Investigations

Between the stage and screen, New York City has long been a welcome home to working actors and thespians alike. One man with significant acting skills has more nefarious ambitions, however, and police say he’s used his talents to steal more than $1 million in cash and jewelry. He’s wanted for crimes across the country, including cases h...

After putting the mayor’s trial on pause, a federal judge said he still wants to hear more arguments before deciding if the case should be dropped. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports. 

Federal prosecutors have formally asked a judge to drop the federal corruption and bribery charges against Mayor Eric Adams. It comes after a number of high-ranking officials and prosecutors resigned because they refused to have the charges dropped. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

Another prosecutor who worked on Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption case quit after refusing to drop criminal charges and follow an order from the U.S. Department of Justice. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports. 

After NBC New York revealed a cozy relationship between Mayor Eric Adams’ City Hall and a private developer, a lawmaker is taking action. A bill being drafted would block government staffers from working on projects that benefit their former employers. NBC New York’s Chris Glorioso reports.

A Brooklyn City Councilmember wants to close a loophole in New York City ethics law, which he says permits powerful government staffers to work on projects related to their former private sector employers.

The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan stepped down amid orders to drop the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Danielle Sassoon, the acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, quit Thursday afternoon, after the Trump Justice Department ordered prosecutors in the SDNY to drop the case. NBC New York’s Jona...

A Long Island man has been looking for several years to collect Social Security benefits, as medical bills continue pile up. But because the administration has him listed as dead, they say there are no benefits he is entitled to receive.

Mayor Eric Adams may have dodged a legal bullet when the Trump Justice Department announced plans to pause his criminal prosecution. But the decision does not block local NYC district attorneys from seeking their own corruption charges, if they so wished.

In his first comments since the DOJ moved to halt the corruption case against him, Mayor Adams vowed to regain New Yorkers’ trust and assured them he would never trade his power for personal gain. But the backlash he’s facing has been tough and swift, as the question becomes whether voters see the arrangement as more corrupt than his in...

The stunning order in a memo from the acting head of the Trump administration’s Department of Justice will likely bring to an end a three-year-old federal corruption investigation. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst and Melissa Russo report.

Members of the New York City Council want answers after an I-Team investigation revealed a top staffer for Mayor Eric Adams has had a financial relationship with the firm selected to privatize the city’s public health laboratory.

After the NBC New York I-Team raised questions about a real estate deal by the Adams administration to hand over a public building to a private developer, members of City Council are now taking action and demanding answers. The I-Team’s Chris Glorioso reports.