After being accused of—but not charged —raping an unidentified young woman in her Manhattan office, Greg Kelly— son of NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly and co-host of a”Good Day New York”—has been laying low. Kelly has denied the allegation through his attorney and not spoken publicly, but behind the scenes, sources have been talking to the press. Yesterday it was revealed that the woman had an abortion after her boozy encounter with Kelly, and now some are saying the Manhattan DA has doubts about the case. Of course, it goes without saying that all these unidentified sources talking to the tabloids may be people inside the NYPD with an interest in protecting the Commissioner’s son. [ more › ]
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Sources: Greg Kelly Has "Flirtatious" Texts To Prove Sex Was Consensual
Yesterday, the New York Post reported that attorneys representing Occupy Wall Street had dropped their appeal against the city and Brookfield Properties which sought to allow camping in Zuccotti Park. The piece included triumphant quotes from attorney Randy Mastro, who was representing downtown businesses, as well as an attorney for the city. Alan Levine, the attorney representing Occupy Wall Street who argued the case in court on November 15, explained to us why he and his colleagues dropped the case: “We’ve gotten everything from the city and Brookfield that we wanted…they conceded that access to Zuccotti is unfettered.” [ more › ]
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OWS Dropped Zuccotti Camping Appeal Because "Access Is Unfettered"
How many more of the Bronx’s Assistant District Attorneys must be arrested for drunk driving before Bronx DA Robert Johnson makes his office watch one of those horrific driver’s ed videos? 26-year-old Assistant District Attorney Rafael Urena was stopped at a checkpoint on East 61st Street in Manhattan at 3:40 a.m. on Saturday morning and allegedly registered a .081 BAC on a Breathalyzer. Sources tell the Post that Urena told officers he was aware of the BAC monitoring device: “Yeah, I know what it is; I’m a Bronx assistant district attorney.” [ more › ]
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Yet Another Bronx ADA Charged With DWI
A Brooklyn man has been sentenced to 72 years in prison for raping (and impregnating) the 11-year-old daughter of his former girlfriend. Gerald Hatcher, 47, was convicted in August of four counts of rape and sexual abuse against the victim, who is now 13. “He has not accepted responsibility and has denied his involvement since the beginning despite clear DNA evidence,” Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Doerfler wrote in a presentencing letter. [ more › ]
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Brooklyn Man Sentenced To 72 Years In Jail For Rape Of 11-Yr-Old
A jury has voted to dismiss all charges against the McDonald’s cashier who used a metal rod to beat up two customers who slapped him and then jumped over the counter at the West Village location in October. According to DNAInfo , the jury agreed that 31-year-old Rayon McIntosh was acting in self-defense during the altercation on October 13. “Over the last 11 days the grand jury considered the evidence and voted to dismiss in the interest of justice,” Assistant District Attorney Jaime Mendoza said. “We ask Mr. McIntosh be freed.” [ more › ]
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All Charges Dropped Against Customer-Bashing McDonald’s Cashier
The US Attorney’s office has jumped into the fight over the Taxi of Tomorrow by opening an investigation into whether the lack of wheelchair-accessible taxicabs in New York City amounts to a violation of parts of the Americans With Disabilities Act . Though one of the initial goals of the Taxi of Tomorrow program was “universal accessibility for persons with disabilities” the TLC eventually settled on a Nissan model that is not wheelchair accessible (versus the Karsan design, which is ), a development which irritated many . [ more › ]
Despite the fact that you can buy wine and groceries on Fresh Direct and in 35 other states, you still can’t do so in New York—public support be damned . Still, lawmakers are once again trying to make liquor store owners here miserable by introducing legislation that would finally let you buy vino at the Met (while throwing a few bones to the liquor stores). The issue could possibly come to a vote in the next month . [ more › ]
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Albany Considering Letting Supermarkets Sell Wine, Again
A fight inside a Lower East Side halfway house early Wednesday morning resulted in the stabbing of a 50-year-old man, and his murderer is still on the loose, the Daily News reports. Police “recovered a blood-spattered knife” on Attorney and Stanton streets, nearby the The Stanton House, which is on 190 Stanton. Bowery Boogie notes that a police helicopter descended upon the neighborhood, along with a “half-dozen squad cars…blocking the road between Attorney and Ridge.” [ more › ]
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Man Stabbed To Death In The LES, Suspect Still At Large
NY State bus driver crackdown, which has been going on since the March 12 fatal Bronx bus crash , has now caught city school bus drivers. According to WABC 7 , “The men, drivers in Queens, had reportedly been driving with suspended licenses, in one instance for more than 15 years. They were picked up by detectives with the Queens District Attorney’s Office for obtaining new licenses by submitting false names and different dates of birth and social security numbers to the Department of Motor Vehicles.” [ more › ]
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NYC School Bus Drivers Caught With Suspended Licenses
One of Charlie Sheen ‘s temporary goddesses, 22-year-old Capri Anderson (who you may remember from the Eloise Suite at the Plaza), has invited Charlie Sheen to serve her with the legal papers she’s expecting whilst she works the pole on Long Island next month. According to the Daily News , she’ll be at The Scene on April 15th and 16th, and has invited to actor to serve the papers to here there; his attorney says, “She wants to make it a PR event where she’s served at a strip club? Well we’re not going to accommodate her career. For her to say serve me while I’m stripping, it shows who we’re dealing with.” [ more › ]
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Charlie Sheen Declines Invite To Long Island Stripper Pole