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Man indicted on age-based hate crime charges for UES robberies targeting New Yorkers aged 70+ 
A man was indicted on hate crime charges for a string of robberies on the Upper East Side targeting New Yorkers aged 70 and older, prosecutors said.
Man gets hate crime charges for targeting seniors in string of Upper East Side robberies
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office indicted a man for allegedly stealing watches off the wrists of senior New Yorkers on the Upper East Side.
Man Indicted For 2 Antisemitic Attacks on the UWS: Manhattan DA
A man was indicted on Monday for attacking two Jewish men on the Upper West Side earlier this summer, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced in a news release.
Man indicted for spitting at 2 Jewish men, yelling antisemitic slurs, and throwing bottle
A man was indicted on Monday for allegedly attacking Jewish men in separate incidents on the Upper West Side in June while making antisemitic remarks, prosecutors said.
New York’s ‘One-Man Innocence Project’ Is Finally Cleared Himself
He received an executive clemency in 2021 that left him free but not exonerated. His jailhouse lawyering helped lead to new evidence that got the office of the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg Jr., to reinvestigate the case even though the office under his predecessor, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., had declined in 2013 to vacate Mr. Velazquez’s conviction and opposed his attempts to raise new evidence.
Sing Sing actor JJ Velazquez exonerated after wrongful conviction
A New York judge on Monday formally vacated the homicide conviction of a man incarcerated for almost 24 years before starring in the award-winning movie Sing Sing about the rehabilitative effects of a prison arts program.
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“Despite the decline in the use of paper checks, check fraud is on the rise.” – D.A. Bragg. Learn more about this indictment for an alleged check fraud conspiracy in @Gothamist:
“As alleged, Alfredo Mateo abused his access as a doorman to deplete the financial accounts of a retired teacher who was living in a nursing home, and her husband, who had recently passed away.” – D.A. Bragg. Read more about this indictment in @nypost:
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