April 02, 2020
A New York federal judge on Thursday urged the Federal Bureau of Prisons to settle with vulnerable inmates seeking release from a Brooklyn facility because of the deadly threat coronavirus poses to them, instructing the agency to consider compassionate release.
October 11, 2018
A Fifth Avenue psychiatrist was among five doctors who have been charged with writing prescriptions for millions of oxycodone pills they knew were unnecessary in exchange for more than $5 million in cash, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York said Thursday.