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

• James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond, Ex Rap Mogul, Guilty of Narcotics Trafficking, Say Feds

  published Jun 06, 2012

  Ex-Rap mogul James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond, 47, was found guilty today in Brooklyn for leading a drug gang that moved thousands of pounds of cocaine cross country, often in musical instrument cases,... More >>

• Michael Provenzano, HPD Official, and Four Others Busted For Bribery in City Construction Contracts

  published Jun 06, 2012

  A pretty good government corruption story out of the federal prosecutors' office in Brooklyn: The director of construction at the city Department of Housing Preservation and Development has been arres... More >>

• NYCLU To Unveil Phone Application That Allows New Yorkers To Track Questionable NYPD Stops

  published Jun 06, 2012

  The New York Civil Liberties Union today is unveiling a new phone application said to help New Yorkers keep tabs on illegal police stops. The application, developed by consultant Jason Van Anden, al... More >>

• Rashad Tucker, Mattiyas Letang, Teen Inmates, Slashed in Troubled Adolescent Jail

  published Jun 05, 2012

  Two teen inmates were slashed Saturday in the latest violent incident at the troubled jail for adolescents on Rikers Island, the Voice has learned. The gang-related incident took place in the law lib... More >>

• City Jails Slapped With Major Class Action Lawsuit, Alleging Pattern of Staff Brutality

  published Jun 04, 2012

  The city Correction Department has been hit with a new very toughly worded class action lawsuit alleging a program of excessive violence by correction staff on inmates throughout the jail system. Ele... More >>

• More Details on Suicide and Slashing at Rikers

  published Jun 04, 2012

  The Voice has more details about the man who committed suicide on Rikers, a case that we first reported on Friday. His name is Jamal Polo, age 24. Polo was being held at Rikers on a charge of felony s... More >>

• Rikers Fight Club: Spate of Violence Roils Jails

  published Jun 01, 2012

  A spate of violence and death hit the city jails over the past five days, including three slashings and a suicide, the Voice has learned. One of the slashings took place in the Robert N. Davoren Ce... More >>

• Angel Gurity, Alleged Killer, Charged 19 Years After Bronx Murder

  published May 30, 2012

  Angel Gurity, who fled to the Dominican Republic to avoid a murder charge 19 years ago, was charged yesterday here in the fatal stabbing of his then-24-year-old girlfriend Altagracia Valdez in March, ... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Polina Breyter, Brooklyn Caseworker, Pleads Guilty to Role in Stealing $57 Million from Fund Establish to Aid Victims of Nazi Persecution

  published May 29, 2012

  In the latest step in what has be one of the most morally repugnant scams in recent history, a caseworker employed by the organization managing reparations to survivors of the Holocaust has pleaded gu... More >>

• Feds Take Down Major Oxycodone Trafficking Ring

  published May 25, 2012

  In a case that probably should have gotten more attention than it did, federal prosecutors took down a major prescription drug trafficking organization this week, indicting Jose Garcia Acosta and 13... More >>

• Etan Patz Arrest: Is It Really An Open and Shut Caser

  published May 25, 2012

  Is there a problem with the arrest in the Etan Patz caser So wonders New York Times Columnist Jim Dwyer in today's newspaper. Dwyer suggests that Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and Mayor Bloomberg we... More >>

• SEEDCO, Nonprofit Bloomberg Admin Fave, Slapped By Feds With Fraud Lawsuit

  published May 23, 2012

  Federal prosecutors filed a civil fraud case this week against SEEDCO, which ran two job placement centers under contract with the city, for taking million of dollars in government funding without pro... More >>

• Edward Gavin, Former City Jails Official, Says Child Welfare Authorities Should Investigate Teen Facility

  published May 22, 2012

  In the wake of a Village Voice report on violence at a troubled city jail, city and state child welfare authorities should investigate whether adolescents are being abused there, a former high rankin... More >>

• NYCLU: Ray Kelly's Stop and Frisk Fixes A "Desperate Public Relations Attempt"

  published May 17, 2012

  And the reaction to Police Commissioner Ray Kelly's series of moves to address criticism of the NYPD's stop and frisk programr Well, the New York Civil Liberties Union doesn't seem too impressed, call... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Ray Kelly, Police Commissioner, Issues New Orders Which Likely Will Effect The Number of Stop and Frisks

  published May 17, 2012

  Police Commissioner Ray Kelly today issued two new department orders which could sharply effect the way police execute the stop and frisk program. The orders come a day after a federal judge broadene... More >>

• Norman Seabrook, Correction Officers Union President, Reacts to Voice Cover Story

  published May 15, 2012

  Reacting to the last week's Voice's cover story on violence in the city jails, the correction officers union president, Norman Seabrook, criticized the stewardship of jails commissioner Dora Schriro. ... More >>

• Aunray Stanford, Teen Inmate, Seriously Injured At Troubled City Jail

  published May 15, 2012

  Another teen inmate was seriously injured over the weekend in the Robert N. Davoren Center, where teenagers are housed. Correction officials confirm that Aunray Stanford, 18, was injured in a strugg... More >>

• Gail Lewis, Sherman Graham, Jail Supervisors Convicted For Covering Up a Fight

  published May 14, 2012

  Two senior correction officers were convicted today by a Bronx jury for falsifying a fight report and ordering 14 recruits to cover up the incident back in 2006, authorities said. The jury deliberat... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Rikers Violence: Out Of Control

  published May 9, 2012

  The Voice has obtained extremely disturbing images from New York City's jail system. These photographs—graphically showing... More >>

• Bloomberg Declares With Straight Face: NYPD Doesn't Have Quotas

  published May 07, 2012

  Mayor Bloomberg must have quite a sense of humor for saying today that the NYPD "does not have quotas," in response to the PBA ad published in this morning's Daily News. He must be joking to take th... More >>

• PBA: Blame NYPD For Ticket Quotas; Cops Unfairly Targeted by Internal Affairs

  published May 07, 2012

  In an unusual public push-back at Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, the city's police officers union ran an ad in today's Daily News, attacking the department for pressuring officers to hit quotas and th... More >>

• May Day Aftermath: Credit Police Working Ridiculous Hours For Uneventful Day of Protests

  published May 02, 2012

  Aside from pushing and shoving and a relatively paltry 50 arrests, the May Day protests yesterday were largely peaceful. The credit for that should go to the police officers assigned yesterday to the ... More >>

• City Schools Blow It; Send Error-Riddled Stats To Federal Oversight Agency *UPDATED*

  published Apr 25, 2012

  From the land of the seriously hard to believe, a major statistical report by the New York city Department of Education, which oversees our public schools, to the U.S. Department of Education Office o... More >>

• NYPD Tapes: Federal Judge Lets Quota Lawsuit Go Forward

  published Apr 24, 2012

  We learned last night that a federal judge has granted class certification to a lawsuit which claims the NYPD's quota policy is unconstitutional and results in summonses and stop and frisks being done... More >>

• Public School Officials Redlining, New Report Says; Poor African-American Kids Get Worse Schools Than White Kids

  published Apr 20, 2012

  In a interesting new report, researchers say that there is a correlation between the quality of New York City public school education, and the racial and economic makeup of the school district where a... More >>