Patrick Lakamp
Enterprise Editor at Buffalo News
In my 26th year at The Buffalo News, I'm finding stories in spreadsheets and courtrooms. So I like data and depositions a lot. A Missouri and Syracuse grad.
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1 week ago |
buffalonews.com | Patrick Lakamp
A cog in the conspiracy of fraud, Mohamed Khaled Sakr did his part to put Erie County near the top of upstate New York counties for losses suffered by fleeced senior citizens. The Montreal man’s trail of grandparent fraud in 2023 cost Western New York victims thousands of dollars, including a Cheektowaga grandmother who was duped into paying more than $17,000 to a fake bondsman. “This defendant was all over the country taking money from elderly people,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron Mango.
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1 week ago |
buffalonews.com | Patrick Lakamp
A philosophy professor locked in a lawsuit for nearly two years with SUNY Fredonia over his controversial podcast remarks has been told he will lose his job when the university abolishes its Philosophy Department. Stephen Kershnar, a SUNY distinguished teaching professor, was banned from campus three years ago following his podcast comments about whether adult-child sex is always wrong, although he has continued to be paid as he conducts research. His faculty appointment will end Aug.
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1 week ago |
buffalonews.com | Patrick Lakamp
Minutes from learning his prison sentence, Nader Ngoopos recalled meeting Thurman and Patti Thomas for the first time. He was 9 years old when a youth football coach brought him and other boys into a Buffalo Bills stadium suite to meet the former Bills running back who blazed a path into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. “Miss Thomas, she made me sit on her lap for the whole game,” Ngoopos, now 26, told a judge.
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2 weeks ago |
buffalonews.com | Patrick Lakamp
With Payton Gendron watching from the defense table, a federal judge Thursday said that he will not agree to his lawyers' request to delay his death penalty trial by a year. "We're not adjourning the trial date for a year, there's no doubt about that," U.S. District Judge Lawrence Vilardo said in court. The man who killed 10 people and injured three others in his racist attack at the Tops grocery store on Jefferson Avenue on May 14, 2022, appeared in federal court for the first time in two years.
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2 weeks ago |
buffalonews.com | Patrick Lakamp
The Trump administration’s intent to "to seek the death penalty when possible” will not include the local case against strip club owner Peter Gerace Jr. and three others whom prosecutors allege played a role in the death of federal witness Crystal Quinn. A new court filing from federal prosecutors ruled out the death penalty as a potential punishment. "The government reaffirms and notifies Peter Gerace Jr., John T.
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An 8th-grader weighed in on the topic of gender identity. It was in line with President Trump's beliefs. A school suspension followed. And so did his mom's federal lawsuit. https://t.co/7WXOhSmEaU
A Capitol rioter from Amherst thanked President Trump for his prison release but Jan. 6 pardons have come with pushback from judges dismissing charges for other defendants. https://t.co/qvbrs7dfye
Firefighters dousing a small fire with a lot of smoke on Central Terminal property. No structure looks involved. https://t.co/UDcvfvZ59E