Email Author Graham Rayman

Awards

• 2011 - Investigative Reporters and Editors

  "The NYPD Tapes"

• 2011 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award

  "The NYPD Tapes"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "The NYPD Tapes"

• 2009 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award

  Teen Murders at Rikers Island series

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2013 Stories by Graham Rayman

• Gay Man Beaten by Cops [Update]: CCRB Gets in the Game

  published Jun 14, 2013

  In addition to the Brooklyn D.A.'s office, the Civilian Complaint Review Board is also investigating the alleged June 2 assault by homophobic slur-spewing 79th Precinct police on a gay man in Brooklyn... More >>

• NYPD Sergeant Convicted of Misusing Terror Database Now "Integrity" Officer in Brooklyn Precinct

  published Jun 14, 2013

  Five years ago, NYPD Sergeant Haytham Khalil was indicted for illegally accessing the FBI criminal records and terrorism database on behalf of a friend in a child custody dispute. He pleaded guilty in... More >>

• Brooklyn Prosecutors Investigating Alleged Police Beating of Gay Man

  published Jun 12, 2013

  The Brooklyn District Attorney's office is looking into the June 2 beating of a gay man by police who used homophobic slurs outside the 79th Precinct, two officials tell the Voice. The police officer... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Brooklyn D.A. Charles Hynes Faces Questions About Hiring Reluctant Witness in Murder Case

  published June 12, 2013

  On October 12, 2003, Fairfield University student Mark Fisher spent the night drinking with fellow students in a couple of Upper East Side... More >>

• Bloomberg Mum So Far on Alleged Police Assault on Gay Man; Critics Gather at Police Headquarters Today At 2 p.m.

  published Jun 11, 2013

  The Voice asked a spokesman for Mayor Michael Bloomberg for a comment on the violent encounter between 79th Precinct police and three young gay men, which left one of the men with stitches, bruised ri... More >>

• Brooklyn Police Beat Gay Man and Use Homophobic Slurs, Victim and Friends Say [VIDEO]

  published Jun 10, 2013

  A 26-year-old gay man was beaten eight days ago just outside Brooklyn's 79th Police Precinct by police officers who made homosexual slurs, the victim and two of his roommates who witnessed the inciden... More >>

• Uh Oh, Ray Kelly, Those NYPD Legal Claims Continue to Rise Way Ahead of Other Agencies

  published Jun 05, 2013

  Legal claims against the NYPD are still rising, outpacing those of all other agencies, Comptroller John Liu tells us. New police action claims--false arrest, shooting, excessive force, civil rights cl... More >>

• The NYPD Goes After Another Cop Who Secretly Recorded His Boss

  published June 5, 2013

  In the years since New York Police Department Officer Adrian Schoolcraft emerged with secretly recorded evidence of misconduct in a Brooklyn... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Ken Tarr Launches a Hoax Campaign on an Industry Immune to Shame

  published June 5, 2013

  The packed midtown television studio of The Bill Cunningham Show was pimped out in the fake wood paneling and industrial gray... More >>

• Ray Kelly, These Pollsters Like You, They Really Like You

  published May 30, 2013

  "Simply put, it's Ray's if he wants it." So begins a fawning May 29 analysis of a poll of 600 New Yorkers about the police commissioner's chances to win the mayoral election, written by Kellyanne Con... More >>

• Lance Armstrong's Livestrong Charity Loses Nike as Sponsor

  published May 29, 2013

  The Lance Armstrong scandal is the story that just keeps on taking. In the most recent development, Nike has pulled its support from the disgraced bike racer's cancer charity, Livestrong, the Associat... More >>

• Alfonso Portillo, Former President of Guatemala, Gets U.S. Noriega Treatment

  published May 28, 2013

  It's not often that a former president of an entire nation is extradited to the United States on criminal charges, but that happened today as the feds took custody of former Guatemalan president Alfon... More >>

