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Benjamin Weiser

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Uganda New York Times world
4 Nov 2019
NEW YORK — A federal appeals panel said Monday that President Donald Trump’s accounting firm must turn over eight years of his personal and corporate tax returns to Manhattan prosecutors, a setback for the president’s attempt to keep his financial records private.
Appeals Court Rules President Must Turn Over 8 Years of Tax Returns
Uganda New York Times world
20 Jul 2019
NEW YORK — A federal judge Thursday denied Jeffrey Epstein’s request for bail pending his trial on sex-trafficking charges in Manhattan. As a result, Epstein, 66, a wealthy financier who owns a private jet, luxury homes around the world and a private island in the Caribbean, will have to spend months in a Manhattan jail that typically holds accused mobsters, drug dealers and terrorists.
Uganda New York Times world
22 Mar 2019
NEW YORK — Speaking in a halting, raspy voice, Cesar Sayoc sat in a Manhattan federal courtroom Thursday and described how he assembled homemade pipe bombs that he sent to prominent Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, former President Barack Obama and other critics of President Donald Trump last fall.
Trump supporter who mailed pipe bombs to Democrats pleads guilty
Uganda New York Times world
20 Feb 2019
NEW YORK — Michael Cohen, the former lawyer and fixer for President Donald Trump who was to report early next month to begin serving a three-year prison sentence, was granted a two-month delay Wednesday before he must surrender to authorities.
Cohen Wins 60-Day Delay to Start of Prison Sentence
Uganda New York Times world
20 Feb 2019
NEW YORK — Michael Cohen, the former lawyer for President Donald Trump who was to report early next month to begin serving a three-year prison sentence, was granted a two-month delay Wednesday before he must surrender to authorities.
Uganda New York Times world
25 Jan 2019
Browder, who was 16 years old when he was arrested in 2010 and accused of stealing a backpack, was detained on Rikers Island for three years without being tried or convicted of a crime.
City to settle over suicide that brought Rikers reform