NYC NOW - September 27, 2023: Morning Headlines
Episode Date: September 27, 2023Get up and get informed! Here’s all the local news you need to start your day: The Adams administration is appealing a judge’s order to vacate a Staten Island emergency migrant shelter. Meanwhile,... a New York judge accuses former President Trump of long-standing fraud in his real estate ventures. Also, a 25-year-old withdraws from a plea deal moments before his federal court appearance for allegedly robbing a Brooklyn pastor on live-stream. In sports, the New York Liberty level their playoff series with the Connecticut Sun, 1-1.
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Welcome to NYC Now.
Your source for local news in and around New York City from WNYC.
It's Wednesday, September 27th.
Here's the morning headlines from Michael Hill.
The Adams administration plans to appeal a judge's order for the city to remove migrants housed
at an emergency shelter at a former Catholic school on Staten Island.
Judge Wayne Ozzy yesterday ruled in favor of neighbors and elected officials suing the city
for using the city-owned St. John's Villa Academy as an emergency shelter. In his decision,
the judge said the right to shelter does not exist. The city has adhered to that law so far in
dealing with the migraine crisis. A spokesperson from Mayor Adams says City Hall is not removing
anyone from the shelter. A New York judge says former President Trump committed fraud for years
while building the real estate empire that catapulted him to fame in the White House
in the civil lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James,
the judge found Trump and his company to see banks, insurers, and others
by massively overvaluing his assets and exaggerating his net worth
on paperwork used in making deals and securing financing.
The ruling resolves the key claim in the state AG's lawsuit,
but six others remain.
Judge, James, rather, is seeking $250 million in penalties
and a ban on Trump doing business in his home state of New York.
A 25-year-old accused of robbing a prominent Brooklyn pastor at gunpoint during a live-streamed service last year,
backed out of a plea deal yesterday moments before appearing in federal court.
WMIC, Samantha Maxx, explains.
Police say Seekwan Pollack was part of a group that stole about $1 million worth of jewelry from Bishop Lamore Whitehead while he was preaching in his Brooklyn church last year.
Pollock and another man, Joan Anderson, have been indicted on robbery and gun charges.
They've both pleaded not guilty and are now expected to stand trial next March.
Police haven't found a third person they believe was also involved in the robbery.
Whitehead told WNYC he was disappointed in Pollack's last-minute change of heart
and that he and his family are still traumatized from the robbery.
He's facing his own charges in Manhattan federal court for alleged fraud and extortion,
which he has denied.
The New York Liberty tied up their best-to-five playoff series with the Connecticut Sun
at one game apiece last night, 84 to 77. Game 3 Friday night at Mohegan Sun Arena in Connecticut.
54 and mostly cloudy right now, mostly sunny today and a high of 66 and breezy.
Tomorrow partly sunny and mid-60s once again, Friday Hickham, no shower and storm chances.
Cloudy and 65. But right now, 54 mostly cloudy on our way to a mostly sunny day in the mid-60s.
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