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Corey Young Seeks $80 Million After Nearly Three Decades Wrongfully Imprisoned
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 8/15/2026 Category: Wrongful Convictions / Police Accountability / Civil Rights / Justice Reform ALBANY, NY – Corey Young lost nearly three decades of his life to a conviction that no longer stands. Now the 57-year-old Schenectady man is asking a federal court to…
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Court Censures Lawyer Behind More Than 10,000 Trademark Applications
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 8/15/2026 Category: Court Administration / Legal Ethics / Accountability / Consumer Protection NEW YORK CITY, NY – A New York appeals court has publicly censured attorney Jie Luo after a federal disciplinary case exposed an assembly-line trademark practice tied to more than 10,000…
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Mangione Motion Goes Far Beyond Double Jeopardy, Accusing State and Federal Prosecutors of Coordinating Two Prosecutions
Defense Uses Guilty Plea, Carro’s Own Scheduling Statements and the Manafort Case in Bid to Gut Manhattan Murder Prosecution
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Mangione Defense Moves to Dismiss Manhattan Murder Case After Federal Guilty Plea
Karen Friedman Agnifilo Makes the Double-Jeopardy Challenge Judge Gregory Carro Said Was Previously ‘Premature’ By Michele EvansNYWeeklyRecord.comAugust 14, 2026 NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione’s attorneys moved Friday to dismiss his pending Manhattan murder prosecution, transforming his federal guilty plea into an immediate challenge to whether New York can put him…
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Luigi Mangione Pleads Guilty, Admits Shooting Brian Thompson as State Murder Trial Faces New Double-Jeopardy Fight
In a stunning federal-court reversal, Mangione admits shooting the UnitedHealthcare CEO, enters guilty pleas to both remaining federal counts and immediately raises the stakes for New York’s September murder trial By Michele EvansNYWeeklyRecord.comAugust 14, 2026 NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty Friday to both remaining federal charges arising from…
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Appeals Court Upholds 17-to-Life Persistent-Felony Sentence
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 8/14/2026 Category: Criminal Courts / Sentencing / Justice Reform / Court Administration NEW YORK CITY, NY – A Manhattan appeals court has upheld a 17-years-to-life sentence for Corey Allen, rejecting his bid to require a jury to decide the incarceration calculation that allowed…
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Former Rikers Detainees Sue Over Weeks Without Outdoor Recreation
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 8/14/2026 Category: Rikers Island / NYC Department of Correction / Civil Rights / Accountability NEW YORK CITY, NY – Two former pretrial detainees are accusing New York City jail officials of leaving them without meaningful outdoor recreation for weeks at Rikers Island, turning…
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The Plea That Could Blow Up Luigi Mangione’s State Murder Trial
By Michele EvansNYweeklyRecord.com8/13/2026 Category: Criminal Courts / Federal Court / New York / Double Jeopardy Reported Federal Guilty Plea Could Turn Friday’s Hearing Into a Double-Jeopardy Showdown and Put New York’s September Trial in Jeopardy NEW YORK | What looked less than 48 hours ago like another procedural conference in…
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Appeals Court Rejects Bruen Challenge to New York Weapon Law
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 8/13/2026 Category: Criminal Courts / Appeals / Public Safety / Constitutional Law NEW YORK CITY, NY – A New York appeals court has affirmed Maurice Mayo’s weapons and menacing convictions, rejecting his effort to use the United States Supreme Court’s Bruen decision against…
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Judicial Watchdog Dismisses Complaint Against Chief Judge Rowan Wilson
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 8/13/2026 Category: Criminal Courts / Court Administration / Sentencing Reform / Accountability NEW YORK CITY, NY – New York’s judicial watchdog reportedly dismissed a misconduct complaint against Chief Judge Rowan Wilson after reviewing remarks in which he urged voters to reject judges who…
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Things To Do This Week in NYC: August 13–19, 2026
New York is serving up another packed summer week — and plenty of the best options are free. From a Radiolab performance on Little Island and a puppet festival on the Lower East Side to free salsa, sketching, beach hangs and birdwatching, here are 10 hand-picked ways to get out…
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One Killing, Two Prosecutions: A Federal Plea Could Force New York to Confront the Double-Jeopardy Question It Has Avoided
By Michele Evans | NY Weekly RecordAugust 13, 2026Crime & Courts | Analysis & Advocacy Luigi Mangione may be approaching a moment that fundamentally changes the legal landscape of the two prosecutions against him. Federal prosecutors and Mangione's attorneys are expected to discuss a possible plea resolution during a conference…
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Sometimes a Rat Emoji Isn’t Just a Rat Emoji: Judge Revokes Bail After Fiery Brooklyn Court Hearing
By Michele Evans | NY Weekly RecordAugust 12, 2026Crime & Courts BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Sometimes a rat emoji is just a rat emoji. And sometimes, according to a federal judge in Brooklyn, it can help land you back behind bars. De’Niro Laster, a co-defendant of former NBA player Terry Rozier…
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Brooklyn Judge Orders Reliability Test for Black-Box Cellphone Mapping
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 8/12/2026 Category: Criminal Courts / Digital Evidence / Police Technology / Due Process NEW YORK CITY, NY – A Brooklyn judge has ordered what the court described as New York’s first reliability hearing for TraX, a cellphone-mapping system prosecutors want to use in…
