Jay Root

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Santul Nerkar |Jay Root |Bianca Pallaro

Dao Yin was charged after a New York Times investigation revealed that he reported receiving campaign contributions from people who said they had not made them. A former New York State Assembly candidate used fake donations and forged signatures to fraudulently inflate the share of public matching funds he received in last year’s election, federal prosecutors said on Friday. The former candidate, Dao Yin, was charged with wire fraud in a federal criminal complaint.

4 weeks ago | seattletimes.com | Jay Root

They walked out of court in downtown Buffalo, N.Y., a little before 5 p.m., worn down from a hearing that had dragged late into the afternoon. The man and woman climbed into their black SUV. With nightfall approaching and powerful wind gusts rolling in from Lake Erie, they began following the Google Maps instructions to get them home to Syracuse, N.Y.They took an exit ramp and veered right, not focusing on where they were going.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Jay Root |Lauren Petracca

An accidental trip over the Peace Bridge in Buffalo typically means a toll and a loss of time. But for Victor and Johanna, crossing an international border carried a higher cost. Credit Credit... They walked out of court in downtown Buffalo a little before 5 p.m., worn down from a hearing that had dragged late into the afternoon.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Jay Root

It's a little-known chapter in New York history: For decades, the state oversaw a boarding school where native children were systematically stripped of their culture and language and subjected to abuse. Originally called the Thomas Asylum for Orphan and Destitute Indian Children and later shortened to the Thomas Indian School, the institution was on the Cattaraugus Territory of the Seneca Nation of Indians, about an hour south of Buffalo. On Tuesday, Gov.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Jay Root

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York visited Seneca land on Tuesday to apologize for the state's operation of a boarding school that "sanctioned ethnic cleansing" of Native American children. Gov. Kathy Hochul traveled to the territory of the largest Native tribe in New York State Tuesday to apologize for the atrocities committed at the long-closed Thomas Indian School, where Native children were systematically stripped of their culture and language and subjected to abuse.