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‘We Got Him’: The Manhunt for the N Train Attacker
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Good morning. It’s Thursday. We’ll observe the most recent developments within the Brooklyn subway shootings, with the arrest of a suspect after he was acknowledged in a fast-food restaurant, and we’ll take a more in-depth take a look at the scheme that pressured the resignation of Brian Benjamin as lieutenant governor.
“We bought him,” Mayor Eric Adams declared throughout a information convention, referring to the person the police wished within the subway assault. “We bought him.”
The person was apprehended after a 29-hour manhunt. The police combed the streets. They scoured surveillance-camera footage. They patrolled subway platforms. However none of that led them to the person they stated had launched two smoke grenades and opened fireplace with a semiautomatic pistol on Tuesday morning.
Frank James, 62, was picked up after being noticed in a McDonald’s restaurant within the East Village. An array of individuals took credit score for turning him in, and a few legislation enforcement officers stated James himself might have referred to as the police’s tip line.
It didn’t take officers lengthy to get to the restaurant on First Avenue at East Sixth Avenue, however James had already left. They started driving across the neighborhood and located him on the nook of First and St. Marks Place, about 5 miles from the place he’s accused of getting carried out the assault that injured no less than 23 folks.
Officers stated that after the assault, James left the N prepare he had been driving and boarded an area throughout the platform, an R prepare to which a number of of his victims had additionally fled. He rode that prepare to the subsequent cease and managed to evade legislation enforcement for greater than a day.
He left behind clues that pointed to him, the authorities stated. On the N prepare, the police discovered a bank card along with his identify on it and the important thing to a U-Haul van that he had picked up in Philadelphia on April 11. They discovered the van, deserted, on a road within the Gravesend neighborhood a number of hours after the taking pictures. Within the prepare, additionally they discovered a Glock 9-millimeter handgun and three ammunition magazines.
And by Wednesday morning the police, who had initially recognized James as a “individual of curiosity” of their investigation, stated he was the lone suspect.
The arrest introduced some aid to New Yorkers fearful {that a} gunman was on the unfastened, and to officers who feared that one other high-profile violent incident would diminish confidence within the security of town and its lifeline, the transit system. “Everyone’s on edge due to what occurred” within the subway, stated Lee Lloyd, who was contained in the bar he owns within the East Village when officers surrounded James on the road. “Once we noticed 5 cop vehicles come via, I used to be like, ‘Oh, man, what now?’”
Mayor Adams, who had elevated the police presence within the subways earlier than the shootings and stated on Tuesday that he would enhance it once more, referred to “the issue of quick access to weapons.”
James himself had raised the topic of crime in disturbing movies posted to YouTube. He referred to himself because the “prophet of doom” and talked about race, international affairs and, in no less than one video, threats of violence that he imagined going down in New York’s subway system.
“He can’t cease no crime in no subways,” James stated at one level, referring to Adams. “He might gradual it down however he ain’t stopping it.”
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Cuba Gooding Jr. pleads responsible to forcible touching
Cuba Gooding Jr., the Academy Award-winning actor who had been accused by greater than 20 girls of groping or forcibly kissing them in encounters going again greater than twenty years, pleaded responsible on Wednesday to 1 rely of forcible touching.
“I apologize for ever making anyone really feel inappropriately touched,” Gooding stated throughout a listening to earlier than Justice Curtis Farber of State Supreme Courtroom in Manhattan.
The choose requested if the cost to which he was pleading was true. “Sure, your honor,” Gooding stated. “I kissed the waitress on her lips.”
Below phrases of the plea, Gooding should spend six extra months in alcohol and habits modification therapy that he has been present process since 2019 and might haven’t any new arrests, the Manhattan district legal professional’s workplace stated. If he satisfies these phrases, he can withdraw the plea and plead to a lesser cost of harassment, a violation, with a sentence of time served, the workplace stated.
Gooding was initially charged in reference to an encounter in June 2019 on the Magic Hour Rooftop Bar, an costly lounge on the Moxy NYC Occasions Sq. resort in Manhattan. In response to a legal grievance, the accuser stated that he positioned his hand on her breast with out her consent and squeezed. Further costs filed later concerned two incidents from the autumn of 2018, one at a nightclub, the opposite at an Italian restaurant.
In a metropolis that usually appears to revolve round megadeals, Gerald Migdol’s actual property empire in Harlem was comparatively modest. He additionally cultivated native Democrats. And he showcased his generosity, overseeing a charity for kids that offered backpacks and Thanksgiving turkeys to households in want.
