Philip Marcelo

  • Zohran Mamdani, New York City mayoral candidate, arrives for a news conference at Astoria Park during the New York City mayoral Democratic primary in the Queens borough of New York, US, on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. New Yorkers are heading to the polls Tuesday to choose a Democratic candidate for mayor as a sweltering heat wave engulfs the city, and with tightened security in place after the US unleashed airstrikes on Iran. Photographer: Christian Monterrosa/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPolitics

    Meet 33-year-old Zohran Mamdani, a former foreclosure prevention counselor who became the frontrunner for NYC mayor by campaigning to freeze rent

    By Philip Marcelo and The Associated Press
  • New York police officers arrest John Woeltz, Friday, May 23, 2025, in New York, who was charged with kidnapping, assaulting and holding a man against his will for several weeks in an upscale Manhattan town house.(AP Photo/Kava Gorna via AP)The Coins

    2 crypto investors charged with kidnapping man to get his bitcoin say video shows victim ‘laughing and smiling’ as he moves about Manhattan freely

    By Philip Marcelo and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Nicole Daedone, center, founder and former CEO of OneTaste, departs Brooklyn federal court on Tuesday, June 13, 2023 in New York. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon, File)Finance

    Leaders of ‘orgasmic meditation’ women’s wellness company OneTaste convicted of federal forced labor charges

    By Philip Marcelo and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Lights are on at the world headquarters of Goldman Sachs in New York on Jan. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan, File)Finance

    Ex-Goldman Sachs banker sentenced to 2 years for role in $4.5 billion scheme to ransack Malaysian 1MDB state investment fund

    By Philip Marcelo and The Associated Press
  • George Santos wears a pair of sunglasses outside the courthousePolitics

    George Santos sentenced to over 7 years in prison for fraud and identity theft

    By Philip Marcelo and The Associated Press
  • CENTRAL ISLIP, NEW YORK – OCTOBER 25: Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries leaves a Long Island court with members of his legal team after pleading not guilty to sex-trafficking charges allegedly involving young male models on October 25, 2024 in Central Islip, New York. Jeffries, who is 80, was released on a $10 million bond and answered to 16 counts against him. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)Finance

    Ex-Abercrombie CEO charged with sex trafficking crimes is suffering from dementia and can’t stand trial, prosecutors and defense say

    By Philip Marcelo and The Associated Press
  • Dwight Howard #39 of the Philadelphia 76ersFinance

    Scammer who cheated ex-NBA star Dwight Howard out of $7 million in fake bid for WNBA team gets 12 years in prison

    By Philip Marcelo and The Associated Press
  • Toll signs are seen on Park RowFinance

    Trump gives New York 30 more days to end Manhattan congestion toll as state officials refuse to comply

    By Philip Marcelo and The Associated Press
  • Lisa Schiff, right, an art adviser who once counted actor Leonardo DiCaprio among her wealthy clients, walks out of Manhattan federal court after pleading guilty to wire fraud, Wednesday, March 19, 2025, in New York.Lifestyle

    Leonardo DiCaprio’s onetime art adviser cheated clients out of $6.5 million to pay for a $25,000-a-month apartment, shopping sprees, and luxury hotels

    By The Associated Press and Philip Marcelo
  • A protester chants during a demonstration in support of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, Monday, March 10, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)Politics

    Trump warns arrest of Palestinian activist at Columbia University will be ‘first of many’ deportations of ‘terrorist sympathizers’

    By Jake Offenhartz, Philip Marcelo, and others
  • This image from video provided by Office of the New York Governor shows New York Gov. Kathy Hochul holding a mock magazine cover during an event about congestion pricing at New York’s Grand Central Terminal, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (Office of the New York Governor via AP)Politics

    Trump administration gives NYC until March 21 to drop congestion pricing but city says it’s not going back

    By Philip Marcelo and The Associated Press
  • Cars pass over a bridge with a sign warning drivers about new toll rates in effectPolitics

    Trump kills NYC’s controversial tolling system that charged $9 on most vehicles entering the city

    By Philip Marcelo and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Sean “Diddy” Combs arrives at the BET Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, on June 26, 2022. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP File)Finance

    Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sues NBC over documentary, calling it a malicious attempt to paint him as an ’embodiment of Lucifer’

    By Philip Marcelo and The Associated Press
  • Rex Heuermann stands in a courtroom behind his lawyerLifestyle

    New York architect at the center of the Gilgo Beach serial murders wants to have separate trials for the 7 deaths because his lawyer says ‘one issue has nothing to do with the other’

    By Philip Marcelo and The Associated Press
  • A sign showing the American Express logoFinance

    American Express will pay $138m to resolve fraud investigation after it ‘misled customers by touting tax breaks that simply didn’t exist’

    By Philip Marcelo and The Associated Press