Alex Ginsberg
The Archive
Pot luck for drug do-overs
In the seven months since the state Legislature enacted sweeping reforms allowing felons convicted under the harsh Rockefeller drug laws to apply for resentencing, just slightly more than half of...
Steroid doc wrist-slap
A Staten Island doctor accused of writing hundreds of prescriptions for illegal steroids was sentenced to five years' probation yesterday. "I just want to get on with my life," said...
Not guilty in collapse death
A Brooklyn jury yesterday acquitted a developer of manslaughter for a building collapse that killed a worker. Jurors deliberated for a day before concluding that William Lattarulo, 65, should not...
Accused steroid doc Richard Lucente sentenced to probation, community service
A Staten Island doctor accused of writing hundreds of prescriptions for illegal steroids was sentenced to a relatively light five years’ probation yesterday, the result of a plea deal cut...
Judge nails 'poster boy' to the wall
Hell hath no fury like a judge embarrassed. A red-faced Brooklyn jurist -- smarting from an oversight that forced him to let a subway vandal go free last week --...
Poster Boy dodges jail on judge's goof
The subway vandal known as Poster Boy just barely dodged jail yesterday, thanks to an oversight by the judge sentencing him. But Henry Matyjewicz, 28, was AWOL from court and...
Bat-smash killer guilty
A Brooklyn jury yesterday convicted a man of manslaughter in the death of an Ecuadorian immigrant beaten with a baseball bat -- but it concluded that hate was not a...
Wrong-way death
A Pennsylvania man driving the wrong way on I-78 in New Jersey died yesterday after slamming his Honda Civic into a Brooklyn-bound charter bus, police said. The car was going...
Mom gets '$onburn'
An ungrateful Brooklyn man repaid his disabled mother's hospitality by swindling her out of the home in which they lived -- for a mere $6,000, a lawsuit claims. According to...
Millionaires' welfare 'con'
A Brooklyn couple sitting on a $2.2 million bank account was among 32 people charged with ripping off a total of $1 million in welfare benefits from the city, prosecutors...
Malcolm X killer out
The only man who admitted his role in the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X was released yesterday after 45 years. Thomas Hagan, 69, be came a free man around 11...
Fiend on the loose
A sicko who has admitted sexually molesting more than a dozen boys is a free man -- despite a Bronx judge's finding last week that the pervert still has trouble...
Most taxi drivers do right thing, Post finds
To test the honesty of the city's cabbies when it comes to E-ZPass, The Post deployed a reporter to take a dozen test rides through the Queens-Midtown Tunnel during rush...
Hate killers laughed all the way home: DA
Two Bronx men accused of fatally beating an Ecuadorian immigrant with a beer bottle and an aluminum baseball bat drove home from the horrific attack yukking it up about a...
Hate killer's cousin: We 'joked' after attack
The cousin of the thug accused of doling out the final death blows on an Ecuadorian immigrant testifed today that he saw the deadly assault -- and that the attackers...
Shaq had son deliver 'kill threat'
Shaquille O'Neal took a foul shot at his estranged wife's new beau, telling his son to pass along a death threat to the man, it was reported yesterday. The Web...
Splitsville looms for Tiger, Elin
Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren were back in Orlando, Fla., over the weekend, within a chip shot of each other -- but nary a word passed between them, fueling speculation...
Girl 'last' miracle of China quake
Earthquake rescue workers have incredibly pulled a 13-year-old girl from a collapsed building in China. The girl spent more than two days trapped in the rubble in Qinghai Province, and...
Cop link in tamper bust
The NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau is trying to determine if a cop hurt in a weekend brawl at a Bay Ridge bar was friends with a computer technician charged with...
Ferry attorney wins fee fight
A lawyer who won an $18.3 million verdict for a Staten Island Ferry victim has won his own nearly two-year battle to keep $6 million in attorney fees. Evan Torgan...