Haley Brown

3 days ago | nypost.com | Haley Brown |Craig McCarthy |Craig Mccarthy

A city councilman wants to close a discovery law loophole that’s sparking unnecessary criminal case dismissals — with a tweak Albany lawmakers left on the cutting room floor during budget season. Councilman Keith Powers is pushing legislation that would create a centralized database of NYPD evidence accessible by prosecutors and defense attorneys, which could help officials comply with burdensome evidence-sharing requirements under the state’s 2019 criminal justice reforms.

6 days ago | nypost.com | Vaughn Golden |Matt Troutman |Haley Brown

Mayor Eric Adams lauded coming changes to state law that will make it easier to force mentally ill people into treatment — after he publicly pushed for the change for three years because of crime concerns.

6 days ago | nypost.com | Haley Brown |Craig McCarthy |Craig Mccarthy

Amtrak got taken for a ride by 119 workers in a massive $12 million scheme — but more than half of them are still on the company payroll, an internal watchdog found. The workers ripped off Amtrak’s health plan in a kickback scam that saw them taking bribes from crooked doctors who then filed fake claims — and some employees went full mob and shook down medical providers for their cut of the cash, the company’s Office of the Inspector General said in a report released Tuesday.

6 days ago | nypost.com | Haley Brown |Matt Troutman

It’s a brand new discovery. Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City’s five district attorneys ran a victory lap Wednesday on a revamp to the state’s discovery laws included in a sprawling budget bill. The changes will prevent criminal cases from being thrown out over trivial mistakes and narrow how much evidence prosecutors must turn over to defense attorneys. 3 Gov.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Haley Brown |David Propper

It’s off the rails. Amtrak will push back the start of its three-year East River Tunnel closures by two weeks after Mayor Eric Adams, Gov. Kathy Hochul and other pols blasted the shutdown as potentially leaving millions in commuting hell. The East River Tunnel Rehabilitation project will tentatively get underway on May 23 instead of this Friday, Amtrak President Roger Harris revealed in a letter to Hochul Tuesday.