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Allianz's American asset management unit pleads guilty to criminal securities fraud and agrees to pay $5.8 billion to those who have been misled about the risk of investing in some hedge funds that collapsed with the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to more than $1 billion to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
2022-05-17

The COVID-19 infection rate in New York drops to its lowest in two weeks for the first time since September 24. However, the state continues to battle COVID-19 clusters in Hasidic Jewish communities in Orange County, Rockland County, Brooklyn, and several areas in the Queens borough.
2020-10-11

A woman is facing four counts of attempted murder, as well as counts of attempted arson, reckless endangerment, criminal possession of a weapon, and assault for throwing a Molotov cocktail at an occupied NYPD van during a riot in Brooklyn.
2020-05-31

Bashar Barakah Jackson, also known as ‘Pop Smoke’, is killed in Los Angeles, United States. The cause of death was multiple gunshot wounds to his torso, inflicted by a teenager during a targeted home invasion that went wrong. Pop Smoke was a rising rapper from Brooklyn, and had just released his second mixtape ‘Meet the Woo 2’. He rented an apartment in the Hollywood Hills a few days prior to his murder for a simple vacation. The day before his homicide, he accidentally leaked his address online via social media, giving the location to it’s murderers, which tragically ended his life the age of 20 years old.
2020-02-19

A Brooklyn federal court sentences Martin Shkreli to seven years in prison for securities fraud in his hedge fund and pharmaceutical companies.
2018-03-9

Skanska USA implodes the Old Kosciuszko Bridge in New York City after 78 years of connecting Brooklyn and Queens.
2017-10-1

Valeant, a Canada based pharmaceutical company, says it has received new notices of default from its bondholders.
2016-04-22

United States federal prosecutors in New York City arrest Martin Shkreli on securities fraud charges for allegedly plundering for personal gain Retrophin, a biopharmaceutical company he ran as CEO from 2012 to 2014.
2015-12-17

American pharmaceutical company Pfizer announces plans to acquire Hospira at a cost of $17 billion.
2015-02-5

A 37-year-old woman and four children are stabbed to death in Brooklyn, New York City, New York. A man is arrested in connection with the murders.
2013-10-27