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Three New York City police detectives were charged on Monday in the theft of nearly $3,000 worth of Champagne from a V.I.P. area at a popular electronic dance music festival where they had been assigned to stop drug-related activity.Two of the three, Jonathan Gonzalez and Wojciech Czech, are accused of stealing pricey bottles of Ace of Spades Champagne at the Electric Zoo festival on Randall's Island last fall, according to court documents.

In an overnight social media post, former President Donald J. Trump predicted that potential death and destruction may result if, as expected, he is charged by the Manhattan district attorney in connection with hush-money payments to a porn star made during the 2016 campaign.The comments from Mr. Trump, made between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. on his social media site, Truth Social, were a stark escalation in his rhetorical attacks on the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, ahead of a likely indictment on charges that Mr. Trump said would be unfounded.

A woman who accused a former top adviser to New York Attorney General Letitia James of unwanted kissing filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging the Democrat and her office ignored previous warnings about his behavior.Sofia Quintanar, a political consultant and former deputy press secretary in James' office, alleges former Chief of Staff Ibrahim Khan thrust his face in front of hers and "stuck his tongue down her throat" as they were chatting outside a political fundraiser at a Brooklyn bar last year.

Most frequent riders of the New York City subway have seen people acting erratically on trains.Usually, they ignore them, move away from them or switch to another car.On Monday, one rider went up to a 30-year-old man who had been screaming that he was hungry and ready to die and then wrapped his arms around his neck and head.

The news of the indictment of former President Trump immediately took over cable news channels and the country's main broadcast networks on Thursday.On Fox News, the host Sandra Smith interrupted the network's roundtable show The Five around 5:30 p.m. with the breaking news, eliciting gasps from her fellow co-hosts: We have just gotten word: Former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a grand jury in New York.

He will be fingerprinted.He will be photographed.He may even be handcuffed.In the days ahead, Donald J. Trump is expected to walk through the routine steps of felony arrest processing in New York, now that a grand jury has voted to indict him in connection with his role in a hush-money payment to a porn star.

The foreperson of the Atlanta-based grand jury that investigated former President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election told CNN on Tuesday that the panel is recommending multiple indictments and suggested the big name may be on the list.Can you imagine doing this for eight months and not coming out with a whole list of recommended indictments, Emily Kohrs told CNN.

The jury has reached a verdict in the trial of Donald J. Trump's family business.The verdict, which was reached about 3:40 on Tuesday afternoon, will be read aloud in the Manhattan courtroom shortly.Jurors have decided whether the Trump Organization was guilty of a scheme in which its top executives were compensated in lavish off-the-books perks that allowed them to evade taxes.

Donald J. Trump approved a key aspect of a tax fraud scheme orchestrated by several top executives at his family business, prosecutors said on Friday in their closing arguments at the company's trial, an explosive claim as the jury prepares to deliberate next week.Prosecutors have not charged Mr. Trump with participating in the scheme, through which, they say, the executives were compensated in off-the-books perks so that they could evade taxes.

Defense lawyers and prosecutors delivered closing arguments in the trial of Donald J. Trump's family business on Thursday, agreeing that its employees had engaged in a lucrative tax fraud scheme for more than a decade but drawing diametrically opposed conclusions about whether their actions implicated the Trump Organization itself.

The Manhattan district attorney's office will halt the prosecution of Tracy McCarter, a woman charged with murder in 2020 after her estranged husband died in a confrontation with her, according to a letter sent to the judge presiding over the case.Ms. McCarter's lawyers have maintained that she did not stab her husband, James Murray, but that minutes after he choked her, she held a knife in a defensive posture and he charged.

Breaking his silence on Donald Trump's legal troubles, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday criticized the Manhattan district attorney who is pursuing charges against the former president and vowed his office would not be involved if the matter trickles into Trump's adopted home state.But DeSantis, a rising rival for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, stopped well short of offering support for the former president and instead seemed to poke fun at the situation Trump has found himself in as he attempts a political comeback and a third campaign for the White House.

Former President Donald Trump said Saturday he expects to be arrested in connection with the investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney next week and called for protests as a result.In a social media post on Saturday, Trump, referring to himself, said the leading Republican candidate and former president of the United States will be arrested on Tuesday of next week.

Law The man who will decide whether to indict a former president is Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney.If arrested, Trump called for protests.Bragg said his office wouldn't be intimidated.Copyright 2023 NPR.All rights reserved.Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information.

Manhattan prosecutors on Wednesday met with Stormy Daniels, the porn star who was paid $130,000 to keep quiet about her affair with Donald J. Trump, according to a lawyer for Ms. Daniels.The lawyer, Clark Brewster, tweeted that at the request of the Manhattan district attorney's office, he and Ms. Daniels had met with prosecutors.

A director of finance and research at New York University diverted millions in funds intended for minority- and woman-owned businesses, putting them in shell companies and using some of the money to renovate her Connecticut home and build a swimming pool, the Manhattan district attorney's office said Monday.

The tax-fraud trial of Donald J. Trump's family business is scheduled to resume in State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Thursday after not having met since Nov. 1 because of an outbreak of Covid-19.The Manhattan district attorney's office last year accused two Trump Organization entities  the Trump Corporation and the Trump Payroll Corp.  of a scheme that began in 2005 that involved doling out tax-free perks to top executives, including rent-free apartments and leased luxury vehicles.

The commissioner of the New York City Buildings Department resigned on Thursday, two days after Manhattan prosecutors seized his cellphone as part of an investigation into possible ties to organized crime and illegal gambling.The resignation of Eric Ulrich, a former Republican city councilman, was confirmed by a spokesman for Mayor Eric Adams.