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NYC DOC Floats $4.37 Million in Noncompetitive Jail-Tech Contracts
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 8/12/2026 Category: NYC Department of Correction / Corrections / Government Contracts / Accountability NEW YORK CITY, NY – New York City’s Department of Correction is seeking approval for three proposed technology contracts worth a combined $4,374,751, using a procurement method that does not…
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Luigi Mangione Returns to Court as Judge Sets Anonymous Jury, Press Access Rules Ahead of September Trial
By Michele Evans | NY Weekly RecordAugust 11, 2026Crime & Courts | Manhattan Luigi Mangione returned to Manhattan Supreme Court Tuesday as Justice Gregory Carro addressed press access, jury selection, protective orders and other remaining issues ahead of the September start of Mangione’s state murder trial. The proceeding offered a…
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New York Challenges Sweeping ATF Rollback of Gun Safety Rules
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 8/11/2026 Category: Public Safety / Gun Violence / Government Accountability / New York NEW YORK CITY, NY – New York is leading a multistate challenge to a sweeping federal effort that could weaken or eliminate dozens of gun safety regulations covering background checks,…
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Judge Blasts DOJ’s Adani Dismissal but Approves It
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 8/11/2026 Category: Criminal Courts / Federal Justice / Government Accountability / Public Corruption NEW YORK CITY, NY – A federal judge in Brooklyn has approved the Justice Department’s request to end major fraud charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and two co-defendants, but…
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🚨BREAKING: Carmine Agnello Enters Federal Custody at FCI Fairton After Judge Rejects Kidney Transplant Delay🚨
By Michele Evans | NY Weekly RecordAugust 10, 2026Crime & Courts | Breaking News Carmine G. Agnello, the 40-year-old grandson of late Gambino crime boss John Gotti, has entered federal custody at FCI Fairton in New Jersey after a judge rejected his latest attempt to postpone the start of a…
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AFTER PRISON, SHE CHOSE FAMILY:
The Woman Helping Raise 12 ChildrenBy Michele EvansNYweeklyRecord.comAugust 10, 2026 Categories: Human Interest • Reentry • Housing • Family • Long Island • Community LONG BEACH, N.Y. – Some people spend a lifetime running from responsibility. Tanasia Engleton ran toward it. After serving seven years in prison, she returned home determined to rebuild her life.…
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Appeals Court Rejects NYC Law Department’s Unsupported FOIL Denial
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 8/10/2026 Category: Accountability / Public Records / Government Transparency / New York Courts NEW YORK CITY, NY – New York City’s Law Department cannot deny a public-records request on one ground and then defend that denial in court with a different, unsupported excuse,…
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Appeals Court Lets Judge Reopen SORA Hearing After Initial Risk Ruling
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 8/10/2026 Category: Criminal Courts / Corrections / Court Administration / Due Process NEW YORK CITY, NY – A New York appeals court has ruled for the first time that a trial judge may reopen a Sex Offender Registration Act hearing after announcing an…
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Half of New York Counties Still Lack Mental Health Courts
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 8/9/2026 Category: Criminal Courts / Mental Health / Justice Reform / Court Administration NEW YORK CITY, NY – Roughly half of New York’s 62 counties still have no mental health court, leaving access to treatment-based case resolution dependent in large part on where…
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Appeals Court Orders New Youthful-Offender Review After Judge Confused Case Facts
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 8/9/2026 Category: Criminal Courts / Youth Justice / Sentencing Reform / Court Accountability NEW YORK CITY, NY – A Manhattan appeals court has ordered a new youthful-offender review after finding that the sentencing judge appeared to misunderstand central facts of a young defendant’s…
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Trailblazing New York Judge John Carro Dies at 98, Leaving a Legacy That Changed the Courts
By Michele EvansNYWeeklyRecord.com8/8/2026 Categories: Courts, New York, Legal Community, In Memoriam NEW YORK — Retired Justice John Carro, a pioneering New York jurist who broke barriers for Puerto Rican lawyers and judges and spent decades opening doors for those who followed him, has died at the age of 98. Carro…
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Federal Appeals Court Cracks Open New York’s Prosecutor Discipline System
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 8/8/2026 Category: Criminal Courts / Prosecutor Accountability / Court Administration / Civil Rights NEW YORK CITY, NY – A federal appeals court has opened a door that New York’s prosecutor discipline system long kept closed. The Second Circuit ruled that the public has…
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Rikers Closure Deadline Is Out of Reach, but the Law Has Not Moved
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 8/8/2026 Category: Rikers Island / NYC Department of Correction / Criminal Justice / Government Accountability NEW YORK CITY, NY – New York City’s legal deadline to close Rikers Island is roughly a year away. The replacement jails will not be ready, the jail…
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The Night Tompkins Square Park Exploded: New York Still Hasn’t Escaped the Questions raised in 1988
