Author: NY Daily News

The one-time head of New York’s notorious Colombo family won’t rejoin the criminal underworld if he’s released as he doesn’t even remember who he is — sometimes mistaking himself for the president of the United States — his lawyer argued Thursday. The attorney for the 88-year-old Victor “Little Vic” Orena, serving three life sentences for…

A high-level Colombo crime family leader pleaded guilty Thursday to federal racketeering and money laundering charges. Reputed mob consigliere Ralph DiMatteo, 68, stood in Brooklyn Federal Court and admitted his role in the criminal enterprise. “I did and knowingly participated in racketeering in Brooklyn and the eastern part of New York,” he said in a…

A 13-year-old boy who nearly drowned in Prospect Park Lake in Brooklyn last month has died after clinging to life for weeks, his family says. Rikeverns “Ricky” Joassaint died Wednesday with his mother at his bedside after she flew to the city to be with him, according to relatives. “He fought and held on until…

Four Rikers Island staffers were suspended from their jobs in the fallout over the death of a detainee believed to have suffered a drug overdose, Correction Department sources said Thursday. Two correction officers were suspended on accusations of failing to act quickly enough to save the life of burglary suspect Felix Taveras, 40. The other…

A new law raising the minimum wage for food delivery drivers in New York City hit a speed bump Thursday when the parent companies of Uber Eats, Doordash and other food delivery apps filed lawsuits contesting it in New York state court. The law, set to go into effect next week, would require companies to…

An NYC Department of Environmental Protection worker died in Queens early Thursday when a Mercedes-Benz slammed into the city truck in which he was a passenger, police said. The fatal crash happened just past 2:30 a.m. at Atlantic Ave. and Lefferts Blvd. in Richmond Hill. Police said the city DEP truck was on Atlantic Ave.…

The federal government has agreed to kick in a whopping $6.88 billion to fund the long-awaited Gateway project that would add a third tunnel under the Hudson River to ease freight and passenger train congestion between New York and New Jersey, the office of Sen. Chuck Schumer (D, NY) said Thursday. The senator said that…

Police arrested two Brooklyn men for shooting a drinking buddy and then dumping his body in the Pennsylvania woods and setting him on fire, police said Thursday. Luis Marroquin-Cerna, 27, and Rodolfo Lopez, 29, spent the night of June 18 at a bar with Rolando Blanco-Duarte, 32, police said. At some point, the trio left…

A man’s body was discovered stuffed in a garbage bag in front of a modest three-story residential building in Queens on Wednesday, according to police. Police responding to a 911 call found the trash bag containing human remains near a stretch of low-rise residential buildings on 104th St. near Northern Blvd. in North Corona at…

A $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a man police say gunned down a pair of 22 year olds remains unclaimed more than a year after their bodies were discovered burning on a Bronx roadside. Cops have had their eyes peeled for 35-year-old Steven Santiago since May last year, after police found…