U.S. Charges Five Men in Russia-Backed Assassination Plots
The defendants, three of whom were members of the Russian intelligence services, tried to recruit people for surveillance and murder for hire in the United States and other countries, prosecutors said.
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Former Mayor Eric Adams used a “special rule” to let some high-ranking NYPD officials keep their police pension benefits even after leaving the department to take on pension-ineligible positions in government or the private sector, according to a new investigative report released on Thursday. The NYC Department of Investigation (DOI) issued the Sept. 17 report...
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Maimonides Medical Center in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn. Joining the city hospital system would provide the struggling Borough Park hospital with a $2.2 billion lifeline.