By Scott Shifrel Keith Cosby watched in court as lawyers talked about the five bullets that ended his daughter’s life and what her last words were, and showed him a video of his son-in-law confessing. That was last week. Today, he awaits the judge’s decision on whether or not the son-in-law, Van Griffin, is sentenced on manslaughter or murder charges.…[...]
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By Herbert Lowe A former correction officer’s depression after a serious motorcycle accident ultimately led to his fatally shooting the mother of one of his three children over child support, defense witnesses testified yesterday in Queens. Van Griffin, 38, spent 11 days in a coma after the 1996 accident that killed a woman who was riding with him on his…[...]
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NewsdayBy Rocco Parascandola A Queens Catholic school administrator was arrested yesterday for allegedly groping his wife’s 13 year old goddaughter, police said. Jorge Diez, 41 was charged with sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child for allegedly fondling the girl inside his Jamaica Estate home Monday. Diez is the religious education administrator at St. Sebastian’s in Woodside. One…[...]
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By Denise Buffa – Staff Writer A cop insisted yesterday he wasn’t driving drunk when he struck and killed a Brooklyn motorcyclist more than a month ago – but prosecutors say they’ll use a controversial field sobriety test to prove his guilt in court. Victor Wilson, a 12-year veteran, pleaded not guilty yesterday in Brooklyn Supreme Court to vehicular manslaughter,…[...]
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By Nancie L. Katz – STAFF WRITER An off-duty cop accused of plowing into a Brooklyn motorcyclist while driving drunk pleaded not guilty yesterday to manslaughter charges. If convicted in the death of Stefanos Kiladitis, Officer Victor Wilson, 43, could face up to seven years in prison. Wilson, of Staten Island, was leaving a Bay Ridge bowling alley June 19…[...]
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By Herbert Lowe STAFF WRITER Bail was set at $750,000 yesterday for a man accused of the 1999 beating death of Long Island City community activist Armando Perez. Shaguye Colbert was arraigned on second-degree murder charges in State Supreme Court in Kew Gardens, in a case in which similar charges were dismissed last year against four other young men. Colbert, 26,…[...]
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By Robert E. KesslerSTAFF WRITERTUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 A federal prosecutor began a second trial yesterday against a Queens man charged with defrauding his late wife out of her share of the couple’s $1.2 million in assets. Ali Bessaha, 65, of 43-20 40 th St. in Long Island City, is accused in U.S. District Court in Manhattan of cheating his late wife,…[...]
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By Robert E. KesslerSTAFF WRITER A mistrial was ordered Friday in the fraud case of Long Island City man after a juror acknowledged reading a newspaper story that discussed one fact that the judge had barred jurors from knowing: that the man also had been charged with murdering his wife. U.S. District Court Judge Leonard Wexler ordered the mistrial in…[...]
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November 8, 2000By Sean Gardiner When Correction Officer Van Griffen went into a coma four years ago after a horrific motorcycle crash, it was his pregnant girlfriend, Felicia Cosby, who helped nurse him back to health. Monday night, it was Griffen who allegedly shot and killed Cosby, the mother of his 4-year-old daughter, in a fight over child support. According…[...]
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By Robert E. Kessler – STAFF WRITERNEWSDAY The very bad news recently for [Defendant], a Long Island City millionaire, was that a federal judge ruled that he had murdered his wife in Hicksville in 1999. The good news at the same time for [Defendant] was that the judge also decided that the jury hearing the [Defendant’s] case involving mail fraud…[...]
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NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION This pamphlet, which is based on New York law, is intended to inform, not to advise. No one should attempt to interpret or apply any law without the aid of an attorney. Produced by the New York State Bar Association Committee on Public Relations. Do I need a lawyer? I can buy an automobile or…[...]
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By Robert E. Kessler. STAFF WRITER A Long Island City man who was charged with defrauding his estranged wife before she was found murdered in January in her Hicksville home was named as “the prime suspect” in her murder yesterday by a federal prosecutor. Assistant U.S. Attorney Gary Brown said that [Defendant], 62, of 43-20 40th St., was considered the…[...]
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By Robert E. Kessler. STAFF WRITER A Queens man, whose estranged wife was found murdered in her Hicksville home in January, was arrested yesterday by federal agents in connection with a scheme to defraud her of her share of their more than $1 million in joint assets. An arrest warrant by federal postal inspector Carl Sclafani details the alleged stormy…[...]
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By Pete Donohue A heroic but troubled Vietnam veteran who surrendered to authorities after nearly a decade on the lam pleaded guilty yesterday to burglary-related charges in a bid to face his future with a clean slate. Because of the plea to the misdemeanor charges, prosecutors said, [Defendant] will be able to return to his life and wife in Washington…[...]
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Mount Vernon Argus Gannett Suburban Newspapers By Bruce Golding A young man who fatally stabbed a fellow student inside Mount Vernon High School was spared any prison time yesterday by a merciful judge who said it was clear the killing was provoked. But the judge’s leniency prompted anguish from the victim’s mother and outrage from Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine…[...]
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