Northeast
JONATHAN TURLEY: Trump's trial shows NY couldn't handle the truth. Sentence rams that home

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With the sentencing of Donald Trump on Friday, the final verdict on the New York criminal trial of the president-elect is in. The verdict is not the one that led to no jail or probation for the incoming president. Acting Justice Juan Merchan has brought down the gavel on the New York legal system as a whole.
Once considered the premier legal system in the country, figures like New York Attorney General Letitia James, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Justices Arthur F. Engoron and Juan Merchan have caused the system to be weaponized for political purposes. Trump will walk away from this trial and into the White House in less than two weeks, but the New York system will walk into infamy after this day.
The case has long been denounced by objective legal observers, including intense Trump critics, as a legal absurdity. Even CNN’s senior legal analyst Elie Honig denounced the case as legally flawed and unprecedented while Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., simply called it total “b—s–t.”
DONALD TRUMP SENTENCED WITH NO PENALTY IN NEW YORK CRIMINAL TRIAL, AS JUDGE WISHES HIM ‘GODSPEED’ IN 2ND TERM
It is a case based on a non-crime. Bragg took a long-dead misdemeanor and zapped it back into life with a novel and unfounded theory. By using federal violations that were never charged, let alone tried, Bragg turned a misdemeanor into dozens of felonies and essentially tried Trump for federal offenses.
Merchan not only allowed those charges to be brought to trial but then added layers of reversible errors in the effort to bag Trump at any cost. For that, he was lionized by the liberal media and many New Yorkers. However, Trump still managed to pull in 3.6 million New York votes, or 42.7%, in the 2024 election. After all of the lawfare and every advantage (including a heavily biased media and a larger war chest), Vice President Kamala Harris lost hundreds of thousands of votes in 2024 compared to Joe Biden just four years earlier.
Many polls showed that the public saw the Manhattan criminal case for what it was: raw lawfare targeting a leading political opponent. The election itself felt like the largest verdict in history as citizens rejected the political, legal and media establishments in one of our nation’s most historic elections.
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The New York court system will now have a chance to redeem itself, but few are holding their breath. The appellate court has still not ruled on an appeal of Attorney General Lettia James’s equally absurd civil lawsuit against Trump. Despite judges expressing skepticism over Engoron’s use of a law to impose a grotesque $455 million in fines and interest, we are still waiting for a decision.
Most are waiting for this criminal case to escape the vortex of the New York court system. With this appeal, this peddler’s wagon of reversible errors will finally pull up in front of the Supreme Court itself.
With its ruling on Thursday night, the setting for a decision could not be better for Trump. The Supreme Court has again demonstrated that it has shown restraint and independence in these cases. In response to the ruling, Trump struck the perfect note Thursday night and declined to criticize the Court, stating, “This is a long way from finished and I respect the court’s opinion.”
The ultimate penalty on Friday morning from Judge Merchan reflects the lack of seriousness in the case. It was more inflated than the Goodyear blimp, pumped up by hot rage and rhetoric. The sentence was the pinprick that showed the massive void within this case.
The verdict is in. The New York legal system has rendered it against itself.
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Northeast
NYPD officers entangled in crypto torture case after Bitcoin investor escaped from townhouse of horrors

