Christopher Francescani
The Archive
CARMINE'S ARSON-PLOT PLEA DEAL GETS WHACKED
August 11, 2001 | 4:00amPlea negotiations between federal prosecutors and lawyers for John Gotti's son-in-law Carmine Agnello have broken down - and Agnello is now preparing to face off against the government at trial...
JAIL DEAL FOR RABBIS IN HOLOCAUST $CAM
August 10, 2001 | 4:00amA Brooklyn federal judge reluctantly agreed to a plea deal yesterday in which two Brooklyn rabbis - one a former adviser to then-Mayor Ed Koch - will serve 33 months...
CARJACKERS FACE DEATH - MURDER 1 CHARGE IN SAMARITAN-SLAY
August 10, 2001 | 4:00amTwo suspected carjackers who allegedly executed good Samaritan Rupinder Singh after he gave them a ride could face the death penalty after being indicted yesterday on first-degree murder charges. Darshen...
WITNESS READY TO BOOST LOUIMA COP
August 9, 2001 | 4:00amThe retired cop known as "Officer F," whose new testimony has thrown officer Charles Schwarz's conviction in the Louima torture case into question, will take the stand for the first...
EXPERTS MULL CITY'S LIABILITY
August 8, 2001 | 4:00amLegal experts were split yesterday on whether the city could be held liable if it's proven that Officer Joseph Gray was drinking in his station-house parking lot with other cops...
STALKER HAS GROOM-TO-BE SCARED STEPH
August 5, 2001 | 4:00amMore than four years after a former White House intern began stalking Bill Clinton's sexy senior staffer, George Stephanopoulos is still trying to shake his star-struck shadow - afraid she'll...
DRAG RACER GETS LIFE: JUDGE SLAMS DRIVER WHO KILLED 2 ON BELT PARKWAY
August 1, 2001 | 4:00amA furious Brooklyn judge blasted a 21-year-old convicted murderer who killed two people last year during a wild, late-night drag race on the Belt Parkway - and sent him away...
TWO INDICTED IN $120,000 ID-THEFT SCAM
August 1, 2001 | 4:00amTwo women - a city employee and a city college student - were indicted yesterday for stealing credit cards and using them to buy computers, lingerie and carpeting. Diane Crawford,...
AMY'S DAD BEGS MERCY - AND HELPS HER KILLER'S ACCOMPLICE GET JUST 15 YEARS
July 24, 2001 | 4:00amThe father of slain social worker Amy Watkins made an impassioned - and successful - plea for leniency yesterday for the man convicted of being the lookout during the brutal...
B'KLYN MOB CASE ENDS IN MISTRIAL
July 24, 2001 | 4:00amA mob money-laundering case ended yesterday in a partial mistrial when a Brooklyn federal jury found former Gambino captain Joseph Watts guilty of tax fraud - but deadlocked on two...
A RETREAT FOR WRITING MOMS
July 22, 2001 | 4:00amSoon after NYU theater instructor Francine Zerfas gave birth to her daughter Matilda in 1999, she set out to find a writers' retreat where she could dig into a manuscript...
NEW LOUIMA BOMBSHELL - MYSTERY COP CHALLENGES KEY WITNESS AGAINST SCHWARZ
July 20, 2001 | 4:00amA mystery cop has come forward to challenge the key witness against convicted Officer Charles Schwarz in the brutal sex torture of Abner Louima, lawyers revealed yesterday. The shocking sealed...
TRIAL SHOWS MOB TURNING INTO KEYSTONE KRIMINALS
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amBeing a mobster didn't used to be a laughing matter. But now, after years of tragic-hero status during the "Godfather" era, the legend of the Mafia is nose-diving into farce....
LAWYERS FIGHT FOR A CUT OF LOUIMA $$
July 18, 2001 | 4:00amAbner Louima's legal "dream team" will have to go back to court and slug it out all over again if they want their $2.9 million share of the Haitian immigrant's...
COURT TOSSES SLAY RAP 12 YRS. LATER
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amAn Albanian man who spent 12 years in prison for murder was ordered released yesterday after an appeals court ruled the Brooklyn DA's office suppressed evidence from a cop that...
LOUIMA TO GET $8.75M - BOTH SIDES CLAIM CREDIT FOR NYPD REFORMS
July 13, 2001 | 4:00amFour years after NYPD cops beat and sodomized him with a broomstick in a Brooklyn station-house bathroom, Abner Louima agreed yesterday to an $8.75 million settlement. "I don't really see...
GUILTY PLEA FROM DRUG SMUGGLER WHO USED HASIDIC KIDS
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe feds struck another blow against the international "ecstasy" market yesterday when a major smuggler pleaded guilty to duping Brooklyn Hasidic teens into sneaking more than a million pills of...
NEW SNAG SNARLS TALKS IN LOUIMA $ETTLEMENT
July 12, 2001 | 4:00amNegotiations bogged down yesterday over a deal to pay Abner Louima as much as $9 million for having been sodomized by a broomstick-wielding police officer. Nobody involved was talking last...
LOUIMA-COP LAWYERS WIN FIGHT FOR FILES
July 11, 2001 | 4:00amAn appeals court has ordered the government to give lawyers for an ex-cop convicted in the Abner Louima sex-torture case dozens of interviews conducted by FBI agents and NYPD Internal...
ART DEALER IS ON DECK IN MOB TRIAL
July 8, 2001 | 4:00amA renowned Madison Avenue art dealer is set to take the stand this week as a hostile government witness at the mob money-laundering trial of Gambino crime-family associate Joseph "Joey"...