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Today's testimony at the corruption trial of a former top aide to Cuomo, Joe Percoco, has been canceled due to the illness of a defense lawyer whose questioning last week led to the arrest of the prosecution's star witness, Todd Howe.
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Investigators may have compared a serial killer's DNA with that of one million unwitting genealogy enthusiasts as part of an investigation that led to the arrest earlier this week of a man accused of being California's elusive «Golden State Killer.»
The arrests, according to multiple sources, 23 law enforcement agencies in 14 states participated in a massive sting operation starting three weeks before Super Bowl Sunday and leading all the way up to the big game.
But leading up to Super Bowl 51 (two weeks ago in Houston, Texas), law enforcement officials around the country arrested as many as 522 would - be sex buyers and traffickers — including 183 potential buyers and 9 traffickers in Houston itself.
The events that led up to last week's arrests began in 1976 when Ziskis, a resident of Newington, Conn., then 34, married, with one child, went to work at the Hartford fronton, helping to manage the food concessions.
Wallis was arrested last week on suspicion of phone hacking, and the furore surrounding his hiring by the Metropolitan police between October 2008 and September 2009 has led to the resignation of Sir Paul Stephenson, the Metropolitan police commissioner, and the Met's assistant commissioner John Yates, who both gave evidence on Tuesday.
Led by Manhattan Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, the 23 - member caucus asked in an open letter today that the speaker replacing Sheldon Silver, who was arrested on corruption charges a week ago, consider a series of questions related to how the body is governed and requested that the next speaker establish a task force to address reform.
In 2015, Skelos» arrest led to a week of upheaval, as the majority leader was urged to step down while potential replacements jockeyed to succeed him.
The admission led to Howe's arrest and could lead to him continuing his testimony this week in a prison jumpsuit and not business attire.
A recently fired Southold Town police officer filed a wrongful termination lawsuit this week against Southold Town, claiming that «high - profile arrests» he made during his tenure as a cop caused political blowback that led to his termination last month.
He was forced to resign the powerful leadership post he's held for more than two decades after his members informed him Monday they've lost faith in his ability to lead following his arrest last week on five federal corruption charges.
«Not only did the political lynch mob led by Eric T. Schneiderman, a Democrat, wait just days before the election to bring charges, he planned weeks ago to arrest Sen. Huntley at her home where news outlets could take pictures of her in handcuffs,» Evans wrote.
«Shelly's task in the coming weeks is to show he can continue to lead without this being a distraction,» said one Democrat who asked not to be identified given the shock waves going through state politics the day after Silver's arrest.
ALBANY - Assembly Democrats rallied behind Speaker Sheldon Silver after he was arrested last week, but they will return to the State Capitol Monday with lingering questions about whether he can lead them in upcoming budget negotiations, experts and lawmakers said.
If this week's arrests lead to more charges and convictions, they could further thin out the ranks of black and Latino elected officials around the country.
When I wrote the other week about the British chap arrested for DWI while driving a toddler's Barbie car, I noted that I couldn't help but wonder what had led the proprietor of the Kentucky DUI Defense Lawyer Blog to post on that incident, despite its being a bit stale, and having already been well - covered.
These types of programs can lead to more than 1,000 arrests over the course of just a few weeks.
TMZ reports a pair of images posted to Snapchat led to an arrest at the Parkland, Florida, school last week where suspected gunman Nikolas Cruz murdered 17 students and faculty in a Valentine's Day massacre that kicked off a nationwide movement for increased gun control.