Molly Crane-Newman
@mollycranenewman.bsky.social
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SDNY and NYSS courts reporter, New York Daily News. Irishwoman.
https://mollycranenewman.com/About
Red sky at night, shepherdâs delight Red sky in morn, shepherdâs warn Red sky over 26 Federal Plaza?
about 17 hours ago
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An NYPD officer got a DAT for pulling a gun on another cop at 1PP yesterday
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NYPD cop busted after pulling gun on fellow officer at 1PP headquarters: sources
Police Officer Quilbvio Espinal, 35, was taken into custody without incident and charged with menacing at about 10:45 p.m. Thursday, cops said. The motive was unclear.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/03/27/nypd-cop-busted-after-pulling-gun-on-fellow-officer-at-1pp-headquarters-sources/
about 24 hours ago
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Rep. Dan Goldman has this morning requested a full accounting from ICE and DHS of everyone arrested and targeted for deportation in immigration courts, following the revelation that ICE provided the DOJ with false info to justify the practice
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Rep. Goldman demands ICE turn over full account of migrant arrests fueled by false justification
Prosecutors said earlier this week that ICE had informed the Justice Department that guidance issued in a May 2025 memo âdoes not and has never appliedâ to civil immigration enforcement actions in or ...
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/03/27/ny-rep-goldman-demands-ice-turn-over-full-account-of-migrant-arrests-fueled-by-false-justification/
1 day ago
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ICE misinformed DOJ prosecutors about its authorization to arrest migrants at immigration courts, according to the Manhattan US Attorney's officeâwhich is withdrawing briefs that relied on bad info and has told a judge he will need to revisit past orders
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Letter â #77 in African Communities Together v. Lyons (S.D.N.Y., 1:25-cv-06366) â CourtListener.com
LETTER addressed to Judge P. Kevin Castel from AUSA Tomoko Onozawa dated March 24, 2026 re: Correction of Material Mistaken Statement of Fact. Document filed by Pamela Bondi, Todd M. Lyons, Kristi Noe...
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.646893/gov.uscourts.nysd.646893.77.0.pdf
3 days ago
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Shoutout to my truly tough-as-nails grandmother, Lily Newman (née Brew), born 100 years ago in Kilrush, County Clare. She got a letter as Gaeilge and a check from President Connolly, but was most pleased with her banoffee birthday cake.
4 days ago
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A Harlem man died Sunday waiting to be arraigned on a low-level charge for allegedly stealing incense from CVS. Vincent Thoms âspent his final moments languishing in a jail cell,â Legal Aid said in a statement calling on city leaders to meaningfully address in-custody NYPD deaths.
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An NYPD inspector under criminal investigation for allegedly sexually assaulting a subordinate remains on the job with a gun and authority over his accuser, 1+ years after facing accusations, per new filings requesting that he be disarmed and demoted
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NYPD inspector remains armed, on duty amid sexual assault probe
A high-ranking NYPD officer under criminal investigation into accusations he sexually assaulted a subordinate remains on the job â with his gun and authority over his accuser â more than a year after ...
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/03/20/nypd-inspector-remains-armed-on-duty-amid-sexual-assault-probe/
8 days ago
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I didnât realize spring had a precise start time. It begins in 7 minutes!
8 days ago
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11 days ago
The MTA filed suit today in the Court of Federal Claims, demanding the ~ $60 million in congressionally-promised funds for the Second Avenue Subway that the Trump administration has withheld since October. w/
@mollycranenewman.bsky.social
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MTA sues Trump administration for holding back $60 million in Second Avenue subway funds
The project is one of two that the Trump administration targeted for funding interference in the early hours of the federal government shutdown in October, along with the Hudson River tunnel.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/03/17/mta-sues-trump-administration-for-holding-back-60-million-in-second-avenue-subway-funds/
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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know which bracket private equityâs destruction of local journalism falls into
12 days ago
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Itâs comingâŠ
14 days ago
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âWhen you put it all together, you canât help but think Superman would have been laid off by Alden. Clark Kent would not have been offered a buyout or a pension even after all those years of dedicated service to the good fight in local news.â
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Clark Kent wouldnât have a job today
And that would explain why we have no âSupermanâ exposing the bad guys these days.
https://open.substack.com/pub/charlessennott/p/clark-kent-wouldnt-have-a-job-today?r=29xz0&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
15 days ago
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More from the sky
16 days ago
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Made hanging my head out the window and risking severe electrocution, not with AI
17 days ago
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Tal, Oren, and Alon Alexander have just been found GUILTY on all counts in Manhattan in one of the largest sex trafficking cases ever brought by the Justice Department. Tal and Oren were once among the US's highest paid real estate agents. They could face decades in prison.
