"In the 1980s, if you said that Rudy Giuliani had been indicted on RICO charges, someone would've thought it was a bad 'Saturday Night Live' skit," said a colleague from his days as a prosecutor.
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Joshua Valles, arrested April 7 on burglary and petit larceny charges in Manhattan, died Monday at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, where he had been in a coma since May 20.
Hernandez is one of three detainees who claim they were subjected in the fall of 2021 to appalling dangerous conditions in unstaffed intake cells with minimal security and then held longer than they should have been. The case sparked public attention Feb. 3 when Manhattan Federal Judge Colleen McMahon blasted the Correction Department after lawyers for the city blew off three deadlines to turn over the names of staff involved in their detention.
In most months, a large retinue of correction officials and Commissioner Louis Molina attend the hearings. Tuesday’s hearing was to cover a range of issues including issues around the 16 deaths in the jails so far in 2022 and 16 more in 2021.