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Real Estate Broker Gets House-Arrest in Homeless Shelter Bribery Scheme

-The New York Times

New York City’s 4th JAG Association Celebrates Lt. Col. Michael Farkas’ Retirement

-Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Brooklyn and Criminal Bar Associations host U.S. Attorney Breon Peace for Reception

-Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Bronx Politician Guilty of Helping Alleged Genovese Associate

-NY1

Grievance Committee’s Virtual Ethics Course Draws Thousands of Attendees

-Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Brooklyn Man Exonerated in Murder Case After Nine Years in Prison

-NY1

Man Accused of Brooklyn Murder Freed After Spending 9 Years in Jail

-New York Daily News

Secret Marihuana Farm Beneath Brooklyn Cherry Factory Leaves Many Mysteries

-The New York Times

How Bees Revealed a Pot Farm Beneath the Maraschino Cherries

-The Daily Beast

The Fall of the Cherry King

-The New York Times

Brooklyn Cherry Business to Plead Guilty Over Pollution and Marijuana

-The New York Times

New York Cherry Company Pleads Guilty to Marihuana, Environmental Charges

-Reuters

Michael Farkas Sworn in as President of the Kings County Criminal Bar

-Brooklyn Daily Eagle

DA Kenneth Thompson Discusses Wrongful Convictions at Criminal Bar Meeting

-Brooklyn Daily Eagle

N.Y. Assemblyman, 4 Others Accused of Corruption

-The Wall Street Journal

Albany Riveted by Double Life of an Assemblyman and Informer

-The New York Times

Nelson Castro’s Secret Deal Remarkable

-Newsday

Nelson Castro Announces Resignation After Cooperating in Corruption Case

-Politicker.com

Former Assemblyman Turned Informer Avoids Prison

-The New York Times

Tarnished Bronx politician, Albany informer Nelson Castro escapes prison for perjury

-NY Daily News

Search for Boy’s Body Returns to Cellar That Looked Uneven Decades Earlier 

-NY Times

No Remains Found in Dig

-The Wall Street Journal

Etan Patz case: Pedro Hernandez arrested in Etan Patz’s 1979 disappearance

-NY Daily News

Eliot Spitzer Spending Big Money on Controller Campaign as Ex-Hooker Ashley Dupre Steps Out

-NY Daily News

No Prison for Booker at the Escort Service Tied to Spitzer

-The New York Times

Hooker Booker Gets Probation in Spritzer Case

- The N.Y. Post

Sex Wasn’t as Good For Livid Ring Convicts

- The N.Y. Post

No Federal Prostitution Charges for Spitzer

-The New York Times

In Case of Escort Ring Tied to Spitzer, a Fourth Guilty Plea From a Booker

-The New York Times

Escort worker pleads guilty in Eliot Spitzer prostitution case

-The New York Daily News

Do cell phone records prove man’s innocence?

(All charges dismissed on May 5, 2010)

- WABC-TV New York, NY

TJX Hacker Was Awash in Cash; His Penniless Coder Faces Prison

- WIRED.com

Cell Saves Wrong Man in Murder

- The N.Y. Post

Scissors Slayer Gets 5 Years

- The N.Y. Post

4 Arrested in North Hempstead Building Irregularities

(Mr. Farkas represents former Deputy Commissioner in North Hempstead Building Department scandal)

- Newsday