identity theft and grand larceny, reports the Post. She apparently stole credit card information from a former friend:
The blond beauty, whose family claims to be descended from British bluebloods, allegedly used the stolen plastic to charge takeout burritos Read More
“Manhattan federal prosecutors are pursuing a criminal tax-fraud case against Bernard Madoff‘s brother and sons,” the Post reports today. Details are apparently unclear, but the family members are accused of using the fruits of Madoff’s Ponzi scheming as “a personal piggy bank.”
In other news of criminal relatives, Michael Douglas’ drug-trafficking son apparently served Read More
Larry Seabook’s alleged corruption has left his fellow city council members “jittery,” reports the Post:
There’s a feeling of “disappointment that these issues continue to pop up,” said Councilman Leroy Comrie of Queens, who, like Seabrook, is a Democrat.
“Hopefully, this is the last one,” he said.
The state senate has voted to expel face-slashing Queens senator Hiram Monserrate, who was convicted last fall of misdemeanor assault. The Times chronicles the political vacillations that led to this point. According to the Daily News, Monserrate has promised to challenge the decision, saying “he expects to be a senator for Read More
Federal prosecuters have recommended that former police commissioner Bernard Kerik serve 27 to 33 months in prison. The defense is requesting leniency. According to The Times:
Mr. Kerik’s lawyer, Michael F. Bachner, filed dozens of letters attesting to Mr. Kerik’s character, many of them from retired police officials who worked alongside him.
Former Read More
A new study has suggested that the police department manipulates statistics to create the appearance of falling crime rates, a charge that high-ranking department officials corroborated in interviews with The Times and Post. For example, officers would lowball the value of stolen goods so that they could be classified as petit Read More
On Tuesday, the Post was wringing its hands over the lack of police loyalty (“Blue Wall Falls at Sodomy Trial … A Brooklyn transit cop stared down three of his brother officers yesterday”); today, it’s the firefighters:
So much for the “red wall of silence.”
Several off-duty firefighters who were working Read More
A DNA specialist testifying in the Mineo case said that she could not be certain whether Mineo’s genetic material was present on the baton allegedly used to sodomize him. This seemed to hearten the defense:
“I could not definitively say Michael Mineo’s DNA is on the asp,” she said, referring to the baton. “He’s a Read More
Daniel Ignacio has confessed to setting the fire that killed five of his roommates and fellow Guatemalan immigrants in Bensonhurst. He said that he was drunk and fell prey to “demons or devils”—a “satanic fire-slay bust,” per the Post.
Ignacio had helped rescue several of the building’s residents, making his confession Read More
Officer Kevin Maloney, the prosecution’s star witness, testified yesterday in the Mineo trial–a turn that the Daily News calls “the most dramatic moment of the trial and the biggest blow to the defense.” All three papers offer extensive accounts of his testimony detailing when and what things went into “Mineo’s butt crack.”
Maloney Read More
