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#criminal-referrals

Carlo Tritta, 19, has been locked up for 28 months after pleading guilty to various offences including making indecent images of a child and sexual communications with a child.

The 27-year-old man was apprehended by York police on March 19 and charged with trafficking a firearm, according to court documents. Between April 16 and June 2, 2025, the man allegedly offered to 'transfer' a firearm 'while knowingly not being authorized to do so.'

U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton framed the verdict as a clear message to anyone thinking about silencing witnesses. 'New Yorkers know justice and they will not tolerate witness intimidation, let alone the street gang violence central to today's conviction,' he said.

Jason Thompson, a guard at HMP Isis, was suspended as the Metropolitan Police investigated his involvement in smuggling drugs and contraband into the prison. He was sentenced to four years and six months for conspiracy and misconduct.

Conor O'Brien, 29, was sentenced to eleven years in prison for importing military-grade firearms and ammunition, with the final year of his sentence suspended.

Wenzlau will need to give his probation officer with any passwords for electronic devices when they check to ensure he doesn't contact minors. The plea bargain also requires Wenzlau's probation officer to approve anytime Wenzlau wants to use the internet, according to court records. Wenzlau also has to keep his browsing history for at least 4 weeks.

Federal authorities say in court documents that the two were on duty in the 115th Precinct the evening of July 19, 2024, when they responded to a call about prostitution at a building on 89th Street near Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights. When they arrived, according to the court filings, they noted the situation as resolved, shut off their body cameras and told a woman who was leaving to go back inside, where they stole a key to the building and cash from her purse.

The scheme began in March 2023, when Rambhai Patel, then 36, carried out staged armed robberies with co-conspirators at at least six convenience stores, liquor stores, and fast food restaurants in Massachusetts and other states. Prosecutors said the robberies were designed to help store clerks falsely claim they were victims of violent crimes in applications for U nonimmigrant status, commonly known as a U visa.

Jalen Smith appeared in federal court in Philadelphia and pleaded guilty to wire fraud and bribery charges, becoming the first of 26 people charged in the scheme to formally do so. It came a week before the start of March Madness, in which bettors will wager billions legally - and illegally - on the 68 college basketball teams in the tournament.

His boss shut the door and said they now needed "shorter-term opportunities to make money every month or we may not survive," which Tom now sees as the moment the scoreboard reset from three years to 30 days. "It was a very ambiguous message," he says, adding that he never asked, "Are we talking about what everybody else is doing or are we going to stay within the legal or ethical guardrail?"

The Attorney General's office is accusing the alleged gun-runner, Khyle Williams, of making at least nine illegal firearms sales between May and October of 2025 both inside and outside of New York state, according to the indictment. It was the purpose of this conspiracy to obtain, possess, control, transport and sell firearms in Kings County and elsewhere inside and outside the State of New York, and to collect the proceeds from the sale of those firearms.

The 38-count superseding indictment names defendants whom prosecutors identified as members or affiliates of the Anti-Tren gang that emerged from Tren de Aragua, which federal authorities on Jan.20, 2025 designated a foreign terrorist organization. Prosecutors used racketeering conspiracy or RICO statutes, tying groups to crimes, for a wide range of actions, including some linked to an April 15, 2024 double murder in the Bronx.

During an investigation into fraudulent unemployment assistance, federal law enforcement asked Tran about a false letter he gave to unemployment agency officials in an attempt to have his benefits reinstated after they were temporarily suspended, said prosecutors.

FBI investigators are looking into Renee Nicole Good's life and potential history of anti-ICE activism after her death, sources familiar with the situation have said, seemingly trying to retroactively justify her killing as they obstruct probes into her killer, ICE agent Jonathan Ross. Sources told The New York Times that it "seems increasingly unlikely" that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent will face criminal charges for his shooting and killing of Good.

Federal prosecutors say Moore was playing blackjack at a casino in Quapaw, Oklahoma, when he lost more than $1,000. According to court records, he became angry with the dealer, began cursing and made vague threats. Witnesses said he appeared to reach into his coat, prompting casino staff to call security.

According to his eight-count indictment, the ex-cop took more than $30,000 in exchange for transporting drugs, including approximately eight kilograms of cocaine; providing unauthorized armed protection for a drug trafficking enterprise; and submitting false reports to the NYPD to help a co-conspirator avoid repayment of a drug-trafficking-related debt. Nguyen entered a guilty plea to three of the indictment's eight counts bribery and narcotics distribution conspiracy, and a firearm charge before U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres Thursday.

DOWNTOWN - In Brooklyn federal court, Pushpesh Kumar Baid, also known as "PK Jain," was sentenced to 20 years for his role in schemes to defraud investors in Tradepay Capital LLC, a purported factoring company, and in Luxestreet, Inc., a purported luxury goods pawn shop. Baid pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in April 2025, approximately one week before the trial was scheduled to commence.

A Lexington man who secured hundreds of thousands of dollars in COVID-19 relief funds through false claims is headed to federal prison, after authorities said he funneled part of the money into gambling and other personal expenses. John A. Hopkins, 48, was sentenced Tuesday to 24 months behind bars by U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove in Frankfort. Hopkins previously admitted he took part in a fraud and money laundering scheme involving federal pandemic relief programs designed to keep struggling small businesses afloat.

The unexpected gravitas occurred in one of the thousands of habeas cases currently swamping trial courts. The Department of Homeland Security recently discovered that 8 USC § 1225(b)(1)(B)(iii)(IV) requires mandatory detention of asylum seekers, including those who were released in the country decades ago and given work permits. Hundreds of judges across the country - but not the Fifth Circuit! - have scoffed at this discovery and ordered DHS to either grant immigrants a bond hearing or release them.

"There are a number of issues."

As predicted on last week's episode, Brad Karp left the top post at Paul Weiss following the disclosure of friendly correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein. But Karp wasn't the only Biglaw lawyer in the files, nor were his conversations the most troubling. A former Clifford Chance trainee drafted a sex contract with Epstein, Goldman Sachs GC Kathy Ruemmler made a joke with Epstein that normally you wouldn't make with someone who already pleaded guilty to child prostitution charges,