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Jan. 6 charges against Trump would add to his mounting legal peril as he campaigns for 2024

July 20, 2023

Hush-money payments. Classified records. And now, his efforts to overturn the 2020 election that led to the Capitol attack. Already facing criminal cases in New York and Florida, Donald Trump is in increasing legal peril as investigations into his struggle to cling to power after his election loss appear to be coming to a head. A target letter sent to Trump by special counsel Jack Smith suggests he

Two more from Brooklyn arrested for taking part in U.S Capitol riot

September 1, 2021

Two more Brooklynites have been arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol break-in and riot in Washington, D.C. The two men, both in

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, more informally known as Brooklyn Federal Court, in Downtown Brooklyn. Photo: Rob Abruzzese/Brooklyn Eagle

Queens man pleads guilty to threatening to kill elected officials

August 16, 2021

On Monday in Brooklyn Federal Court, Eduard Florea pleaded guilty before United States Chief Magistrate Judge Cheryl L. Pollak to one count of transmitting threats

Prosecutors drop case against man charged in Capitol riot

June 2, 2021

Federal prosecutors have dropped the criminal case against a New York man who was accused of participating in the riot at the U.S. Capitol, in

Violent threats against US Congress leads to federal court conviction

April 29, 2021

“If words can kill, they probably will” could be the message after Queens resident and former state court system employee Brendan Hunt was convicted late

FBI: Ex-NYPD spokesperson charged in Capitol insurrection

March 23, 2021

The FBI arrested a former spokesperson for the New York City Police Department on Tuesday on charges she entered the U.S. Capitol — and shook

FBI roundup of suspected Capitol rioters bags another NY man

January 28, 2021

The FBI has arrested another New York City area man in the rampage at the U.S. Capitol. Prosecutors said on Thursday that people who were

Brooklyn sanitation worker arrested after feds ID’d him as part of Capitol mob

January 22, 2021

A Brooklyn sanitation department worker photographed as being part of the mob at the U.S. Capitol after a crowd overwhelmed officers there this month has been arrested, according to the

NY attorney general sues NYPD over Floyd protest response

January 14, 2021

New York’s attorney general sued the New York Police Department on Thursday, calling the rough treatment of protesters against racial injustice last spring part of a longstanding pattern of abuse

Middle Village Queens ‘Proud Boy’ busted with ammo stockpile

January 14, 2021

A far-right “Proud Boy” arrested for stockpiling thousands of rounds of ammo inside his Middle Village home threatened to murder U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and encouraged the killing of liberal

Local official seen in photo at breach of US Capitol resigns

January 13, 2021

A member of a New York town’s zoning board resigned after she was seen in photos taken at the U.S. Capitol on the day extremists, conspiracy theorists and supporters of the president

NYC to terminate Trump contracts after Capitol insurrection

January 13, 2021

New York City will terminate business contracts with President Donald Trump after last week’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday. “I’m here to announce that

FBI arrests Brooklyn judge’s son on Capitol riot charges

January 12, 2021

Federal agents have arrested the son of a Brooklyn judge on charges that he was among the protesters who stormed the U.S. Capitol, the FBI said Tuesday. Aaron Mostofsky was

The US Capitol has been stormed before – when British troops burned Washington in 1814

January 12, 2021

As rioters forced their way into the US Capitol Building on Jan. 6, astounded CNN presenters noted that this was the first time something like this had happened for more than

New York State Bar wants to kick out Giuliani for inciting ‘attempted coup’

January 11, 2021

The New York State Bar Association is looking to remove Rudy Giuliani from its ranks after the former New York City mayor used his platform to spread election lies and

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Jan. 6 charges against Trump would add to his mounting legal peril as he campaigns for 2024

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