By Michele EvansNYWeeklyRecord.com8/6/2026 Categories: History, NYPD, Civil Rights, East Village, Public Accountability MANHATTAN, N.Y. – Every New Yorker has places that become part of who they are. For me, Tompkins Square Park is one of them. Long before I created NY Weekly Record, I lived in the East Village. I…
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A Rikers Birth, Shackles and the Fight for Dignity
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 8/6/2026 Category: Rikers Island / NYC Department of Correction / Maternal Health / Accountability NEW YORK CITY, NY – Kellie was pregnant and incarcerated when she gave birth while in the custody of New York City’s jail system. A PIX11 feature published August…
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Prosecutors’ Willful Silence Costs Brooklyn Stolen-Property Case
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 8/6/2026 Category: NYC Criminal Court / Discovery Reform / Prosecutor Accountability / Due Process NEW YORK CITY, NY – A Brooklyn misdemeanor prosecution was dismissed after a judge found that prosecutors deliberately went silent when the defense identified missing discovery. The ruling does…
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Things To Do This Week in NYC: August 6–12, 2026
Ten useful, mostly free or low-cost New York City events happening August 6 through August 12, 2026.
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Appeals Court Orders Retrial After Identification-Notice Failure
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 8/5/2026 Category: Criminal Courts / Justice Reform / Court Administration / Due Process NEW YORK CITY, NY – A New York appeals court has ordered a new trial on an assault charge after prosecutors failed to give legally required notice that the victim…
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Fourteen-Month Notice Failure Ends DWI Violation Case
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 8/5/2026 Category: Criminal Courts / Court Administration / Due Process / Public Safety NEW YORK CITY, NY – A Manhattan judge has ended a driving-while-intoxicated violation case after the court system and prosecutors failed for more than 14 months to provide the defendant…
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High Ranking Police Officer Arrested for Attempted Murder
By Michele EvansNYWeeklyRecord.com8/4/2026 Categories:Crime • Government Accountability • Police • Public Corruption • Public Safety BRONX, N.Y. — The arrest of Mount Vernon Deputy Commissioner of Public Safety Jennifer Lackard has sent shockwaves through the law enforcement community and raises troubling questions about accountability inside a department entrusted with protecting…
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Riders Demand State Probe of OMNY Overcharges and Phantom Fines
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 8/4/2026 Category: Consumer Protection / Transit / Government Accountability / Public Safety NEW YORK CITY, NY – Subway riders and a transit advocacy group are pressing New York Attorney General Letitia James to investigate allegations that the OMNY fare system is producing extra…
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Federal Judge Blocks New York ICE Mask Ban, Preserves Local Cooperation Limits
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 8/4/2026 Category: Courts / Civil Rights / Public Safety / Government Accountability ALBANY, NY – A federal judge has temporarily blocked New York from enforcing new restrictions on masks and identification against federal immigration officers, handing the Trump administration an early victory while…
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Books, Belonging, and a Second Chance: Rikers Reading Program Gives Incarcerated Women a Voice
By Michele EvansNYWeeklyRecord.com8/3/2026 Categories: Rikers Island • Criminal Justice • Rehabilitation • Women in Jail • Community BRONX, N.Y. – Inside the Rose M. Singer Center on Rikers Island, a nonprofit organization is using books and creative writing to create something many incarcerated women rarely experience behind jail walls: connection.…
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New York Sues Kalshi, Calling Prediction Markets Illegal Gambling
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 8/3/2026 Category: Consumer Protection / Government Accountability / Public Safety NEW YORK CITY, NY – New York has sued prediction-market operator Kalshi, alleging the company is running an illegal, unlicensed gambling business while presenting its event contracts as federally regulated financial products. The…
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DOC Plans $228,000 Sole-Source Jail Farm as Reentry Test
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 8/3/2026 Category: Corrections / Rikers Island / Reentry / Government Contracts NEW YORK CITY, NY – New York City’s Department of Correction wants to spend up to $228,000 on a vertical hydroponic farm designed to teach people in custody job skills before release.…
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AG Declines Charges in Task Force Shooting, Calls Out Body-Camera Gap
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 8/2/2026 Category: Police Accountability / Public Safety / Civil Rights NEW YORK CITY, NY – New York’s attorney general has declined to bring criminal charges in the fatal shooting of 25-year-old Devon Allen, while calling for a body-camera rule that could have answered…
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Court Dismisses Jail Release Challenge After Custody Ends Before Review
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 8/2/2026 Category: Criminal Justice / Corrections / Parole / Court Administration NEW YORK CITY, NY – A New York appeals court has dismissed a jail-release challenge without deciding whether Michael Robinson should have been transferred to parole supervision earlier. The Appellate Division, Second…
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Accused CEO Killer Wants a Say in Who Covers His Trial. New York’s Press Corps Has Other Ideas.
