Written by Jason Fink with Newsday Bernie Madoff will learn today whether he will die in prison. A few victims of the disgraced Wall Street financier, who faces a maximum 150 years in prison, will get their chance to tell Judge Denny Chin of the havoc the fraudster wreaked on their lives. Some of the thousand of other victims have already
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QUEENS, NY (WABC News) -- A Queens teacher is under arrest Wednesday, accused of sexually abusing a student. Queens District Attorney Richard Brown says a 48-year-old teacher at a Springfield Gardens middle school, abused a 14-year-old boy in a classroom after school hours. "The charges are very disturbing," Brown said. "A classroom should
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Background Check At Time of Arrest Reveals Defendant Wanted On Rape Charges in Pennsylvania DISTRICT ATTORNEY QUEENS COUNTY 125-01 QUEENS BOULEVARD KEW GARDENS, NEW YORK 11415-1568 718-286-6000 Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced today that a former mortgage company employee whose civil lawsuit against the New York City
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By LUKAS I. ALPERT Posted: 5:08 am August 23, 2008 He was more Gargamel than Papa Smurf. The man who helped bring the Smurfs to America was busted yesterday for allegedly trying to shake down his son-in-law - a deep-pocketed executive at a top private equity firm - for $11 million, authorities said. Stuart Ross, 71, of Aventura, Fla., was
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by TERI THOMPSON and NATHANIEL VINTON A multi-agency narcotics strike force tapped the cell phone conversations of Spanish Harlem boxer Edgar Santana as part of its year-long investigation into an alleged cocaine conspiracy, which prosecutors say used the U.S. Postal Service to ship multiple kilograms of the drug from Puerto Rico for
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