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Two New York Police Department officers could find themselves in hot water over potential connections to a shocking case of torture in the stately SoHo district of Manhattan.
The NYPD confirmed to Fox News Digital that its officers “were modified” and “the matter is under internal review.”
The issue involves two detectives, one of whom reportedly served on Mayor Eric Adams’ security detail, the New York Post reported.
The case at the heart of the scandal is tied to two men who allegedly tortured an Italian cryptocurrency millionaire in a New York City townhouse.
CRYPTO INVESTOR ACCUSED OF SADISTICALLY TORTURING BIZ PARTNER IN NYC LUXURY TOWNHOUSE
Jessica Tisch speaks after being sworn in as the next Commissioner of the New York Police Department (NYPD) during a ceremony at One Police Plaza on Nov. 25, 2024, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
One detective is suspected of driving the alleged victim, a 22-year-old Italian Bitcoin millionaire, from the airport to the townhouse where the savagery occurred on the day he arrived in New York, according to the Post. The other is accused of working with the man’s alleged captors, John Woeltz and William Duplessie, in an “unauthorized capacity.”
Woeltz, 37, and Duplessie, 33, are accused of kidnapping the man, a former business partner, on May 6 and torturing him when he refused to reveal his Bitcoin password. A criminal complaint obtained by Fox News says the brutality lasted for nearly three weeks.

John Woeltz was arrested at his SoHo townhouse. (WNYW)
The pair allegedly shocked the man with electric wires, bashed his head with a firearm, pointed a firearm at his head and threatened to kill him and his family, and hung him over a second-floor ledge.
Eventually, the man escaped the residence and flagged down a traffic cop.

John Woeltz and William Duplessie have been charged with kidnapping after police say an Italian tourist was allegedly held hostage and tortured for his crypto account information inside a SoHo townhouse. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)
Both suspects have now been charged with assault, kidnapping in the first degree, unlawful imprisonment in the first degree and criminal possession of a firearm.
2ND SUSPECT DETAINED AFTER CRYPTO INVESTOR ACCUSED OF TORTURING BUSINESS PARTNER IN NYC

William Duplessie is pictured in police custody leaving the NYPD’s 13th Precinct stationhouse in Manhattan, New York, on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (Barry Williams / New York Daily News via Getty Images)
Woeltz was arrested last Friday, just after the man escaped. Duplessie turned himself in on Tuesday.
The latter reportedly appeared in front of a judge in a Manhattan courtroom Friday, waiting to be officially indicted. He is being held without bail.
Fox News’ Michael Dorgan and Greg Norman contributed to this report.
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Boston, MA
Author readings around Boston through June 14 – The Boston Globe

All author appearances are in person and free unless otherwise noted. A complete list can be found at bostonglobe.com/books.
SUNDAY, JUNE 8
- Ken Bresler (“The Witch Trial Trail of Boston”) will discuss his book at 2 p.m. at Newtonville Books.
- Lynda Mullaly Hunt (“Wish in a Tree”) will read at 3 p.m. at An Unlikely Story. RSVP required.
- Brad Bolman (“Lab Dog”) is in conversation with Robin Wolfe Scheffler at 6 p.m. at Brookline Booksmith. RSVP required.
- Michelle Young (“The Art Spy”) will discuss her book at 6 p.m. at East End Books Ptown. Tickets are $5.
Pittsburg, PA
8 rabbits dumped, left to

A humane officer is asking the public for help after eight rabbits were dumped and left to a “very long, slow death” in Armstrong County.
Armstrong County humane officer Chris Jirak O’Donnell is trying to find whoever is responsible for abandoning eight Angora rabbits on a gas well road at Keystone Lake in Rural Valley.
The bunnies were found by a family who had gone fishing. They called 911 and O’Donnell was called in to investigate.
(Photos provided by Chris Jirak O’Donnell)
“This was an incredibly cruel act. These animals had no chance of survival. And, the rabbits’ conditions would likely have made it a very long, slow death,” O’Donnell said in a new release.
The rabbits were taken to BunRabit’s Rescue in Greensburg. There, manager Nichole Gunderson spent hours shaving and treating the rabbits. Under their matted fur, O’Donnell said Gunderson found bite wounds, thin bodies and a broken toe. Veterinary treatment for the bunnies is being arranged.
Abandoning the rabbits without food or vet care could result in misdemeanor charges. Depending on the veterinary exam results, those responsible could even face felonies.
Anyone with information is asked to contact humane officer O’Donnell at humaneofficerac@gmail.com or by calling 724-954-9515.
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