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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2009 Stories by Graham Rayman

• Somebody Got Murdered: Shot to Death Under the Tracks

  published Jun 22, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Sunday, June 21, 2009, 10:50 p.m. LOCATION: Intersection of East 119th Street and Park Avenue, Manhattan. Last night, the police, called to a reported auto accident at the inte... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Somebody Got Murdered: (Updated) Cops Looking for Two Suspects in Escalade Shooting

  published Jun 19, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Sunday June 14th, 2009 at 8:24 p.m. LOCATION: 330 Hinsdale St., Brooklyn The police have suspects in the shooting of two men in Brooklyn last Sunday. Detectives have been sho... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Obama's Inspector General Problem

  published Jun 18, 2009

  Hmmm, does the Obama administration have a problem with the watchdogs assigned to keep an eye on federal agenciesr We ask because the Chicago Tribune is reporting that Obama's Treasury Secretary Tim G... More >>

• More On That Fired Inspector General From the Folks at CUNY

  published Jun 18, 2009

  We heard today from Jay Hershenson, a senior official with City University, with more of that institution's views about Gerald Walpin, the Americorps inspector general who was fired last week by Presi... More >>

• Congress Probing Obama's Firing of AmeriCorps Watchdog

  published Jun 18, 2009

  There's more today on President Obama's firing of Gerald Walpin, the inspector general for AmeriCorps who put out negative audits of City University's Teaching Fellows program and of former NBA star a... More >>

• Jail Scandal Revelation: They Needed a Minyan!

  published Jun 17, 2009

  In case you were wondering why all the Orthodox Jewish inmates ended up in the city jail in Manhattan known as the Tombs, where they could enjoy special treatment, we think we have an answer. Suppose... More >>

• Obama Fires Government Watchdog Critical of CUNY's Teaching Fellows Program

  published Jun 17, 2009

  President Obama may have a big political controversy in the firing of an inspector general overseeing the federal government's sprawling community service program -- and there's a New York angle. Fed... More >>

• Jail Chaplains Boss: 'I Didn't Know.' Warden: 'Oh Yes You Did.'

  published Jun 17, 2009

  Last week, as the scandal over the Bar Mitzvah boiled into the public eye, Correction Commissioner Martin Horn held a high-level meeting with several of the people responsible for allowing an accused ... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Throop Avenue Killing

  published Jun 17, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Tuesday, June 16, 2009, 7:14 p.m. LOCATION: Outside 485 Throop Ave., Brooklyn. The police are saying that a 17-year-old was shot to death outside 485 Throop Ave. He was shot ... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Shot, Dies in Brooklyn

  published Jun 15, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Sunday June 14, 2009, 11:30 p.m. LOCATION: In front of 1054 Dean St. A Brooklyn man was shot in the torso and managed to drag himself several blocks before he collapsed. Philll... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Teen Caught in Hoops Melee, Killed

  published Jun 15, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Sunday, June 14, 2009 at approximately 8:49 p.m. LOCATION: Corner of West 129th Street and St. Nicholas Terrace The police say 15-yeaar-old Tyvon Corbett of West 125th Street w... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Murder Suicide in Jamaica

  published Jun 15, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: June 14, 2009, 7:35 p.m. LOCATION: 95-18 Jamaica Avenue, Queens An elderly Queens man went berzerk last night, stabbed his wife to death and then fatally stabbed himself in the... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Rule 1, Don't Mess Around with Guns

  published Jun 15, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Saturday, June 13, 10:28 p.m. LOCATION: 7511 15th Ave., Brooklyn A Long Island teenager is dead after a gun went off and struck him in the head while his friends were playing w... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Hopeful Father Stabbed in Harlem

  published Jun 15, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Saturday, June 13, 2009, at approximately 2:40 a.m. LOCATION: Vicinity of West 159 Street and Saint Nicholas Avenue. A 19-year-old father was found fatally stabbed early Saturd... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Teen Killed After Playing Hoops

  published Jun 15, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Friday, June 12, 9:40 p.m. LOCATION: 198th Street and Creston Avenue, The Bronx A 15-year-old boy was shot twice in the torso Friday night outside a bodega at the intersection ... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: An Afternoon Killing in Brooklyn

  published Jun 15, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: June 12, 2009 at approximately 2:46 p.m. LOCATION: Outside 1570 East New York Ave. A bloody weekend of 9 murders in all began friday afternoon with the shooting death of 26-y... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Homicide on Linden Street (Update)

  published Jun 12, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Thursday, June 11, 2009, 11:51 p.m. LOCATION: In front of 269A Linden Street, Brooklyn The police are looking for the folks who shot a 23-year-old man at least twice in the ba... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Woman Killed, Man Arrested

  published Jun 12, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Monday, June 8, 2009, 4:08 p.m. LOCATION: inside of 570 West 204 Street, Apartment 6N The police have busted an upper Manhattan guy named Andre Velez, 23, on murder charges in ... More >>

• Lavish Bar Mitzvah in Jailr Even Rikers and Tombs Bosses Aren't That Dumb, Are Theyr (Updated!)

  published Jun 11, 2009

  From the 'Are You Kidding Me' department...So, all the guy wanted was a bar mitzvah for his son. Sure, he's locked up in the Tombs in downtown Manhattan. But why should being in a city jail stop himr ... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Arrest in Times Square Area Shooting

  published Jun 10, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE:Tuesday, June 9, 5:30 a.m. LOCATION: 300 West 43rd St., Manhattan The police say they have charged Donald Geddie, 22, of 150th Street in Queens with the murder of an as yet unid... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Robbery Goes Bad, One Dead

  published Jun 10, 2009

  View Larger MapDATE: Saturday, June 6, 2009, at about 2:16 p.m.LOCATION: Vicinity of Barclay Ave and 147 St., QueensThe police have arrested two men in connection with a robbery that went bad and resu... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Infant Dies in Assault

  published Jun 10, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Monday, June 8, 2009 at 5:34 p.m. LOCATION: 724 East 222 Street, The BronxPolice have arrested 20-year-old Naisha Riley, of Radcliff Ave in the Bronx, in connection with the mur... More >>

• Somebody Got Murdered: Shots Fired On Jackson Avenue

  published Jun 09, 2009

  View Larger Map DATE: Monday, June 8, 2009 at approximately 2:56 p.m. LOCATION: 820 Jackson Avenue, The Bronx The police, responding to calls of a male shot, found a 27-year-old man shot several ti... More >>

• We're Number Three! New York Almost Best At Locking Up the Innocent!

  published Jun 08, 2009

  Wow. New York state leads just about every state in the country in the number of wrongful convictions overturned by DNA testing, according to a report released this afternoon by the Innocence Project.... More >>

• Columbia Teachers College Upholds Firing of Constantine

  published Jun 08, 2009

  A Columbia Teachers College faculty panel has upheld the firing of Professor Madonna Constantine on plagiarism charges. (You remember Constantine -- she's the professor who became the center of contro... More >>