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Sam Roberts

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Urban Affairs Correspondent at The New York Times

Urban Affairs Correspondent, New York Times; Now in paperback:: A History of NY in 101 Objects. [email protected]

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  • 1 week ago | myheraldreview.com | Sam Roberts

    NEW YORK — Bernard B. Kerik, the New York City police commissioner who was hailed as a hero for overseeing the department’s response to the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, only to fall from grace after he pleaded guilty to federal corruption and tax crimes, died Thursday. He was 69. Kash Patel, the director of the FBI, announced Kerik’s death in a post on the social platform X.

  • 1 week ago | nytimes.com | Sam Roberts

    His meteoric rise to become New York City's chief law enforcement officer was later tarnished after he pleaded guilty to federal corruption and tax crimes. The former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik arrived at the hearing for Kash Patel's nomination as director of the F.B.I. in Washington in January. Credit... Mark Peterson for The New York Times Bernard B. Kerik, the New York City police commissioner who was hailed as a hero for overseeing the department's response to the Sept.

  • 1 week ago | nytimes.com | Sam Roberts

    By Bernard B. Kerik, the New York City police commissioner who was hailed as a hero for overseeing the department's response to the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, only to fall from grace after he plead guilty to an ethics violation and felony tax fraud, died on Thursday. He was 69. Kash Patel, the director of the F.B.I., announced Mr. Kerik's death in a post on X. He said the former commissioner died "after a private battle with illness."

  • 1 week ago | nytimes.com | Sam Roberts

    Mary Rockefeller Morgan, daughter of Nelson and Michael's twin, was determined to honor her family of collectors, and Indigenous art. Michael C. Rockefeller, left, Adrianus Alexander Gerbrands, René S. Wassing, June 26, 1961. Michael was 22 when he traveled to what was then Dutch New Guinea for the first time, with a documentary film crew. Credit...

  • 1 week ago | nytimes.com | Sam Roberts

    He exposed corrupt officials and greedy landlords, and his reporting on prison violence was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Tom Robbins, a journalistic bulldog who spent more than four decades exposing crooked politicians, ruthless landlords and violence in New York prisons for The Village Voice, The New York Times and other publications, died on Tuesday at his home in Brooklyn. He was 76. The cause was prostate cancer, his wife, Susan Mastrangelo, said.

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