Mike Sisak

New York City’s tab for police misconduct settlements: Nearly $800 million since 2019 New York City paid more than $117 million last year to settle police misconduct lawsuits in cases ranging from the violent arrests of protesters in 2020 to bad police work that led to wrongful convict...

New York City’s tab for police misconduct settlements: Nearly $800 million since 2019
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Trump administration sues New Jersey over restrictions on immigration arrests The Trump administration is suing New Jersey over a state order that prohibits federal immigration agents from making arrests in nonpublic areas of state property, such as correctional facilities and ...

Full story: Trump administration sues New Jersey over restrictions on immigration arrests
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The Trump administration sued New Jersey over its immigration enforcement restrictions — and spelled the governor’s name wrong.

FBI concluded Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t running a sex trafficking ring for powerful men, files show The FBI pored over Jeffrey Epstein’s bank records and emails. It searched his homes. It spent years interviewing his victims and examining his connections to some of the world’s most influential peopl...

NEW: FBI concluded Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t running a sex trafficking ring for powerful men, files show
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Judge appears skeptical of Trump’s latest bid to nix his hush money conviction A federal judge appears poised to again reject President Donald Trump’s bid to erase his hush money conviction, slamming his lawyers for legal maneuvers he said amounted to taking “two bites at the ap...

A federal judge appeared poised to again reject President Donald Trump’s bid to erase his hush money conviction, slamming his lawyers Wednesday for legal maneuvers he said amounted to taking “two bites at the apple.”
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A man impersonating an FBI agent tried to get Luigi Mangione out of jail, authorities say Authorities say a man claiming to be an FBI agent showed up to a federal jail in New York City and told officers he had a court order to release Luigi Mangione.

Mark Anderson, a 36-year-old from Minnesota, has a history of drug & other arrests and disclosed last year in court papers that he suffers from mental illness.

He was arrested last night in what authorities say was a bid to free Luigi Mangione from jail. apnews.com/article/luig...

They're voluntarily taking these jobs, right? Or is the administration forcing them to sign up? If so, bigger scandal, IMO.

Judge Valerie Caproni blasts X/Twitter during args ahead of jury selection in Alexander brothers sex trafficking case: "Twitter is a cesspool. It's a cesspool all the way around. It's a cesspool of racism, a cesspool of anti-Semitism, a cesspool of misogyny. It's not America. Well, maybe it is."

DOJ says congressmen seeking Epstein files should butt out of Ghislaine Maxwell case Justice Department officials claim U.S. Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie lack standing to intervene in the case of Maxwell, who was widely seen as Epstein’s right hand.

A pair of lawmakers hellbent on getting the full release of the so-called “Epstein files” shouldn’t be allowed to intervene in Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal case to make it happen, the Department of Justice argued on Friday. @uebey.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/doj-says-con...

Drunk driver gets 24 years to life in prison for killing 4 people at July 4 barbecue in NYC park A drunk driver has been sentenced to 24 years to life in prison for killing four people at a Fourth of July picnic in New York City.

Drunk driver gets 24 years to life in prison for killing 4 people at July 4 barbecue in NYC park
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Second Circuit denies early release for 1990s NYC Chinatown gang leader 'near death' For a brief stretch of years beginning in the late 1980s, David Thai's Born To Kill gang carried out a string of robberies and extortions close to the Second Circuit’s Manhattan court building.

Second Circuit denies early release for 1990s NYC Chinatown gang leader 'near death' @jrussjruss.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/second-circu...

‘She was an amazing human being’: Mother identifies woman shot, killed by ICE agent Renee Nicole Good, 37, lived in the Twin Cities with her partner.

Renee Nicole Good had a six-year-old son. Good was killed by ICE. His father, Good's ex, died in 2023. So both of that child's biological parents are now gone. “There’s nobody else in his life,” said the child's grandfather.

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Federal prosecutors slam Mangione lawyers’ 'meritless' claims about Bondi’s lobbying ties Federal prosecutors are slamming Luigi Mangione’s lawyers for making what the government said were “meritless” and “misleading” claims about Attorney General Pam Bondi’s ties to a lobbying firm and he...

