The NJ man accused of viciously beating two Rangers fans after the Rangers-Flyers game in Philadelphia is back in custody, after a judge raised his bail from $100,000 to $400,000. more ›

Arthur Morgan III, the NJ man accused of killing his 2-year-old daughter by drowning her in a Wall Township, NJ stream, is being held on $10 million bail. Monmouth County prosecutors painted a tragic picture of little Tierra's death. more ›

Socialite Gigi Jordan was arrested for allegedly killing her 8-year-old son in a failed murder-suicide at the Peninsula Hotel. She's been in police custody since February 2010, and yesterday her lawyers, the high-profile team of Alan Dershowitz and Ron Kuby, failed in getting her out on super-expensive bail when they pointed out that alleged sexual assault suspect Dominique Strauss-Kahn got bail. In other words, alleged sexual assault is not the same as alleged filicide. more ›

Benny Geritano, who in April got into a knife fight on Smith Street with Lucali's owner Mark Iacono, is finally getting out of the slammer—for health reasons. However the judge who agreed to his house-arrest release warned the former member of the bank-robbing "Night Drop Crew" that if he so much as goes "down the street for a pizza or something" it'll be right back to the pokey for Benny. more ›

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund and leading French politician, pleaded not guilty to charges to sexually assaulting a maid at a Time Square hotel on May 14. When he walked into the courthouse, witnesses told CityRoom that protesters from the hotel workers union yelled, "Shame on you!" more ›

Mahmoud Abdel-Salam Omar, the 74-year-old Egyptian banker accused of groping a maid at the Pierre Hotel, posted $25,000 bail yesterday. But as Omar was wrapping up his week at Riker's the Manhattan DA's office still had yet to indict him, instead choosing to further investigate the situation. more ›

Ex-IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who is out on bail on sexual assault charges, is currently holed up in an apartment at 71 Broadway, hidden from the media and overseen by round-the-clock armed guards—we guess he can take down "his" Craigslist posting now. And he's already making friends! New neighbor Andrew Auernheimer, the hacker who released iPad emails to Gawker, gave Strauss-Kahn high praise to the Post: "He's an OK guy...I think he is misjudged by the public. I don't want to say they trapped him, but it seems like there's more to this story. I'd like to talk to him more about it, but I'm sure he won't tell me." more ›

La liberté, sort of, for just-resigned IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn. His bail application was accepted, but he'll have to stick around New York a little while longer since a grand jury indicted him on charges related to allegedly sexually assaulting a Times Square hotel maid on Saturday. more ›

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the leading French politician accused of sexually assaulting a maid at a Times Square luxury hotel on Saturday, resigned from heading the International Monetary Fund. His statement read, "It is with infinite sadness that I feel compelled today to present to the Executive Board my resignation from my post of managing director of the I.M.F. I think at this time first of my wife — whom I love more than anything — of my children, of my family, of my friends," and pointedly included, "I want to say that I deny with the greatest possible firmness all of the allegations that have been made against me." more ›

The sad premature mid-life crisis of Lindsay Lohan just keeps piling on the victories: the sometime-starlet was in tears yesterday when a Judge sentenced her to 120 days in jail for violating her probation by getting busted for allegedly stealing a necklace. Of course, she was released on $75,000 bail a few hours later, which means she only got a precious few hours to practice her stand-up at the cafeteria. more ›

And the saga of Afrika Owes continues. Yesterday, the 17-year-old accused of ferrying drugs for her boyfriend's Harlem gang was released from Rikers after the Abyssinian Baptist Church used their funds to post her $25,000 bail and give her a second chance. Just like Patty Hearst! Church deacon Gerald Barbour said, "Whatever the facts are, she’s one of ours." more ›

Mobsters can often be quite charming in the movies, but it seems that they're not nearly as persuasive in real life: several Brooklyn federal judges are at their wits end with alleged mobsters and mafia associates bizarre (or entitled) bail requests. Reputed Genovese associate Peter Pace recently complained that his electronic bracelet doesn't allow him to stroll on his outdoor patio or garden in his backyard. "Move your tomatoes inside. I don't want to be bothered with this," Judge John Gleeson responded. more ›

After a judge ruled that it wasn't against tax laws, the Harlem Abyssinian Baptist Church has voted to use church funds to post the $25,000 cash bail for 17-year-old Afrika Owes, who has been sitting in Rikers on charges of conspiracy and ferrying guns to a Harlem gang. Owes' mother told the Daily News, "That was awesome. That shows you the power of the body of Christ." Which the judge had to come face to face with a few weeks ago...or something. more ›

Previously, Judge Edward McLaughlin denied the Harlem Abyssinian Baptist Church's request to post the $50,000 bail for 17-year-old Afrika Owes, who has been charged with conspiracy and ferrying guns for a local gang. McLaughlin had said he needed to research the tax and non-profit issues involved in using church money to post bail, but after looking into he said there's nothing stopping the church. If they hold a corporate meeting and get a majority vote, they can post her $50,000 bail in mid-April. Perhaps he finally saw the body of Christ. more ›

