New York Government News

Prosecutors have ended their case against former New York Senate leader Joseph Bruno with testimony from a friend and business associate who said he hired the longtime Republican lawmaker as a consultant for his contacts and the credibility he lent.

WASHINGTON - How New York state would fare under proposed health care reform remains an open question, but there's no doubt that state government and, to some extent, county governments would share in the cost of expanding health coverage to more Americans.

The first policy was a 2006 decision by the Westchester County executive to extend benefits to same-sex spouses of county employees.

With the decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed 9/11 mastermind and his four alleged co-conspirators in New York, the city gets the dubious title of Terror Trial Capital of America.

There are already three terror-related trials currently going through the courts in either Manhattan or Brooklyn. In the past, the city has seen seven major terror-trials, including such high-profile cases as Ramzi Yousef convicted in 1996 of the first World Trade Center bombing, and Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, a blind cleric convicted in 1995 of plotting to bomb buildings.

With all the debate over whether it's right--or safe--to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the alleged 9/11 conspirators in New York, we might as well take New Yorkers' opinions into account.

As regular readers know, one modern "get tough" sentencing movement that I am happy and eager to support concerns efforts to enhance and refine the criminal justice response to the pervasive and harmful crime of drunk driving.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani , who lost a bid for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, is considering running for the U.S. Senate next year against freshman Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand , current and former Republican officials said.

New York juries are often loath to impose the death penalty, even for terrorists.

New York's top court on Thursday rejected a Christian legal group's challenge to some government benefits provided to gay couples legally married elsewhere and now living in New York.

Here in New York, the Obama Administration's decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other Al Qaeda terrorists in the civilian justice system in downtown Manhattan has garnered plenty of well-earned criticism, including from New York's leading anti-terrorism experts like Rudy Giuliani, Michael Mukasey and Andrew McCarthy , and Long Island ...

The Obama administration announced Friday that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others would be transferred from the prison at Guantanamo Bay to New York to face prosecution.

A state Senate lawyer testified Tuesday that he and two other staff attorneys handled the financial disclosure forms that prosecutors are trying to use against former New York Senate leader Joseph Bruno in his federal corruption trial.

Share + Nov 17, 2009 12:00 pm US/Central NEW YORK 1 of 3 New York Gov. David Paterson openly criticized the White House on Monday, saying he thought it was a terrible idea to move alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other suspected terrorists to New York for trial.

These days, there hasn't been much love between the race-baiting David Paterson administration in New York and President Obama, so much so, that it sounds like Paterson is getting a bit of revenge against the administration for their lack of support.

Sen. Jim DeMint, South Carolina Republican, said in an interview that New Yorkers are being forced by the Obama administration to host the trials for terrorists suspected of planning the Sept.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has said the Obama administration should not allow five accused plotters of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on New York to be tried in a civilian court.

NEW YORK - New York City's famed Algonquin Hotel is celebrating the 90th anniversary of its legendary Round Table.

The rallying cry of "no new plates" has apparently reached the ears of New York's top elected officials.

Bringing those accused in the Sept. 11 attacks to New York for trial would increase the security threat to the city and give radical Islamists a platform to propagate their ideology, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Sunday.

TRYING the five men accused of the September 11 attacks poses a unique challenge to US legal officials forced to sift through torture-tainted evidence to present before a jury of New Yorkers still scarred by the strikes.