Ms. Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial was expected to be a potential courthouse blockbuster. Those hoping for that were almost surely disappointed. Source: New York Times
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Man Charged With Sending Dozens of Violent Threats to L.G.B.T.Q. Groups
By Gotham Rex on December 6, 2021
Robert Fehring warned that an attack on New York City’s Pride March would make the Pulse nightclub shooting “look like a cakewalk,” the authorities said. Source: New York Times
Mount Vernon, N.Y., Police Face Federal Civil Rights Investigation
By Gotham Rex on December 3, 2021
The inquiry will focus on whether the Mount Vernon department engaged in a “pattern or practice of unlawful policing,” officials said. Source: New York Times
A New Search for Jimmy Hoffa
By Gotham Rex on November 22, 2021
A deathbed statement by a man who claimed to have buried Hoffa’s body, repeated years later by his son, sent the F.B.I. to Jersey City for a “site survey.” Source: New York Times
3 Officers Used Excessive Force in Arrest of Black Teen, U.S. Says
By Gotham Rex on November 19, 2021
The officers were charged with violating the teenager’s civil rights when they stomped on his head in New Jersey in 2018. Source: New York Times
Malcolm X Assassination: Questions About the Case Linger
By Gotham Rex on November 18, 2021
Scholars have never accepted the official explanation for the murder. That is unlikely to change. Source: New York Times
Search for Jimmy Hoffa Leads the F.B.I. to Jersey City Landfill
By Gotham Rex on November 18, 2021
A deathbed statement by a man who claimed to bury the Teamster boss’ body in a steel drum brought agents to the site for an inspection. Source: New York Times
J. Edgar Hoover Hid That Malcolm X Witnesses Were F.B.I. Informants
By Gotham Rex on November 18, 2021
Mr. Hoover, the agency’s longtime director, gave orders that led “multiple witnesses” to conceal their roles as informants, prosecutors said. Source: New York Times
FBI Raids Homes Linked to Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska
By Gotham Rex on October 19, 2021
Agents investigating whether Oleg Deripaska violated U.S. sanctions searched homes he has used in New York and Washington, D.C. Source: New York Times
18 Former N.B.A. Players Charged With Insurance Fraud
By Gotham Rex on October 7, 2021
Federal prosecutors said Terrence Williams, who once played for the New Jersey Nets, had orchestrated a scheme that led to the filing of nearly $4 million in fraudulent medical claims. Source: New York Times
Police Are Eager to Question Fiancé of Missing ‘Van Life’ Woman
By Gotham Rex on September 17, 2021
Gabrielle Petito and her fiancé, Brian Laundrie, left on July 2 for a cross-country trip in their outfitted van. He returned home without her. Her family is publicly begging him for answers. Source: New York Times
Police Want to Question Fiancé of Missing Gabrielle Petito
By Gotham Rex on September 16, 2021
Gabrielle Petito and her fiancé, Brian Laundrie, left on July 2 for a cross-country trip in their outfitted van. He returned home without her. Her family is publicly begging him for answers. Source: New York Times
Fiancé Is a 'Person of Interest' in the Disappearance of Gabrielle Petito
By Gotham Rex on September 15, 2021
Gabrielle Petito and her fiancé, Brian Laundrie, left on July 2 for an adventure in their outfitted van. Now, the police say, she is missing and her fiancé is “a person of interest” in her disappearance. Source: New York Times
A Lawyer’s Deathbed Confession About a Sensational 1975 Kidnapping
By Gotham Rex on August 12, 2021
Samuel Bronfman, heir to the Seagram fortune, was abducted by two men who confessed to the crime. But then their story evolved wildly, and the jury believed it. Was it all a lie? Source: New York Times
Iranian Operatives Charged in Plot to Kidnap a Brooklyn Author
By Gotham Rex on July 13, 2021
Masih Alinejad spoke critically of her native country’s autocracy. Now an Iranian intelligence official and three others have been indicted in New York. Source: New York Times