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When Yuxiu Zhou crossed the U.S. and Mexico border with his teenage son last October after a month-long zigzagging trip from China, he believed all his nightmares were behind him. The corrupt local government officials in his home village in the Southern Zhejiang Province in China who destroyed his dream of being an entrepreneur, and…
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The office of New York State Attorney General Letitia James announced late Friday that it won’t bring criminal charges against an NYPD officer who, responding to an emergency in October 2020, sped through a red light at 60 mph and fatally struck a young woman crossing a street in The Bronx. The Office of Special…
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This article was co-published with Documented. For nearly a decade, Jean Xie recalled making it a habit to search online for two things: “Fresh Meadows Hotel” and “New York City.” A resident of Shenzhen in China, Xie had become an investor in the Mayflower International Hotel Group’s Fresh Meadows Hotel EB-5 program which allowed foreign…
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Federal prosecutors on Friday pushed back forcefully on a motion by Mayor Eric Adams to dismiss a key bribery count against him. In fighting his indictment by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Damian Williams, Adams moved to dismiss a bribery count by insisting he was not doing favors for the Turkish government. Adams was merely performing routine…
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City-funded shelter providers collecting millions of dollars to provide shelter to a near-record number of homeless New Yorkers are rife with nepotism, bloated executive pay and double-dipping, according to an extensive report released by the city’s Department of Investigation on Thursday.
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This article originally appeared in Documented. Ahsan Chughtai sat on a gilded chair, wearing a garland and clutching a small water bottle as a group of businessmen paid their respects to him. Prominent members of New York’s Pakistani community had gathered to celebrate his appointment as Mayor Eric Adams’ Senior Advisor on South Asia and Muslim Affairs…
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Wall Street is holding its own in New York, with employment in the financial industries near its highest level since 2000, average wages that tower of any other sector and soaring profits this year that will translate into a much needed tax revenue windfall next year. While other industries like tech have become much more…
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Mayor Eric Adams was indicted Wednesday by federal prosecutors following a corruption investigation, first reported by the New York Times. The indictment is expected to be unsealed Thursday by U.S. District Attorney Damian Williams, and will make Adams, New York City’s 110th mayor, the first to be criminally charged while in office. A spokesperson for…
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Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools.After ChatGPT exploded in popularity, New York City’s public school system quickly pushed back on the powerful chatbot, arguing it couldn’t help students build …
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More than 900,000 students will return to New York City schools on Thursday, after a summer that saw Cov…