(CNN) New York County District Attorney Cyrus Vance's office has subpoenaed eight years of President Donald Trump's tax returns from Mazars USA, the longtime accounting firm to Trump and the Trump Organization, as part of its investigation into hush-money payments, according to a person familiar with the matter. The subpoena marks a new escalation in the large-scale effort to obtain the President's tax returns, a battle that has largely played out in courts as the Trump admin

A pair of disgraced ex-city cops dodged jail time Thursday for having sex with a teenage suspect inside an NYPD van despite the Brooklyn district attorney’s ardent opposition to the sweetheart deal. Eddie Martins, 39 and Richard Hall, 34, pleaded guilty to bribe receiving and official misconduct after engaging in intercourse and oral sex with the 18-year-old woman as the predatory police officers were on duty in Brooklyn South Narcotics on Sept. 15, 2017, prosecutors said. Th

Two New York prisons — including one at the northern edge of Central Park that commands sweeping views of the famous green space — are going to be closed down for good in the next 90 days, the Daily News has learned. Lincoln Correctional Facility, which has been a minimum-security men’s prison at 31–33 West 110th St. since 1976, will cease operations at the end of the summer, according to a statement Friday from the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, which r

New York City will pay $3.3 million to the estate of a young man who killed himself after a three-year jail stint over a minor theft case than never went to trial, lawyers said Thursday. Details of the deal between the city and the estate of Kalief Browder are still being hammered out, but they have settled on that dollar figure, according to the New York City Law Department and an attorney for the estate. Browder's highly publicized case drew the attention of celebrities and

New York — A woman who climbed the base of the Statue of Liberty on July 4 to protest the separation of families at the U.S.-Mexico border has been convicted of misdemeanor charges. Therese Okoumou got choked up as she testified Monday before a federal magistrate judge at her trial. She said images from the border gave her nightmares. Okoumou testified that she couldn't live with the sight of "children in cages" without bringing the issue to a wider audience. "Someone has to

A proposed bill in the New York State Senate could mean that anyone wanting to buy a pistol or renew their permit will be subject to a review of their internet history and social media accounts going back up to three years. The bill, referred to as S9191, was drafted by State Senator Kevin Parker from New York’s 21st Congressional District with the intention of keeping firearms out of the hands of potentially violent people, ABC-affiliate WHAM reports. S9191 “requires a perso

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) - A man who disguised himself in blackface pleaded guilty to armed robbery of the casino floor cashier cage at New York-New York Hotel and Casino, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office. Cameron James Kennedy, 27, of Las Vegas, pleaded guilty before to one count of interference with commerce by robbery. He faces the maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, at his Dec. 13, 2018. Kennedy was arrested two weeks after the Jan. 10 robbery in an

A US nanny is suing a British couple in New York after allegedly receiving a racist text message before being unfairly dismissed. Giselle Maurice, 44, had just started working for the couple when she was fired for being African-American, she claims, because of a text message she received by accident on her first day. Mother-of-two, Lynsey Plasco-Flaxman, allegedly meant to send the text message to her husband, Joel Plasco, upon realising the woman was black, reports the Daily

Jineea Butler, a Republican congressional candidate for New York’s 13th District, is in the process of trying to create a new hip-hop based political party, and she’s asked LL Cool J and Busta Rhymes to be party leaders. Butler is also the founder of the Hip Hop Union and said both legendary rappers would be able to get younger people excited about the political process. At this time, however, neither LL or Busta have responded. “We’re looking for somebody that can energize t

Jay-Z is expanding his efforts in venture capital, according to paperwork filed with the state of California sometime last month. Along with Walden Venture Capital's managing director, Lawrence Marcus, and Roc Nation's president, Jay Brown, the rapper, whose real name is Shawn Carter, is creating a fund called Marcy Venture Partners. The fund's name may be a nod to Carter's upbringing in the Marcy Houses, the public-housing complex in Brooklyn that Carter has been repeatedly

NEW YORK -- New York Giants running back Saquon Barkley bought his parents a new house and didn't need his first contract to make it happen. That is where some of that fresh endorsement money from Nike, Pepsi and Panini America is headed. Barkley doesn't plan to use his football earnings on any lavish purchases, such as the home he recently bought for his family in Whitehall, Pennsylvania. Barkley hasn't even signed his rookie contract with the Giants, who made him the No. 2

Greg Counts and his legal team Seema Saifee, Rana Sahar, and Ilana Kornfeld. Photo by Sameer Abdel-Khalek DNA and Other New Evidence Proves the Two Men Served a Combined 36 Years for a Crime that Never Occurred (New York – May 7, 2018) With the consent of the District Attorney’s Office, today a New York County Supreme Court judge vacated the convictions of Gregory Counts and VanDyke Perry for a 1991 gang-rape that the complainant now acknowledges never occurred. DNA testing t

A Port Byron couple has been arrested on felony scheming to defraud charges following a four-month long investigation by the Cayuga County Sheriff’s Office. A couple from central New York fabricated a 2017 story about their son having cancer, soliciting about $3,000 in funds for his recovery and a visit with the Syracuse University football team, according to the Cayuga County Sheriff's Office. Syracuse.com reported that Martin 35-years old and Jolene LaFrance 35-years old fa