Thoroughbred TimesBy Pete Denk A new grand jury has reaffirmed a 291 count indictment against former New York Racing Association Clerk of Scales Mario Sclafani and Assistant Clerk of Scales Braulio Baeza for allegedly falsifying records and allowing jockeys to ride overweight in 2004. Sclafani and Baeza, a former jockey and member of the Racing Hall of Fame, were indicted…[...]
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Breathalyzer Results Suppressed;Police Lacked Probable Cause to Stop Motorist The Defendant was arrested on April 20, 2006 at 4 a.m. and charged with Driving While Intoxicated. The arresting Police Officer stated that the Defendant’s vehicle was swerving and that the Breathalyzer Test revealed a blood alcohol content of .197%, more than twice the legal limit. At a Pre-Trial Hearing requested…[...]Continue Reading
Our client, a Queens Catholic School Administrator was charged with sexual abuse endangering the welfare of a child. Defense attorney Todd D. Greenberg was successful in raising sufficient credibility issues with the complainant and the jury acquitted our client of the charges.[...]
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On February 10, 2006, our client was acquitted by a jury of endangering the welfare of a child and sexual abuse in the second degree. Our client’s 16 year old niece alleged that the Defendant improperly touched her breast and vagina on two occasions while she was home alone with the Defendant. The evidence revealed that the allegations were made…[...]
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Newsday The Associated Press Five men who were convicted in the harassment and brutal beating last year of a Sikh man outside a Queens catering hall were sentenced yesterday to terms raging from two years in prison to five days in jail. Trial evidence showed the men taunted Rajinder Singh Khalsa, 50, outside the Villa Russo Ristorante in Richmond Hill…[...]
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Thoroughbred Times Under a committee recommendation, weigh-out procedures will be conducted in full public view at California racetracks as the California Horse Racing Board on Thursday moved forward with plans to revise procedures on the weighing of jockeys for races. The board hopes to ensure that horses carry their assigned weights and the public is accurately informed of those weights.…[...]
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By Herbert LoweStaff Writer To Victor Cosentino’s attorney, “words alone are not an assault,” and certainly not a hate crime — even if his client threatened murder, as a prosecution witness testified against him Wednesday in Queens. Cosentino, 60, of Valley Stream, also contends that the charges alleging that he helped assault a Sikh leader after an argument over turbans…[...]
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By Herbert LoweStaff Writer A Sikh man testifying in a hate-crime trial in Queens Tuesday identified the men who are charged with harassing him and another Sikh before assaulting them after an argument over their turbans. Gurcharan Singh testified that, on July 11, 2004, he, his cousin Rajinder Singh Bammi, a friend of Bammi’s and the friend’s son were exiting…[...]
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By ALEX GINSBERG An off-handed crack by a drunken partygoer comparing a Sikh’s sacred turban to bed linen touched off a bloody melee on a Queens street two summers ago that put the immigrant in the hospital, eyewitnesses testified yesterday. “Why did you steal the sheets from my house?” quipped Ryan Meehan, one of five men accused in the attack,…[...]
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By Herbert LoweStaff Writer, Newsday Five men went on trial Monday in Queens, accused of a bias attack on a Sikh spiritual leader after an argument over the alleged victim’s turban. Describing “an unprovoked attack that was based on pure hate,” prosecutors said the defendants were guilty of a “despicable display of human behavior” against the victim “because he was…[...]
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New York PostBy Ed Fountaine The day after former New York Racing Association clerk of scales Mario Sciafani and his assistant retired Hall-of-Fame jockey Braulio Baeza, were indicted by N.Y. State attorney general Eliot Spitzer for allegedly allowing jockeys to ride at weights above the legal limit, Sciafani’s attorney, Todd Greenberg of Forest Hills, said his client “absolutely denies the…[...]
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Philadelphia Inquirer Two key New York Racing Association officials were charged yesterday with falsely reporting the weight of several prominent jockeys at the association’s three thoroughbred tracks and defrauding the betting public and the horses’ trainers and owners, state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said. An indictment unsealed in Saratoga County Court charges NYRA clerk of the scales Mario Sclafani and…[...]
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Washington Post Two key New York Racing Association officials were charged yesterday with falsely reporting the weight of several prominent jockeys at NYRA’s three thoroughbred tracks and defrauding the betting public and the horses’ trainers and owners, state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said. An indictment unsealed in Saratoga County Court charges NYRA clerk of the scales Mario Sclafani and assistant…[...]
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ESPN.COMBy Mark JohnsonAssociated Press ALBANY, N.Y. – Two key New York Racing Association officials were charged Wednesday with falsely reporting the weight of several prominent jockeys at NYRA’s three thoroughbred tracks and defrauding the betting public and the horses’ trainers and owners, state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said. An indictment unsealed in Saratoga County Court charges NYRA clerk of the…[...]
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Authorities say 19 year old Queens Man Targeted Dearie New York Law JournalBy Tom Perrotta Federal authorities yesterday arrested a man who allegedly threatened to kill an Eastern District judge and bomb the courthouse in Brooklyn. In several anonymous letters and telephone calls beginning late last month, 19 year old Wazir Khan of Queens said he would kill U.S. District…[...]
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