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New Hampshire police said they have nothing to share beyond yesterday’s news release when asked if Giuliani made the 911 call in the DV incident and rendered assistance on the S/B side before authorities arrived and witnessed the crash on the N/B side.
Haha. There is hyperlocal interest here in the kitchen, believe it or not
OOO in my mother’s kitchen in Ireland trying to retrace Rudy Giuliani’s footsteps on a highway in New Hampshire, as you do
Details are fuzzy. I’ve inquired about what happened between Giuliani's alleged Good Sam act and the crash.
Cops say they were responding to the DV incident when they saw a driver ram into Giuliani and his rep, Ted Goodman, in a car on the other side of the highway. www.nhsp.dos.nh.gov/news-and-med... Ragusa couldn’t speak to what happened between Giuliani allegedly assisting the woman and the crash.
Spoke with Giuliani’s head of security, Michael Ragusa, who said the former mayor is expected to remain hospitalized for a couple more days. He described last night’s collision as a freak accident that occurred after Giuliani intervened in a DV incident. “It’s just wrong place, wrong time.”
@mollycranenewman.bsky.social The count is now four bicycles and one moped abandoned outside 26 Federal Plaza. 🙁
First day back after being battered by Covid: four new indictments against Ingrid Lewis Martin; 1st Dept throws out civil fraud judgment in Trump fraud case; Winnie Greco gave Katie Honan cash hidden in a bag of potato chips. Ok, cool, great
Hear, hear. (And thank you.)
Yes, definitely
Woke up feeling like I’d been hit by a train and just tested positive for Covid. We are still in a pandemic 😵💫
Judge Reyes: You're making the argument that the President can basically run the entire police department based on language that doesn't even allow the President to talk to the police department. He has to go through the mayor. He has to issue the order through the mayor of DC.
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Ho said that while there was some “incongruity” between the outcomes of the two cases, Erden’s crimes were not victimless, and there wasn’t a “shred of evidence” that the AUSAs handling his prosecution acted inappropriately.
Brooklyn real estate magnate Erden Arkan was just sentenced to 1 year of probation for funneling straw donations to Eric Adams’s 2021 mayoral campaign. His attorney angered Judge Ho after making a stink about prosecutors pursuing him and letting the mayor off the hook.
I will just say as a person who practices in this district, judge Kaplan is not someone who I would want enforcing a TRO against me.
In a lengthy call in June, Obama congratulated Mamdani, offered him advice about governing and discussed the importance of giving people hope in a dark time. Others in Obama’s orbit have also shown a keen interest in Mamdani, too. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...
Asked whether a plea deal with the DA’s office was on the table, which would avoid another trial, Arthur Aidala said, “Mr. Weinstein does not seem to be very enthusiastic about that prospect.”
Correction: I misheard. Sept. 30 is a control date. Farber will set sentencing/trial dates once outstanding matters are resolved.
Farber said he’ll sentence Weinstein for sexually assaulting Miriam Haley on Sept. 30. He said the third trial “needs to be tried this year.” Adjourned.
The DA's office said Jessica Mann is ready to testify for the third time. The jury at Weinstein’s 2020 trial believed her, but that conviction was overturned based on other aspects of the case. Jurors at his April retrial reached a partial verdict but couldn’t agree on Mann.
Prosecutors at the Manhattan district attorney’s office just said they’re ready to proceed with their third prosecution of Harvey Weinstein, asking for a trial date in early January.
