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Larry Neumeister
Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver arrives at federal court in New York, Friday, July 27, 2028. Silver, the former New York Assembly speaker who brokered legislative deals for two decades before corruption charges abruptly ended his career, will be sentenced for a second time Friday. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
July 28, 2018, 1:03 am
Ex-NY Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver gets 7 years for corruption
Judge reduces sentence of 74-year-old Democrat, who begged for mercy, hoping not to die in prison
By Larry Neumeister
In this file photo taken on April 16, 2018, US President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen exits the US Federal Court in New York. (AFP Photo/Eduardo Muoz Alvarez)
July 24, 2018, 12:36 am
12 audio files sent to prosecutors in Michael Cohen probe
The recordings are among millions of files taken from US President Donald Trump’s former lawyer in April as part of a criminal probe of his business practices
By Larry Neumeister
A 2016 mugshot of NY terror attack suspect Sayfullo Saipov (CNN via St. Charles County, Mo)
June 23, 2018, 6:35 am
Man charged in NY bike path killings speaks in court of ‘Allah’
Sayfullo Saipov, Uzbek immigrant on trial for killing 8 people in 2017 truck rampage, interrupts proceedings to defend Islamic State
By Larry Neumeister
This April 3, 2017, photo shows US President Donald Trump's Twitter feed on a computer screen in Washington. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)
May 23, 2018, 10:47 pm
Trump can’t block his critics on Twitter, judge rules
Federal judge determines @realDonaldTrump not a personal account, says blocking users violates First Amendment free speech rights
By Larry Neumeister
In this file photo from April 26, 2018, Michael Cohen leaves federal court in New York City. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
May 20, 2018, 7:50 pm
Investigators finally get look at materials from Cohen raid
Lawyers for Trump attorney suspected of fraud encouraged by process to separate items subject to attorney-client privilege
By Larry Neumeister
Republican president-elect Donald Trump walks on stage along with, left to right, his son, Barron Trump, wife Melania Trump, son-in-law Jared Kushner, daughters Ivanka Trump, Tiffany Trump, and Vanessa Trump, and sons Donald Trump Jr., and Eric Trump during his election night event at the New York Hilton Midtown in the early morning hours of November 9, 2016, New York City. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)
April 20, 2018, 7:53 pm
Democrats sue Trumps, Kushner and Russia over election hacking
Lawsuit says they conspired to help Trump win the 2016 presidential election by breaking into DNC computers and stealing tens of thousands of emails and documents
By Larry Neumeister
FOX News talk show host Sean Hannity attends The Hollywood Reporter's annual 35 Most Powerful People in Media event at The Pool on April 12, 2018, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
April 16, 2018, 11:31 pm
Trump lawyer forced to reveal another client – Sean Hannity
Michael Cohen tells court he secretly did legal work for Fox News host to ensure records protected under attorney-client privilege
By Tom Hays and Larry Neumeister
In this June 6, 2017, photo provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office, interim U.S. attorney Geoffrey Berman poses in New York. (Courtesy of U.S. Attorney's Office via AP)
April 11, 2018, 5:55 am
Top US prosecutor in Manhattan is recused from Cohen probe
Geoffrey Berman, a Republican and former law partner of Rudy Giuliani, was removed from case before investigators obtained search warrants in the case
By Larry Neumeister
In this Dec. 20, 2016, file photo, Ahmad Khan Rahimi, center, is led into court in Elizabeth, NJ (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
February 14, 2018, 5:13 am
Bomber gets life in prison for New York, New Jersey attacks
Ahmad Khan Rahimi does not show remorse for attacks that injured 30, portrays himself as a victim
By Larry Neumeister
Police stand guard near the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree on December 12, 2017, in New York City. (John Moore/Getty Images/AFP
December 13, 2017, 5:57 pm
Would-be suicide bomber in New York City faces court hearing
Officials say Akayed Ullah was influenced by the sermons of a radical Muslim preacher in Bangladesh
By Tom Hays and Larry Neumeister
Harvey Weinstein arrives at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles for the Academy Awards on March 2, 2014 (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
December 6, 2017, 7:26 pm
Six women claim Weinstein cover up was racketeering
Lawsuit says that coalition of companies and people became part of growing ‘Weinstein Sexual Enterprise’ that worked with producer to conceal allegations against him
By Larry Neumeister
A photo of Sayfullo Saipov is displayed at a news conference at One Police Plaza Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017, in New York. Saipov is accused of driving a truck on a bike path that killed several and injured others Tuesday near One World Trade Center. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
November 2, 2017, 10:33 am
New York truck attack suspect tells agents he ‘felt good’ about rampage
Sayfullo Saipov plotted terror attack for two months, renting truck in advance to practice; asks to have IS flag in hospital room
By Colleen Long and Larry Neumeister
Former New York Democrat Congressman Anthony Weiner (c) arrives at federal court for his sentencing hearing in a sexting scandal, Monday, Sept. 25, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
September 25, 2017, 6:58 pm
Disgraced lawmaker Weiner sentenced to 21 months in sexting case
Former Democratic representative weeps as he tells court he was ‘a very sick man for a very long time’
By Tom Hays and Larry Neumeister
A white nationalist demonstrator with a helmet and shield walks into Lee Park in Charlottesville, Virginia. Hundreds of people chanted, threw punches, hurled water bottles and unleashed chemical sprays on each other, after violence erupted at a white nationalist rally in Virginia, on August 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
August 24, 2017, 8:35 am
Violence in Charlottesville leads to soul-searching at ACLU
With membership and donations surging in Trump era, group sees internal divisions over its backing of white supremacists’ right to march
By Tom Hays and Larry Neumeister
The building at 650 5th Avenue in New York at the center of a case related to compensation for victims of Iran-sponsored terror. (Screen capture: Google street view)
June 29, 2017, 10:24 pm
US set to seize NYC skyscraper whose owner violated Iran sanctions
US attorney says the 36-story office tower ‘gave the Iranian government a critical foothold in the very heart of Manhattan’
By Larry Neumeister
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