Two Brooklyn “three-quarters” house operators pled guilty in New York on Wednesday to defrauding Medicaid by sending residents to rehab treatments, regardless of whether they were actually addicted to drugs. “Yury Baumblit and Rimma Baumblit lined their pockets by preying on our most vulnerable New Yorkers,” New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, whose office…
President Trump’s decision to end protections and benefits for children brought into the United States illegally faces a legal challenge from New York and other states. New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman will announce a multistate lawsuit to protect beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program at a news conference on Wednesday,…
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman joined 19 other state attorneys general in a letter to Congress yesterday, calling on legislators to protect transgender people serving in the armed services. The letter comes days after a puzzling series of tweets in which President Donald Trump seemed to imply that transgender people currently serving in the…
One of the American Jewish community’s most iconic charities appears to have broken New York state law by loaning its CEO over $500,000 to help him buy property. Known for its ubiquitous blue-and-white charity boxes, present in virtually every American synagogue and Hebrew school for generations, Jewish National Fund is a major American Zionist organization…
Ninety years ago, the small hamlet of Yaphank in Long Island was a Nazi enclave in New York state, with a nearby pro-Nazi summer camp and rules restricting home ownership to Germans. Shockingly, those home ownership rules remained officially in place until this week, when New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman reached a settlement…
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has threatened to sue the federal government if the House-passed repeal of Obamacare becomes law. The Empire State’s top prosecutor said the law would prohibit states from using their own health care monies to reimburse Planned Parenthood for services rendered, a provision that he said would be unconstitutional. “In…
Updated. What do you do when you you indict a guy with the last name “Newman”? If you’re New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, you seize the moment to make a Seinfeld joke. Schneiderman’s office today indicted a new York man named Paul J. Newman for allegedly posing as an architect, despite having no…
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman stepped up his battle with the Trump Administration by hiring a top corruption prosecutor who used to work under former Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Journal reports that Howard Master will work on issues connected to the White House, and take on…
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