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This Database Stores the DNA of 31,000 New Yorkers. Is It Illegal?
“The driving motivation for the NYPD to gather DNA is to legally determine the right perpetrator, construct the strongest case attainable for investigators and our companions within the numerous prosecutors’ workplaces and convey closure to victims and their households,” he stated.
Town medical expert’s workplace, which maintains the database, stated that it complies with relevant legal guidelines and is operated “with the very best scientific requirements,” set by unbiased accrediting our bodies.
The dispute underscores tensions which have erupted in cities throughout the nation over efforts to extend the usage of know-how and surveillance ways in policing and comes amid a extremely charged native debate over elevated gun violence. In New York, Mayor Eric Adams has known as for increasing the usage of facial recognition and software program to determine gun carriers, which he argues may assist in crime combating.
However civil liberties advocates and privateness teams have contended that the developments come on the expense of communities of shade, infringe on the rights of people that haven’t been convicted of crimes and place them susceptible to wrongful conviction if errors are made.
“You’ll be able to change your Social Safety quantity if you happen to’re a sufferer of id theft. You’ll be able to’t change your DNA,” stated Albert Fox Cahn, the chief director of the Surveillance Know-how Oversight Mission. “You’re creating this fixed risk not for months, not for years, however the remainder of your life, which you could be focused by this data.”
The genetic database has come underneath hearth lately for the ways the police use to gather DNA samples, usually with out a individual’s consent, legal professionals say. The division’s Detective Information instructs detectives to supply a water bottle, soda, cigarette, gum or meals to somebody being questioned in reference to against the law whose DNA is sought — and to gather the merchandise as soon as they depart.
These practices have invited scrutiny in high-profile instances, like when detectives provided a McDonald’s soda to a 12-year-old boy who was dealing with a felony cost in 2018, took the straw and examined it for DNA. The boy’s profile didn’t match crime-scene proof however remained within the system for over a 12 months.
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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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