New York public housing bribery case ends with a milestone 70 convictions

Prosecutors have secured the 70th and final conviction of a massive corruption probe into New York City's public housing ...
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All 70 NYCHA Rogues Found Guilty as NYC Housing Scammers Are Caught in $2.1M Bribe Plot

All 70 NYCHA employees involved in a federal corruption case have been found guilty of bribery, fraud, and extortion, ...
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DOJ Convicts 70 NYCHA Employees In Bribery Plot

The 70 employees were charged in February 2024 with accepting bribes in exchange for awarding repair contracts. In an ...
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70 NYCHA Workers Convicted For Bribery, Fraud And Extortion

The defendants were collectively responsible for accepting over $2.1 million in bribes in exchange for awarding NYCHA ...
American Songwriter

4 Classic Albums That Prove New York Dominated Music in the 70s

New York was a busy place in the 1970s. And when it came to music, quite a few rock, pop, and folk bands from New York dominated the music scene. Let’s take a look at just a few outfits that proved ...
New York Post

Greedy landlords — not Bronx residents — were really to blame for the fires that ravaged NYC in the ’70s and ’80s: new book

In the early hours of an April morning in 1975, New York landlord Imre Oberlander and his associate, Yishai Webber, donned disguises — wigs and blackface — and set out in their car from Williamsburg, ...
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SCENE: Couple in their 70s found dead in burning New York home

New York City is trying to deter dangerous “subway surfing” through education programs. President Trump delivers remarks at America's Navy 250 Titans of the Sea: A Salute to the Fleet. Orangeburg ...
The New York Times

This Restaurant Revives the Artistic Spirit of ’70s SoHo

The original FOOD opened in 1971 with art world names like Donald Judd contributing to the menu. The artist Lucien Smith is trying to recreate it. By Florence Fabricant In 1971, artists who were ...