19 days ago
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The teens accused of bringing explosives to a protest outside Gracie Mansion have been charged with attempting to provide material support to ISIS, use of a WMD, and related offenses in an unsealed complaint. Emir Balat, 18, is about to appear for his presentment in the SDNY.
19 days ago
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Mahmoud Khalil has filed a brief before the Board of Immigration Appeals, challenging orders by an executive-branch judge his team says were rushed, procedurally irregular, inaccurate, and disregarded the Trump admin's retaliation for 1A-protected activity
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https://www.nyclu.org/uploads/2025/03/2026.03.02-Opening-Brief-on-Appeal_Redacted.pdf
25 days ago
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The young man arrested for throwing a snowball at cops was just arraigned on OGA and harassment charges in Manhattan. DA Braggâs office said the cop suffered âredness, tenderness, and pain to the eye,â but they canât yet prove this snowball thrower caused it, so will keep probing
30 days ago
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Accidentally left my bike locked up on a quiet street downtown last night and someone put a rotten banana in the basket, but it wasnât stolen. Zohran Mamdaniâs New York.
about 1 month ago
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Virginia Roberts Giuffre speaking about then-Prince Andrew outside Manhattan federal court in August 2019, after the case against Jeffrey Epstein was dismissed. âI wonât stop fighting. I will never be silenced until these people are brought to justiceâŠHe knows what heâs doneâ
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about 1 month ago
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The removal of the Pride flag at Stonewall âwas no careless mistake,â but the latest attack by the Trump admin on the LGBT community, a new SDNY suit alleges âThe government has not removed other historical flags at other national monuments, most notably Confederate flagsâ
about 1 month ago
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Joshua J. Friedman
about 1 month ago
Judge Cynthia M. Rufe, a George W. Bush appointee with senior status
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ââŠwhen it gets to Election Day, weâve been proactive to make sure that we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this countryâŠâ
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about 1 month ago
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20+ hrs after the Trump admin was supposed to disburse $200M withheld from the Hudson River tunnel project, âthere is no sign of a wire transfer of any money,â the NJ and NY AGs say in a new filing, requesting an emergency status conference this afternoon
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Motion for Conference â #58 in State of New Jersey v. United States Department of Transportation (S.D.N.Y., 1:26-cv-00939) â CourtListener.com
Motion for Conference
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.657274/gov.uscourts.nysd.657274.58.0.pdf
about 1 month ago
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Judge Paul Engelmayer, at an ongoing hearing, has given the Trump administration four weeks to process and produce the OLC memo detailing the legal rationale for lethal military strikes on civilian boats in the Caribbean and related docs.
about 1 month ago
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Justin Baldoni is the latest victim of my tendency to experience momentary face blindness in the SDNY cafeteria, a warm smile to someone I briefly registered as a colleague turning to ice
about 1 month ago
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Brad Lander is headed to trial on May 11, charged with a federal violation alleging he obstructed the âusual useâ of a foyer at 26 Federal Plaza, Judge Ricardo just ruled. Gov slated to share DHS audio recordings w his attys next week, fighting more substantive discovery demands
about 1 month ago
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Nolan Hicks
about 1 month ago
Would someone, please, for the love of God, rescue The Daily News from this strip mining hedge fund. Please.
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Almost 1,000 workers have been laid off as a result of the withheld funding Trump âfloatedâ restoring in exchange for renaming Penn Station and Dulles after him
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about 2 months ago
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Michael Derby
about 2 months ago
NYT: Trump weighing building more nuclear bombs and restarting long dormant underground testing.
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Newly Unbound, Trump Weighs More Nuclear Arms and Underground Tests
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/us/politics/trump-nuclear-arms-underground-tests.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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âItâs just a horrible, horrible, horrible place,â he said of his detention camp. âIâm not in fear of the other inmates. Iâm afraid of the staff. Theyâre capable of anything.â
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about 2 months ago
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Toñita â„ïž
about 2 months ago
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Just cursed the lord in response to an arctic gust of wind in perfect harmony with another guy walking past me
about 2 months ago
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News: Judge Vargas has stopped the Trump administration from freezing federal funds for construction of the Hudson River tunnel. Earlier today, she heard workers would otherwise be fired this weekend, abandoning âliterally a massive hole in the earthâ indefinitely
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https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/court-filings/state-of-new-jersey-et-al-v-united-states-department-of-transportation-et-al-temporary-restraining-order-2026.pdf
about 2 months ago
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The âpublicâ court hearing in Luigi Mangioneâs case this morning was mainly held off record at the bench. COs shouted down a reporter who put her hand up to complain close to 30 minutes in.
