U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

President Biden picked Damian Williams for the top spot in Manhattan’s Southern District of New York, and Breon Peace to head Brooklyn’s Eastern District of New York. Both men are Black, and Williams would be the first Black person to run the Manhattan office.

A 47-year-old Queens man faces wire and mail fraud charges as well as two theft of government funds counts for allegedly falsely claiming to own 20 run-down New York City rental properties, collecting federal subsidies and routinely evicting tenants over the course of an eight-year scheme, prosecutors said Tuesday. Starting around 2013, Paul Fishbein, of Far Rockaway, allegedly lied about…

A former United Nations employee was charged with two counts of making false statements to federal agents in an effort to conceal his drugging and sexual assault of multiple women while he worked for the intergovernmental organization, according to federal officials. Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr.,…

Audrey Strauss, the acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, outlines the charges filed against Jeffrey Epstein confidante Ghislaine Maxwell.

The 72-year-old Democrat helped lead the charge against President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen, showing that prosecutors believed the president encouraged the campaign finance fraud that resulted in payouts to silence two women about alleged affairs

There are new questions about the firing of U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey Berman. Jonathan Dienst reports.

The U.S. attorney who oversaw key prosecutions of allies of President Donald Trump and an investigation into Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani has resigned following a public back-and-forth with Attorney General William Barr. Adam Harding reports.

The U.S. attorney who oversaw key prosecutions of allies of President Donald Trump and an investigation into Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani denied claims he was resigning from his post, he said in a statement. Jonathan Dienst reports.

It was unclear why Geoffrey Berman was leaving the position, but the sudden resignation is likely to raise additional questions from Democrats who have accused Barr of politicizing the Justice Department

Authorities are investigating the death of a 26-year-old woman found in a Queens bedroom as suspicious, officials said Tuesday.

A 76-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly trying to snatch a child and pull him into a building as he walked by with his parents in Queens Monday.

An Uber driver was sentenced after kidnapping a sleeping New York City passenger and trying to take them to Boston to get more fare money

A New York City teacher has been arrested for allegedly trading child porn videos on the dark web, the NYPD said.

Nineteen people have been charged in connection with the sex trafficking of more than a dozen girls and women, some of whom were as young as 13 years old, prosecutors said.

A Queens man allegedly dragged his girlfriend through the hallways of a cruise ship and choked her until she passed out after the two got into an argument, prosecutors said.

An Iran-based hacker plotted to extort HBO out of $6 million by threatening to release stolen episodes and scripts of hit shows, such as “Game of Thrones,” at one point taunting the network with a twist on a catch phrase form that series: “Winter is coming. HBO is falling.”