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7 Charged With Falsifying Building Testing Documents

Federal and local authorities arrested seven people on Tuesday, including the owners of two construction testing companies, officials from three contracting companies and a licensed engineer, on charges they falsified testing documents at four New York ...

From WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM, The New York Times,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Buildings Department,  Port Authority of New York and New Jersey,  Robert M. Morgenthau,  New York Yankees

City Seeking Outside Firm to Administer Construction Licensing Exams

Even as it faces a $5 billion budget deficit, service cuts and possible layoffs, the Bloomberg administration is preparing to spend several million dollars to hire a private testing firm to administer construction industry licensing exams that are ...

From WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Buildings Department,  Total Safety Consulting,  Deutsche Bank,  Michael Bloomberg,  Department of Citywide Administrative Services

Buildings Dept. Woes Have Persisted Despite Bloomberg’s Overhaul

Mayors have been grappling with inefficiency and corruption within the city’s Buildings Department for decades. John V. Lindsay’s buildings commissioner so tired of allegations of graft that he suggested the agency give its inspectors uniforms without ...

From WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM, The New York Times,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Michael Bloomberg,  Buildings Department,  Deutsche Bank,  John V. Lindsay,  FTI Consulting, Inc.

Lawyer and Police Commissioner Once Worked Same Side of the Street

In the early 1960s, two young police trainees routed telephone calls through a switchboard on the top floor of the department’s Beaux Arts headquarters building in Lower Manhattan, patching callers together by plugging heavy wires into a wall-size ...

From WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM, The New York Times,  6 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Raymond W. Kelly,  Najibullah Zazi

Rush for Clues Before Charges in Terror Case

Federal prosecutors have said they possess a trove of evidence in their terrorism case against Najibullah Zazi, a set of damning accusations laid out in a powerful narrative. It begins with explosives training in Pakistan, followed by purchases of bomb- ...

From DAVID JOHNSTON AND WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM, The New York Times,  30 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Najibullah Zazi,  Al-Qaeda

Terrorism Suspect Pleads Not Guilty

A Denver man who federal officials say was at the center of a Qaeda plot to set off bombs in the United States appeared in court in Brooklyn for the first time on Tuesday and pleaded not guilty to terrorism conspiracy charges. The man, Najibullah Zazi, ...

From WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM, The New York Times,  29 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Najibullah Zazi

Terror Suspect Is Charged With Plot to Use Bombs

A Denver airport shuttle bus driver who was arrested there last weekend was charged in Brooklyn on Thursday morning with conspiring with others to make and use bombs. The driver, Najibullah Zazi, 24, had been arrested with his father in Denver and ...

From WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM, International Herald Tribune,  24 Sep 2009

Related Topics: New York Police Department

2 Antiterror Commanders Reassigned

The New York Police Department has transferred two senior commanders, days after one of the departments two sometimes competing antiterrorism units played a role in compromising a sensitive federal terrorism investigation, current and former police ...

From WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM AND AL BAKER, The New York Times,  23 Sep 2009

Related Topics: New York Police Department,  David Cohen

How Using Imam in Terror Inquiry Backfired on New York Police

A decision to enlist a Queens imam in an effort to develop information about the man at the center of a long-running cross-country terrorism investigation backfired earlier this month. In fact, federal prosecutors have now charged the imam, a onetime ...

From WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM AND AL BAKER, The New York Times,  22 Sep 2009

Related Topics: New York Police Department,  Raymond W. Kelly,  Federal Bureau of Investigation,  David Cohen,  Central Intelligence Agency

Imam Arrested in Terror Inquiry Appears in Court

A figure in what authorities describe as a widening inquiry into a possible plot to detonate homemade bombs in the United States appeared in a New York City courtroom on Monday on charges that he lied to federal investigators about the ...

From DAVID JOHNSTON AND WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM, The New York Times,  21 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Al-Qaeda,  Ibrahim Hooper

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