Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'brooklynfederalcourt'
April 7, 2007
Perfect for a Saturday in NY: A lovely, married head doctor accused of having sex with a prisoner! Psychologist Madgalena Sanchez was arraigned at Brooklyn Federal Court yesterday for having sex with an inmate under her care - and lying to the Department of Justice about it! The 35-year-old, who is married to a Lehman Brother equities trader and lives at Trump Place, was charged with "with sexual abuse of a ward who was “under......
Continue Reading "Tabloid Dream: Mental Health, Sex, and Prison!"July 3, 2006
Federal, city, and local NJ authorities are facing a big "d'oh!" on their faces after mistakenly putting a Chinese-American woman in Rikers for 8 days last year. Because now the woman, Hui Ping Wang, who was arrested at JFK Airport when she was returning from a trip to China, is suing many law enforcement agencies, incuding the Department of Immigration, the city's Department of Correction, and Bergen County NJ's sheriff's office. Why all the fuss?......
Continue Reading "Asians All Look Same to the Feds"March 27, 2006
If you've ever been interested in the mafia, either the real live mob or the movie kind, Gothamist highly recommends that you follow the trial of former NYPD detectives Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito, who are accused of racketeering (and being involved in eight murders), which is going on in Brooklyn Federal Court right now. The lead witness for the prosecution was a 72 year old convicted pot dealer, another witness said one of the......
Continue Reading "Mafia Cop Trial Required Reading"