62-year-old Annette Bongiorno, who allegedly made $14.5 million in "investments" while she was Bernie Madoff's secretary for 40 years, has had a terrible time making her $5 million bail. Would you believe she couldn't find people to secure her bond? Us neither. But now she's gone and taken too long! A judge this morning decided that enough was enough and is calling her in. more ›

Kenneth Starr, the accountant to the stars who admitted to running a Ponzi scheme with their money, is in the Metropolitan Correctional Center, emailing away to pass the time. Prosecutors revealed his missives to a "mystery woman" to show that Starr should not be granted bail, because he's a flight risk. Why? Well, his brothers would be putting up most of the bail, but this is what Starr wrote about them, "Once I am sentenced I want no contact with them or anyone in their families... [They] wouldn't help when we needed help - they will need me one day and I will not lift a finger - they are mean spirited awful human beings." more ›

On Tuesday Julian Assange was granted bail by a London court only to have it pulled out from under him after lawyers appealed. The WikiLeaker returned to court today, however, and has once again been granted bail. It isn't immediately clear when Assange will be released, as conditions and details are still being worked out, but it could be as soon as today but likely no later than tomorrow. As his lawyer, Mark Stephens, put it on the steps of court earlier today "He will not be going back to that Victorian prison. He will not be going back to that cell once occupied by Oscar Wilde." more ›

[UPDATE BELOW]WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been granted bail in England—with a host of conditions. A British judge earlier today reversed course and is allowing Assange to leave prison on a £240,000 bail (is Michael Moore helping pay?). But the WikiLeaker will have to live in a designated location, a mansion called Ellingham Hall, with a curfew from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.. He also must report to a police station each day at 6 p.m. more ›

If you are looking for a long depressing read today, look no further than Human Rights Watch's new report on bail and the pretrail treatment of low income nonfelony defendants in the city (i.e. people caught smoking dope in public or jumping turnstiles). The problem, as HRW sees it, is that almost a quarter of jail admissions in 2008 were pretrail detainees charged with misdemeanors who hadn't made bail. They remained incarcerated for an average of 15.7 days. And these are not insignificant numbers—they calculate at a cost of $161 per inmate per day "the city could have saved at least $42 million if it had not incarcerated the 16,649 nonfelony defendants arrested in 2008 who were unable to make bail of $1,000 or less." And let's face it, if you are strapped for cash, even a $500 bail can be as unachievable as at quarter-million dollar one. more ›

Michael Enright, the 21-year-old student charged with attacking a Muslim cab driver because of his race last month, was released on $500,000 bail yesterday. As conditions of his bail, Enright must wear an electronic monitoring device, can't leave New York State, and had to surrender his passport. He also will have an 8 p.m. curfew, has to sign up for alcohol and mental health treatments, and he's not allowed to go to any bar or club that serves alcohol. Of course, if the Post had it their way, there would be one more condition: stay away from any and all cab drivers. more ›

One of the suspects in the brutal attacks on three men—allegedly prompted by their sexuality—made bail as another one was arrested. In the meantime, the alleged gang leader said in a jailhouse interview, "I don't have anything against homosexuals. I'm not a monster," and argued he couldn't be involved, since he recently got out of jail. more ›

Even though the ice pick wielding Robert Linhart said he's "going to go right back there [Madonna's apartment] and do it again," he was released on $20,000 bail on the condition that he stay 10 blocks away from her Upper West Side apartment. Linhart was not charged with stalking after parking outside Madonna's apartment with an SUV full of signs, a knife and an ice pick, but was ordered to stay away because "there is a fixation on her," says Assistant District Attorney Tatiana Fernandes. more ›

A Queens Supreme Court judge approved Cecilia Chang's bail package, but her lawyer says she doesn't want to leave. Chang, at Rikers Island for falsifying $1.3 million in expense claims at St. John's University, denied the bail yesterday, preferring to stay at Rikers and see if the FBI wants to arrest her. Upstanding prisoner ready to accept her punishment, or a crook who is just trying to leech more money out of a different system this time? Maybe she just wants to keep hanging out with Lil Wayne. more ›

It's four mugshots and counting: Troubled starlet Lindsay Lohan went back to jail yesterday for violating her probation (by testing positive for drugs including cocaine)—and then managed to get out later in the evening. While the judge initially wanted her held in custody until an October 22nd hearing, a supervising judge threw that decision out, because, according to TMZ, it "flies in the face of California law, which gives defendants the right to bail in misdemeanor cases." Lohan's bondsman posted bail around 10 p.m. PDT; her friends claim that the Long Island native thinks she needs to go to rehab, not jail. more ›

A federal judge denied bail for four men accused of plotting to bomb Bronx synagogues and to shoot down military planes at a base in Newburgh, NY in May 2009. Last week Judge Colleen McMahon delayed the case indefinitely because of issues with the prosecution's case and said she'd listen to bail applications. However, yesterday she decided against allowing bail "because, she ruled, there was no assurance they would return for trial if freed." However, she also said in her ruling, "The government’s case may not be as ironclad as it appeared in the hours and days immediately after the defendants were arrested." The men's defense lawyers claim they were entrapped by an overzealous government informant. more ›