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ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) — A New York woman convicted of killing her infant daughter in the 1980s has been granted parole after six failed attempts, state officials said Monday. State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision officials said Marybeth Tinning, 75, could be released from prison as early as next month. Her release from a Westchester County prison was approved last week after a parole hearing, her seventh since being imprisoned in 1987, officials said in a statement. A jury convicted the Schenectady resident of killing her ninth child, 4-month-old Tami Lynne, in December 1985. She was the eighth child in the Tinning household to die between 1972 and 1985, CBS2’s Tony Aiello reported. Marybeth Tinning (credit: New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision) While Tinning was only convicted of killing Tami Lynne, she was suspected in the deaths of six of her other children. Authorities believe the couple’s first child died of natural causes. Marybeth Tinning was convicted of murder in 1987 for smothering Tami Lynne. Tinning was sentenced to 20 years to life and entered the medium-security Taconic Correctional Facility in Bedford Hills that October. She was denied parole six previous consecutive times, starting with her first parole hearing in March 2007. Tinning denied killing any of her children, including Tami Lynne, but that began to change during her second parole hearing in January 2011. “After the deaths of my other children … I just lost it,” Tinning told the parole board, according to the Times Union of Albany. “(I) became a damaged worthless piece of person and when my daughter was young, in my state of mind at that time, I just believed that she was going to die also. So I just did it.” Some experts believe Tinning suffered from the mental disorder Munchausen syndrome by proxy, and say her case helped encourage hospitals, police, and medical examiners to better communicate with each other in suspicious matters involving children. The Tinnings lived in Schenectady, where Joseph worked at the General Electric’s turbine manufacturing plant. His wife worked part-time jobs, including as a school bus driver and waitress. Three of the couple’s three children — 8 days old, 2 years old and 4 years old — died within a two-month span in early 1972. Authorities determined the infant girl died from acute meningitis and didn’t consider her death suspicious. Marybeth Tinning attributed the other two deaths to seizures. Investigators looked into the death of the 4-year-old but dropped the case after doctors attributed his death to cardiac arrest. The fourth child’s death just two weeks after birth in 1973 was attributed to sudden infant death syndrome. The death in 1975 of a 5-month-old boy was attributed after an autopsy to acute pulmonary edema. His death was followed four years later by that of a 3-month-old girl, who was said to have died of SIDS. The cause of death of a 3-month-old son in 1980 was undetermined, while the 1981 death of a 3-year-old boy the couple was in the process of adopting was blamed on bronchial pneumonia. While local doctors and pathologists at the hospitals where the Tinning children had been taken had grown suspicious by then, charges weren’t brought against Marybeth Tinning until Tami Lynne’s death. Under questioning by state police investigators in early 1986, she admitted to smothering the girl as well as two of her sons. Prosecutors indicted her for the three deaths, with the lone conviction coming in the case of Tami Lynne’s killing. Paul Callahan, Tinning’s trial attorney, said he was glad for her impending release. “There’s going to be an adjustment period for her, and who knows how long that will be?” Callahan told The Daily Gazette, the first to report her parole. “But she’ll wake up in the morning, walk around and do what she wants to do.” Her husband, who was never implicated in any of the deaths, told the newspaper he is “very glad that it will soon be all over with.” He said she expects her to live with him in Duanesburg, a rural town outside Schenectady. Messages left by The Associated Press at a number listed for him weren’t returned. (© Copyright 2018 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) — A New York woman convicted of killing her infant daughter in the 1980s has been granted parole after six failed attempts, state officials said Monday. State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision officials said Marybeth Tinning, 75, could be released from prison as early as next month. Her release from a Westchester County prison was approved last week after a parole hearing, her seventh since being imprisoned in 1987, officials said in a statement. A jury convicted the Schenectady resident of killing her ninth child, 4-month-old Tami Lynne, in December 1985. She was the eighth child in the Tinning household to die between 1972 and 1985, CBS2’s Tony Aiello reported. Marybeth Tinning (credit: New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision) While Tinning was only convicted of killing Tami Lynne, she was suspected in the deaths of six of her other children. Authorities believe the couple’s first child died of natural causes. Marybeth Tinning was convicted of murder in 1987 for smothering Tami Lynne. Tinning was sentenced to 20 years to life and entered the medium-security Taconic Correctional Facility in Bedford Hills that October. She was denied parole six previous consecutive times, starting with her first parole hearing in March 2007. Tinning denied killing any of her children, including Tami Lynne, but that began to change during her second parole hearing in January 2011. “After the deaths of my other children … I just lost it,” Tinning told the parole board, according to the Times Union of Albany. “(I) became a damaged worthless piece of person and when my daughter was young, in my state of mind at that time, I just believed that she was going to die also. So I just did it.” Some experts believe Tinning suffered from the mental disorder Munchausen syndrome by proxy, and say her case helped encourage hospitals, police, and medical examiners to better communicate with each other in suspicious matters involving children. The Tinnings lived in Schenectady, where Joseph worked at the General Electric’s turbine manufacturing plant. His wife worked part-time jobs, including as a school bus driver and waitress. Three of the couple’s three children — 8 days old, 2 years old and 4 years old — died within a two-month span in early 1972. Authorities determined the infant girl died from acute meningitis and didn’t consider her death suspicious. Marybeth Tinning attributed the other two deaths to seizures. Investigators looked into the death of the 4-year-old but