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MURDER CHARGES FOR THE PRISON GUARDS WHO KILLED ROBERT BROOKS
INDICTMENT CHARGES 6 GUARDS WITH SECOND DEGREE MURDER, FACE LIFE IN PRISON
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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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FOX NEWS' FAVORITE POLICE EXPERT IS SELF-PROCLAIMED 'KING OF BULLSHIT'
WILLIAM “WILD BILL” STANTON IS A FORMER NYPD ROOKIE WHO MADE MILLIONS AS A CELEBRITY BODYGUARD AND PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR WHILE COLLECTING MORE THAN A MILLION DOLLARS IN DISABILITY PAYOUTS. NOW HE’S FOX NEWS’S FAVORITE COPAGANDIST.

WHAT JOURNALISTS AND EVERYONE ELSE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A NEW YORK POST REPORTER
“YOU COVERED TOO MANY MURDERS TO BE KILLED. DEATH BECOMES YOU. YOU WEAR IT LIKE A TAILORED SUIT. LIKE A TALISMANIC NECKLACE OF BONES TO WARD OFF EVIL-DOERS.”

GOOD SAMARITAN OR VIGILANTE?: WHAT THE LAW SAYS ABOUT DANIEL PENNY'S KILLING OF JORDAN NEELY
THE ‘BYSTANDER EFFECT’ AND SMARTPHONE CULTURE ENCOURAGE EYEWITNESSES TO RECORD INSTEAD OF ACT BUT THE LAW ALLOWS AND ENCOURAGES GOOD SAMARTIANS TO TAKE ACTION WHEN ACTION IS NEEDED.

‘IT’S NOT WHAT YOU KNOW IT’S WHO YOU KNOW’
WHAT LINKS THE SUPREME COURT’S CLARENCE THOMAS, REPUBLICAN BILLIONAIRE MEGA-DONOR HARLAN CROW, DONALD TRUMP, MARIYLN MONROE, JOE DIMAGGIO, THE FOUNDER OF CEREAL, A SOCIALITE RACEHORSE BREEDER AND A HOTDOG KINGPIN FROM NEW JERSEY NAMED ROGER JAKUBOWSKI?

INSIDE CLARENCE THOMAS'S SECRET ADIRONDACK SUMMERS WITH A REPUBLICAN MEGA-DONOR BILLIONAIRE
LOCAL RESIDENTS CONTRADICT THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE’S ATTEMPT TO PORTRAY HIMSELF AS AN RV-LOVING EVERYMAN AND OFFER A WINDOW INTO A CENTURY-OLD, LITTLE KNOWN HIDEAWAY OF THE SUPER-WEALTHY.

CLEAN SLATE, NOT BAIL, IS WHAT DEMOCRATS IN ALBANY SHOULD BE FIGHTING FOR
EDITORIAL: IT’S TIME FOR NEW YORK’S DEMOCRATS TO SQUELCH THEIR INTRA-MURAL SQUABBLE OVER BAIL LAWS AND ENACT CLEAN SLATE INSTEAD.

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.