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OUTCOME: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/ny-court-freezes-papers-accounts/205683.html
The New York State Supreme Court has temporarily frozen the accounts of newspapers Komsomolskaya Pravda and Argumenty i Fakty in a case brought by a U.S. lawyer who said they owed him fees, the lawyerâ ... €™s attorney said on Monday.
OUTCOME: http://gothamist.com/2006/08/17/track_fire_stal.php
Four thousand subway passengers had to be evacuated from subway cars when a track fire on the B/D lines disrupted service during the evening rush hour. And many of the passengers were stuck on the Manh ... attan Bridge, clueless as the MTA waited 20 minutes before explaining what had happened and sweltering as train cars lost air-conditioning. When we watched news coverage, passengers were glad to be out and noted that fellow straphangers were helping each other, but they roundly criticized the MTA for not saying anything while keeping them stalled. People were treated for smoke inhalation and heat exhaustion, but luckily there were no serious injuries. We liked the Daily News' mention of one woman who called her husband to say she was stuck on the D, only to have her husband say. "I'm on the train, too!" Since a B train was stopped because of the fire, part of its cars were in the tunnel while the others were on the bridge. A D train right behind it was stuck on the Manhattan Bridge. The crazy thing is how firefighters helped subway passengers out: Using ladders and boards, the passengers climbed from the train cars to the bridge (traffic lanes were closed) and walked home. The NY Times had a subway pee story, with a man excushing himself to pee in the back of the car while the car was being evacuated: “It was the most civilized public urination I’ve ever seen in my life,†she said. The incident stopped service on the B/D/F/V/Q lines (well, some of it was rerouted - we know the B was running on the F part of the evening). And the fire was between the subway's tunnel and the DeKalb station. A "burning wood track tie" was found near a homeless encampment, though authorities do not know if foul play was involved. Subway service is back to normal - so they say. Were you stuck on the trains? Did you manage to get out okay? It sounds like the FDNY did a good job in getting everyone out while the MTA could work on techniques to keep its riders in the loop. And Razor Apple has some great shots, including the one above, of the scene at the Manhattan Bridge.
OUTCOME: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/xo_creperie_fire_suspicious_sgeiDX71p8omK4CnGDz3BP
XO Creperie fire suspicious The early-morning fire that ate through a Loehmann’s Seaport Plaza restaurant may have been arson, FDNY officials said this week. An FDNY spokesman said that fire marsha ... ls are treating the fire at XO Creperie, 2027 Emmons Avenue, as “suspicious†as they try to determine how the blaze was sparked. Firefighters were called to the restaurant at 5:30 a.m. on November 21 after the flames triggered a fire alarm inside the restaurant, officials said. The blaze was put out within 50 minutes. No one was inside the eatery when the fire broke out, although a firefighter suffered a strained shoulder as he doused the blaze. According to the Sheepsheadbites blog, the fire damage to the restaurant was minimal. A call put in to Loehmann’s was answered by a recording stating, “Due to an emergency, Loehmann’s is temporarily closed.†Unredeemable
OUTCOME: http://dockets.justia.com/docket/new-york/nyedce/1:2007cv02509/270643/
Medovoy v. Lot Polish Airlines, Inc. Share| Plaintiff: Yuriy M. Medovoy Defendant: Lot Polish Airlines, Inc. Case Number: 1:2007cv02509 Filed: June 21, 2007 Court: New York Eastern Distri ... ct Court Office: Brooklyn Office County: Kings Presiding Judge: Chief Judge Raymond J. Dearie Referring Judge: Magistrate-Judge Viktor V. Pohorelsky Nature of Suit: Torts - Injury - Airplane Cause: 28:1331 Fed. Question Jurisdiction: Federal Question Jury Demanded By: None Access additional case information on PACER Use the links below to access additional information about this case on the US Court's PACER system. A subscription to PACER is required.