Tricia McLaughlin responds this morning:
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In court today, Kaplan heard about migrants sleeping in areas that reek of sewage and ICE agents “holding up a water bottle and spraying it into the mouths of the individuals who wanted water as if they were animals.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
HUGE. The first major court victory involving conditions of confinement at ICE field offices. The judge bars detention in any cell which isn't: - Restricted by capacity - Has mats for people to sleep on overnight - Is cleaned 3 times a day - Provides hygiene supplies - Offers free legal calls
Judge Lewis Kaplan has GRANTED a motion for a TRO sought by lawyers for detainees at 26 Federal Plaza. It requires DHS to provide migrants a clean and safe place to sleep, prescription medication, nutritious meals, access to counsel, & other necessities storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Mohamed Bahi, a former aide to Eric Adams, just pleaded guilty to conspiracy for organizing bogus donations to Adams’s 2021 campaign for mayor Bahi said he knew donors would be reimbursed, that Adams’s campaign would use the cash to seek matching funds, “and that it was wrong”
Waiting on a transcript, & attys for detainees say it went well. They’re seeking a TRO prohibiting DHS from filling rooms beyond max capacity; clean bedding; sufficient sleeping space, not near toilets/bathrooms; nutritious meals; access to counsel; medication and hygiene products, and other relief
There was a teleconference hearing this morning in the suit against DHS regarding conditions at 26 Federal Plaza, but the press and public were shut out due to “audio issues,” and we have no idea what happened. The courts have had at least 5 years to figure out remote hearings and have not.
“Insofar as the motion to unseal implies that the grand jury materials are an untapped mine lode of undisclosed information about Epstein or Maxwell or confederates, they definitively are not that,” the judge wrote. “There is no ‘there’ there.” www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/11/n...
See also: Engelmayer noted that none of the AUSAs who worked on the cases against Epstein and Maxwell, “presumably most familiar” with the materials, joined in on the request, but that it was made by Todd Blanche alone, “under circumstances suggestive of haste rather than reflective deliberation”
(The DoJ has also put in a request with Judge Berman to unseal GJ records in Epstein’s case. No ruling yet on that.)
Yes, as the judge laid out in this opinion
Engelmayer came right out and said it: “A member of the public, appreciating that the Maxwell grand jury materials do not contribute anything to public knowledge, might conclude that the Government’s motion for their unsealing was aimed not at ‘transparency’ but at diversion.”
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“Contrary to the Government's depiction, the Maxwell grand jury testimony is not a matter of significant historical or public interest. Far from it.”
NEWS: Manhattan Judge Paul Engelmayer has DENIED the Justice Department’s motion to unseal grand jury materials in Ghislaine Maxwell’s case.
The moon over Brooklyn honest to god just hit my eye like a big pizza pie
It’s a spectacularly beautiful day in nyc, even from the dentist’s chair
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Lawyers representing Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s victims—several of whom “have already died by suicide, drug overdose, or under tragic circumstances tied directly to the trauma”—tell Judge Berman the women “are, at best, an afterthought” to the Trump administration
Won’t somebody please think of the B matter
The Trump administration has sued NYC, seeking to end its sanctuary city status t.co/YCeeZP3hJ9
Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC, Reuters
An investigation by THE CITY uncovered donors who insist they didn’t donate to Eric Adams’ campaign, a donor who paid with a credit card linked to their employer and donors who don’t live where they claimed to. www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/24/e...
The clerks where I get my lunch said a man came in last week and asked them where the public entrance to 26 Federal Plaza was. He locked his bike outside, and it’s been there since.
The @thenyic.bsky.social has obtained footage from a holding cell/bathroom inside 26 Federal Plaza, where some detainees have spent weeks without access to showers, beds, medication, and other necessities. ICE has claimed there is no detention center.
"Without intervention, the remaining journalists in Gaza will die... Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us remembers seeing a colleague die of hunger."
Another scene from last week, when lawyer Ben Remy was appealing to agents to give him more than five seconds to advise people of their rights and explain what’s happening, often in another language “Legally, we don’t have to give you time. Alright? We have a warrant in hand and we can arrest him”
Everyone I saw detained at 26 Fed last week, like the young man below, followed the rules by attending their court dates. Judges granted them hearings on their asylum applications, signaling they were safe for the time being, before masked and armed agents ambushed them.
Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, says of sanctuary cities, “we’re gonna flood the zone” at a press conference at 1WTC regarding the off-duty CBP agent shot over the weekend. He’s criticizing media coverage about ICE targeting innocent migrants. dhs.gov/live
Solidarity with the reporters, editors and photographers of the @nydnunion.bsky.social as they rallied for a fair contract and in support of my friend @cndelarosa.bsky.social's Council resolution demanding that Alden Global Capital negotiate a fair contract now.
(And in the interest of equal time, Curtis Sliwa, Republican mayoral candidate, came out to the rally today — photo by @mollycranenewman.bsky.social )
"He is a man who is in the process of working on himself," Marc Agnifilo says of Combs
Combs’ attys acknowledged throughout that he was guilty of domestic violence (but wasn't charged w it). The judge is now quoting back those admissions, saying that kind of violence is “impossible to police with conditions,” & that Combs can’t demonstrate “that he poses no danger to any other person”
NEWS: Judge Subramanian DENIES Diddy's request for bail. He will remain at the MDC until sentencing.
Prosecutors just filed their submission, arguing that Combs should remain in jail. They included a letter from witness Deonte Nash, a former stylist who testified about seeing Combs assault Cassie and threaten her with releasing videos of freakoffs. Bail hearing is at 5 pm.
Diddy’s lawyers just filed their submission seeking his immediate release. They are proposing a $1M bond co-signed by him, his mom, his sister, and his oldest child’s mom; various travel restrictions; and say he will submit to drug testing.
There is a party atmosphere outside federal court in downtown Manhattan with one man having baby oil poured over his body post Diddy verdict.
The Mann Act Transportation counts carry up to 10 years and no minimum.
Joint statement from Manhattan US Attorney Jay Clayton and HSI official Ricky Patel
Statement from Cassie’s attorney, Doug Wigdor. “She displayed unquestionable strength and brought attention to the realities of powerful men in our orbit and the misconduct that has persisted for decades without repercussion.”
Agnifilo said Combs is no longer facing a life term and "would be northing short of a fool" to violate bail conditions if released on $1 million “He treasures, I assure you, the opportunity that he has been given, and he will not run afoul of anything this court imposes on him"
Subramanian will rule later today after receiving submissions from both sides. He joked that he knows Combs doesn’t want to go back to the MDC but will need to “cool his heels” for a couple of hours in the holding cells.
AUSA Maurene Comey argues that Combs should be detained until sentencing, citing "serious, serious conduct" within the Mann Act transport counts. Judge Subramanian says he's not going to resolve it "in this second," and needs to look at the statutes.
Combs' attorney, Marc Agnifilo, is asking the court to let him walk out of the courthouse right now and await sentencing under house arrest "He should be released"
Sean "Diddy" Combs has been convicted on two Mann Act counts and acquitted on the top counts of RICO conspiracy and sex trafficking, which carried a potential life sentence.
New: In an apparent first, a federal judge has ruled that he and his colleagues are public officials who must establish "actual malice" to sue individuals for defamation, as he dismissed a lawsuit by Judge Frederic Block concerning a feud at a Florida condo. www.reuters.com/legal/legali...
NO VERDICT TODAY. The jury just sent out another note. They are going home.
Subramanian now asking the jury to continue deliberating. Court is closed Thurs & Fri for the holiday, but Subramanian will allow them to deliberate on Thurs if they so choose. Agnifilo asked they not be given the option until EOD tomo so they don’t feel pressured to work faster.
Judge says the jury indicated “unpersuadable opinions on both sides.” AUSA Comey suggests a modified Allen charge, including a line about how other jurors won’t be better equipped to decide the outstanding count than they are. Combs’ atty, Marc Agnifilo, thinks it’s unnecessary.
FIX: Everything but the RICO conspiracy count (not sex trafficking). Here's the verdict sheet.
Judge Subramanian asked both sides to email him their proposed next steps. He might tell the jury to keep at it or accept a partial verdict. Stay tuned.
