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Molly Crane-Newman

Howard Redmond, a former NYPD inspector who oversaw Bill de Blasio and his family’s around-the-clock security while the former New York City mayor was in office, pictured at Manhattan criminal court Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023, after pleading guilty to felony charges and admitting he stymied a city investigation into de Blasio’s misuse of his taxpayer-funded security detail. He got ten days of community service and had to apologize on the record. Prosecutors said he admitted his actions were consistent with a broader culture within the NYPD of not taking the city’s investigatory oversight or authority seriously. There was no indication Redmond covered up his corruption for anything other than loyalty to the former mayor. “The bottom line is he lost everything and got nothing,” his lawyer Louis La Pietra said. “He certainly regrets it, and he paid a very heavy price for it.” (Molly Crane-Newman) British pop star Ed Sheeran leaves the Southern District of New York federal courthouse on May 2, 2023, during his copyright infringement trial, in which he was accused of copying the late Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” by the estate of the song’s late co-writer, Ed Townsend. Sheeran, who won the case two days later, pledged to quit the industry if he lost. (Molly Crane-Newman/New York Daily News) Former President Donald Trump addresses supporters at his Bedminster, New Jersey, country club, Tuesday, June 13, 2023, hours after being arraigned on federal charges in a Miami, Florida, courtroom—alleging he hoarded classified documents and thwarted efforts by law enforcement to recover them—and before turning 77. Trump denies the allegations. (Molly Crane-Newman) Media members pictured at Donald Trump’s Bedminster, New Jersey, country club, Tuesday, June 13, 2023, ahead of his arrival from Florida, where federal prosecutors charged him with illegally storing classified documents at his Palm Beach mansion and obstructing law enforcement efforts to recover them. In his remarks, Trump denied his actions were criminal and said he planned to return the records eventually, but sorting sensitive intelligence from his mementos was a “long, tedious job” for someone who leads “a very busy life.” (Molly Crane-Newman) Supporters of Donald Trump pictured at his Bedminster, New Jersey, country club, Tuesday, June 13, 2023, where the former president gave remarks after facing federal charges in Florida related to his alleged mishandling of classified documents and hosted a dinner for top campaign donors. (Molly Crane-Newman) Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and lawyer to President Donald Trump, pictured outside state Supreme Court in Manhattan, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022. Giuliani said he felt prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia, were “very satisfied” with his recent grand jury testimony in an investigation into Trump and his allies’ alleged efforts to subvert the state’s 2020 presidential election results. (Molly Crane-Newman) New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez leaves the Southern District of New York federal courthouse Wednesday, Sept. 27, after pleading not guilty to corruption charges that he accepted gold bullion bars, stacks of cash, and a sports car for his wife and codefendant, Nadine Menendez, in exchange for abusing his influential role as chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. (Molly Crane-Newman) Kevin Spacey leaves federal court in Manhattan following the first day of his trial, Thursday Oct. 6, 2022. The "American Beauty" actor is accused in a $40 million civil lawsuit of forcing himself on the actor Anthony Rapp in a sexually suggestive manner in 1986 when he was 26 and Rapp was 14. (Molly Crane-Newman/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service)





Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin leaves federal court in Manhattan Monday, Feb. 14, 2023, after U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff revealed he would dismiss her lawsuit against the New York Times while a jury was still deliberating the case. Rakoff, who said he would formally dismiss the libel suit when the jury returns a verdict, determined the newspaper did not defame Palin by incorrectly suggesting her political ads influenced a 2011 mass shooting. The judge found the error central to the case was "an example of very unfortunate editorializing," but not libel. Palin is expected to appeal. (Molly Crane-Newman/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service)





New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams and Patrick Lynch, president of the NYPD Police Benevolent Association, outside St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, New York, Nov. 25, 2021. (Molly Crane-Newman)





The former union president of the NYPD Sergeants Benevolent Association, Ed Mullins, leaves federal court in Manhattan, Wednesday, Feb. 23. 2022, with his lawyer Marc Mukasey after appearing on corruption charges. Justice Department prosecutors in the Southern District of New York allege Mullins stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from his members, active and retired police sergeants, using the union's account as his piggy bank. (Molly Crane-Newman)



