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The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University in White Plains recently honored Veronica Dragalin, chief of the Anticorruption Prosecution Office for the Republic of Moldova, with its 2023 Robert S. Tucker Prize for Prosecutorial Excellence at a ceremony in New York City attended by fellow prosecutors and other members of the legal community. […] ....
During his 2020 campaign, Jones said on Instagram that “there’s no greater feeling than to be running to represent the community that raised me.” And after winning, he told News12 that “nothing beats living in Westchester and Rockland counties.” ....
The Highlight, our home for ambitious stories that explain our world. Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY) was among those on the House floor when rioters stormed the Capitol on January 6. The newly elected Congress member was listening to remarks during the certification of the presidential election results typically a routine, even somewhat dull proceeding in the transfer of power when security abruptly announced the building had been breached by a mob. Jones, along with dozens of other new Democratic and Republican members, had been sworn in just three days earlier. “My life literally flashed before my eyes, and I know that’s true for many of the approximately 200 other members of Congress who were [there] at the time,” Jones told Vox. ....