Brooklyn Supreme Court

Jerome Isaac, Man Who Burned Brooklyn Woman Alive in Elevator, Will Serve 50 Years in Prison

The man responsible for burning a 73-year-old woman alive in the elevator of her Brooklyn apartment building will serve 50 years in prison after pleading guilty yesterday to first-degree murder and second-degree arson charges. Back in December, Jerome Isaac, 48, cornered 73-year-old Delores Gilles ... More >>

Espada & Son Will Plead Guilty To Embezzlement Charges Today

Sometimes, you have to just give in (to charges of embezzlement).When State Senator Pedro Espada was charged by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo in May 2010 with stealing $400,000 from a Bronx clinic that he helped set up, the Democratic powerhouse, like any politician, fought passionately for his repu ... More >>

Singing Protestors Strike Again; New School Students Interrupt Brooklyn Foreclosure Sale

Well, looks like that grumpy Chinese restaurant we profiled has been saved from being sold! Yesterday, singing protestors struck Brooklyn Supreme Court with a foreclosure blockade again. The courts, as we've written over the past several weeks, have gotten more and more paranoid and protective aga ... More >>

Who's Getting Foreclosed on in Brooklyn Tomorrow? A Grumpy Chinese Restaurant

The Voice is starting a new feature several times a week. As foreclosures continue unabated across the nation, the Voice will be profiling the foreclosures that happen every week right here in the five boroughs. We'll be looking closely at the properties facing foreclosure, the public auctions where ... More >>

Foreclosed Tomorrow, Harassed Today

​The Voice is starting a new feature several times a week. As foreclosures continue unabated across the nation, the Voice will be profiling the foreclosures that happen every week right here in the five boroughs. We'll be looking closely at the properties facing foreclosure, the public auctions wh ... More >>

The Feds Seek Crackdown on Flawed Foreclosure System

If there's one thing we've learned from reaching out to homeowners about to face foreclosures the past several months, it's that the entire foreclosure system is heavily flawed. Back in February, we profiled Debbie Hailey, who managed to stop the foreclosure sale of her home by failing for bankrup ... More >>

Singing Protesters Arrested Again During "Public" Foreclosure Auction

Activists took up song to protest a "public" foreclosure auction in Brooklyn Supreme Court this afternoon. Many of those gathered (from FUREE, Housing Is a Human Right, Organizing for Occupation, and a new group called Occupied Real Estate) had taken part in another singing act of protest last Octob ... More >>

Jerome Isaac, Who Allegedly Burned Deloris Gillespie to Death in Her Elevator, Pleads Not Guilty

​Yesterday Jerome Isaac was arraigned on murder charges in Brooklyn Supreme Court for the death of 73-year-old Deloris Gillespie, who, in December, he allegedly sprayed with flammable liquid and set on fire in her elevator in Prospect Heights. He was caught on video doing all of this, which le ... More >>

Brooklyn Pimp Denied 'Expert Pimp' Status Despite Having Heard Every Song About Pimpin'

Cash, money, gavel.​Anthony McCord, a 29-year-old pimp who's on trial in Brooklyn Supreme Court for rape and robbery has been denied his request to be qualified as an "expert witness" in pimping. McCord is acting as his own lawyer and had hoped to reveal to jurors the "relationships between pi ... More >>

Foreclosure Fallout: Did Organizing for Occupation's Singing Protest Accomplish Anything?

Michelle D. Anderson1241 Flatbush Ave. was sold at auction on Thursday, despite a song-delayed court session​Last week the Voice reported on Organizing for Occupation's first co-sponsored Occupy Wall Street action in Brooklyn, which took place at the Brooklyn Supreme on Thursday and saw the ar ... More >>

How Singing Paused Foreclosure Court in Brooklyn (VIDEO)

Yesterday, we wrote about how nine people, including two lawyers, got arrested for temporarily halting the foreclosure auctions of three buildings in Brooklyn Supreme Court, by singing. Even though such auctions are open to the public (until the court officers tell you that you'll be arrested if you ... More >>

