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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2012 Stories by Graham Rayman

• Charles Davis, Jails Captain and Son of Retired Chief, Suspended For Pounding Inmate With Riot Stick

  published Oct 19, 2012

  The son of a former top-ranking Correction Department official has been suspended and is under investigation for beating a handcuffed inmate with a baton after the inmate assaulted his brother, a corr... More >>

• John Liu: Companies Get Free Pass on Parking Fines, While Regular New Yorkers Suffer

  published Oct 18, 2012

  While regular New Yorkers get waxed with ever-increasing parking fines, big corporations often get a pass from the city, Comptroller John Liu says in a report released today. The city has failed to co... More >>

• Lance Armstrong Resigns From Foundation, Loses Nike and Michelob Endorsements in Doping Scandal

  published Oct 17, 2012

  Disgraced Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong resigned today as chairman from the cancer foundation he helped create, and learned that Nike had cut ties with him in the wake of a damning report abo... More >>

• New NYPD Tape: Harlem Teen Captures Cops Calling Him a "Mutt" During A Stop and Frisk and Threatening to Break His Arm

  published Oct 10, 2012

  On the eve of a big council hearing on a raft of bills aimed at reeling in the NYPD's stop and frisk campaign, an explosive audiotape comes out of two officers threatening to break the arm of an East ... More >>

• Rikers Inmate Found Dead; Sources say Possible Suicide [Updated]

  published Oct 09, 2012

  An inmate in a Rikers Island jail was found dead earlier today, in what is being investigated as a possible suicide, the Voice has learned. The 41-year-old inmate, who had a history of arrests and ps... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  For the First Time in 20 Years, New York's Crime Rate Is on the Rise

  published October 3, 2012

  In April 2011, a 16-year-old Bronx gang member named Dontae Murray was shot to death in the Morris Heights section of the Bronx. His... More >>

• Oxycodone Menace: Doctor Accused in Fatal Overdoses of Two Patients

  published Sep 28, 2012

  The feds have indicted a Long Island doctor and his office assistant with killing two patients by over-prescribing the highly addictive painkiller Oxycodone, and conspiring to illegally distribute the... More >>

• Robert Johnson, Bronx DA, to NYPD: No More Frivolous Stop and Frisk Trespassing Arrests

  published Sep 27, 2012

  In a move that must have irritated Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, the Bronx District Attorney has said it will no longer prosecute folks arrested for trespassing in public housing based on a stop and ... More >>

• Philipe Reines, Hillary Clinton Flack, and Reporter Michael Hastings Call Each Other Bad Names

  published Sep 24, 2012

  A refreshingly honest exchange between a reporter and the PR guy for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took place Sunday, and really brightened up our day, because finally they were saying what they ... More >>

• Stop-and-Frisk Controversy...Pol Might Be Overshooting the Mark

  published Sep 24, 2012

  City Councilman Peter Vallone offered an interesting claim in yesterday's tab. He said a stop-and-frisk bill being considered by the council could cost the city $1 billion a year. We think he might be... More >>

• Rents Are Really Out of Control, No, Seriously: Comptroller's Report

  published Sep 19, 2012

  Yet more confirmation that rents are out of control comes in a new report from city Comptroller John Liu, which notes that 30 percent of New Yorkers are spending more than half their income on rent. H... More >>

• New Evidence Emerges About Police Downgrading of Crimes

  published Sep 18, 2012

  Accounts of police downgrading crime reports surfaced again on Sunday in a New York Times article, which compared descriptions of crimes in police reports versus the charges eventually brought by pros... More >>

• Karim Camera, Assemblyman, Says Board of Elections Botched Sept. 13 Primary in His District

  published Sep 18, 2012

  What if they held an election, and nobody camer Rather, what if they held an election, but there was no place to vote (see totally unrelated picture at right). That sort of happened on September 13 ... More >>

• Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, Noxious Anti-Islam Video Producer, Was Government Informant

  published Sep 17, 2012

  This is interesting: Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the guy believed to have produced the anti-Islam movie that apparently sparked the murder of a U.S. ambassador in Libya was a federal informant, The Smok... More >>

• Jackie Barcliff, Occupy Wall Street Protester, Turns Self In, Charged With Not One But Two Rapes

  published Sep 15, 2012

  Jackie Barcliff, an Occupy Wall Street protester, turned himself in late Friday to police, and was charged with the rape and assault of another protester. Barcliff, 44 and homeless, was not only cha... More >>

• Jackie Barcliff Sought By Police In Rape, Assault Tied to Occupy Wall Street Protest

  published Sep 14, 2012

  In an unusually dramatic and verbose posting from police spokespeople, the NYPD says detectives are looking for a man identified as 44-year-old Jackie Barcliff (at right) in connection with an appalli... More >>

• Teens on Rikers To Get Jail Uniforms; DOC Says It'll Reduce Fights; Inmate Advocate Says Benefit "Debatable"

  published Sep 13, 2012

  In another of a range of efforts to reduce violence in the city's jail for teenage inmates, the Correction Department is going to require them to wear uniforms, rather than personal clothing. Correct... More >>

• Controversy Swells Over 9/11 Nonprofit Event and Its Founder, Vincent Forras

  published Sep 11, 2012

  A year ago, the Voice profiled a controversial 9/11 non-profit organization, known as the Gear-Up Foundation, and its also controversial president, Vincent Forras, a former South Salem, N.Y. firefight... More >>

• Vitaly Borker, A Fraudster in His Own Category, Gets Four Years for Threatening Customers

  published Sep 07, 2012

  Online glasses dealer and worst salesman ever Vitaly Borker, who memorably and appallingly threatened his customers when they had the gall to complain about his conduct, got four years in prison for h... More >>

• Leib Glanz, Former Rikers Chaplain, Pleads Out to Housing Fraud

  published Sep 05, 2012

  A genius at gaming the system until recently, Leib Glanz, the former Rikers Island chaplain cut loose for organizing a bar mitzvah party in a jail, and his brother, Menashe, pleaded guilty today to ho... More >>

• The U.S. Open's Open Secret

  published September 5, 2012

  The U.S. Open tennis tournament is probably New York City's most high-profile annual event—worth about $750 million in... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Robert Asika, Empire State Shooting Victim, Files First Claim Against City and Police

  published Aug 31, 2012

  The first victim of police gunfire in the Empire State Shooting has filed a notice of intent to sue the city, the Voice has learned. Robert Asika, one of 9 people wounded Aug. 24 by police bullets as... More >>

• Summer Idyll: Crutch Fight In Times Square

  published Aug 29, 2012

  Aaah, summer. Beach, sun, surf, and of course, two guys fighting each other with crutches in Times Square. Yeah, the video is in the Daily News, but really it shouldn't be missed. It's also on yo... More >>

• Ray Kelly, Police Commissioner, Issues New Command Guide on Stop and Frisk [Update]

  published Aug 28, 2012

  Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has issued a new "command level instructor's guide" to performing stop and frisks, in his latest move to blunt criticism of the strategy. The news here is that this ... More >>

• Robert Stolarik, NYT Freelance Photog, Roughed Up By Cops, His Lawyer Demands Return of Gear, Credentials

  published Aug 08, 2012

  Lawyers for the National Press Photographers Association have asked the NYPD's top spokesman to return $18,000 worth of cameras and press credentials seized from a New York Times freelance photographe... More >>