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FBI busts teacher’s aide for allegedly making child porn with students

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FBI busts Brooklyn teacher’s aide for allegedly making child porn with students

A teacher’s aide at a Brooklyn school was arrested again yesterday by the FBI and charged with making child pornography videos of students he was assaulting at the grade school where he worked, authorities said today. It is the second time in the last two weeks that FBI agents have charged Taleek Brooks with offenses linked to illegally possessing films of underage children engaged in sexual acts. After his first arrest in mid-January, Brooks allegedly confessed that he had assembled more than 1,000 pornographic images of young children on his computers, according to a report filed by Brooklyn federal prosecutors. Read More: New York Post

Prosecutors have yet to convene grand jury in Cashman ‘stalker’ case

Yankees GM Brian Cashman’s alleged shake-down stalker learned some good news in Manhattan Criminal Court today: prosecutors have agreed to take more time investigating the case before convening a grand jury on possible felony grand larceny charges. Louise Meanwell, 35 — who also uses the let name Neathway — looked grim but clear-minded after making the trip from jail to court, and turned up at the defense table wearing a snug-tailored charcoal pants suit and repeatedly flipping her long blonde hair from her face. She’d last come to court Feb. 3, and had that time treated news photographers to a slide-show stack of emotions and poses, rolling her eyes, tearing up and laughing in turns. Read More: New York Post

Hotel art thief is prison-bound

A compulsive fine art fan is going to prison for at least a year after getting caught lifting hundreds of thousands of dollars in paintings from the lobby walls of the Carlyle and Chambers hotels in Manhattan. Mark Lugo, 31, was a restaurant waiter with caviar taste — as much as $700,000 in stolen art and fine wine was recovered from his Hoboken, NJ apartment when cops busted him this past summer. Lugo pleaded guilty in Manhattan Supreme Court today to one count of grand larceny in the second degree, the top charge against him. Read More: New York Post

 

Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is trying to buy Los Angeles  Dodgers

Donald Trump’s son-in-law is making a play to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers. If successful, Jared Kushner would be the most high-profile New Yorker to own the team since Walter O’Malley, who broke Brooklyn’s heart by moving the Dodgers to L.A. before the 1958 season. Kushner, who is just 31 and married to Ivanka Trump, would also be the youngest owner in Major League Baseball. While Kushner has not said anything publicly about the bid, the editor of his newspaper — The New York Observer — gave it a thumbs up. Read More: Daily News

 

Teens charged with burglary and sexual assault in home-invasion robbery in Brooklyn

Disturbing details emerged Monday about a Brooklyn home invasion by four teens, the youngest only 13-years-old, who allegedly tied up a couple, ransacked their home and took turns sexually assaulting the woman. As one robber went to get cash with stolen ATM cards, the three others repeatedly forced the 22-year-old victim to perform oral sex, threatening to kill her if she refused, prosecutors said. “The defendants are known members of the Brower gang,” Assistant District Attorney Wilfredo Cotto said in Brooklyn Criminal Court. Read More: Daily News