Who's Getting Foreclosed on in Brooklyn Today? The Voice Finds Out

Michelle D. AndersonIqbal Hossaint, manager of New Bombay Masala, had no idea the building his restaurant rents from will be auctioned today​Yesterday, the Voice wrote about a protest happening today at Brooklyn Supreme Court. Led by Occupy Wall Street and the group Organizing for Occupation ... More >>

Stephen Anderson, ex-NYPD, Says Cops Routinely Planted Drug Evidence to Make False Arrests

​The disturbing reports today from the trial of a detective on corruption charges once again confirm allegations raised in the Voice's NYPD Tapes series that the quota pressure causes police officers to do bad things. Former Brooklyn narcotics detective Stephen Anderson testified last week th ... More >>

Lawyers and Activists Arrested in Brooklyn Courtroom While Stopping Foreclosures with Song (VIDEO)

Updated below: the singers have been released. Organizing for Occupation co-sponsored the first Occupy Wall Street action in Brooklyn today, and it didn't disappoint in terms of adding some Brooklyn flair to the once Manhattan bound scene. About a hundred people rallied outside Brooklyn Supreme Co ... More >>

Defenders of Mary Ward, 82-Year-Old Facing Eviction, Join with Occupy Wall Street to Fight Foreclosures

Michael Premo​The group Organizing for Occupation will bring Occupy Wall Street to Downtown Brooklyn on Thursday, in a joint action from the two groups at Brooklyn Supreme Cout that will call for an end to foreclosure auctions. "O4O" first made news in August, when their members surrounded t ... More >>

Woman Sues Chanel After Getting Ring Stuck on Finger

​A woman named Rosy Mizrachi Gindi is suing Chanel in Brooklyn Supreme Court because while at the East 57th Street store she put a ring on her finger which wouldn't come off, and had to go to the emergency room, where, after several hours, doctors were able to remove the $10,000-plus ring in s ... More >>

Going Rate to Survive After Having Sex With a Mobster's Wife? $50,000.

​Once of the unexpected joys in the murder trial of Vinny Gorgeous (a/k/a Bonanno family crime boss) is the revelation of all sorts of new mafia-based learning, like in naming conventions and linguistics and style, and even micro-economics. Today, we learn that the price of impregnating a crim ... More >>

American Apparel CEO Dov Charney Sued For Allegedly Keeping Teenage Sex Slave

​Dov Charney, the controversial founder and CEO of American Apparel, is being sued for grimy sexual abuse graver in dirty detail and larger in dollar amount than any other grimy sexual abuse he's been accused of before. A new lawsuit from an ex-American Apparel employee seeks $260 million in d ... More >>

Judge Decides the Daily News Has to Give Up Information About a Murder

​Which takes precedence? A newspaper reporter's right to protect a source? Or a criminal defendant's right to information that could save him from a murder conviction? This week, we're learning that a judge chose a murder defendant over the Daily News. The judge, Mark Dwyer of Brooklyn Suprem ... More >>

Alleged Drug Money Smelled Like Drugs

​An assistant bank manager in East Hills, Long Island has been charged with laundering money that reeked of weed. The Daily News reports that Natanzia St. Rose is accused of exchanging $50,000 in illicit funds through the JP Morgan Chase branch where she worked. The large amounts of cash were ... More >>

Zaire Paige Goes from Movie Killer to Actual Killer, Gets 107 Years in Prison

Paige at his sentencing Monday​"With all due respect, and from the bottom of my heart, suck my dick!" That was the message convicted killer Zaire Paige had for Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Vincent Del Giudice yesterday afternoon as he was sentenced to four consecutive 25-to-life sentences ... More >>

Duane Reade May Have Watched You Pee

​But only if you worked there! Sixteen Duane Reade employees are suing the company for rigging bathrooms with cameras and "recording devices" (?) ostensibly to make sure workers weren't, what, playing Angry Birds or snorting drugs? It's hard to fathom this ever seeming a good idea at a manager ... More >>

The Case of the Vanishing Sodomized Boxers

​Remember Michael Mineo, the tattoo artist who said two Brooklyn cops sodomized him with a baton during a pot bust earlier this year? The cops were acquitted of criminal charges in February, but Mineo is back in Brooklyn Federal Court with a civil suit. Although his underwear -- the plaid boxer sh ... More >>

Turkey-in-Pants Teen Would Like to Explain a Few Things

​The New York Post has caught up with the Brooklyn teenager accused of stealing a 12-pound Boar's Head turkey from Fine Fare supermarket in Bedford-Stuy via the "putting it in his pants" method. And he would like to clarify a few matters. Even if he was caught on video.

