“Jelani Park intentionally started a 6-alarm-blaze that injured three of the heroic firefighters who responded to the scene and left 35 families without homes,” said District Attorney Bragg. “Fire poses a major hazard to our densely populated city and this act of arson not only threatened Parker’s neighbors, but those in the surrounding area.”
“Shelters should be safe places for New Yorkers in need, and any violence that occurs in them will impact some of our most vulnerable residents. Ms. Goode was preparing to get her own apartment and start fresh, until her life was tragically cut short by this brutal stabbing. I know her family, including her parents and siblings, continue to be devasted by their loss. I thank our prosecutors for presenting a convincing and thorough case at trial to achieve this conviction,” said District Attorney Bragg.
An Upper West Side woman who admitted to stealing immigration application fees from clients she was supposed to help has now been sentenced, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has announced.
“As alleged, Jerry Genesis took advantage of New York’s extremely competitive housing market to steal hard-earned money from eight individuals who trusted him to find them apartments. One of the victims had already started moving into the apartment before he realized it was a scam, leaving him without a home,” said District Attorney Bragg. “This investigation is ongoing, and we believe there are additional victims – please contact us at 212-335-3300 or danyhousing@dany.nyc.gov.”
The dark side of love for sale was recently exposed when Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., Homeland Security Investigations New York Special Agent in Charge Ricky J. Patel, and NYPD Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch announced the indictment of fifteen members of an alleged sex trafficking ring that coerced women to engage in prostitution by paying for their travel from Venezuela to the U.S., and then forcing them to pay off that “debt.”
