Former Citigroup Exec Sentenced to Prison
Security guard at Citibank (Scott Olson/Getty Images) For eight years, Citigroup executive Gary Foster was living the high life on borrowed funds. Embezzling more than $22 million in 2003-2011, Foster, vice president in Citigroup’s treasury finance department in Long Island City, N.Y., racked up a $1 million condo in New Jersey, grand apartments in Brooklyn […]
Lawyer Allegedly Wrote Confession, Called Girlfriend’s Murder ‘Accident’
QUEENS — A 33-year-old lawyer accused of strangling and beating his girlfriend to death in their Astoria apartment was arrested Friday in Westchester, according to police. Jason Bohn, an Ivy-League educated attorney, had been a prime suspect after he called 911 to report the brutal death of his girlfriend, Danielle Thomas, 27, and investigators discovered […]
Arbitrator rules for unions: Turnaround firing, rehiring reversed
Principals union president Ernest Logan and UFT president Michael Mulgrew announce their lawsuit over turnaround in May. An arbitrator has ruled that the city’s plans to reform 24 struggling schools by shaking up their staffs violated its collective bargaining agreements with the teachers and principals unions. The arbitrator’s decision adds a new and abrupt twist […]