Now he has grow to be the centerpiece within the federal investigation that led to the resignation of Brian Benjamin as New York’s lieutenant governor on Tuesday. The indictment towards Benjamin stated that when he was a state senator, he masterminded a secretive scheme, arranging a $50,000 state grant for Migdol’s charity.
Prosecutors stated the plan was to steer state funds to Migdol in change for fraudulent marketing campaign contributions. Solely a handful of transactions had been outlined when Migdol was indicted final fall, however prosecutors have requested witnesses about greater than 40 totally different Benjamin marketing campaign donors. Lots of the donors in query have ties to Migdol and his household and made contributions round occasions in 2019 and 2020 when prosecutors have stated that Migdol helped prepare bogus contributions.
A number of of the suspicious donations got here inside days of an electronic mail that Migdol despatched to a small group of workers and contractors on July 6, 2020. The topic line learn: “Everybody I want $250 from NYC residents.” Accompanying the e-mail was a kind to donate to Benjamin’s marketing campaign.
One of many recipients, a contractor named Amir Khan, stated he donated $250 as a result of he couldn’t say no to Migdol, a longtime consumer.
Three of my colleagues — Nicholas Fandos, Jeffery C. Mays and William Ok. Rashbaum — write that courtroom paperwork, metropolis contracts, nonprofit filings and different data counsel that Migdol’s involvement with Benjamin was not the primary time he had blurred the traces that separate politics, enterprise and charity. He as soon as prompted accusations earlier than the Metropolis Council that he was attempting to curry favor with tenants of a constructing he wished to purchase within the Bronx.
Migdol has additionally drawn substantial income from New York Metropolis’s homeless companies applications. He has achieved enterprise with two main operators who’ve confronted federal legal investigations whereas amassing no less than $35 million in metropolis funding via corporations offering a variety of for-profit and nonprofit companies.
Attorneys for Migdol and Benjamin declined to remark, as did spokesmen for the F.B.I. and U.S. legal professional’s workplace.
What we’re studying
METROPOLITAN diary
Does it matter?
Expensive Diary:
Does it matter what others consider us?
To seek out out, I gave my cognitive behavioral therapist’s task a strive: Get on a bus and name out the stops and factors of curiosity, the entire route, loudly and clearly.
I knew I used to be not more likely to run into anybody I knew on the M14, so on a spring day, I stepped on one, paid my fare and commenced with barely a whisper:
“Right here’s the Eye and Ear Infirmary,” I stated.
“The Con Ed Constructing,” I continued.
By the point we bought to Union Sq. and the positioning of the previous Luchow’s, I used to be belting out the sights and stops.
Most everybody had edged away nervously or slipped out the again.
Lastly, at Seventh Avenue, I swung down the aisle.
“Is that this the final cease,” I requested the driving force. “Or do you head downtown?”
“I don’t know, girl,” he stated. “You’re the tour information.”
— Frances Schwartz Wheeler
Illustrated by Agnes Lee. Ship submissions right here and learn extra Metropolitan Diary right here.
Glad we may get collectively right here. See you tomorrow. — J.B.
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New York
Trump Tries to Move Hush-Money Case to Federal Court Before Sentencing
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Former President Donald J. Trump sought to move his Manhattan criminal case into federal court on Thursday, filing the unusual request three months after he was convicted in state court.
The long-shot bid marks Mr. Trump’s latest effort to stave off his sentencing in state court in his hush-money trial, in which he was convicted of falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal.
He is scheduled to receive his punishment on Sept. 18, just seven weeks before Election Day, when he will square off against Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidency.
“The ongoing proceedings will continue to cause direct and irreparable harm to President Trump — the leading candidate in the 2024 presidential election — and voters located far beyond Manhattan,” Mr. Trump’s lawyers, Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, wrote in the filing.
Their filing came even as the Trump legal team is awaiting the result of a separate effort to postpone the sentencing; it opened a second front that could complicate the first.
On Aug. 15, Mr. Trump asked the state court judge who presided over the trial, Juan M. Merchan, to delay the sentencing until after Election Day. Mr. Trump’s lawyers argued that they needed more time to challenge his conviction on the basis of a recent Supreme Court ruling granting presidents broad immunity for official acts.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office, which won the conviction of Mr. Trump on May 30, has argued that the Supreme Court’s ruling has “no bearing” on their case, which centers on Mr. Trump’s cover- up of a sex scandal involving a porn star. But the Manhattan prosecutors deferred to the judge on whether to delay the sentencing, leaving the door open for Justice Merchan to punt until after the election.