about 2 months ago
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News: Judge Carro has scheduled Luigi Mangioneâs state murder trial for JUNE 8. He says if the DOJ appeals the recent ruling dismissing the death penalty charge in his federal case, heâll push it back to Sept. 8.
about 2 months ago
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Buried below a lot of preamble, Jay Clayton tells Judge Engelmayer that 9K+ docs removed from the Epstein files after victims complained about being exposed were subject to protective orders in Maxwellâs case. Engelmayer modified the orders on the condition that the womenâs privacy be protected.
about 2 months ago
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Re moving hush-money to federal court, Judge Hellerstein says Trump sought "two bites at the apple" by first bringing the SCOTUS immunity decision to state court, missed the window to raise it at fed. Trump atty Jeff Wall said âany sensible litigantâ would. âNot so,â Hellerstein said. âNot so.â
about 2 months ago
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Evan Simko-Bednarski
about 2 months ago
BREAKING -- New York and New Jersey both jointly sued the Trump administration tonight over the regime's refusal to restore funds for the Gateway Project's Hudson River Tunnel. The tunnel is expected to run out of money Friday if the funds stay frozen. Story TK w/
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Judge Berman has called off tomorrowâs conference on the Epstein files after victimsâ lawyers said the DOJ was receptive to their complaints about the disastrous redactions process and will address deficiencies âexpeditiouslyâ
about 2 months ago
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Daniel Suitor
about 2 months ago
This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
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Manhattan US Attorney Jay Clayton tells the judges on Epstein and Maxwell's cases that AUSAs âworked all hoursâ over the weekend to remove âthousands of documents and media that may have inadvertently included victim-identifying information due to various factors, including technical or human errorâ
about 2 months ago
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âLess than two weeks before Jeffrey Epsteinâs death in jail, his lawyers and Manhattan federal prosecutors met and discussed his potential cooperation,â
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Epstein lawyers discussed possibility of cooperation with prosecutors days before his death, files reveal
Less than two weeks before convicted abuser was found dead, lawyers met with Manhattan federal prosecutors
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/31/epstein-lawyers-discussed-cooperation
about 2 months ago
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The tension between feeling at once grateful and grossed out by a subway seat warmed up by the last passenger
about 2 months ago
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In a statement, lawyers for Luigi Mangione say the Manhattan DAâs request to try him in July before the DOJ presents its case to a jury is âunrealistic,â and that theyâll need the rest of the year to prepare for his federal trial, which could include a death penalty phase.
about 2 months ago
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Update on the Epstein files, sorta: US Attorney Jay Clayton tells Judges Berman & Engelmayer that SDNY expects to finish the job, âincluding publication to the Epstein Library website, in the near termâ âThe Department is not able to provide a specific date at this timeâŠâ
about 2 months ago
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News: Judge Paul Engelmayer has DENIED the motion by Reps Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie to participate in Ghislaine Maxwellâs criminal case and says he doesnât have the authority to supervise the DOJâs compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
2 months ago
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Lawyers for Reps Khanna and Massie renew their push to seek a special master to oversee further disclosures of the Epstein files, saying the government âcannot be relied upon to act with disinterestâ and âdo what is best for the survivors.â âIt has its own conflicting interests.â
2 months ago
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An analysis of my inbox found Michael Cohen showed no signs of being coerced into cooperating against Trump in NY, as he now claims. His main concern was getting all the credit. âI brought the whole mishegas, the whole bullshit to the surface,â as he said in 2021
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Michael Cohen, who turned on Trump with glee, now claims he was âcoercedâ to cooperate
An analysis of Cohenâs statements over the years belies his claims, often reflecting enthusiasm about his cooperation in the Trump probes and concern with getting credit.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/01/19/michael-cohen-who-turned-on-trump-with-glee-now-claims-he-was-coerced-to-cooperate/
2 months ago
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
2 months ago
The refugees arrested through this program are in the country legally. They entered as refugees, having been fully screened and vetted and on a path to a green card already. Now the Trump admin is detaining an unknown number; USCIS says they may be targeting as many as 5,600 people.
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