A new report from New York City Comptroller Brad Lander says giving migrants a lawyer to help them fight deportation could net billions. ; The move to give each migrant legal representation could prevent roughly 53,000 asylum seekers from being deported across the Empire State, Brad Lander’s report says. ; The current backlog in New York State-based immigration courts is about 350,000 people, according to reports. ; Shown above is the percent of adults in New York who are allowed to stay in the U.S.
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New York state could generate billions of dollars in new economic benefits if it provides all asylum-seekers, migrants and others facing possible deportation with their own lawyer, according to a new report from New York City's comptroller. Comptroller Brad Lander, a Democrat, said the move would prevent the deportation of up to 53,000 people statewide, resulting in an “estimated net benefit of $8.4 billion for the federal, state, and local governments” — based on projected new tax revenue...
NEW YORK – A disbarred New York City lawyer has agreed to pay nearly $10 million in penalties for his part in a Swiss banking scheme. The New York Post reports that Kenneth Heller...
The Trump Organization trial kicked off Monday in Manhattan, where prosecutors and lawyers for the former president’s family real estate business began surveying New Yorkers on their political biases. Judge Juan Merchan estimated it would take a minimum of two weeks to find 12 New Yorkers to serve on the jury. He expects the trial to last for five or six weeks. Merchan told jurors to expect to hear former President Donald Trump’s name, his adult children, Eric, Ivanka, and Don Jr’s, and a ...
Court of Federal Claims Tax Litigation Lawyers Tax litigation is a process by which people resolve tax disputes with the government, either through a settlement or a trial process. Different courts...
Supreme Court allows release of Trump tax returns to NY prosecutor By Ariane de Vogue, CNN... Although Trump's personal lawyers may continue to fight their appeal in the case, the fact that...
Trump Organization lawyers rested their case Monday as a Manhattan judge chewed them out for throwing “anything and everything” at a jury as they heard remaining evidence in the tax fraud case. The second-to last witness on the stand for the former president’s company was Donald Bender , a partner at Mazars USA LLP, who testified about handling the Trump Organization’s tax returns for over three decades. Trump has sought to blame Bender for not detecting the fraud central to the criminal case. ...
With legal bills gouging the city and propelling insurance rates for doctors, drivers and businesses into the stratosphere, the need for tort reform in New York is obvious. Except to Albany, where the insatiably greedy trial lawyers’ lobby wields undue influence. The latest attempt to pick pockets is an unconscionable bill that would create a new way to collect in wrongful-death lawsuits – and cost the city millions. The measure passed by the state Senate Judiciary Committee this week would permit payouts for families’ “emotional anguis ...
Six New York City real estate developers were indicted Wednesday for collecting more than $1 million in property tax benefits to promote affordable housing while renting units at sky-high prices. ; Manhattan prosecutors claim Joel Kohn, Michael Ambrosino, Alen Paknoush, Mendel Gold, Ioan Sita, Gheorghe Sita, and their businesses have abused an affordable housing tax incentive program since 2011. ; The developers collectively own six Brooklyn buildings. ; “Not only did they illegally charge substantially higher market rents for years, but they did so while personally reaping the benefits of generous property tax abatements,” said Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.