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ROBERT BROOKS WAS SERVING A 12-YEAR SENTENCE AT THE MARCY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY IN NEW YORK WHEN HE WAS BEATEN AND CHOKED BY A SQUAD OF PRISON GUARDS. HE DIED DEC. 10.
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PRISON GUARD 'BEAT-UP SQUAD’ KILLED ROBERT BROOKS, OPERATED FOR YEARS, ATTORNEY GENERAL LETITIA JAMES'S OFFICE KNEW IT
2023 DEPOSITION IN FEDERAL CIVIL RIGHTS LAWSUIT WARNED STATE OFFICIALS OF PRISON GUARD ‘BEAT-UP SQUAD’ THAT KILLED ROBERT BROOKS
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THROWBACK THURSDAY: ‘CUFF JUSTICE’ FOR COP KILLER
THROWBACK TO MY FIRST BIG EXCLUSIVE FOR THE NEW YORK POST IN 2007, WHEN I CHASED A PAIR OF ALLEGED COP KILLERS TO THE POCONOS AND CAUGHT COPS CATCHING ONE OF THEM.
'DISRESPECTING THE DON': MEET THE COURT COPS WHO LET DOOR SWING CLOSE ON TRUMP
CHIEFS LET COURTROOM DOOR CLOSE IN THE FACE OF FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP DURING HIS ARRAIGNMENT ON 34 FELONY COUNTS OF FALSIFYING RECORDS
DETAILS EMERGE OF 2 MIGRANT FAMILIES MYSTERIOUSLY KILLED, SEARCH CONTINUES
-ADVOCATES BLAME US PRES. JOE BIDEN, CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU
-TRAGEDY HIGHLIGHTS GROWING NUMBER OF PEOPLE ILLEGALLY CROSSING NORTHERN US BORDER
8 KILLED CROSSING RIVER BY BOAT INTO US FROM CANADA, ILLEGALLY
-2 YEAR-OLD & INFANT AMONG DEAD KILLED CROSSING FREEZING ST. LAWRENCE RIVER
-TRAGEDY HIGHLIGHTS GROWING NUMBER OF PEOPLE ILLEGALLY ENTERING THE US FROM CANADA
INSIDE THE PLAN TO PERP WALK DONALD TRUMP
-WHAT DONALD TRUMP’S PERP-WALK WILL LOOK LIKE
-MEET THE JOURNALISTS COVERING THE ARREST AND ARRAIGNMENT OF A FORMER PRESIDENT
-BITTER NEWSPAPER FEUD THAT COULD EFFECT WHETHER THE PUBLIC SEES A PHOTOGRAPH OF TRUMP IN HANDCUFFS
‘INNOCENT UNTIL PHOTOGRAPHED’: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT PERP WALKS
-PICTURE HISTORY OF PERP WALKS IN NEW YORK CITY
-JOURNALISTS’ GUIDE TO COVERING PERP WALKS
AMERICA’S TOP PERP WALKS: HOW WILL DONALD TRUMP MEASURE UP?
DONALD TRUMP IS FACING INDICTMENT IN NEW YORK CITY AND THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS OBSSESSING OVER HIS ‘PERP WALK.” I PHOTOGRAPHED A LOT OF PERP WALKS AS A PHOTOJOURNALIST. HERE’S SOME OF THE BEST.
THROWBACK THURSDAY: NYC'S PLAN TO CLOSE RIKERS UNDERMINED BY 'LOCK EVERYBODY UP’ PAROLE ENFORCEMENT
MY 2019 REPORT ON WHAT WAS THEN AN ALL-BUT-SECRET PAROLE COURT ON RIKERS ISLAND THAT SPARKED LEGISLATION REFORMING PAROLE.
CLEAN SLATE: JOBS FOR EX-CONS IS THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM
2.3 million New Yorkers completed their criminal sentences but remain shackled to permanent, digitized criminal records that condemn them to a life of sporadic or marginal employment and poverty. Clean Slate legal reform could change that, but New York's Clean Slate bill remains stuck.
THE MAN WHO SAID "NO" TO SADDAM HUSSEIN, AND OTHER TALES FROM HIS SECRET LIFE AS A COLD WAR HERO
Alfonso Cosentino told Saddam Husein "No" when the deadly Iraqi dictator offered him lavish riches to equip his military in the early 1980s. If that was the only thing he did, that would be more than enough to make him a folk legend. But Cosentino did much more.
'WINING CLASS': THE GREAT AMERICAN WINE BAILOUT OF '23
Wineries owned by California's millionaire Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom were spared significant financial losses by Pres. Joe Biden's bailout of a failed bank favored by Tech Titans. A magnum of Newsom’s 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon will set you back $1,699.99.
THROWBACK THURSDAY: A phone, shouts, a murder and an enduring mystery
My 2009 report for The Villager newspaper about the murder of 33-year-old advertising executive John Reisenbach in the West Village in 1990. The murder remains unsolved.
'WINING CLASS': HOW DEMOCRATS JUST SOLD OUT AMERICANS FOR SILICON VALLEY BILLIONAIRES AND CHARDONNAY
Timeline of the Silicon Valley Bank Crisis.
ANARCHIST CELL HUNTED BY FBI FOR THREE UNSOLVED NYC BOMBINGS INCLUDING TIMES SQUARE
The FBI suspects Anarchists are behind a trio of unsolved New York City bombings that hit the British Consulate in 2005, the Mexican Consulate in 2007 and the US Military's recruitment office in Times Square in 2008. Now the FBI is upping its cash reward for info to a quarter-million dollars.
THROWBACK THURSDAY: How Blogger Frank Parlato Helped Bring Down Keith Raniere And His Sex Cult NXIVM
Blogger Frank Parlato Brought Down Svengali-like Sex Cult Leader Keith Raniere, Freeing NXIVM Slaves
WHY IS NEW YORK’S LIBERAL LEGAL LION LETITIA JAMES UNDERMINING THE GREEN AMENDMENT?
Attorney General Letitia James has a solid-gold Liberal reputation but her defense of New York City's right to dump its trash on a tiny upstate town raises questions about her commitment to protecting the environment, a State Supreme Court judge and environmental advocates say.
AMERICA'S NEW PURITANS
EDITORIAL
“These Digital Age Puritans speak a new language but operate in an old mold. The liturgy is different but the preaching is the same.”
THE DOOMSDAY 'BOMB TRAIN' THAT COULD BLOWUP WEST POINT AND POISON THE HUDSON RIVER
Two train derailments in Ohio in a month have focused public attention on rail safety. CSX runs dozens of so-called "bomb" trains loaded with explosive Bakken crude oil and other toxic chemicals literally beneath the American Military Academy at West Point on the Hudson River every week.
PICTURE HISTORY OF ‘SPECIAL PURPOSE’ NYPD UNITS TO POLICE PROTESTS & MORE
As the New York City Council weighs whether to order the NYPD to disband its special purpose Strategic Response Group, here’s a history in photographs of past special purpose NYPD units, including those charged with policing protests.
THROWBACK THURSDAY 2018: Three Rikers Correction Officers Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Female Detainee For Over A Year
Female prisoner’s lawsuit for rape by guards on Rikers Island provides window into daily life for women there, circa 2018.