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A 63 year old Woman named Judith Leekin, has been sentenced to 11 Years in adoption scam. The woman is a former resident of Queens and has been convicted for adopting and abusing 11 disabled children. She has admitted to using forge names to adopt the children, and used to send phony report [...]

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A Bronx gang member, George Melende was convicted to life without parole. He was involved in a gruesome 2005 murder, and was convicted for the first-degree murder of Dennis Rivera. The incident happened in 2005 when three Latin Kings gang members tortured Rivera for a day and a half. During this time, victim was forced to [...]

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The New York City Council will hold a hearing today on legislation which deals with construction site and crane safety. Earlier this month, Li Mandri had announced that there will be a major upgrade of the Building Code. This upgrade will be held for the first time in more than 4 decades. This new building code will [...]

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The attorney for the family who has filed the case against Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn said that the victim died from blood clots. These clots were developed due to inactivity after waiting for more than 24 hours in the psychiatric ward of Kings County Hospital. The surveillance video clearly showed Esmeen Green fell from her seat [...]

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A Manhattan jury decided on Thursday not to accuse a city police officer involved in fatal shooting after a traffic dispute last year. It all started when Officer Sean Sawyer got involved in an argument with Jayson Tirado, in East Harlem in October. The argument finally ended with Jayson Tirado being shot to death. Tirado’s mother Irene is [...]

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The residents of Hunts Point in South Bronx have filed lawsuit against the city for smells from a waste treatment plant which has plagued their community. The community had previously filed complaints and held protests about the sickening smell from local waste treatment plants. The noxious smells come from the waste water treatment plant in Hunts Point [...]

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The makers of the antibiotic Cipro on Tuesday asked by The Food and Drug Administration to add a “black box warning” to their all products, seeing the risks of tendon ruptures and tendonitis. The injury could also leave patients incapacitated. This warning was for Cipro and its generic Ciprofloxacin, along with antibiotics like the flouroquinolone class [...]

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Ref to previous : http://www.866attylaw.com/blog/brooklyn-hospital-patient-left-to-die/ The family of the woman who died on the Brooklyn hospital while waiting to be seen in the hospital’s psychiatric ward last month and was caught on surveillance tape, have planned to sue the facility. Esmin Green’s daughter and sister will ask for $25 million as damages caused by the Kings [...]

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The federal judge on Monday rejected a request by relatives of 9/11 victims to sift through tons of debris from the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island. They wanted to search for the human remains of their loved ones who perished in 9/11 terrorist attacks. The judge, Alvin K. Hellerstein of Federal District Court in Manhattan, [...]

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The city worker who allegedly lied about inspecting a crane days before it collapsed on construction site, killing seven people has been indicted. Edward Marquette was charged with tampering public records, falsifying business records, official misconduct and other charged. He had also resigned from the Buildings Department in March. Building officials reported that Marquette Marquette was supposed to [...]

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