I-Team

An internal investigation is now underway inside a New Jersey police department, after cops were seen on video breaking locks in a private apartment building without the landlord’s permission. The I-Team’s Sarah Wallace reports.

FBI agents searched the homes of two FDNY chiefs involved with the safety inspection process of buildings in New York City in connection with a corruption investigation, according to three people briefed on the matter. Jonathan Dienst reports.

Prior to the glitches that left New York City public school students locked out of their virtual classrooms Tuesday, the nation’s largest school district had been operating without a permanent Chief Information Officer (CIO) for months. The I-Team has learned the search for a new CIO recently concluded,but the new technology chief was not yet in place to help...

Chris Glorioso reports.

The game stopped in the fourth quarter by a coach claiming racial slurs were being directed at his players. News 4’s Sarah Wallace reports. 

February marks the 19th anniversary of a gruesome discovery in Queens: The body of a child found on the shore of Rockaway Beach. Now, thanks to old-school police work and high-tech science, one team is refusing to let this case go cold. NBC New York’s Marc Santia reports.

Federal prosecutors accused the NYCHA superintendents and other workers of demanding cash from contractors in exchange for no-bid contracts. There were at least 70 current or former workers involved in the kickback scheme, lining their pockets to the tune of $2 million, prosecutors said. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst and Andrew Siff report.

In one of the largest public corruption roundups in the history of the Justice Department, dozens of NYCHA workers and contractors were arrested in connection with alleged kickback and corruption schemes spanning a decade. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

Dozens of New York City Housing Authority workers and contractors were arrested Tuesday by city and federal investigators in one of the largest public corruption roundups in Justice Department history, sources familiar with the case say.

Dozens of New York City Housing Authority workers and contractors were arrested Tuesday by city and federal investigators in one of the largest public corruption roundups in Justice Department history, according to prosecutors. About 70 people are charged in connection with varying alleged corruption and kickback schemes that occurred between 2013 and 2023 at NYCHA facilities, Southern District of New…

A pair of childhood friends who were convicted in the killing of a French tourist in Times Square in 1987 have been cleared of wrongdoing by a New York City judge. Eric Smokes and David Warren are now in their 50s. Arrested as teenagers in the killing of Jean Casse, they had long maintained their innocence and spent decades in...

In October, Mayor Adams announced he’d hired ElevenLabs, an artificial intelligence start-up, to create a series of robocalls which made it seem like he could speak several foreign languages. Three months later, ElevenLabs is in the news again — this time, for an alleged connection to a political dirty trick.

Chris Glorioso reports.

News 4 New York’s Sarah Wallace with the details. 

Abdush Sharif, the 36-year-old son of a murdered Newark imam, was charged along with two other men with violating firearms regulations. These charges have no connection to the killing of his father.

They were best friends growing up together, then went to prison together for a murder they claimed they didn’t commit. Decades later, they’ve finally cleared their names. A judge on Wednesday vacated the convictions of Eric Smokes and David Warren for a 1987 tourist murder in Times Square. The nightmare began early on New Year’s Day that year, when...

The son of a Muslim leader who was shot outside his Newark mosque earlier this month has been arrested on a gun violation charge, prosecutors said, though he has not been charged in the killing. Abdush Sharif, the victim’s 36-year-old son, was taken into custody Friday at a house in Newark. Also apprehended at the house: 46-year-old Kevin Rogers...

Eight Fernadez brothers and sisters were part of the clandestine exodus from communist Cuba in 1960 that became known as Operation Pedro Pan. One of the sisters, Maria, was originally placed in a reformatory on Staten Island with two of her brothers. Decades later, she said she was later abused in a foster home, an agonizing admission the siblings always suspected.

A remarkable I-Team interview helped free a New Jersey woman from the trauma she experienced as a child after she and her siblings fled Cuba in 1960 during an operation that became known as Operation Pedro Pan. NBC New York’s Sarah Wallace reports.