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Ben Kochman

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Sep 29, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Ben Kochman

    New Yorkers battling Mamdani’s pied-a-terre tax snag big legal win — as casino mogul Steve Wynn joins fight (opens the original)

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    Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration was dealt a blow Tuesday as a judge ruled the city must scrap its bungled rollout of the new pied-à-terre tax and start anew. The decision by Staten Island Supreme Court Justice Wayne Ozzi is a major setback for one of the mayor’s signature policies – and comes as casino mogul Steve Wynn and former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross joined the legal fight to halt the tax. The city was both “arbitrary” and “capricious” when it mailed notices to several New Yorker

  2. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Ben Kochman

    Uzbek man nabbed for leading wannabe ISIS crew from NYC home — after spending decade on the run (opens the original)

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    See more of our coverage in your search results. An Uzbekistan national who fled New York City a decade ago after allegedly leading a bloodthirsty crew of wannabe ISIS members dubbed the “tea party” from his Brooklyn home has been hauled back to the city to face justice. Davud Ansariy, 41, led a group of America-haters whose members allegedly mused about assassinating then-President Barack Obama, bombing Coney Island and shooting police and FBI agents from 2014 to 2016, the feds allege. Ansariy,

  3. Article · Sep 22, 2026 · Ben Kochman

    Lawyer visiting NYC for work abducted outside strip club — before being beaten bloody and ditched in NJ: feds (opens the original)

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    See more of our coverage in your search results. A lawyer in town for work was abducted outside a Manhattan strip club by four thieves who swiped his Rolex and ditched him in New Jersey battered, bruised and soaked in blood, the feds charged Tuesday. Dani Amaneul, Kibret Meles and Kenny Fetire allegedly lured the intoxicated attorney into their Hyundai parked outside Rick’s Cabaret on West 33rd Street, steps from the Empire State Building, just before 4 a.m. on June 12 under the guise of driving

  4. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Ben Kochman

    FBI stop Russian plot to murder prominent dissident in Washington, DC: authorities (opens the original)

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    See more of our coverage in your search results. Agents of Vladimir Putin plotted to murder a prominent Russian dissident living in Washington D.C. this summer in a brazen scheme foiled by the FBI, the Justice Department alleges. A top Moscow henchman dubbed “Colonel Yuri” and four other spies — all still at-large in Russia — tried to recruit a Venezuelan man living in Brooklyn to travel to the nation’s capital and kill the regime critic, according to a bombshell indictment unsealed Tuesday in N

  5. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Ben Kochman

    9/11 families still waiting for justice 25 years later as trial delays for terror plotters drag on: ‘Unconscionable’ (opens the original)

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    See more of our coverage in your search results. Twenty-five years after Sept.11, 2001, families and friends of the nearly 3,000 people killed that day remain dismayed that still no one has been convicted — or even stood trial — for the terror attacks. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed architect of the deadliest acts of terror on American soil, and four of his alleged al-Qaida cronies remain behind bars at the US naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. “So many family members have passed i

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