Alex Ginsberg
The Archive
Staten Island ferry crash lawyer gets to keep $6.1M fee
A lawyer who won an $18.3 million verdict for a paralyzed Staten Island Ferry victim has won his own nearly two-year battle to keep $6 million in attorneys' fees. Evan...
Busy Chef and Blue Pig fraudster gets probation after pleading guilty to ripping off customers
A Brooklyn Heights restaurateur nabbed for stealing tens of thousands of dollars by double-dipping on customers’ credit cards has cut a deal with prosecutors to pay back some of the...
3 strikes & you're back out
In a stunning rebuke to New York's highest court, a federal appeals court yesterday declared that the Empire State's repeat-offender sentencing law violates the Constitution, setting the stage for a...
City's 98G rough ride
The city will shell out $98,000 to five cyclists who claimed they were roughed up and arrested for no good reason during a 2007 Times Square group bike ride, advocates...
Kin rip cops in death
Cops tried to cover up for a drunken fellow officer after he mowed down and killed a pedestrian with his car -- delaying drawing his blood for more than seven...
Vig's up for mob-bet big
A Staten Island Gambino crime family captain will fork over $1.2 million in penalties and serve up to 4½ years in prison after admitting running a massive sports-betting and loan-sharking...
Serial temple-rob rogue guilty again
A career criminal already doing two to four years for breaking into a Brooklyn church was convicted yesterday of burglarizing two more houses of worship. Latif Rahim, 51, now faces...
$$ for att'ys poor-ing in
There's good money in defending the poor. A review of city records shows that 21 court-appointed defense lawyers grossed more than $156,000 -- the same as the salary of the...
Old coots take Brooklyn street fight to court
An 83-year-old Brooklyn brawler, charged with thrashing a man who's al most 100, vowed yesterday to go down swinging as he rejected a no-jail plea offer. In fact, octogenarian Gersh...
Club's final Vue-ing
Au revoir, Vue. You bleu it! One of the city's weirdest nightspots -- the Brooklyn club Vue, set atop the oddly chic Hotel Le Bleu on a desolate semi-industrial stretch...
MTA supervisor stole $150G, handed out contracts: prosecutors
An MTA supervisor accused of ripping the agency off for nearly $150,000 not only used her position to approve buddies as outside contractors, but then signed off on fraudulent or...
Perv rabbi convicted
An Orthodox rabbi repeatedly sexually abused his son's 16-year-old classmate, a Brooklyn jury ruled yesterday. The 10 women and two men deliberated less than half a day before finding Rabbi...
Rabbi Baruch Lebovits convicted of sex abuse
A Brooklyn jury today convicted an orthodox rabbi of repeatedly sexually abusing a 16-year-old classmate of his son. The panel of 10 women and two men deliberated less than half...
Hair-raising claim at doc's steroid trial
A Staten Island "anti-aging" doctor on trial for allegedly writing hundreds of illegal steroid prescriptions failed to warn patients of the dangers -- leading a man's two young daughters to...
Rabbi on trial for 'teen sex'
A Brooklyn rabbi allegedly lured an unsuspecting teen into his car by letting him drive, then repeatedly sexually abused him over a 10-month period in 2004 and 2005, the young...
ACORN set up by vidiots: DA
The video that unleashed a firestorm of criticism on the activist group ACORN was a "heavily edited" splice job that only made it appear as though the organization's workers were...
Madoff victims' fed fury
Victims of Bernard Madoff's massive fraud are crying foul over prosecutors' plans to seek "extraordinary" leniency for his frontman. In a series of letters filed yesterday in Manhattan federal court,...
Firefighter-death slap tossed
More than a year after a jury found that a Bronx building manager and owner were responsible for the "Black Sunday" blaze that killed two firefighters, a judge yesterday tossed...
Judge dismisses guilty verdicts in 'Black Sunday' fire
A judge has reportedly dismissed a guilty verdict in the tragic Black Sunday fire trial for lack of evidence. The owner and building manager of an apartment building in the...
All 3 cops cleared in subway sodomy
A Brooklyn cop charged with sodomizing a fleeing suspect with his police baton was cleared of all charges yesterday, while two other officers were acquitted of helping to cover up...