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Kurt Wheelock is a journalist who was thrown out of the United Nations. Now reporting from the courthouse in Lower Manhattan, he stumbles on the sealed case of a briber whom the Chinese government wants back, if necessary in exchange for any American in its grasp. But Marvin Lo goes for a stroll from the Trump Tower condo where he is under pre-trial release. The man he visits ends up under the UN. Lawyer Matthew Randall Long, from an office above the Ali Baba fruit stand in Chatham Square, files motions to unseal, and to pierce diplomatic immunity. DOA media launches a podcast, manipulated ...

In outlaw music there is always the question of authenticity. Daniel Hernandez became Tekashi 6ix9ine and hooked up with the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods to shoot a video. Then he became their cash cow, and some of them became his muscle, shoot-out in a Barclay's Center hallway. They turned on Tekashi and he became a cooperator against them, returning to SDNY on violations of supervised release then back out on the concert tour. For drill rapper Kay Flock it was different. He really was from Sev Side, 187th Street. He wasn't an appendage to his group: he was central to it. When with seven he ...

This is the story of the trial in People of the State of New York versus Daniel Penny, to the closings. Onto a subway car like this one he got on, a muffin in his jacket pocket wrapped in plastic, a spleen speckled, it would turn out, by sickle cell disease. But that is not what killed him, Assistant District Attorney Dafna Yoran would say. Was it an improper blood choke, or the terror he inspired, in a lady from Park Slope with her baby, a Nike brand ambassador on the way to Rucker Park? Even the Bronx school girls said they were frightened, even if one did later drop the dime on the white...

Puffery to promote a business is longstanding tradition. But the current era of technology brings a new spin to it: Elizabeth Holmes and her too magical blood testing machine, Trevor Milton and his ostensibly hydrogen truck being pushed down hill, Do Kwon and his not-so-stable coin crashing and burning. Retail victims worldwide continue to write in to the court, and to Inner City Press which reports on it. Charlie Javice though, as indicted, had a single victim: JPMorgan Chase, all the way to the top, Jamie Dimon. He ordered that the deal be done, before the email addressed had even been ...

When Donald Trump's lawyer Todd Blanche gave his closing argument he declared Michael Cohen the GLOAT: the Greatest Liar of All Time. He said the prosecution had manipulated evidence, noting that Cohen's texts to Trump's bodyguard Keith Schiller about the 14-year-old crank caller had not been in the list the prosecutors showed the jury. He questioned what Cohen called his recording of Trump, and how it ended, Blanche also told the jurors that a guilty verdict could put Trump in prison. Immediately after the jurors left for lunch, the prosecutor demanded a curative instruction. After Blanche...

This is a story of the collections cases against former NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, where he was once US Attorney. It all began in Brooklyn, with Mafia ties alleged, a motivation. Manhattan College in The Bronx to 1965, NYU Law then a clerkship doe Judge Lloyd Francis MacMahon in, where else, SDNY. This Court would keep reappearing, with Giuliani moving from one side of the "v." to the other (he also got sued a lot as NYC Mayor). Rudy rose to acclaim taking on a corrupt politician, Rep. Bertram Podell. With the election of ...

During the trial, BNP's lawyer repeatedly tried to blame others, including China. It wasn't BNP that enabled Bashir, their argument was. It was China. It is true: when I was in South Sudan covering the UN Security Council's whirlwind visit, we stayed in the Beijing Juba hotel. It was a collection of trailers with a narrow walkway between them. In the reception building was a large red flag, that of the People's Republic of China. The CCP had worked with Bashir, and now with Juba. At the UN, China used NGOs like the China Energy Fund Committee to buy access - including to Chad's oil in ...

With Roman Storm on trial for his crypto mixer Tornado Cash, I spent July 2025 digging in different directions. I filed a motion to unseal the Storm trial transcript, the day I heard and reported the prosecutors threatening to bring low some from Dragonfly, only to have it disappear behind redaction. My motion was docketed, but responded due August 19, after the trial. Did the Administration in Washington, so recently bragging about the passage of the GENIUS Act, sign off on these threats? Or was it another disconnect, another failure to follow through as so far on UN reform? The day of ...

The night before the second Carroll - Trump trial it was colder in Iowa than in New York. Still, the first snow in 700 days drifted down on Worth Street in front of the courthouse, where the NYPD barricades had already been set up. The circus was about to begin. And Kurt Wheelock began to get ready. Well before the 9:30 am kickoff Trump was at the defense table, whispering with Alina Habba all dressed in white. There was a third lawyer, not in the docket, and Judge Kaplan would soon shut him down. But for now it was a stand-off: E. Jean Carroll with Robbie Kaplan at the front table, E. Jean...

In the Trump Trial, Michael Cohen's second day of cross examination heated up just before lunchtime. Trump's lawyer Todd Blanche, who had been looping around for some time, zeroed in on fourteen minutes on October 4, 2016. It was just past 8 pm on that day that Cohen testified he had texted and then called Trump's body guard Keith Schiller, to tell Trump that the Stormy Daniels matter had been taken care of. The call, the record of which was put into evidence by the prosecutors, was one minute and thirty-six second long. Blanche turned the clock back a quarter of an hour. He got Cohen to ...

On the second day of Stormy Daniels in the Trump Trial, defense lawyer Susan Necheles asked about her "Make America Horny" tour and whether her boyfriend of the time had thought she'd lost her mind. As to the tour, Daniels said she hadn't named it, and didn't like the name. Questions about attacks by and apparently on the ex-boyfriend were excluded by Justice Merchan. Defense lawyer Todd Blanche, who sat chatting with Trump during many of the sidebars, ended the morning by saying he would be moving to exclude Karen McDougal's testimony, after again moving for a mistrial based on Daniels. It...