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Few political operatives have it simpler than opposition researchers in New York Metropolis this yr. New York’s 2025 municipal races characteristic a scandal-laden solid of characters whose alleged or confirmed misdeeds have made front-page headlines for years. They embody the front-runner heading into Tuesday’s Democratic mayoral major. Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has spent a lot of his bid to turn out to be New York’s subsequent mayor cleansing skeletons out of his closet, whether or not he’s wished to or not. The scion of a storied political household, Cuomo resigned in shame from the governorship in 2021 after an investigation…

The household of 19-year-old Win Rozario, who was fatally shot by NYPD officers at his house in Queens final yr after his mother tried to protect him, filed a federal lawsuit Monday accusing the officers of botching the response and their colleagues of mistreating the household afterwards. The courtroom papers cost officers Matthew Cianfrocco and Salvator Alongi with escalating the scenario quickly — opposite to straightforward protocol of coping with people who find themselves in psychological misery as Rozario was — even because the younger man’s mom, Notan Eva Costa, and youthful brother, Utsho Rozario, tried to calm issues down.…