Among Celeb Stalkers, Law & Order Creep Could be Worse

​Charles Nagel, a 36-year-old Philadelphia man whom the Daily News describes as "a pudgy creep," went on trial in Brooklyn Federal Court today for allegedly stalking and harassing a Law & Order: Criminal Intent star by repeatedly visiting her on the show's set and sending angry Facebook messag ... More >>

Trial Underway For WABC Newsman's Craigslist Killer

​18-year-old John Katehis is back in Brooklyn Supreme Court today, supposedly laughing off charges of brutally killing WABC radioman George Weber last year after an S&M Craigslist rendezvous turned ugly. In his opening statements yesterday, Katehis' lawyer called the 47-year-old victim a "drun ... More >>

Grimaldi's Has Dough, Vows to Pay Rent & Stay Put

Pies to stay put.​Fear not, pizza fiends. Grimaldi's owner Frank Ciolli responded to the news yesterday that the famed pizzeria would be evicted due to unpaid back rent and taxes with the promise that he wasn't going anywhere.

Hey, Ray Kelly, Frisk This

Governor David Paterson slaps down the Police Commissioner's stop-and-frisk database, but it's only a start

Fishmonger M. Slavin & Sons Sued for Sexual and Racial Harrassment

rachelleb.com​The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing the fish wholesaler and importer M. Slavin & Sons for male-on-male sexual, racial, and national origin harassment. The suit charges that some of M. Slavin's owners and managers subjected male and especially black American ... More >>

Girlfriend-Torturer's Stirring Apologia: "That Bitch Drove Me Crazy"

​Part of the code of the streets is, when you go, you go hard. Yesterday Jason Page lived up to the code at his sentencing in Brooklyn Supreme Court. He'd been convicted of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend, holding her for two weeks, burning her with a lighter and whipping her with an electrical c ... More >>

Hot Water for Landlords: Judge Rules They Must Regulate Tap Temperature

We all remember the McDonald's coffee lawsuit -- probably the most famously frivolous suit in American history -- when a jury in Albuquerque awarded $2.7 million dollars to a woman who spilled burning hot coffee on her lap. (Civil penalties were ultimately reduced to $480,000.) Apparently, New York ... More >>

Mafia Cops: That's All, Folks

Two detectives who gave New York a whole new definition of corrupt cops were sentenced to life in prison  without the possibility of parole this afternoon. Before sentence was pronounced in Brooklyn Federal Court by Judge Jack Weinstein, Louis Eppolito, 60, and Stephen Caracappa, 67, both rose to ... More >>

Staten Island's Molinari to Sue Over Term Limits

Fighting Foreclosure: Subprime Borrowers Battle (and Beat) Lenders in Court

Post Back to Cell Watch

NYPD's Busts Get Busted

Cases worked on by cops ensnared in narco and steroids probes have been dismissed

Prosecutors to Drop FBI Mob Case After Voice Story: Report

Justice for Sale in Brooklyn

Norman Sentenced to 2-6 Years

Strikebound

For Judges, It's One-Stop Shopping

Brooklyn Dems Celebrate as Scandal Mounts

Immigrant Roundup

From Brooklyn to L.A., Muslim Detainees Protest Mass Arrests

Foreclosing on Bed-Stuy

Predatory Loans Have Residents Seeing Red

Real Estate 101

Hard Knocks for a Brooklyn Alternative School

Stealing Home?

Elderly Woman Loses Brownstone to Brooklyn Courts' Inside Baseball

The Blue Wall of Baloney

Schwarz's 'Innocence' Team Moves From Miss to Miss

The Court Street Regular

Brooklyn Machine Wants One of Its Own Atop the New Council

A Time for Mercy

Rabbi Gets Probation for Medical Marijuana

Seizing the Spotlight

A Stand-Up Comedian Fights the Drug Laws by Working the Media

Sacrificial Lamb

Orthodox Rabbi Yitzchak Fried Could Do Hard Time for Medical Marijuana