The jury has reached a verdict against Sean “Diddy” Combs on everything but the first sex trafficking count. Combs looks shell-shocked and was dabbing his eyes a few minutes ago. This all happened as the sky outside started darkening and we heard several claps of thunder.
Thanks @missy-ubermom.bsky.social
The alleged crimes in the RICO conspiracy are sex trafficking, kidnapping, arson, drug distribution, bribery, transporting individuals for prostitution, forced labor & obstruction. He could also get life if guilty of sex trafficking, which jurors only need to find happened once.
Combs could face life in prison if found guilty of racketeering conspiracy. Jurors, who could start deliberating tomorrow, can convict if they find that his staff committed *one* of eight alleged crimes on at least two occasions out of hundreds detailed during the trial.
Aided by staff and more money than god, Slavik said Combs, for decades, saw himself as untouchable. Behind the mask of his charming public persona was a thin-skinned megalomaniac prone to explosive and often violent temper tantrums when his narrative or authority was questioned
Closing out the case against Sean “Diddy” Combs, AUSA Christy Slavik has laid out how he preyed on “moldable” young women, love-bombed them with affection, and slowly chipped away at their self-esteem and grasp on reality to sexually objectify and exploit www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/26/s...
Args ongoing ww2.ca2.uscourts.gov/court.html
E. Jean Carroll is still receiving death threats daily based on Donald Trump’s defamatory lies, her attorney Robbie Kaplan just told the 2nd Circuit. “Truly graphic and horrifying” threats—“rape and killing by every means known to man,” including “disemboweling,” Kaplan said.
Thank you!
Khalil has been released! bsky.app/profile/oliv...
New order — Farbiarz orders Khalil’s release for 6:30 pm CT. He must surrender his passport, and the gov has to give him a copy of it and his green card.
Khalil can be released when his lawyer turns over his passport, the magistrate judge rules bsky.app/profile/inne...
Asked if the Trump admin will comply with Judge Farbiarz’s order to release Mahmoud Khalil, a DHS spokeswoman says, “An immigration judge, not a district judge, has the authority to decide if Mr. Khalil should be released or detained.”
Judge Farbiarz says a magistrate judge must set bail conditions and determine they’ve been met before Mahmoud Khalil’s release order goes into effect. The judge adds there is “no basis” to make him submit to electronic monitoring or immediately post bond.
Khalil missed the birth of his first child, their first Mother’s Day as a family, their first Father’s Day, and his graduation “Ideas are not illegal, and no administration should ever incarcerate people for expressing opinions they disagree with,” NYCLU exec director Donna Lieberman said
A federal judge in New Jersey on Friday said he would order Palestinian Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil released on bail more than three months into his detention, w/ @mollycranenewman.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/20/n...
“After more than three months we can finally breathe a sigh of relief and know that Mahmoud is on his way home to me and Deen, who never should have been separated from his father,” says Dr. Noor Abdalla, Mahmoud Khalil’s wife, in reaction to a judge granting his request for bail
BREAKING: At a hearing moments ago, NJ District Judge Farbiarz has ordered Mahmoud Khalil RELEASED ON BAIL.
Lander tells supporters gathered in Foley Square that the ICE agents who detained him today are among the 40% of 8+ million NYers who are foreign-born “One of whom is a Pakistani Muslim who lives in Brighton Beach — and the other, an Indo-Guyanese guy in South Ozone Park”
In a statement, an SDNY spokesman says the office is “continuing to investigate” the circumstances of Lander’s arrest
Lander has been released and says he’s fine, minus a missing button He says he’ll get due process, but the man he was trying to protect will not “He’s not gonna sleep in his bed tonight,” he said. “So far as I know, he has no lawyer. He has been stripped of his due process rights”
Note: still no word from the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office on how/if it plans to prosecute ICE’s allegations
CONFIRMED ICE accuses Lander of assaulting law enforcement and impeding a federal officer
Taken as a compliment. Thanks Anna!
Fox is reporting Lander will be charged with assaulting an officer, which my source heard second-hand
