Author: Angel - NYC

Huffington Post

The judge overseeing a challenge to NYPD stop-and-frisk tactics said she was “intrigued” by the idea of requiring the police to use body cameras that would record street stops as the 10-week trial in federal court in Manhattan came to an end Monday.

“Everyone would know exactly what occurred,” said U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin, who brought the idea up on her own and suggested a pilot project in a few precincts. “I’m intrigued. It seems it would solve a lot of problems.”   Continue reading “NYPD Body Cameras Idea Piques Interest Of Stop-And-Frisk Judge Shira Scheindlin”

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The Spectra Pipeline, a high-pressure gas pipeline under construction in Manhattan’s West Village, slated to go online in November 2013, poses a grave and immediate risk to New York residents.   Continue reading “Stop the Spectra pipeline.”

NewsMax – by Michael Kling

The IRS may be watching your online activities — including what you post on social media sites, what you sell online, even what you write in emails and text messages.

Some tax experts and civil liberties groups are disturbed by what they call the agency’s secretive practices. Taxpayers know little about how it uses big data and “robo-audits.”    Continue reading “The IRS Is Seeing Everything You Do Online”

Huffington Post

Yahoo’s board of directors has approved a deal to buy the popular blogging platform Tumblr, the Wall Street Journal reports.

According to the WSJ, it will pay $1.1 billion in cash for the site. The potential purchase was originally reported by the technology blog AllThingsD on Thursday,which also cited the same cash figure. AllThingsD also confirmed the board’s approval on Sunday.   Continue reading “Yahoo Tumblr Purchase Approved By Board: WSJ”

The Gothamist by Rebecca Fishbein

Now that 1 World Trade has its spire, the city’s gearing up for the building’s opening next year, and it looks like security around it is going to be tight; the NYPD just unveiled its security plan for the area surrounding the World Trade Center, and they’re creating an intense, fortress-like barrier to keep cars at bay.   Continue reading “The NYPD Is Building A Fortress Around The World Trade Center”

The Daily Beast – by Stuart Stevens

Huffington Post – by Gerry Smith and Ryan J. Reilly

Before he was charged in July 2011 with aiding the hacker group Anonymous, Josh Covelli lived what he considered the life of an ordinary 26-year-old. He spent countless hours on the Internet. He had a girlfriend. He was a student and employee at Devry University in Dayton, Ohio.

But after federal authorities accused him and 13 other people of helping launch a cyberattack against the online payment service PayPal, Covelli faced potentially 15 years in prison, and his life began to unravel.   Continue reading “Alleged ‘PayPal 14’ Hackers Seek Deal To Stay Out Of Prison After Nearly 2 Years In Limbo”

Huffington Post – by NOMAAN MERCHANT and JIM VERTUNO

WEST, Texas — Investigators have completed their scene investigation but not ruled out criminal activity as the cause of a massive explosion at a fertilizer plant that killed 15 people and flattened part of a tiny Texas town, officials said Thursday.

The April 17 blast at West Fertilizer injured 200 and leveled part of the tiny town of West. Officials have spent one month combing through debris and speaking to hundreds of witnesses.   Continue reading “West Fertilizer Blast May Have Been Criminal Act: Authorities”

Huffington Post – by Ryan J. Reilly

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Marshals Service gave new names and identities to “known or suspected” terrorists admitted to the witness protection program and allowed them to fly on commercial airlines, despite the fact that they were on the TSA’s “no-fly” list, an internal Justice Department investigation found.

The DOJ Inspector General report released Thursday also found that the Marshals lost track of two former known or suspected terrorists who had left the federal Witness Security Program. The DOJ has now tracked down all the current members of the WITSEC program and has determined where the two terrorism-linked individuals who left the program are located, a DOJ official told reporters.   Continue reading “Witness Protection Lost ‘Known Or Suspected’ Terrorists: DOJ Report”

Kitchen Daily

You’d be surprised to learn what items in your pantry can last a lot longer than the printed expiration date! With proper storage, some food items can last for many years or indefinitely. In fact, one sticky sweetener has been known to stay edible for thousands of years.   Continue reading “Foods that Stay Good Longer Than You’ll Be Around”

Huffington Post – by Heather Holland

STUY TOWN — Residents of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village were shocked to find a notice taped to their doors on Tuesday, giving tenants two weeks to either pay a mid-lease rent increase or move out.

