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1 week ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Mike Vilensky
Brad Lander walked out of Federal Plaza just before 4:30 p.m. Tuesday with a surprisingly casual gait for someone who’d been detained since noon. “I’m happy to report I’m just fine,” he told reporters. “I lost a button.”Around the block, hundreds of people were gathered near the state and federal courthouses in the rain to show support for the city comptroller and mayoral candidate — who, at least for the day, breathed new life into the Democratic primary.
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1 week ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Mike Vilensky
Juror drama is engulfing the Sean Combs trial before deliberations even begin. Juror No. 6 on Monday was booted from the panel despite the defense’s concerns the swap would make the jury less diverse. And the judge plans to question another juror Tuesday, he said. Judge Arun Subramanian said there were concerns Juror 6 “shaded answers to get on and stay on the jury,” including whether he lived in the jurisdiction.
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1 week ago | 
bloomberg.com | Mike Vilensky |Patricia Hurtado
The Manhattan Criminal Court in New York. (Bloomberg Law) -- Two New York court officers were wounded Monday after they were slashed at a crowded Manhattan courthouse in an attack that appeared to be focused on law enforcement. The assaults “appeared preliminarily to be a targeted attack of the uniformed officers working security details at the courthouse,” said Al Baker, a New York State court spokesman.
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1 week ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Mike Vilensky
Person who assaulted the officers was taken into custodyCourt official said the attack appeared to focus on officersTwo New York court officers were wounded Monday after they were slashed at a crowded Manhattan courthouse in an attack that appeared to be focused on law enforcement. The assaults “appeared preliminarily to be a targeted attack of the uniformed officers working security details at the courthouse,” said Al Baker, a New York State court spokesman.
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1 week ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Mike Vilensky
After six-week criminal trial Harvey Weinstein remains a convicted felonHis defense counsel however is enjoying an amplified public presence Arthur Aidala had an unexpected confession in his final message to jurors: His wife doesn’t always want to have sex with him. “If you think every time I go, ‘Honey, let’s go,’ she’s ready for action?” he said, pointing out that his wife was in the courtroom.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Mike Vilensky
The Justice Department’s effort let ICE to make courthouse arrests sparked the latest clash between the president and his native state, as tensions rise on two coasts over immigration. US Attorney Pam Bondi filed a lawsuit Thursday, asking a Syracuse federal judge to overturn New York measures barring federal agents from arresting immigrants at or near New York courthouses, my colleague Bernie Pazanowski reports.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Mike Vilensky
The Manhattan judge presiding over Harvey Weinstein’s retrial declared a mistrial Thursday on the remaining rape charge after the jury foreperson refused to continue deliberations, citing an alleged threat from another juror. The foreperson told the judge in one word during a one-on-one conversation Thursday morning—"no"—that he wasn’t willing to sit with his fellow jurors again.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Mike Vilensky
The Manhattan judge presiding over Harvey Weinstein’s retrial declared a mistrial Thursday on the remaining rape charge after the jury foreperson refused to continue deliberations, citing an alleged threat from another juror. The foreperson told the judge in one word during a one-on-one conversation Thursday morning—"no"—that he wasn’t willing to sit with his fellow jurors again.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Mike Vilensky
Harvey Weinstein was convicted. And acquitted. And may yet still face a hung jury. In a tumultuous morning at the Manhattan courthouse, the jury returned a split, partial verdict Wednesday — after juror tensions became so volatile the judge canceled deliberations for the afternoon. Weinstein was convicted of sexual assault, a top charge carrying up to 25 years. He was acquitted of sexually assaulting a second woman. And jurors are set to resume deliberations on a rape charge Thursday.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Mike Vilensky
The founder of a top New York City public defender organization spent money meant for indigent legal defense on foreign travel, pricey real-estate, and high-end clothing, a New York federal prosecutor said Wednesday. Lori Zeno, who ran Queens Defenders, and Rashad Ruhani, her husband and former employee at the nonprofit, were indicted by a federal grand jury on fraud, theft, and money laundering charges, the US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York said in court papers.
