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On April 30, 2024, NYPD officers began arresting protesters at Columbia University. Many of these protesters were undergraduate students at Columbia University exercising their lawful right to protest the situation in Palestine. Officers arrested these students and took them to police precincts where they were fingerprinted and processed. Most protesters were given Desk Appearance Tickets…

Recently, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced an indictment charging two of the founders of a prominent cryptocurrency exchange with a variety of federal crimes relating to their alleged failure to prevent the exchange from becoming a tool of money launderers. Specifically, CHUN GAN, a/k/a “Michael,” and KE TANG, a/k/a…

Famous Hollywood actor Jonathan Majors was convicted today by a Manhattan jury of having previously assaulted his ex-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari, following almost two days of jury deliberations. Specifically, the jury concluded that Mr. Majors was guilty of reckless assault in violation of New York Penal Law Section 120.00 (Assault in the Third Degree, a Class…

Jumping a turnstile: How a little mistake can become a big problem. Imagine this scenario: You’re running late for an important meeting in the city, and as you are standing at the subway turnstile you can see the subway train pulling up to the platform. In a nervous rush, you swipe your Metrocard only to…

Thousands of domestic and international travelers pass through John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City every day. It should be unsurprising, then, that every day, Port Authority Police officers arrest a few travelers and give them Desk Appearance Tickets. A Desk Appearance Ticket is a summons given to a person who has been arrested…

On November 14, 2023, French footballer Aurélien Michel appeared in federal court before the United States Magistrate Judge Vera M. Scanlon and pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud. Aurélien Michel was initially arrested on January 4, 2023, as he passed through JFK airport. He was immediately taken into custody and brought before a…

Matthew Galluzzo has once again been recognized as one of the top criminal defense lawyers in the New York metropolitan area. Every year, Super Lawyers, a publication compiled by Thomson Reuters, receives nominations from lawyers in the community and then ranks those nominees based upon peer evaluations and a dozen objective categories. Only 5% of…

On September 22, following an investigation conducted since 2018 by the FBI, Republican Senator Bob Menendez and his wife Nadine Menendez were charged with federal bribery offenses. According to the indictment filed in the Southern District of New York, Bob and Nadine Menendez were bribed by three Egyptian businessmen: Will Hana, Jose Uribe and Fred…

French developer Aurélien Michel is charged with Fraud for alleged $ 2.9 NFT’s rug pull On January 4, 2023, French footballer, Aurélien Michel, was arrested by US authorities as he passed through JFK airport. He was immediately taken into custody and brought before a federal judge in Brooklyn, where he was arraigned on a complaint…

In August 2023, the United States Sentencing Commission decided to change the way that some federal defendants’ criminal history scores are calculated for sentencing purposes. Previously, those found to have committed their crimes while “under any criminal justice sentence, including probation, parole, supervised release, imprisonment, work release, or escape status,” had two points added to…