With an online workload and intensive Sunday class schedule, Touro Law Center is making a law degree possible for people who work or raise families full-time — all while complying with American Bar Association standards.
A Jamaica man was charged with tricking his 101-year-old neighbor into handing over the deed to his house last week. A trio of Maspeth thieves pleaded guilty to posing as grandchildren and even recruiting kids in order to rob senior citizens’ homes in July. And in Flushing, a man allegedly begged an elderly victim to wire him $41,000 to post non-existent bail in the Dominican Republic.
Those are just three examples of elder abuse, fraud and predation that have made their way to Queens County Criminal Court in recent weeks.
Read MoreRoughly 25 Queens residents visited LIFE Camp in Jamaica to take the first step toward a second chance Monday night.
Read MoreRoughly 25 Queens residents visited LIFE Camp in Jamaica to take the first step toward a second chance Monday night.
Read MoreFast fingers mean big bucks for court reporters in Queens. In fact, court reporters can earn well over $100,000 a year once they learn to write 225 words per minute.
Only weeks before a nurse was slain and another woman sexually assaulted on opposite sides of the country, a New York judge released the suspect without bail in a separate strangulation case — not knowing he had a violent criminal history involving women.
Read MoreIt was supposed to steer people with criminal convictions toward a second chance, but so far, a state record-sealing law has been stuck in first gear.
Read MoreWith more than nine out of 10 graduates securing jobs in their first ten months after law school, Touro Law Center’s Class of 2017 found employment at a record rate, according to the American Bar Association’s latest employment report.
Read MoreIt was supposed to steer people with criminal convictions toward a second chance, but so far, a state record-sealing law has been stuck in first gear.
Read MoreCUNY School of Law students will encounter nine new faculty members, including three alumni, when classes resume later this month.
Read MoreHe swindled a centenarian out of house and home. Now he’s facing 15 years in the big house.
Ricardo Bentham, 58, was hit with a slew of charges for allegedly filing a fake deed and stealing a home from his 101-year-old neighbor, Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced Thursday.
Read MoreMurder dropped boroughwide last month, contributing to a citywide decrease in crime that resulted in the safest July on record and earned plaudits from top city officials. But in Queens, the number of shooting incidents, shooting victims and rapes all increased in Queens over the past 28 days.
Read MoreSlipping through the closing emergency door, squeezing two people into one section of a revolving subway entrance, hopping over the turnstile — every straphanger has seen it. So have the cops.
Amid an immigration crackdown, affordable housing crisis and pervasive poverty, one Jamaica organization is reaching out to low-income residents and putting power and knowledge into their hands.
Read MoreIn an ode to the Holy Father and his own father, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday that he will introduce legislation to ban the death penalty in New York State once and for all.
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