Weather: ☀️ Sunny and cold again, with highs in the lower 30s.
It's Monday in New York City, where a Florida man named Ian Davey wrote in his insurance claim for a 2023 car crash in Queens that "Hells F–ing NO," the collision wasn't staged.
But there were red flags.
The bus driver who allegedly sideswiped Davey said the incident never happened. The doctor who declared Davey "totally disabled" from the crash was a urologist practicing in Bangladesh. And the surgeon who operated on Davey was named in a civil racketeering case as part of an alleged criminal network that staged crashes to inflate insurance claims.
Cases like this have exploded in New York, with the state reporting nearly 44,000 incidents of suspected auto insurance fraud last year.
Victor Schwartz, a New York City-based wine importer, sued the Trump administration over its tariffs and won, with a 6-3 ruling by the Supreme Court. Now, businesses that absorbed billions of dollars in added tariff costs are trying to figure out how to get refunds.
New York state lawmakers are moving forward on a package of immigration bills with new urgency following the death last week of a blind refugee who was left outside a closed coffee shop by federal agents in Buffalo.
Police this morning are asking New York City residents to look out for 88-year-old Osvaldo Acosta, who went missing from his NYCHA complex in Chelsea yesterday.
Rep. Josh Gottheimer, a North Jersey Democrat who praised the attack on Iran as a "decisive action to defend our national security," stands to thwart a resolution in the House that would force the president to get congressional approval before this becomes a protracted conflict.
John Gotti's grandson, who could face three years in prison for COVID relief fund fraud, is asking for a lightened sentence because he's donating a kidney to his mom.
Columbia President Claire Shipman said the officers “misrepresented themselves” in Ellie Aghayeva’s arrest, gaining entry into her off-campus Columbia residential building and apartment by claiming they were “police” looking for a missing child.
Federal prosecutors had sought the death penalty on a murder charge, but U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett threw the murder count out in January along with a related firearms charge.
