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Metropolis Comptroller Brad Lander. Photograph by Lloyd Mitchell Metropolis Comptroller Brad Lander went after his greatest rival within the 2025 NYC mayor’s race, Andrew Cuomo, over the escalating price in state taxpayer {dollars} spent defending the previous governor in a litany of lawsuits linked to scandals practically 4 years after Cuomo resigned. The presser adopted a report within the New York Legislation Journal in regards to the state spending roughly $60 million on authorized issues associated to the scandals that finally led Cuomo to resign in August 2021. “Let’s be clear about this: Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed 13 women, and now he’s legally…

A murder-for-hire trial acquired underway Monday for 2 males accused of plotting to kill a human rights activist and well-known critic of the Iranian regime. Jury choice started within the trial of Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov, each of whom had been allegedly employed by Iranian brokers to attempt to kill activist Masih Alinejad. Amirov and Omarov had been charged with murder-for-hire, conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, tried homicide in help of racketeering and cash laundering. The pair is believed to have ties to Russian organized crime. Prosecutors allege they had been contracted by members of the “Bazghandi Network” to analysis,…