• Ray Kelly's Secret Mayoral Pollr

  published May 24, 2013

  As to the question of whether Ray Kelly is running for mayor, only silence emanated from One Police Plaza yesterday. But one of our spies in Brooklyn got an extremely telling call last night from a po... More >>

• Ray Kelly, Police Commissioner, Could Make Late Entry Into Mayoral Racer That's the Chatter

  published May 23, 2013

  Could Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly be considering a dramatic late entry into the mayoral racer With 19 days to go before the campaign finance certification deadline, the chatter that the 71-year-... More >>

• NYPD Biased Against Blacks in Marijuana-Related Stops, Civil Liberties Group Analysis Suggests

  published May 22, 2013

  The NYPD's stop and frisk campaign led directly to the surge in low-level marijuana arrests, figures released today by the New York Civil Liberties Union show. For context, marijuana arrests are the ... More >>

• Glafira Rosales, Master Art Scammer, Busted for Duping IRS and Selling Phony Masters

  published May 22, 2013

  Here's a little bit of Upper East Side intrigue: a fancy dealer took it upon herself to double down and sharply increase her profit margin by selling phony paintings and duping the Internal Revenue Se... More >>

• Vito Lopez, Legislative Powerhouse, Serial Groper, to Resign; Ducks Expulsion Proceeding

  published May 17, 2013

  Once-powerful Brooklyn Assemblyman Vito Lopez has agreed to step down from his longtime post as his support collapsed this week on the heels of the Staten Island District Attorney's damning report whi... More >>

• Ken Thompson, Brooklyn D.A. Candidate, Asks Gov. Cuomo to Bigfoot Charles Hynes' Review of Old Murder Cases

  published May 17, 2013

  The race for Brooklyn District Attorney is becoming a bit of a slugfest. First, there was word that longtime Democratic incumbent Charles Hynes' office was getting a reality show right in the middle o... More >>

• High Concept Item: Pizza Delivery Cocaine Dealers!

  published May 16, 2013

  Not a huge case, just kind of amusing: Drug dealers went back to the future with a scheme revealed yesterday to deliver cocaine through a pizza delivery service, special narcotics prosecutor Bridget B... More >>

• Robert Johnson, Bronx DA, Slams Judge Who Dismissed Charges Against Ramarley Graham's Killer

  published May 16, 2013

  Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson is slamming a judge who dropped charges against a police officer in the fatal February 2012 shooting of an unarmed teenager. Meanwhile, the judge blamed the pros... More >>

• Fatal Painkiller Overdoses Spike Across the City; Staten Island Sees Massive Jump

  published May 15, 2013

  If you weren't already convinced that prescription painkiller abuse is a major crisis in this city, the Health Department today came out with a range of shocking new numbers to hammer the point home. ... More >>

• Obama's Version of "Transparency": Feds Seize AP's Phone Records [Update]

  published May 14, 2013

  Well, we think it's fair to say that reporters at the Associated Press are none too happy with word that the government secured two months of phone records from the world's largest wire service for s... More >>

• Bernard Kerik, Disgraced Former Police Commissioner, is Getting Out of Prison in Two Weeks!

  published May 14, 2013

  After three years, Bernie's coming back. Yes, folks, Bernard Kerik, jails commissioner, police commissioner, alleged adulterer, aborted Homeland Security secretary, tax fraudster and perjurer will e... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  John Sampson, State Senator, Indicted; Brooklyn Relieved He Wasn't Elected DA

  published May 07, 2013

  Well, we guess the voters were right to re-elect Charles Hynes back in 2005, when he was pushed fairly hard in the democratic primary by challenger, state Sen. John Sampson. (Hynes won by about four p... More >>

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  Rev. Calvin Butts' School Tells Parents Not to Speak With the Media; Actually Claims It Could Endanger Their Safety

  published Apr 30, 2013

  In what one observer called a "ham-handed attempt to control the media," officials at the Thurgood Marshall Academy, a public school founded by Rev. Calvin Butts' Abyssinian Development Corp., sent ou... More >>