CW Capital, the primary lease holder of the property, distributed notices detailing rent increases ranging from $100 to over $900 per month, and said tenants would have to decide whether to pay the increase or move out within 60 days of the notice that was doled out to individual tenants on Tuesday afternoon.   Continue reading “Stuy Town Owner To Tenants: Pay Mid-Lease Rent Increase, Or Face Eviction In Two Weeks”

The Alliance for Natural Health

Our exclusive report reveals government surveillance, what appear to be undercover sting operations, and investigations into the alleged crime of “practicing nutrition without a license.”Action Alerts!

ANH-USA has uncovered widespread surveillance (including undercover sting operations), aggressive investigations, and prosecutions of nutrition professionals. These actions, together with the levying of criminal penalties, have been undertaken by state health departments and state dietetics boards that are enforcing monopolistic laws sponsored by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. More often than not, they are supported by local law enforcement or the offices of state attorneys general. The AND—formally the American Dietetic Association, or ADA—is not a medical organization, but a trade group that represents the interests of Registered Dietitians (RDs, who are certified by the AND’s credentialing arm). The AND has about 74,000 members.   Continue reading “ANH-USA Uncovers Suspicious Activity by State Dietetic and Health Boards”

CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – Mayor Michael Bloomberg met Gov. Dannel P. Malloyat City Hall to discuss Connecticut’s new gun control law.

Malloy and Bloomberg met in the second-floor bullpen.

“There is a certain reality that America’s got to get used to that guns aren’t making you safer in your house. They’re increasing precipitously the opportunity for your child to kill themselves or someone else,” Malloy said following his half-hour conversation with Bloomberg. “There’s a reality that 19,000 people are going to commit suicide because there’s a gun in their house. And if there wasn’t a gun in that house and they didn’t commit suicide at that time, their chances of committing suicide at any time decreases by 90 percent.”   Continue reading “Conn. Governor Malloy Met With Mayor Bloomberg At City Hall To Discuss Gun Control”

Vice – by Peter Rugh

Nicholas Heyward is a haunted man. He is one of many New Yorkers who have lost loved ones to the police. Nineteen years ago, Heyward’s son was playing with a toy gun in the stairwell of a Boerum Hill housing project in Brooklyn, New York, when he was fatally shot by an NYPD officer. Nicholas Jr. was 13 years old when he was killed.

“I heard Nick say, ‘We’re playing,’ and then I heard a boom,” Katrell Fowler, a friend of Nick Jr.’s told the New York Times shortly after the incident. Yet blame was placed on the boy’s toy rifle, instead of officer Brian George, who fired his very real revolver into the child’s abdomen.   Continue reading “Who Protects New Yorkers From The NYPD?”

Gothamist – by Christopher Robbins

A judge has dismissed the indictment against the NYPD officer who shot and killed an unarmed teen in his Bronx home last year. The dismissal was for a technicality, as the Bronx DA’s office erroneously instructed members of the grand jury that they did not have to consider if Officer Richard Haste’s colleagues informed him that 18-year-old Ramarley Graham was armed.

“With no great pleasure, I am obliged in this case to dismiss the charges,” Supreme Court Justice Steven Barrett said as he made his decision, according to DNAinfo.   Continue reading “Charges Against Cop Who Killed Unarmed Teen Thrown Out On Technicality”

CBS News New York

A retired New York City police detective continued to refuse to comment Monday about a review of cases associated with him by the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office.

As CBS 2’s John Slattery reported, the review of cases handled by retired Detective Louis Scarcella began after a high-profile 1990 murder case he investigated was thrown out.The defendant in the case had been convicted and served 23 years in prison.   Continue reading “Retired Detective Refuses To Comment As DA Probes His Cases”

Yahoo News – by Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News | The Lookout

NEW YORK—New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says he wasn’t surprised about the Boston Marathon bombings—just that they didn’t happen sooner.

“When something like Boston happens, it’s a shock to the public psyche, but not to us,” Kelly said at the Atlantic’s New York Ideas Festival on Tuesday. “We thought something like this would happen sooner—we’ve seen these types of disaffected radicalized young men target us.”   Continue reading “Ray Kelly not surprised about Boston Marathon terror attack”