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Future of Agency Created to Keep Mob Off Docks Now Up to Supreme Court
Nonetheless, the fee’s critics argue that it’s out of date as a result of the mob’s management of the area’s docks ended way back. These critics embody the Worldwide Longshoremen’s Affiliation, which represents most employees on the ports, and the New York Delivery Affiliation, whose members function the terminals the place enormous cargo ships are unloaded.
Sympathetic to the complaints, Chris Christie, Mr. Murphy’s Republican predecessor, signed laws supposed to dissolve the fee in one among his final acts as governor. After Mr. Murphy took workplace, the fee sued him in federal courtroom, arguing that New Jersey couldn’t unilaterally dismantle an settlement between the 2 states that Congress had blessed.
The company gained that authorized spherical, however misplaced when New Jersey appealed the choice to the U.S. Court docket of Appeals for the Third Circuit. At that time, the fee itself requested the Supreme Court docket to contemplate the case, which it declined to do final 12 months.
It was then that Mr. Murphy notified the fee that the state can be withdrawing its commissioner on March 28 of this 12 months. The delivery affiliation, which pays charges that present a lot of the company’s funds, mentioned it will cease doing so on the similar time.
However New York officers have strenuously resisted the efforts to disband the fee, and the uncommon step they took on Monday confirmed how robust their objections are. The final high-profile tangle between the 2 states was 30 years in the past when New Jersey sued New York over possession of Ellis Island close to the Statue of Liberty.
In an announcement, Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat like Mr. Murphy and Ms. James, the lawyer normal, mentioned that New York “can not afford to lose the waterfront fee’s distinctive authority and experience in combating crime.”
Terminating the company, she added, “would trigger speedy and irreparable hurt to New York state, from elevated crime to greater costs to employment inequities.”
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Adams’s Former Chief Adviser and Her Son Charged With Corruption
Ingrid Lewis-Martin, who resigned as Mayor Eric Adams’s chief adviser, and her son, Glenn D. Martin II, were charged with taking $100,000 in bribes from two businessmen in a quid-pro-quo scheme.
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We allege that Ingrid Lewis-Martin engaged in a long-running bribery, money laundering and conspiracy scheme by using her position and authority as the chief adviser of — chief adviser to the New York City mayor, the second-highest position in city government — to illegally influence city decisions in exchange for in excess of $100,000 in cash and other benefits for herself and her son, Glenn Martin II. We allege that real estate developers and business owners Raizada “Pinky” Vaid and Mayank Dwivedi paid for access and influence to the tune more than $100,000. Lewis-Martin acted as an on-call consultant for Vaid and Dwivedi, serving at their pleasure to resolve whatever issues they had with D.O.B. on their construction projects, and she did so without regard for security considerations and with utter and complete disregard for D.O.B.’s expertise and the public servants who work there.
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
V.
LUIGI NICHOLAS MANGIONE,
Defendant.
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, ss.:
Original
AUSAS: Dominic A. Gentile,
Jun Xiang, Alexandra Messiter
24 MAG 4375
SEALED COMPLAINT
Violations of
18 U.S.C. §§ 2261A, 2261(b), 924(j), and
924(c)
COUNTY OF OFFENSE:
NEW YORK
GARY W. COBB, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he is a Special Agent with the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, and charges as follows:
COUNT ONE
(Stalking – Travel in Interstate Commerce)
1. From at least in or about November 24, 2024 to in or about December 4, 2024, in
the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, LUIGI NICHOLAS MANGIONE, the
defendant, traveled in interstate commerce with the intent to kill, injure, harass, intimidate, and place
under surveillance with intent to kill, injure, harass, and intimidate another person, and in the
course of, and as a result of, such travel engaged in conduct that placed that person in reasonable
fear of the death of, and serious bodily injury to, that person, and in the course of engaging in such
conduct caused the death of that person, to wit, MANGIONE, traveled from Georgia to New York,
New York for the purpose of stalking and killing Brian Thompson, and while in New York,
MANGIONE stalked and then shot and killed Thompson in the vicinity of West 54th Street and
Sixth Avenue.
(Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2261A(1)(A) and 2261(b)(1).)
COUNT TWO
(Stalking – Use of Interstate Facilities)
2. From at least in or about November 24, 2024 to in or about December 4, 2024, in
the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, LUIGI NICHOLAS MANGIONE, the
defendant, with the intent to kill, injure, harass, intimidate, and place under surveillance with intent
to kill, injure, harass, and intimidate another person, used an electronic communication service and
electronic communication system of interstate commerce, and a facility of interstate or foreign
commerce, to engage in a course of conduct that placed that person in reasonable fear of the death
of and serious bodily injury to that person, and in the course of engaging in such conduct caused
the death of that person, to wit, MANGIONE used a cellphone, interstate wires, interstate
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Luigi Mangione Is Charged With Murder
The first-degree murder charge branded him a terrorist over the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive, Brian Thompson.
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We are here to announce that Luigi Mangione, the defendant, is charged with one count of murder in the first degree and two counts of murder in the second degree, including one count of murder in the second degree as an act of terrorism for the brazen, targeted and premeditated shooting of Brian Thompson, who, as was as you know, was the C.E.O. of UnitedHealthcare. This was a frightening, well-planned, targeted murder that was intended to cause shock and attention and intimidation. It occurred in one of the most bustling parts of our city, threatening the safety of local residents and tourists alike, commuters and businesspeople just starting out on their day.
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