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Mar 30, 2022

A Federal Judge in the Eastern District of New York agreed with Attorney Todd Greenberg at sentencing that our client was going to suffer severe collateral consequences from his criminal conviction which should be taken into account by the Sentencing Court. Our client, an alleged but denied “Associate” of the Gambino crime family, was convicted […]

Aug 12, 2019

Jury Deadlocked with regard to all charges involving marijuana impairment including most serious charge of Aggravated Vehicular Homicide. The so called controversial “Pot Defense” presented by New York Criminal Defense Attorney Todd Greenberg was based on scientific studies as explained to the Jury by a highly qualified Yale Professor. If convicted of top count Beer […]

May 15, 2018

LONG ISLAND CRIMEWOMAN PLEADS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR MOM’S DEATHAttorneys said Suzan Grossman-Kerner of Oceanside was not responsible due to mental illness in the 2015 stabbing of her mother, Irma Grossman. By Joan Gralla[email protected] @JoanGrallaUpdated May 15, 2018 9:30 PM An Oceanside lawyer pleaded not responsible for stabbing her mother to death due to mental illness, attorneys […]

Jan 9, 2018

Three of four men received jail time and a national Asian-American fraternity was barred from doing business in Pennsylvania Monday in connection with the December 2013 hazing death of a college student in the Pocono Mountains. Kenny Kwan, Charles Lai, Raymond Lam and Sheldon Wong – all fraternity brothers of Pi Delta Psi – were sentenced after pleading […]

Oct 13, 2015

Flavor Flav received a sweet no-jail deal Tuesday after pleading guilty to speeding to his mother’s funeral on Long Island last year. Prosecutors had been hoping the rapper would agree to a six-month jail sentence, but settled on time served in Nassau Criminal Court. The Public Enemy founding member was going 79 miles per hour […]

Sep 18, 2007

By Ed Fountaine All charges against two former New York Racing Association officials indicted in the so-called “fat jockeys” scandal were dismissed yesterday by Saratoga County judge Jerry Scarano, but the case is far from over. Mario Sclafani, 50, the clerk of scales, and his assistant, retired Hall of Fame jockey Braulio Baeza, 67, are […]

Sep 18, 2007

The Associated Press BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. – A judge dismissed charges yesterday against two former New York Racing Association officials accused of falsely reporting the weights of several jockeys at NYRA’s three thoroughbred tracks in 2004. Saratoga County Court Judge Jerry Scarano ruled the case against Mario Sclafani and Braulio Baeza was based on faulty […]

Apr 3, 2004

By HUGH SONDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER A veteran cop accused of killing a young Brooklyn motorcyclist while driving drunk was acquitted of all charges yesterday, a verdict that outraged the victim’s family. Off-duty Officer Victor Wilson, 43, had just left a Bay Ridge bowling alley when he crashed into Stefanos Kiladitis’ motorbike at 88th St. […]

Feb 6, 1996

By MONTE WILLIAMS A former Mount Vernon High school student convicted of stabbing a classmate to death inside the school in 1994 was sentenced today to five years of probation. The Westchester County District Attorney immediately protested the sentence. “When a jury convicts someone of manslaughter, of killing a 17-year-old student in high school, he […]

Jan 14, 1994

New York NewsdayBy Graham Rayman A Queens jury has acquitted the Maspeth teenager accused of stabbing a 16-year-old boy to death in a graffiti-covered warren of alleys in Elmhurst called “the Maze.” After a five-week trial, the jury Wednesday evening found [Defendant], 17, of Maspeth not guilty in the Dec. 6, 1992, slaying of [Deceased] […]

Jun 25, 1982

By Gerald McKelvey Jamaica — An Arverne man was acquitted yesterday of all homicide charges in the death of his 2-year-old son who, police said, had died of beatings, scalding and starvation. After two days of deliberation, a jury in State Supreme Court convicted [Defendant], 30, of Edgemere Houses, of endangering the welfare of a […]