A federal jury in the Eastern District of New York has awarded $112 million to more than 670 immigrants who were illegally detained by the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office solely on the basis of ICE detainers — requests, not warrants — that lacked any showing of probable cause. The verdict, delivered after an eight-year legal…
In a bizarre turn of events reminiscent of the hit TV series “Breaking Bad,” a 23-year-old man from New York is now facing prison time after inadvertently exposing his own illicit drug operation to authorities. Matthew Leshinsky pleaded guilty on Thursday to multiple drug charges, including the unlawful manufacture of methamphetamine in the third degree,…