Officials confirmed on Tuesday that the warden who was running the federal jail where Jeffrey Epstein died retired amid an investigation into the now-closed New York facility. Bureau of Prisons spokesperson Kristie Breshears told the Associated Press that Lamine N’Diaye retired on February 26. N’Diaye was the warden at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, …
New York Lieutenant Governor Brian Benjamin resigned on Tuesday, the same day he was scheduled to appear in federal court for campaign finance fraud. Benjamin stepped down hours after an unsealed federal indictment alleged he funneled $50,000 in state funds to Harlem real estate investor Gerald Migdol’s charity, Friends of Public School Harlem. In exchange, …
On Tuesday, South Dakota’s House of Representatives voted to impeach Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg, who has said he has no intention to resign before a Senate vote. Voting 36 to 31, the state House issued articles of impeachment for Ravnsborg, 45, who in September 2020 fatally struck Joe Boever, 55, on the shoulder of Highway …
New York Lieutenant Governor Brian Benjamin is due in federal court on Tuesday after being charged with campaign finance fraud. Benjamin allegedly tried to offer state funds to Harlem real estate investor Gerald Migdol so he could get thousands in illegal donations funneled into his unsuccessful 2021 campaign for New York City comptroller. Migdol told …
A Texas district attorney is dropping murder charges filed against a woman for an alleged “self-induced abortion.” Lizelle Herrera, 26, was charged on Thursday by the Starr County Sheriff’s Department and released Saturday on a $500,000 bond, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Law enforcement officials didn’t say what law allowed them to charge Herrera, and legal …
An anti-abortion group announced on Tuesday that a woman who was arrested last week after five fetuses were allegedly found in her Washington, D.C. apartment was actually in possession of 115 fetuses. Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising said their director of activism, Lauren Handy, 28, and other members encountered a driver from Curtis Bay Medical Waste Services …
A Kansas construction company owner has been arrested in Maryland and charged with threatening to kill US President Joe Biden, who, he said, was the AntiChrist. Scott Merryman, 37, called police in Independence, Kansas, on January 25 and said he was driving to Washington, D.C., to see the president. Independence police contacted the US Secret …
On Tuesday, prosecutors announced they have dropped a groping charge against former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, marking the foreseeable end to a legal saga that led to Cuomo’s resignation. The Albany County District Attorney said in a statement that they are not prosecuting Cuomo, 64, for forcible touching, as an independent investigation determined they …
On Saturday, a New York man charged in connection with the January 6 Capitol Riot asked a federal judge for permission to use dating apps while awaiting trial. Accused rioter Thomas Sibick, 38, filed a motion asking U.S. District Judge Amy B. Jackson to modify the terms of his release. Sibick is currently on house …
The Department of Justice is apparently investigating sexual harassment claims against former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. A legal services contract released by the New York State Comptroller’s Office under a Freedom of Information Law request by the New York Post. The contract, which included previously revealed DOJ investigations into Cuomo’s handling of the coronavirus …
A Maryland mayor was charged on Monday under the revenge porn statute for allegedly posting sexually-explicit photos of his ex-girlfriend on social media. The state prosecutor’s office said in a statement that Cambridge Mayor Andrew Bradshaw, 32, created multiple user accounts on Reddit and posted the victim’s private pictures in Subreddits, or groups, “that were …
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was criminally charged on Thursday with misdemeanor forcible touching for allegedly groping an executive assistant in his office when he was governor. While the Times-Union reported that the Albany County Sheriff’s Office filed the complaint against Cuomo, 63, sources told the news outlet that it was filed prematurely and …