Writer E. Jean Carroll leaves the Southern District of New York federal courthouse Tuesday, May 9, 2023, after prevailing in her lawsuit against Donald Trump. A jury took less than three hours to determine Trump was liable for sexually abusing and defaming her, awarding Carroll $5 million in damages. Carroll presented 11 witnesses in her case against Trump and testified for three days, emotionally recounting how he violently attacked her in a Midtown department store in the mid-1990s after he invited her to come shopping when they crossed paths in the store’s revolving doors. After the verdict, Carroll dedicated her victory to “every woman who has suffered because she was not believed.” (Molly Crane-Newman) Media members and demonstrators bearing placards await E. Jean Carroll outside the Southern District of New York federal courthouse Tuesday, May 9, 2023, after a jury found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing her in a Midtown department store in the mid-1990s and defaming her as a liar when she spoke out decades later. (Molly Crane-Newman) Courtroom sketch artist Andrea Sheppard holds up her depiction of the jury foreman announcing the verdict in E. Jean Carroll’s case against Donald Trump outside the Southern District of New York federal courthouse, Tuesday, May 9, 2023. (Molly Crane-Newman) Anna "Delvey" Sorokin pictured during deliberations at her criminal trial in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, Wednesday, Apr. 24, 2019. A jury found Sorokin guilty the following day of eight counts alleging she defrauded banks, luxury hotels, and a private airline company out of more than $200,000 by masquerading as a wealthy German heiress. Trial evidence showed Sorokin also attempted to secure a $22 million loan to open a private art club in Gramercy Park. (Molly Crane-Newman)





New York rapper Remy Ma, whose real name is Reminisce Smith, leaves Manhattan Criminal Court Friday, May 24, 2019, after rejecting an offer from the district attorney's office to plead guilty to assault charges. Prosecutors dropped their case against the award-winning artist the following December, citing conflicting evidence. (Molly Crane-Newman)





Ghislaine Maxwell's sister Isabel Maxwell pictured outside federal court in Manhattan on Monday, Dec. 6, 2021, following trial proceedings. Justice Department prosecutors have charged the former British socialite with facilitating abuse by the late multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein in a prolific sex trafficking scheme in the 1990s targeting teenage girls from disadvantaged backgrounds. Her relatives urged the United Nations to intervene in her pretrial detention at Brooklyn's federal jail, where they said she had been denied food for prolonged periods and subjected to cruel treatment by guards. (Molly Crane-Newman)





Sarah Ransome and Elizabeth Stein leave federal court in Manhattan Tuesday, June 28, 2022, after Ghislaine Maxwell's sentencing, where both women delivered victim impact statements. U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan sentenced Maxwell to a 20-year prison term, describing her as "instrumental" in deceased multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein's prolific sexual abuse, some of which she participated in. "The damage done to these young girls was incalculable," the judge said. As she spoke in court, Ransome (L) turned to face the former British socialite, telling Maxwell she had broken her in "unfathomable ways." (Molly Crane-Newman)





Jovante Cunningham outside federal court in Brooklyn Wednesday, June 29, 2022, after delivering a victim impact statement at R. Kelly’s sentencing. Imposing a 30-year prison term, U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly said the R&B singer’s sex trafficking and racketeering scheme, in which he serially raped, abused, and isolated young fans “with regularity for almost 25 years,” was about violence, cruelty, and control. Cunningham said she witnessed Kelly engage in abusive sex acts as a grown man with Aaliyah when the acclaimed late singer was just 13. “I am Jovante. I am Tiffany. I am Aaliyah Dana Haughton,” Cunningham said in court. “I am a representation of every woman, boy, child, man that you have ever afflicted with your deplorable, inexplicable acts. And with that, I leave you with yourself Robert Sylvester Kelly.” (Molly Crane-Newman/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service)





Right-wing strategist Steve Bannon addresses the media following his arraignment at State Supreme Court in Manhattan, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022. The Donald Trump adviser pleaded not guilty to money laundering and fraud charges concerning a long-exposed crowdfunding scheme prosecutors say targeted supporters of the former president's signature immigration policy to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump pardoned Bannon of similar federal charges just before leaving office. (Molly Crane-Newman/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service)





Jennifer Weisselberg stands outside 100 Central Park South Monday, Apr. 22, 2021, where she says Donald Trump gifted a luxury rent-free apartment for six years to her and her ex-husband, Barry Weisselberg, who managed Trump's Central Park ice rink. Weisselberg has provided evidence in the Manhattan district attorney's wide-ranging criminal probe into Trump and his personal and business financial dealings pre-presidency. (Molly Crane-Newman/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service)





NYPD Officer Justin D’Amico testifies at the summary judicial inquiry into Staten Island man Eric Garner’s police killing Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021. The inquiry resulted from an August 2019 lawsuit brought by Garner's mother, Gwen Carr, sister, Ellisha Flagg-Garner, and allied community organizations seeking to uncover neglect of duty by city government officials surrounding his killing. (Molly Crane-Newman/New York Daily News)