OUTCOME: http://www.kommersant.com/p665371/r_1/Russian_Newspapers_Given_American_Bill/
Russian Newspapers Given American Bill // AiF and Komsomolskaya pravda owe U.S. lawyer $682,000 The New York State Supreme Court has frozen the American bank accounts of the Russian newspapers Argume ... nty i fakty and Komsomolskaya pravda, acting on a suit filed by lawyer Julian Lowenfeld, who is demanding $682,000 from the newspapers for his services. According to Lowenfeld, the papers owed him $434,000 for legal services in 1998, which, with 6-percent annual interest, amounts to the sum of his claim. Lowenfeld told the court that he was not paid for his participation in the Russian newspapers' legal dispute with the Russian-language U.S. periodical Kuryer. The trial started in December 1997, when the Russian newspapers accused Kuryer of copyright violations and unauthorized reprinting of their material. They demanded over $500,000 damages from Kuryer. The court ruled in favor of the Russian newspapers. Lowenfeld is best known in the United States for his defense of Russian intellectual property. He has defended the rights of Mosfilm, Lenfilm and Soyuzmultfilm against video piracy. Lowenfeld told Kommersant that the newspapers have set up offshore companies to avoid paying in the Kuryer case and ask their advertisers to transfer money to Media Express Ltd. Company. Therefore, NY State Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith ordered the “accounts and trademarks†of the papers to be temporarily frozen, as well as the accounts of Media Express Ltd., Effect Publishing (which represents AiF in the U.S.) and Lorafco, which publishes Komsomolsky pravda in the U.S. Those companies have one month to appeal the decision or apply to make an out-of-court agreement. Otherwise, the right to the papers' trademarks and the income from their publication in the U.S. will be transferred to Lowenfeld. A source who took part in the case against Kuryer told Kommersant that Lowenfeld was to receive 10 percent of the sum awarded in the case but “the Kuryer lawyers quickly hid the money in their accounts and there was nothing to claim from them.†The lawyer, however, demanded his percentage of the sum that the newspapers did not receive. First deputy general director of Argumenty i Fakty Publishing House Pavel Burov told Kommersant that the company has no accounts or trademarks in the U.S. Alexander Ivanov, Komsomolsky pravda director for legal issues, also said that the paper's trademark is not registered in the U.S.
OUTCOME: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/two_men_rob_brooklyn_bank_then_fire_GzSHHtI33SpjXmxStxOFSI
A Brooklyn bank was robbed at gunpoint this afternoon by two men, who fired their weapons before they carjacked a vehicle, police and witnesses said. The robbery at the Apple Bank on 13th Avenue near ... the corner of 46th Street in Borough Park took place at about 12:30 p.m. After robbing the bank, in which one of the men fired his gun into the air, the thieves attempted a carjacking on 48th Street between 12th and 13th avenues. They eventually dumped the car a few blocks away and fled on foot. Shlomo Kirshner, 23, was inside the bank when the robbery took place. "The guy was wearing a ski mask and a dark colored sweatshirt. He had a black 9mm gun," he said. "The guy came in with a gun. He screamed, 'Everybody down. It’s a holdup.' "He was waving the gun. He came over and he shot upwards. He was screaming, 'Give me the money.' He took not even a dollar, No one gave him anything. The whole thing lasted a minute. The tellers were on the floor. One guy ran out as they were doing the holdup. He made sure everybody was down and then he ran out.†No one was injured. Police caught one suspect and are still searching for the other.
OUTCOME: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/regional/item_0VZMXPtD2BAIDOFCvkxa9M
Thieves hid behind a fake chimney to cut a hole in the roof of a Brooklyn bank - then made off with the contents of 60 safe-deposit boxes, police sources told The Post. The burglars - captured on surv ... eillance cameras - operated heavy-duty blowtorches normally used under water to slice through the roof and enter the Astoria Federal Savings Bank on East Second Street and 18th Avenue in Borough Park. Bank employees discovered the break-in yesterday morning. The powerful tools were left at the scene and at a nearby construction site. A perfectly extracted circular slab of concrete from the roof was found nearby. The caper set off a panic among customers, dozens of whom rushed to the bank to see whether their valuables were stolen. "I have my jewelry, my valuable papers in the box!" one elderly woman cried. "What am I going to do? There's no insurance." Nazme Begum, 23, said she had a safe-deposit box with gold and important papers, including her children's birth certificates. "I'm sick over this. I purposely use the bank because it's supposed to be safer than my house," she said. Another woman said she has had her box for 40 years and was devastated to think she might have lost "valuable pictures of my family that I can't replace." She stood for hours in front of the bank, hoping to find out whether she was one of the victims. Last night, bank officials still couldn't tell which boxes were broken into because cops were combing the safe area for clues. On the surveillance video, taken from a neighboring restaurant, at least three bandits can be seen climbing a ladder to the adjacent building to gain access to the bank's roof. The crew set up a false chimney to hide behind while they worked. Brocha Landau, who owns Dougie's Barbecue, said she grew suspicious a week ago, when her surveillance camera was stolen from outside her restaurant. "I warned them [the bank], but they just didn't take me seriously," she said Astoria spokesman Brian Edwards said it was unclear whether box holders would be reimbursed.