Justice Merchan was expected to rule on the delay request next week, and it is unclear whether Mr. Trump’s federal petition would disrupt that. In the federal filing, the former president’s lawyers asked a judge to find that Justice Merchan was barred by law from sentencing Mr. Trump while their attempt to move the case was underway.
It seemed possible that effort might backfire. If the federal judge does not grant the lawyers’ request, they will have further alienated Justice Merchan as he prepares to sentence their client. Mr. Trump faces up to four years in prison, though he could receive a shorter sentence, or merely probation.
There are signs the federal judge might be skeptical. Mr. Trump already tried — and failed — to move the case to federal court. Last year, soon after the former president was indicted, he asked the same federal judge to remove the case from Justice Merchan, arguing that it concerned official acts as president.
The judge, Alvin K. Hellerstein, rejected that argument.
“The evidence overwhelmingly suggests that the matter was a purely personal item of the president — a cover-up of an embarrassing event,” Judge Hellerstein wrote in an opinion last year. “Hush money paid to an adult film star is not related to a president’s official acts. It does not reflect in any way the color of the president’s official duties.”
It is unclear how soon Judge Hellerstein might take up Thursday’s request, or whether he will hold a hearing to entertain it. In their filing, Mr. Trump’s lawyers cast aspersions on the New York State court system, saying its procedures had “proven inadequate” to protect federal interests and, if allowed to continue, would “result in further irreparable harm to President Trump.”
The unorthodox filing suggested that Mr. Trump’s lawyers are likely to make any and every attempt they can to delay the sentencing, even if Judge Hellerstein balks.
A spokeswoman for the district attorney’s office declined to comment.
The filing on Thursday captured two of Mr. Trump’s favorite legal strategies: delay, and attacks on Justice Merchan.
The former president has on three occasions sought to oust Justice Merchan from the case, claiming he is biased, and lobbing personal attacks at the judge’s daughter, who is a Democratic political consultant. The judge has rejected each request and assailed the claims as “rife with inaccuracies and unsubstantiated claims.”
New York
Video: Heavy Downpour Floods New York City Streets
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Senator Menendez’s Resignation Letter
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ROBERT MENENDEZ
NEW JERSEY
COMMITTEES:
BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN
AFFAIRS
FINANCE
FOREIGN RELATIONS
The Honorable Phil Murphy
Governor of New Jersey
Office of the Governor
Trenton, N.J. 08625
Dear Governor Murphy,
United States Senate
WASHINGTON, DC 20510-3005
July 23, 2024
528 SENATE HART OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON, DC 20510
(202) 224-4744
210 HUDSON STREET
HARBORSIDE 3, SUITE #1000
JERSEY CITY, NJ 07311
(973) 645-3030
208 WHITE HORSE PIKE
SUITE 18-19
BARRINGTON, NJ 08007
(856) 757-5353
This is to advise you that I will be resigning from my office as the United States Senator from
New Jersey, effective on the close of business on August 20, 2024.
This will give time for my staff to transition to other possibilities, transfer constituent files that
are pending, allow for an orderly process to choose an interim replacement, and for me to close
out my Senate affairs.
While I fully intend to appeal the jury’s verdict, all the way and including to the Supreme Court,
I do not want the Senate to be involved in a lengthy process that will detract from its important
work. Furthermore, I cannot preserve my rights upon a successful appeal, because factual matters
before the ethics committee are not privileged. This is evidenced by the Committee’s Staff
Director and Chief Counsel being called to testify at my trial.
I am proud of the many accomplishments I’ve had on behalf of New Jersey, such as leading the
federal effort for Superstorm Sandy recovery, preserving and funding Gateway and leading the
federal efforts to help save our hospitals, State and municipalities, as well as New Jersey families
through a once in a century COVID pandemic. These successes led you, Governor, to call me the
“Indispensable Senator.”
I thank the citizens of New Jersey for the extraordinary privilege of representing them in the
United States Senate.
Sincerely,
Pabet Menang.
Robert Menendez
United States Senator
New Jersey
cc: The Honorable Kamala Harris, President of the Senate
The Honorable Ann Berry, Secretary of the Senate
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