Leonard Greene
The Archive
Scam artist collected dead dad's pension, Social Security
A Queens con man left his father’s body unclaimed in a morgue for more than a year, while he pocketed his dad’s pension and Social Security payments, authorities said Monday....
Cuomo vows to dig Yonkers school district out of debt
Gov. Cuomo pledged Sunday to bail out Yonkers from its $28 million school-funding hole to help the district avoid massive cuts to staffing and programs. “Yonkers has a crisis in...
Pataki pauses presidential campaign after relative's stroke
Former Gov. George put his presidential campaign on hold after his son-in-law suffered a life-threatening stroke during a flight, aides revealed Thursday. Pataki had announced on Tuesday that he was...
Family of pot-loving Robert Durst eyes medical-marijuana bid
The Durst family real-estate empire — which weeded out pot-loving killer Robert Durst from its ranks — is teaming up with a major hospital trade association in a bid to...
Woman slips and sues frat for 'trap-like' bubble machine
It is usually alcohol poisoning or a fight that gets people hurt at fraternity parties, but a Westchester woman says she was seriously injured by a faulty bubble machine at...
Doctors knew Germanwings co-pilot was unfit to fly: prosecutor
Doctors who said Andreas Lubitz was unfit to fly before he deliberately plunged a jet into the French Alps kept their diagnosis to themselves because of German patient secrecy laws,...
Brains don't have to be returned to bodies after autopsy: court
This decision is a real no-brainer. The state’s highest court ruled Wednesday that the city does not have to put brains removed for autopsies back into the bodies of the...
Rikers officers arrested in 2012 death of inmate
Two Rikers Island jail guards beat to death an ailing and restrained inmate, with one of them kicking the prisoner repeatedly in the head, telling him as he lay dying,...
Cuomo convinced inmates heard fellow prisoners escaping
Gov. Cuomo said Sunday that he is convinced someone inside the prison heard two inmates as they escaped from their upstate penitentiary over the weekend using power tools. “I chatted...
Andrew Cuomo offers support to a grieving Joe Biden
Vice President Joe Biden managed to flash his trademark smile Thursday at an emotional Delaware wake honoring his oldest son, who died last week after a bout with brain cancer....
Good Samaritans tackle mugger who tried to steal woman's bag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBPBlnc9-N8 A group of Good Samaritans ignored the debate over crime in New York and took matters into their own hands, taking down a Midtown mugger who snatched a woman’s...
Cop busted for buying ring with dead man's credit card
An NYPD officer who found the body of a Manhattan man used the victim’s credit card number to buy herself a pricey diamond ring, authorities said Tuesday. Officer Ymmacula Pierre,...
Dad beaten by bikers 'was the aggressor': undercover cop
The undercover cop on trial in the gang assault of an SUV driver said he thought victim Alexian Lien was the bad guy after the motorist ran over a motorcycle...
Obamas pay respects to grieving Biden family
President Obama paid a personal condolence call Sunday on Vice President Joe Biden, whose oldest son died a day earlier from brain cancer at the age of 46. Obama and...
Face-transplant recipient meets dead donor's sister
Rebekah Aversano was meeting Richard Norris for the first time, but she had seen his face before — on her brother. After Aversano’s brother, Joshua, was tragically killed in a...
Psychic cheats heartbroken man out of $700K after girlfriend dies
A “psychic” swindler preyed on a lovelorn Brooklyn man for nearly two years, using his girlfriend’s death as an excuse to dupe him out of more than $700,000, officials said...
Parents of boy killed in crossfire 'don't forgive s--t'
Two gunmen who traded shots at a Bronx basketball tournament, with one of the bullets killing a 4-year-old boy, were sentenced to lengthy jail terms Tuesday on what would have...
Corpse in 'kayak killer' case found in the Hudson
The body of a man found floating in the Hudson River was positively identified Sunday as a missing kayaker believed to have been murdered by his fiancee, law enforcement sources...
This dad's got a great reason for taking his kid to Disney World
He’s going to Disney World. A Queens man who was wrongfully convicted of stabbing a friend to death and spent 15 years in prison before being exonerated signed off on...
Woman guilty of fatal subway shove gets 24 years
A hate-spewing straphanger who pushed a subway rider to his death because she thought he was Muslim was sentenced to 24 years in prison Wednesday by a judge who called...