On September 12, 2011, David P. Rosen, the 63 year old head of MediSys Health Network, was convicted of Honest Services Fraud in a non-jury trial before the Honorable Jed S. Rakoff in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Specifically, Rosen was convicted of providing several hundred thousand dollars in bribes…
Motorists who continue to text while driving, beware! There has been a major increase in tickets for texting while driving in 2011, in line with tougher penalties for this traffic infraction that went into effect in July of this year. Most will recall that when the texting while driving ban…
On September 13, 2011, a Westchester County Police Officer was charged along with several Transportation Security Agency officers, a Florida State trooper and several couriers in a drug smuggling conspiracy involving the distribution and sale of Oxycodone (OxyContin) from Florida to Connecticut. The Westchester County Police Officer, Michael T. Brady,…
As reported by Sydney Ember of the New York Times last week, on February 3, 2011, an undocumented immigrant (whose name has not been released by authorities), entered the N & K Quik Pick store in Spring Valley, New York to buy a $10.00 scratch off instant lottery ticket. Lo…
Ophadell Williams, the tour bus driver behind the wheel on I-95 in the Bronx on March 12, 2011 when the bus flipped over, struck a stanchion and 15 people died, was indicted by a Bronx County Grand Jury last week in the fatal bus accident. Williams, 40, was charged with…
The sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the 62 year old former International Monetary Fund head which has so captured the public attention for the last 3 1/2 months, was dropped by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office on August 23, 2011. Strauss-Kahn, the 62 year old former head of the…
In a very interesting article in the New York Times on August 1, 2011, Joseph Goldstein and Al Baker reported on an NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau investigation launched after the ticket fixing scandal that has been in the news recently. The article notes that 40 officers are facing criminal charges,…
Almost two years to the day of the wrong way fatal accident on the Taconic Parkway that killed 8, on July 24, 2011, Tanisha Gomez, a 26 year old resident of East Stroudsburg, PA drove northbound in the southbound lanes of I-95. Ms. Gomez’ 2011 Chevrolet HHR minivan struck a…
Earlier this month, Governor Cuomo signed into law a much tougher ban on texting while driving, effective immediately. Previously, texting while driving was a secondary offense, meaning that a motorist would have to be pulled over for another infraction such as speeding or following too closely in order to be…
New York Assemblyman David Weprin has proposed a law banning smoking with children in the car. The bill stalled in the New York State Assembly last year, but will be reconsidered this August. The statute is designed to protect children from the dangers of secondhand smoke. If the law passes,…