Investigations

Paterson Council Speaker Alex Mendez allegedly stole mail-in ballots along with his wife and two campaign supporters to rig the 2020 election — new allegations that are far broader and more serious than when Mendez was first charged with election fraud in 2021.

NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

The I-Team is hearing from Cesar Pina after he pleaded not guilty to federal fraud charges related to a real estate scheme. Sarah Wallace reports.

The New Jersey senator faced a judge in Manhattan for a new criminal charge. News 4’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

A town in Rockland County is cracking down on property management companies and absentee owners looking to make money off the migrant crisis. The town of Clarkstown is going after those who are illegally renting out houses, often to multiple families. Officials in the town say profiteers are increasingly illegally converting single-family homes in ...

The radio personality’s longtime business partner was arrested by federal agents in New Jersey. News 4’s Sarah Wallace reports

Federal agents in New Jersey arrested the longtime business partner of popular radio host DJ Envy in connection to an alleged fraudulent real estate venture. The arrest came a week after the News 4 I-Team reported investors claim they had been swindled out of millions of dollars. Cesar Pina, often promoted on Envy’s syndicated iHeartRadio sho...

Sen. Bob Menendez will not attend a classified briefing on Israel. This comes on the heels of the corruption scandal he is facing in which he is accused of taking bribes to help the Egyptian government. Jonathan Dienst reports.

Authorities said they will begin sending 60-day notices to migrant families with children in shelters, though they could reapply for housing if they’re unable to find a new place to live.

A new bill proposed at City Hall looks to put a stop to so-called vigilantes making thousands of dollars from writing up citizen summonses for noise. Owners of several New York City bars, restaurants, and shop say they’re fed up with an avalanche of city summonses. A little known law allows regular New Yorkers to issue their own noise......

An NYPD lieutenant who’s been an outspoken critic of his own department for years is now quitting. News 4’s Sarah Wallace reports.

Popular radio host DJ Envy is under scrutiny for promoting a real estate venture of a friend that some investors now say was a scheme. On his syndicated iHeartRadio show “The Breakfast Club,” Envy has often promoted the real estate venture of his pal, Cesar Pina. But it’s more than just a passing endorsement. “We’ve he...

As prosecutors continue building their case against Zhi Alan Cheng — the Queens doctor accused of drugging women and video recording his own sex crimes — attorneys for survivors fear there could be untold victims who may lose out on the chance to hold Cheng and his employer accountable in court.

Officials in Rockland County are alleging possible human trafficking after they received information about a particular single-family home with more than 30 undocumented people from South America, including several children, living in unsafe conditions. NBC New York’s Sarah Wallace reports.

A Queens gastroenterologist has been jailed on charges he used “an unknown liquid” to drug a woman in his home and rape her, while secretly video recording the assaults. Now one of his former patients says she was also raped on video, after the physician drugged her inside an exam room at New York Presbyterian Hospital Queens.

A Queens gastroenterologist has been jailed on charges he used “an unknown liquid” to drug a woman in his home and rape her, while secretly video recording the assaults. Now one of his former patients says she was also raped on video, after the physician drugged her inside an exam room at New York Presbyterian Hospital Queens.