Eric Garner’s mother, Gwen Carr, inside her office on Bay St., Staten Island, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021. From her workplace, Carr attended the historic judicial inquiry into her son’s 2014 police killing, which was conducted online during the COVID-19 pandemic. In an exclusive interview, Carr said she witnessed little transparency at the inquest held to document neglect by city government. “I have to listen to this over and over again. I have to relive my son’s murder over and over again. And this is not easy. Sometimes when they’re testifying, I have to mute,” Carr said. “What really angers me, they’re lying. They’re covering up for each other.” (Molly Crane-Newman/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service)





Members of the far-right group Proud Boys leave criminal court in Manhattan Friday, Oct. 19, 2018, following the arraignments of Geoffrey Young and John Kinsman for their alleged participation in a violent riot outside the Metropolitan Republican Club. Prosecutors said Kinsman brutally beat an anti-fascism demonstrator protesting a speech by Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes. The Southern Poverty Law Center describes the exclusively male organization as a hate group. (Molly Crane-Newman)





Patricia Okoumou, who scaled the Statue of Liberty's pedestal to protest President Donald Trump's immigration policies, addresses the media with her attorney, Rhiya Trivedi, outside federal court in Manhattan following her arraignment on trespassing charges, Thursday, Jul. 5, 2018. "Michelle Obama — our beloved First Lady that I care so much about — said, 'When they go low, we go high,' and I went as high as I could," Okoumou said. (Molly Crane-Newman)





Students of Ethical Culture Fieldston School in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, March 11, 2019, pictured outside their school, where they occupied learning spaces and locked out administrators to protest systemic racism and what they described as a longstanding unwillingness at the institution to address it. (Molly Crane-Newman/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service)





Harvey Weinstein in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, Jan. 22, 2020, during the first day of his sexual assault and rape trial. During her opening argument, prosecutor Meghan Hast said Weinstein serially abused young women starting out in the industry when he was one of the most powerful figures in Hollywood. Hast said six women would testify about assaults by the disgraced movie mogul and how he used his dominion and prestige to ensure their silence. “Finally, after all these years, these women will have their voices heard," Hast said. (Molly Crane-Newman)





Model and activist Ambra Battilana Gutierrez at a press conference in Foley Square Friday Manhattan, Feb. 28, 2020, where she called on state legislators to pass the Adult Survivors Act. The legislation would temporarily freeze the statute of limitations for sexual assault victims, permitting civil litigation against their alleged assailants no matter how long ago the incident occurred. In 2015, Gutierrez captured Harvey Weinstein on an NYPD wiretap admitting to groping her, but Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance declined to pursue charges against the powerful producer. The DA brought a case three years later following his public downfall and the #MeToo movement that prompted a global reckoning against workplace sexual abuse and harassment by men in positions of power. (Molly Crane-Newman)





Adam Lublin leaves his arraignment in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, Monday, Nov. 18, 2019, where the former vice president for music entertainment company AEG was charged with filming himself molesting an unconscious woman in his apartment. Lublin, in 2021, was convicted of sexually molesting four women as they slept, including neighbors whose homes he broke into at their Battery Park City high-rise. He recieved a four year prison term. (Molly Crane-Newman)





Former New York State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos outside federal court in Manhattan Tuesday, Jul. 10, 2018, following his trial proceedings. In closing arguments, Justice Department prosecutors said Skelos abused his position to solicit bribes and pressure developers, insurers, and construction companies to hire his son and codefendant, Adam Skelos, in exchange for backing favorable legislation. (Molly Crane-Newman)





Alec Baldwin arrives at his Manhattan home after his release from custody for allegedly sucker-punching a stranger in a dispute over a Greenwich Village parking spot Friday, Nov. 2, 2018. (Molly Crane-Newman)





Family members of Andrea Pollidore address the media outside the Frederick E. Samuel Houses in Harlem, New York, Wednesday, May 8, 2019. The Harlem mother died alongside five of her children after a fire broke out as they slept inside their three-bedroom apartment. (Molly Crane-Newman)





Members of the Belzer Jewish Community mourn the death of 9-year-old Hersh Meilech Grossman following his funeral outside the Belzer synagogue in Borough Park, Brooklyn, Wednesday, July. 31, 2019. The boy died tragically during a class trip to a New Jersey water park. (Molly Crane-Newman)






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