NEW: Federal prosecutors say Luigi Mangione’s lawyers made “meritless” and “misleading” claims about Attorney General Pam Bondi’s ties to a lobbying firm and her decision to seek the death penalty against him.
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What’s next in deposed Venezuela leader Nicolás Maduro’s criminal case Nicolás Maduro’s first court hearing — a heavily secured spectacle where he proclaimed he is still Venezuela’s president and pleaded “soy inocente” — was merely the beginning of a legal odyssey that c...

What’s next for Nicolás Maduro, Inmate No. 00734-506? We've got you covered. apnews.com/article/madu...

And I thought I knew my parents. Turns out I'm AI generated! 😂

A bag, a hoagie and a long wait for a ruling: What we learned at Luigi Mangione’s pretrial hearing A three-week pretrial hearing on Mangione’s fight to exclude evidence from his New York murder case revealed new details about his December 2024 arrest in Altoona, Pennsylvania, steps prosecutors say ...

A bag, a hoagie and a long wait for a ruling: What we learned at Luigi Mangione’s pretrial hearing
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Here's the announcement from BOP Director William K. Marshall III —

Filmed (filmed!) on Long Island

Federal Bureau of Prisons says falling concrete is forcing it to close a prison near Los Angeles The federal Bureau of Prisons is shutting down its Terminal Island facility near Los Angeles over concerns about crumbling infrastructure, including falling concrete that threatens to knock out the fa...

BOP announced today that it’s permanently closing FCI Terminal Island in Los Angeles effective June 13, 2026.

Director William Marshall tells staff: "long-term repairs required to restore Terminal Island are not cost effective or structurally feasible."
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AP, too. We're multi-format by default (text, photos, video), so it's expected that we'll go on camera ASAP and "debrief" or explain a story/news event. I've come to enjoy it. It's a different way of thinking about storytelling, what's important and what audiences we're reaching/trying to reach.

Purse pirates: UPS ripped off seasonal workers with unfair pay practices, lawsuit alleges New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit accusing UPS of stealing tens of millions of dollars in pay from seasonal workers who help deliver packages during the busy holiday season.

Purse pirates: UPS ripped off seasonal workers with unfair pay practices, @newyorkstateag.bsky.social lawsuit alleges
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See the notes:

Luigi Mangione’s notes to self: 'Pluck eyebrows,' 'Keep momentum, FBI slower overnight' A to-do list and travel plans found during Luigi Mangione’s arrest and revealed in court this week shed new light on the steps he may have taken — or planned to take — to avoid capture after UnitedHea...

Latest on Luigi Mangione:

A to-do list and travel plans found during his arrest and revealed in court this week shed new light on the steps he may have taken — or planned to take — to avoid capture after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s killing. apnews.com/article/mang...

James Solomon is elected Jersey City mayor, turning away ex-NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey’s comeback bid James Solomon has been elected mayor of Jersey City, thwarting former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey’s bid for a political comeback.

James Solomon is elected Jersey City mayor, turning away ex-NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey’s comeback bid
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JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — James Solomon is elected Jersey City mayor, thwarting ex-NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey’s bid for a political comeback.

The bear’s name is Kumma? Kumm on!

Cop fired for offering driver $40 after fender bender still working in policing Officer Thomas Dammer was fired from the Wisconsin State Fair Park Police Department in 2024 after backing into another vehicle. He still works part-time for the Oconomowoc Police Department.

Cop fired for offering driver $40 after fender bender still working in policing

Officer Thomas Dammer was fired from the Wisconsin State Fair Park Police Department in 2024 after backing into another vehicle. He still works part-time for the Oconomowoc Police Department.

Ex-New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey’s comeback bid comes down to a runoff for Jersey City mayor Former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey’s bid for a political comeback comes down to a runoff election against an opponent who has denounced him and his scandal-stained exit from the governor’s office as...

Ex-NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey’s bid for a political comeback comes down to a one-on-one runoff Tuesday.

His opponent, James Solomon, has denounced him and his scandal-stained exit from the governor’s office in 2004 as the epitome of “politics of the past.”

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Luigi Mangione fights to exclude evidence from his trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO Luigi Mangione has appeared in court seeking to bar evidence from his state trial over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Before he was flown to NYC, Luigi Mangione was held under constant watch in a special housing unit at a Pennsylvania state prison. A correctional officer testified the facility’s superintendent told him the prison “did not want an Epstein-style situation.”
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