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Joaquin Sapien

NYC Cops Making Millions In Suspicious Deals

Robert Lewis on how his reporting triggered an internal investigation of suspicious dealings made by active-duty New York police officers.

June 16th, 2017

By Joaquin Sapien

NYC Cops Making Millions In Suspicious Deals

https://soundcloud.com/propublica/how-a-reporter-found-high-ranking-new-york-cops-were-making-millions-in-questionable-income WNYC radio reporter Robert Lewis had been hounding New York Assistant Police Chief Edward Delatorre for weeks. He’d called. He’d emailed. He’d gone through the New York Public Affairs office. But he was getting nowhere

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Analysts Doubt Authenticity of Israel’s Military Operation Against “Hezbollah Tunnels

Former CIA Director John Brennan testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 23, 2017, before the House Intelligence Committee Russia Investigation Task Force. Pablo Martinez Monsivais | AP

How Security Clearances Perpetuate Top-Level Corruption in the United States

Members of the Mexicali Resiste Movement demonstrate against the theft of the local water supply by brewing Constellation Brewing. Screenshot | YouTube

In Mexico, Resistance to Govt Collusion with Capitalists and Organized Crime Triggers Criminalization of Dissent

NY Man Wins $4.5 Million Settlement After Being Wrongly Convicted By Dishonest Prosecution

The award of $4.5 million by New York state is just part of a claim by a man who spent more than two decades in prison based on a dishonest prosecution.

May 12th, 2017

By Joaquin Sapien

NY Man Wins $4.5 Million Settlement After Being Wrongly Convicted By Dishonest Prosecution

Ruddy Quezada, a 54-year-old man wrongfully convicted of a deadly drive-by shooting in 1993, has won a $4.5 million settlement from New York state, according to court papers. Quezada spent 24 years in prison for murder before winning his freedom in 2015 when, after decades of failed appeals, the Brooklyn district attorney's office conceded that

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Kameelah Rashad demonstrates Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015, outside the U.S. Courthouse in Philadelphia. The 3rd U.S. Circout Court is scheduled to weigh an appeal of N.J. decision that allows New York City police to spy on Muslim communities in the city and elsewhere. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Muslim Groups Awarded Damages Over Discriminatory NYPD Surveillance

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman meets with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis at the Pentagon in Washington, March 22, 2018. (AP/Cliff Owen)

Ultimate Hypocrisy: Saudi Crown Prince touts Religious Tolerance in NYC

New York City police officers detain and question a man,, July 11, 2017, in the Bronx borough of New York. (AP/Mark Lennihan)

In NYC When Cops Backed Off, Crime Did Too

Yet Another Scandal Rocks Utah Home For Vulnerable Children

Police raided the home after an employee reported sex among residents and misconduct by staff.

March 24th, 2016

By Joaquin Sapien

Yet Another Scandal Rocks Utah Home For Vulnerable Children

In 2014, an employee at a group home for troubled children in Utah said they informed superiors that a staff member was having sex with one of the boys the home was charged with safeguarding. When nothing happened, the employee helped alert local child welfare officials, and the staff member was eventually charged and convicted of sexual

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SLC Police Shoot Black Teen Holding Broomstick, Refuse To Release Body Cam Footage

A Homeless man sleeps on the steps of St. Bartholomew's Church

Utah Nearly Abolishes Chronic Homelessness

Jakobe Sanden. (Courtesy of Gary Sanden)

Native American Boy Pulled From Class Over Traditional Mohawk Haircut

How Prosecutors Abuse A Powerful Legal Tool To Force Witnesses Into Testifying

Prosecutors in New York use what are known as material witness orders to compel testimony from reluctant witnesses in criminal trials.

August 17th, 2013

By Joaquin Sapien

How Prosecutors Abuse A Powerful Legal Tool To Force Witnesses Into Testifying

The 20-year-old document – labeled the Hotel Custody log by the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office – is not easy to decipher. It contains a list of New York City hotels beside columns labeled “Date In” and “Date Out.” There are names of individual prosecutors and the units they worked for at the district attorney’s office. A spokesman for the

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New York City police officers detain and question a man,, July 11, 2017, in the Bronx borough of New York. (AP/Mark Lennihan)

In NYC When Cops Backed Off, Crime Did Too

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivers remarks about defending national security, at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, Nov. 2, 2017. (AP/Richard Drew)

Sessions Reacts To NY Terror Attack, Calls For More Spying And War Court

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers escort an arrestee in an apartment building, in the Bronx borough of New York, during a series of early-morning raids. (AP/Richard Drew, File)

Investigation Finds NYPD Impeding Undocumented Immigrants From Reporting Crimes

Role Reversal: NYC Prosecutor Must Testify In Wrongful Conviction Case

The lawsuit further alleges that Brooklyn’s DA ran an office that overlooked, condoned and even rewarded misconduct by its prosecutors.

June 14th, 2013

By Joaquin Sapien

Role Reversal: NYC Prosecutor Must Testify In Wrongful Conviction Case

For more than two years, Jabbar Collins and his lawyer have pursued a multi-million dollar wrongful conviction lawsuit against New York City. They have unearthed what they claim is damning evidence of misconduct by prosecutors in the office of

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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman meets with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis at the Pentagon in Washington, March 22, 2018. (AP/Cliff Owen)

Ultimate Hypocrisy: Saudi Crown Prince touts Religious Tolerance in NYC

A photo of Sayfullo Saipov is displayed at a news conference at One Police Plaza Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017, in New York. Saipov is accused of driving a truck on a bike path that killed several and injured others Tuesday near One World Trade Center. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Trump: Sympathy For White Attackers, Vengeance When Muslim

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NY Democratic Party’s Ex-Chair Indicted In Judicial Bribes

Who Polices Prosecutors Who Abuse Their Authority? Usually Nobody

The murder case against Tony Bennett seemed pretty straightforward. Shortly before midnight on May 7, 1994, police found a 26-year-old man in the foyer of an apartment building near Flushing, Queens. Jake Powell was near death, blood pouring from a gunshot wound, but he managed to speak the name of the man who had shot […]

April 04th, 2013

By Joaquin Sapien

The murder case against Tony Bennett seemed pretty straightforward. Shortly before midnight on May 7, 1994, police found a 26-year-old man in the foyer of an apartment building near Flushing, Queens. Jake Powell was near death, blood pouring from a gunshot wound, but he

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Yellow Vest Police Collage

Macron Tactics Against Yellow Vests Have Nothing to Do with Public Safety, Everything to Do with Global Politics

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Civilians in Police Crosshairs as France Adopts Totalitarian Tactics to Squash Yellow Vests

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Army Study Finds Troops Suffer Concussions In Training

By Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, and Daniel Zwerdling, NPR This story was co-produced with NPR and is slated to air on All Things Considered. (Check local listings.) It was also co-published with Stars and Stripes. A new military study has found that almost 6 percent of soldiers who took hand-to-hand combat courses at a Texas Army base were struck in the head […]

August 27th, 2012

By Joaquin Sapien

Army Study Finds Troops Suffer Concussions In Training

By Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, and Daniel Zwerdling, NPR This story was co-produced with NPR and is slated to air on 

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John Bolton Threatens Iran Over Debunked Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons

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