Investigations

It was impossible for prosecutors, the courts and the city jail system to predict that that Ramon Rivera would be accused of killing three people a month after being released. But critics and criminologists say there were missteps — like a lenient offer by prosecutors and lack of focus on Rivera’s schizophrenia diagnosis — that in hindsight s...

A battle is breaking out among clergy inside the diocese of Brooklyn. An investigation has been underway into alleged misuse of church funds by a monsignor, and now recordings of private conversations involving a deacon using a racial slur are coming to light. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

It was impossible for prosecutors, the courts and the city jail system to predict Ramon Rivera would be accused of killing three people a month after being released. But critics and criminologists say there were missteps, like a lenient offer by prosecutors and lack of focus on Rivera’s schizophrenia diagnosis, that in hindsight should have been ha...

A Brooklyn church deacon who was asked to help supervise a parish under financial scrutiny was himself relieved of his duties after recordings surfaced of private conversations that allegedly include him using racist language.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg told the judge they want the guilty verdict to stand, but they will agree to delay sentencing for as long as necessary. Trump’s legal team says that’s unfair and they say the case has to be dismissed immediately because the president-elect has immunity. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports...

A Brooklyn monsignor whose church had been subpoenaed amid the Eric Adams corruption investigation has been relieved of many of his duties after allegedly mishandling $2 million in church funds and using a church credit card for personal expenses, the Diocese said in a statement Monday. Monsignor Jamie Gigantiello, of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, was ...

NBC New York’s Chris Glorioso reports.

Documents reviewed by the NBC New York I-Team suggest the city’s municipal workforce may be more distracted than ever – by side jobs with private sector companies that have business dealings with the city.

Two New Yorkers and a man from Iran were charged in a thwarted assassination plot targeting President-elect Donald Trump, and there were apparent plans to target others in NYC too. The FBI said the Iranian plot began in September, when hitmen were hired to kill several activists and Jewish individuals in New York. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dien...

Sarah Wallace reporting on new evidence in a controversial 1986 murder conviction. 

Over two decades ago, Mike Velasquez walked into a billiards hall and never came home. His murder remains unsolved but police are making new efforts to crack this cold case. News 4 New York’s Marc Santia reports. 

A group of congregants at the influential Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem has filed a lawsuit seeking to void the election of a new pastor who just took over the historic Black church last month.

History has been made in Putnam County with the largest civil settlement ever in a wrongful conviction case. News 4 New York’s Sarah Wallace reports.