A plea for smarter parole: N.Y. has to stop setting people up to fail
As prosecutors who count on parole to serve its intended purpose of rehabilitation and public safety, we believe parole in New York State is in need of reform.
Monthly Archives: December 2018
Grand Jury Report on Epidemic of Real Estate Theft Targeting Vulnerable New Yorkers
In case after case, a Manhattan grand jury uncovered heartbreaking frauds in which small properties representing the whole of a family’s accumulated wealth and heritage over fifty years was brazenly snatched by criminal fraudsters.
DA Vance: West African Royal, Associate Plead Guilty to Stealing From 250 Victims in Employment Fraud Schemes
“These defendants created a royal headache for hundreds of applicants and job seekers.”
DA Vance Releases Grand Jury Report Documenting Epidemic of Real Estate Theft Targeting Vulnerable New Yorkers
“An alarming number of Manhattan families will spend this holiday season uprooted and dispossessed of modest homes and properties passed down generations – particularly single-family brownstones in culturally diverse and rapidly gentrifying sections of Harlem and Washington Heights.”
Kickbacks and ‘Sandwiches’: How Insiders Ran an Alleged Construction Fraud at Bloomberg
Tuesday’s case is among the Manhattan district attorney’s office’s largest crackdowns on the interior-construction industry, a business that has historically been plagued by corruption.