Damian Williams

A tangled criminal scheme involving two associates of Donald Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani led to charges against a Russian oligarch.

A New York police department has become the subject of a federal civil rights investigation over concerns its officers participate in discriminatory policing. The Department of Justice has opened a federal probe, it’s fourth this year, into the Mount Vernon Police Department over concerns of unconstitutional conduct. The pattern or practice investigation will look at allegations of wrongdoing that...

With Attorney General Merrick Garland looking on, Manhattan’s new U.S. attorney said Friday he’s establishing a civil rights unit in his office’s criminal division to concentrate greater resources on problems worsening in “troubled times.” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams made the comments after he was formally sworn in as the first Black top federal law enforcement official in the Southern...

Lev Parnas played a role in the first impeachment of then-President Trump, having helped Rudy Giuliani in an effort to dig up dirt on Joe Biden in Ukraine.

Manhattan’s new federal prosecutor is making a splash with Wednesday’s appointment of his second-in-command, choosing the city’s Department of Investigation commissioner just days after she released a report accusing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio of misusing city resources.

The allegations were revealed in a damning report by the Department of Investigation.

President Joe Biden is expected to nominate three prosecutors to run the U.S. attorney’s offices in New York