By Michele EvansNYWeeklyRecord.comJuly 31, 2026 Category: Criminal Justice • New York Courts • Press Freedom • Luigi Mangione If there’s one thing I’ve learned covering New York courts, it’s this: Defendants don’t assign reporters. Yet that’s the unusual fight now unfolding ahead of what is expected to become one of…
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Judge Flags Significant IAB Disclosure Error but Upholds Prosecution Compliance
NEW YORK CITY, NY – A Manhattan judge found that prosecutors made a significant disclosure error involving an NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau log, but declined to invalidate their trial-readiness filing after concluding that the mistake reflected a misunderstanding rather than an effort to hide evidence. In People v Paul, the…
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Appeals Court Reinstates Bronx Indictment After Speedy-Trial Recalculation
NEW YORK CITY, NY – A Bronx criminal case dismissed on speedy-trial grounds is back on the calendar after a state appeals court ruled that the trial judge counted two major stretches of delay against prosecutors when the law required those days to be excluded. In People v Page, a…
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Why Does Judge Gregory Carro Keep Getting New York’s Biggest Cases?
From the Today Show courtroom drama to Luigi Mangione and other nationally watched prosecutions, one Manhattan courtroom has quietly become the stage for some of New York’s biggest criminal cases. By Michele EvansNYweeklyRecord.comJuly 30, 2026 Category: Criminal Justice • New York Courts • Judiciary • Public Accountability NEW YORK CITY,…
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Audit Finds $21.6 Million in Questionable Medicaid Lab Payments
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 7/30/2026 Category: Health / Government Accountability / Medicaid / New York State NEW YORK CITY, NY – Weak guidance, inconsistent rules and faulty payment controls allowed $21.6 million in questionable Medicaid laboratory payments to pass through New York’s health system, according to a…
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Federal Watchdog Finds New York State Museum Improperly Drew Nearly $600,000
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 7/30/2026 Category: Government Accountability / Public Funds / New York State NEW YORK CITY, NY – A federal investigation has found that New York State Museum officials used inaccurate timesheets, charged salaries for employees who did not work on federal grant projects, and…
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Things To Do This Week in NYC: July 30 – August 5, 2026
Looking for something fun to do in New York City this week? From a free live Radiolab show and West African dance to a subway-platform newsstand, waterfront history, comedy, movement and community gatherings, here are 10 useful local picks for July 30 through August 5. 🏆 Editor’s Choice: Radiolab —…
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Justice Stolen: How the Fall of Queens Defenders Left 16,000 New Yorkers Paying the Price
By Michele Evans NYweeklyRecord.com 7/29/2026 QUEENS, N.Y. — The people who needed justice the most were supposed to be protected. Instead, federal prosecutors say the very organization created to defend low-income New Yorkers became a vehicle for personal enrichment, leaving thousands of vulnerable clients caught in the fallout. This week,…
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Judge Sends Teen Gun Case to Family Court After Prosecutors Fail Raise the Age Test
By Michele Evans / NYweeklyRecord.com / Date: 7/29/2026 Category: Criminal Courts / Justice Reform / Youth Justice / Court Administration NEW YORK CITY, NY – An Erie County judge has ordered a 17-year-old's gun-possession case transferred out of criminal court after prosecutors failed to prove the extraordinary circumstances required to…