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I-Team exclusive: questions about missing surveillance video evidence in Bronx case
When Bronx prosecutors presented their assault case against Ronald Plaza to a jury in 2015, they showed two videos. The videos only revealed a fight between two females in a parking garage. By all accounts, the male victim was slashed and stabbed on the street in front of a nightclub. By all accounts, there was a camera directly outside the…
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Queens doctor facing new sex crime charges
Prosecutors in Queens have added more alleged sex crimes to an already lengthy list of charges faced by gastroenterologist, Dr. Zhi Alan Cheng.
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Missing Surveillance Footage Questions Conviction
Ten years after he was convicted for an assault new evidence might prove his innocence. NBC New York’s Sarah Wallace reports.
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I-Team: third indictment for Queens doc accused of recording sex crimes against sedated women
Prosecutors in Queens have added more alleged sex crimes to an already lengthy list of charges faced by gastroenterologist, Dr. Zhi Alan Cheng. The latest accusations, contained in a third indictment against Cheng, involve a 48-year-old woman who says, in November of 2021, she was sedated for a colonoscopy inside New York-Presbyterian Hospital Queens only to wake up and find…
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Exclusive: NYPD ramps up subway patrol with more officers
Marc Santia with the exclusive report for News 4’s I-Team.
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Orthodox residents claim rabbi is running illegal yeshiva and boarding house in NY homes
Several members of the ultra-orthodox community have written letters to town building officials and the Rockland County Health Department complaining that Rabbi Nissan Arash Kakakian is operating an illegal yeshiva and rooming house in two homes zoned as single-family houses.
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Neighborhood battle over alleged code and zoning violations in Rockland County
There’s a neighborhood controversy in Rockland County regarding a religious school and its approach to fire safety as well as breakdown of code enforcement. NBC New York’s Sarah Wallace reports.
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Controversy over police response in Union City: Did cops break the law?
An internal investigation is now underway inside a New Jersey police department, after cops were seen on video breaking locks in a private apartment building without the landlord’s permission. The I-Team’s Sarah Wallace reports.
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FBI searches homes of FDNY chiefs in corruption probe
FBI agents searched the homes of two FDNY chiefs involved with the safety inspection process of buildings in New York City in connection with a corruption investigation, according to three people briefed on the matter. Jonathan Dienst reports.
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Top tech post vacant for months before NYC remote learning breakdown
Prior to the glitches that left New York City public school students locked out of their virtual classrooms Tuesday, the nation’s largest school district had been operating without a permanent Chief Information Officer (CIO) for months. The I-Team has learned the search for a new CIO recently concluded,but the new technology chief was not yet in place to help...
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Top tech post vacant for months before NYC remote learning breakdown
Chris Glorioso reports.
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Racial controversy at high school basketball game in Scarsdale
The game stopped in the fourth quarter by a coach claiming racial slurs were being directed at his players. News 4’s Sarah Wallace reports.
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Detectives work to solve case of boy's remains that washed up on Rockaway Beach in 2005
February marks the 19th anniversary of a gruesome discovery in Queens: The body of a child found on the shore of Rockaway Beach. Now, thanks to old-school police work and high-tech science, one team is refusing to let this case go cold. NBC New York’s Marc Santia reports.
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At least 70 arrested in alleged widespread NYCHA bribery scheme
Federal prosecutors accused the NYCHA superintendents and other workers of demanding cash from contractors in exchange for no-bid contracts. There were at least 70 current or former workers involved in the kickback scheme, lining their pockets to the tune of $2 million, prosecutors said. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst and Andrew Siff report.
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Dozens arrested in widespread NYCHA corruption bust
In one of the largest public corruption roundups in the history of the Justice Department, dozens of NYCHA workers and contractors were arrested in connection with alleged kickback and corruption schemes spanning a decade. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.
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Dozens of NYCHA workers, contractors arrested in corruption bust
NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.
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NYCHA workers and contractors reportedly arrested and charged with corruption and bribery
Dozens of New York City Housing Authority workers and contractors were arrested Tuesday by city and federal investigators in one of the largest public corruption roundups in Justice Department history, sources familiar with the case say.
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Major corruption scandal at NYCHA involves a third of buildings with at least 70 arrests
Dozens of New York City Housing Authority workers and contractors were arrested Tuesday by city and federal investigators in one of the largest public corruption roundups in Justice Department history, according to prosecutors. About 70 people are charged in connection with varying alleged corruption and kickback schemes that occurred between 2013 and 2023 at NYCHA facilities, Southern District of New…
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Friends imprisoned for decades cleared of 1987 New Year's killing in Times Square
A pair of childhood friends who were convicted in the killing of a French tourist in Times Square in 1987 have been cleared of wrongdoing by a New York City judge. Eric Smokes and David Warren are now in their 50s. Arrested as teenagers in the killing of Jean Casse, they had long maintained their innocence and spent decades in...
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AI company hired to clone Mayor Adams' voice linked to Biden deepfake, researchers say
In October, Mayor Adams announced he’d hired ElevenLabs, an artificial intelligence start-up, to create a series of robocalls which made it seem like he could speak several foreign languages. Three months later, ElevenLabs is in the news again — this time, for an alleged connection to a political dirty trick.