Josh Saul
The Archive
I caught my super sniffing my underwear, swiping my lingerie!
A Manhattan financial analyst went undercover to find out what was happening to her underwear — and nabbed her apartment building’s super by using a hidden smartphone camera to record...
Rikers guard raped inmate while another officer watched: suit
A Rikers Island correction officer raped a female inmate for more than 15 minutes while another officer watched, a new Manhattan federal lawsuit charges. The woman, identified only as “Jane...
Convicted Israeli spy released from US prison after 30 years
Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard walked out of a downtown Manhattan courthouse Friday morning after being fitted for electronic monitoring, a free man for the first time since he was sentenced...
Wheelchair-bound pimp accused of running underage sex ring
A wheelchair-bound pimp sold off underage girls for sex from his Bronx apartment, luring johns to his makeshift brothel using online classified ads, federal investigators charged Thursday. David Hope, known...
Sheldon Silver files motion to have all corruption charges dismissed -- seriously
Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver filed a Hail Mary motion Thursday to get all the corruption charges against him tossed out, but the judge overseeing his trial indicated she wouldn’t...
Fantasy sports loser suing sites, credit card companies
A Brooklyn man who lost money betting with FanDuel and DraftKings has sued the fantasy sports sites along with the credit card companies that lent him the money to wager...
Kazakh president's ex-sister-in-law didn't pay for $400K in Hermes bags: suit
A Kazakh woman who made headlines by battling her ex-husband for control of their $20 million Plaza hotel apartment is now accused of taking a dozen Hermès handbags worth $400,000...
Sheldon Silver hid $700K under wife's name, financial adviser says
Sheldon Silver was so desperate to hide the piles of cash he was raking in that he had more than $700,000 deposited into accounts under his wife Rosa’s name, according...
Student: I was suspended for having a consensual threesome
A Manhattan acting student is suing his arts college for suspending him after a consensual m��nage à trois with two other students, according to court papers. Plaintiff John Doe met...
Family of Rikers inmate who died to get $3.8M in settlement with NYC
City taxpayers will shell out $3.8 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of an inmate who died when Rikers Island correction officers failed to get help after...
We thought Silver's fees might be illegal: lobbyist
A lobbyist for the real-estate firm that helped former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver line his pockets testified Monday that company higher-ups realized too late that they were dealing with the...
Juror's injury nearly derails Sheldon Silver trial schedule
A juror in the Sheldon Silver corruption trial almost derailed the trial schedule Monday when she said she couldn’t come to court until Wednesday because she twisted her ankle. But...
Lobbyist: I set up shady meeting between Silver and real estate exec
An Albany lobbyist testified Friday that he set up a shady meeting between former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and a real-estate executive that prosecutors say was part of a quid...
Jurors doze off, doodle during Sheldon Silver trial
Some jurors were behaving badly at Sheldon Silver’s corruption trial in Manhattan federal court on Friday. A woman nodded off during crucial morning testimony — and remained in dreamland for...
Damning letter outlines Silver's alleged kickback scheme
Manhattan federal prosecutors introduced a damning letter on Thursday that revealed a shady fee-splitting agreement between former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and a real-estate law firm. Silver is on...
Silver cheated us: Cancer victim's family says they paid price for illegal scheme
Relatives of an asbestos-cancer victim steered to former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s law firm in what the feds called an “illegal quid pro quo” say the disgraceful deal-making cheated them...
Thomas Libous avoids jail because he's about to die
The disgraced former No. 2 man in the state Senate will dodge prison time because he has less than a year to live, according to new court documents. Federal prosecutors...
Silver had legal fees from asbestos victims deposited directly to his account: witness
Sheldon Silver was so eager to get his hands on legal fees paid by asbestos victims that a top lawyer at his firm had to personally deposit the checks into...
Silver started $3M corruption scheme with betrayal of friend, emails show
Sheldon Silver’s $3 million-plus gravy train started rolling when a cancer doctor poached a client for him from another assemblyman who considered the now-tainted speaker a friend, according to evidence...
Skelos begs to keep Cuomo 'trash talk' out of trial
Former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, fear that jurors will smell the “stink” of corruption if federal prosecutors get to play a secretly recorded conversation...