Two Brooklyn lawyers, including an Ivy League graduate corporate attorney, are facing federal charges over accusations they tossed a Molotov cocktail into an NYPD vehicle early Saturday morning during a protest over the police killing of George Floyd. Colinford Mattis, 32, a corporate lawyer and member of Community Board 5 in East New York, was charged along with fellow attorney Urooj Rahman with the attempted attack on an empty police cruiser parked outside the 88th Precinct station house in Fort Greene. ...
A group of lawyers say they were stuck in in Brooklyn’s federal jail for 21/2hours during a lockdown due to callous correctional officers who refused to let them leave. ; The drama at the troubled Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park sparked an emergency federal court hearing Wednesday and a probe of the officers’ conduct. ; Two of the lawyers said they weren’t allowed to make calls and alert their children during the Friday lockdown that they’d be late to pick them up from summer camp. ; “Do you know where you are? This is a jail. I understand your problem, but there’s nothing I can do for you. I can’t allow you to use the phone,” one officer snapped, according to a letter by Sean Hecker, who represents the Federal Defenders Service.
Two lawyers who tossed a Molotov cocktail into an empty NYPD vehicle in Brooklyn during last year’s George Floyd protests — and then called for more fiery acts of violence in a string of text messages — have taken a plea deal. Urooj Rahman and Colinford Mattis pleaded guilty in Brooklyn federal court Wednesday to possession of a destructive device and could face 10 years behind bars if their sentencing judge applies a terrorism enhancement. They faced life sentences when indicted in June f...
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Brooklyn civil rights lawyer Alejandra Caraballo’s career has been full of firsts. At court and in professional conferences, she has often found herself one of the few transgender women working on litigation or pressing for national change. She recently became the first transgender person on a Brooklyn community board. Now she has her sights set on the City Council, which could make for another first. But Caraballo, 29, is taking the potential historic ramifications in stride. “If I’m the ...
A Brooklyn lawyer who was charged nearly two decades ago with felony voter fraud asked a judge Thursday to throw out his controversial conviction — claiming the ex-prosecutor who hounded him committed a similar crime. John O’Hara slammed former Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes for singling him out in a selective prosecution, making him the first New Yorker since 1872 to be tried criminally for not registering to vote from his legal address. It took prosecutors three trials to pin a c...
An Ivy League-educated Brooklyn lawyer who helped torch an NYPD car during the 2020 George Floyd protests will spend one year and a day in prison, a federal judge ruled Thursday. Colinford Mattis bought the gasoline and drove the getaway van while fellow lawyer Urooj Rahman hurled a Molotov cocktail at a police car outside the 88th Precinct stationhouse in Brooklyn on May 30, 2020. The lawyer also burned down his career in the process — he and Rahman were caught that night, and since their arrests, both have been disbarred. ...
A Brooklyn lawyer has filed hundreds of lawsuits this year over websites that fail to accommodate the blind – a practice that critics say is all about making a quick buck. Attorney Joseph Mizrahi has filed an astonishing 411 suits in Manhattan Federal Court on behalf of 13 visually impaired people. The paperwork charges a wide array of businesses violated the Americans With Disabilities Act through sites that are incompatible with screen-reading programs. The suits seek to force each company to overhaul its site and make it accessible. ...
One of Ghislaine Maxwell’s fellow detainees at the Brooklyn federal lockup plotted to murder her, a defense lawyer said in a court filing Wednesday aimed at lightening Maxwell’s sentence on sex trafficking charges for procuring young women for Jeffrey Epstein. “(One) of the female inmates in Ms. Maxwell’s housing unit told at least three other inmates that she had been offered money to murder Ms. Maxwell and that she planned to strangle her in her sleep,” wrote lawyer Bobbi Sternheim. ...
A Brooklyn lawyer whose license was suspended years ago defrauded eight different homeowners out of properties worth a total of $8 million, prosecutors announced Monday. Sanford Solny, 63 — who was arrested in 2017 on similar deed fraud charges in Queens — allegedly targeted Brooklyn property owners facing foreclosure. He told his victims that they needed to sign their properties over to him so he could negotiate with a lender to help end the foreclosures against the homeowners, prosecutors ...