Santul Nerkar

New York

Courts Reporter at The New York Times

courts reporter @nytimes. For tips and story ideas: [email protected] // Santul.01 on Signal

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'Orgasmic Meditation' Case Raises Question of What Constitutes Coercion

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Santul Nerkar

Prosecutors say OneTaste extracted labor from its members. Former employees testified that they worked for the company because they feared spiritual harm. The women arrived with dreams of rebirth, community and climax.
Judge Says Law Used to Detain Mahmoud Khalil Is Probably Unconstitutional

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Santul Nerkar |Jonah Bromwich

Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia graduate, was targeted for deportation because the Trump administration said he impeded its foreign policy. He will still be held in Louisiana. Two weeks after Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident and pro-Palestinian activist at Columbia University, was detained and set for deportation, the government quietly added new allegations to its case.
‘Commander Butcher’ who led neo-Nazi group faces charges in Brooklyn

1 week ago | sun-sentinel.com | Santul Nerkar

A Georgian man known as “Commander Butcher” helped lead the Maniac Murder Cult, a neo-Nazi group that has inspired killings around the world, according to federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, where he appeared in court on May 23 after his extradition. Among the crimes that the man, Michail Chkhikvishvili, inspired were a school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, a mass stabbing outside a mosque in Turkey and the brutal murder of an older woman in Romania, prosecutors say.
American Charged With Trying to Firebomb Embassy Building in Tel Aviv

1 week ago | sun-sentinel.com | Santul Nerkar

An American citizen was charged with trying to firebomb a U.S. Embassy office in Tel Aviv, Israel, after he approached the building with Molotov cocktails and had threatened to kill President Donald Trump in a series of social media posts, federal prosecutors said Sunday. The man, Joseph Neumeyer, 28, of Colorado, was deported to the United States on Saturday and appeared Sunday in U.S. District Court in New York City’s Brooklyn borough before Magistrate Judge Peggy Kuo.
American Charged With Trying to Firebomb Embassy Building in Tel Aviv

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Santul Nerkar

Joseph Neumeyer, 28, is also accused of threatening President Trump. He appeared in federal court in Brooklyn on Sunday. An American citizen was charged with trying to firebomb a U.S. Embassy office in Tel Aviv, after he approached the building with Molotov cocktails and had threatened to kill President Trump in a series of social media posts, federal prosecutors said on Sunday.
At Combs trial, will sordid testimony help prove a criminal conspiracy?

2 weeks ago | sacbee.com | Santul Nerkar

NEW YORK -- Sordid sex marathons featuring gallons of baby oil. Physical abuse so savage that the victim was left bleeding and vomiting. A threat to blow up a romantic rival’s car. Casandra Ventura’s testimony against Sean Combs, the music mogul who was her longtime boyfriend, during the first week of his criminal trial in Manhattan federal court was a depiction of untrammeled decadence. It spared neither the defendant nor the witness herself.
At Sean 'Diddy' Combs Trial, Will Sordid Testimony Help Prove a Criminal Conspiracy?

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Santul Nerkar

Casandra Ventura's description of Sean Comb's sex marathons and abusive behavior is expected to provide the foundation for the prosecution's racketeering case. Sordid sex marathons featuring gallons of baby oil. Physical abuse so savage that the victim was left bleeding and vomiting. A threat to blow up a romantic rival's car.
At Combs Trial, Will Sordid Testimony Help Prove a Criminal Conspiracy?

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Santul Nerkar

Casandra Ventura's description of Sean Comb's sex marathons and abusive behavior is expected to provide the foundation for the prosecution's racketeering case. Sordid sex marathons featuring gallons of baby oil. Physical abuse so savage that the victim was left bleeding and vomiting. A threat to blow up a romantic rival's car.
Long Island Judge Nocella Expected to Be Named Interim U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Santul Nerkar |William K. Rashbaum |Glenn Thrush

President Trump, facing opposition from New York's senior senator, will name Joseph Nocella Jr. to do the job on a temporary basis. President Trump on Monday is expected to appoint Joseph Nocella Jr., a Long Island district judge, to be the interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, according to four people with knowledge of the matter.
Former Abercrombie C.E.O. Ruled Unfit to Stand Trial for Sex Trafficking

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Santul Nerkar

Michael S. Jeffries had been accused of luring male models to secret sex parties. He has dementia, and a judge ruled him to be "mentally incompetent." Michael S. Jeffries, the former chief executive of Abercrombie and Fitch who was charged with running an international sex-trafficking ring, on Friday was found unfit to stand trial because of an Alzheimer's diagnosis. In a three-page order, Judge Nusrat J.