OUTCOME: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/07/20/2011-07-20_brooklynbased_prostitution_ring_high_class_ny_busted_17_arrested_police.html
Brooklyn-based prostitution ring, 'High Class NY' busted, 17 arrested: police A sophisticated, high-end prostitution ring offering $10,000-a-night tricks has been tripped up by Brooklyn authorities. ... Prosecutors charged High Class NY on Wednesday with raking in $7 million over three years by peddling pretties referred to as "models" through several web sites and various advertisements. "\[Johns\] were all high-end customers," said Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes. "People with nothing but money who are willing to pay these enormous amounts for god knows what." If clients asked, hookers would provide them with cocaine and other drugs, the indictment said. Rendezvous rates ranged from $600 to $3,400 an hour, according to several web sites with names like nyadultdating.com and cupiddirect.com. But all calls ended up at a second-floor office on Coney Island Ave. in Sheepshead Bay, prosecutors said. Cops arrested 17 people, including owner Mikhail Yampolsky, his wife Bronislava and their two sons. They were charged with enterprise corruption and other counts that can land them in prison for up to 25 years. From top left, clockwise: Mikhail Yampolsky, Valerii Loboda, Alexander Yampolsky, Irina Pobukovsky, Bronisalva Yampolsky, Yakov Maystrovich, Efim Gorelik, and Oleg Lechko were also arrested. The 17th suspect's photo was not immediately available. The defendants were expected to be arraigned Wednesday afternoon. No ties to the Russian mob are suspected, said Det. Joe Panico, who spearheaded the two-year probe. "They were on the high end of sophistication," he said of the suspects, pointing to their qualified IT personnel and use of dummy corporations to hide profits and launder money. Investigators used surveillance and undercover work to bust the flesh-peddling ring - ordering some dates through code words that became "more explicit" when the hookers showed up, said Panico. Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes announced the indictment of 17 persons in a high end prostitution ring. (Jesse Ward for News) High Class NY offered an array of escorts from different nationalities who had to undergo an interview, sign a contract and post their photos online before meeting clients at expensive hotels, the investigation found. None was believed to be coerced. Hynes said the operation hid behind "a veneer of legitimacy," claiming in their sites that payments are for companionship only. But he vowed to prosecute the ringleaders and seek maximum penalties. "There is no such thing as a high-class pimp," he said.
OUTCOME: http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news%2Flocal&id=6640469
Space heater blamed for Brooklyn fire Wednesday, February 04, 2009 An apartment fire injured a dozen people -- one critically -- in the Midwood section. TAGS:local news Comment NowEmailPrintRepor ... t a typo Eyewitness News MIDWOOD (WABC) -- A space heater sparked a fire in the Midwood section of Brooklyn that left one man clinging to life and 11 others injured. Authorities say the space heater, placed too close to a bed, started the blaze on the first floor of 1439 Ocean Avenue just after 2 a.m. Wednesday. The fire quickly spread, burning a 24-year-old man over most of his body. He was in very critical condition and transferred to Jacobi Medical Center. Eleven other people, most of them also residents of the building, were injured. Nine of them were taken to Maimonides Medical Center for smoke inhalation. Related Content MORE: More New York and Tri-State area news MORE: REPORT A TYPO MORE: Get Eyewitness News delivered to you! MORE: Today's Most Popular Videos MORE: Eyewitness News Team Bios Fire marshals said that the space heater apparently lit the bedding on fire. The fire then spread from the bed to the structure. Additionally, the smoke detector in the hallway was not working at the time of the blaze.
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