dropped the case after doctors attributed his death to cardiac arrest. The fourth child’s death just two weeks after birth in 1973 was attributed to sudden infant death syndrome. The death in 1975 of a 5-month-old boy was attributed after an autopsy to acute pulmonary edema. His death was followed four years later by that of a 3-month-old girl, who was said to have died of SIDS. The cause of death of a 3-month-old son in 1980 was undetermined, while the 1981 death of a 3-year-old boy the couple was in the process of adopting was blamed on bronchial pneumonia. While local doctors and pathologists at the hospitals where the Tinning children had been taken had grown suspicious by then, charges weren’t brought against Marybeth Tinning until Tami Lynne’s death. Under questioning by state police investigators in early 1986, she admitted to smothering the girl as well as two of her sons. Prosecutors indicted her for the three deaths, with the lone conviction coming in the case of Tami Lynne’s killing. Paul Callahan, Tinning’s trial attorney, said he was glad for her impending release. “There’s going to be an adjustment period for her, and who knows how long that will be?” Callahan told The Daily Gazette, the first to report her parole. “But she’ll wake up in the morning, walk around and do what she wants to do.” Her husband, who was never implicated in any of the deaths, told the newspaper he is “very glad that it will soon be all over with.” He said she expects her to live with him in Duanesburg, a rural town outside Schenectady. Messages left by The Associated Press at a number listed for him weren’t returned. (© Copyright 2018 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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WASHINGTON (CNN) — A common drug used to control blood pressure and help prevent heart failure was announced by the US Food and Drug Administration on Friday, a week after 22 other countries recalled it because the drug contains a chemical that poses a potential cancer risk. Valsartan is off patent and is used as a component of other generic medicines, but not all medicines containing the ingredient are involved, according to the FDA . The US recall includes the the versions of valsartan that are made by Major Pharmaceuticals, Solco Healthcare and Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. as well as valsartan/hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) sold by Solco Healthcare and Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. “We have carefully assessed the valsartan-containing medications sold in the United States, and we’ve found that the valsartan sold by these specific companies does not meet our safety standards. This is why we’ve asked these companies to take immediate action to protect patients,” said Dr. Janet Woodcock, director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. In Europe and Asia, Novartis, the company that originally developed the drug, said Sandoz valsartan and valsartan /HCT film-coated tablets are being recalled because they “do not meet our high quality standards.” Pharmacies in the UK are advised to recall valsartan batches containing medicines made by Dexcel Pharma Ltd and Accord Healthcare. (Photo: SMU Constitutional and Administrative Law Wikipedia Project/Wikimedia Commons) The recall is due to the presence of the impurity, N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) , which was found in the recalled products, according to an FDA statement. NDMA is an organic chemical that is in a family of potent carcinogens. It has been used to make liquid rocket fuel, softeners and lubricants, among other products. It can also be unintentionally produced through certain chemical reactions and is a byproduct from some pesticide manufacturing, the making of rubber tires or fish processing. Animal studies have shown that NDMA can be toxic and cause tumors in the liver, kidney and respiratory tract. It can also be potentially harmful to humans in certain quantities. Exposure to high levels can cause liver damage and is a probable human carcinogen, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services . Novartis spokesman Eric Althoff said after the initial recall last week that products sold in the US were not affected by this recall, but the FDA’s ongoing review and laboratory tests found otherwise. “The presence of of NDMA was unexpected and is thought to be related to changes in the way the active substance was manufactured,” the FDA release said. “The amounts of NDMA found in Valsartan API are much lower than the cumulative endogenous production and usual external exposure of NDMA,” Althoff wrote in an email July 6. “There is no certainty as to how much this contaminant may potentially increase cancer risk in humans. Thus, the amount of NDMA found in the Valsartan API would not represent a significantly increased risk to the patients taking of Sandoz Valsartan and Sandoz Valsartan HCT Film coated tablets.” (Photo: fda.gov) The FDA’s investigation into the drug will continue. “The FDA is committed to maintaining our gold standard for safety and efficacy. That includes our efforts to ensure the quality of drugs and the safe manner in which they’re manufactured,” Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said Friday. “When we identify lapses in the quality of drugs and problems with their manufacturing that have the potential to create risks to patients, we’re committed to taking swift action to alert the public and help facilitate the removal of the products from the market. As we seek the removal of certain drug products today, our drug shortages team is also working hard to ensure patients’ therapeutic needs are met in the United States with an adequate supply of unaffected medications.” Patients are advised to talk to their doctor if they are taking the medication. They should not discontinue taking medication without a doctor’s permission. Going off their medication without supervision could be dangerous, according to the American Heart Association. (The-CNN-Wire & © 2018 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company. All rights reserved.)
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NEW YORK (AP) — The hammering and drilling began just months after Jared Kushner’s family real estate firm bought a converted warehouse apartment building in the hip, Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Tenants say it started early in the morning and went on until nightfall, so loud that it drowned out normal conversation, so violent it rattled pictures off the walls. So much dust wafted through ducts and under doorways that it coated beds and clothes in closets. Rats crawled through holes in the walls. Workers with passkeys barged in unannounced. Residents who begged for relief got a standard reply, “We have permits.” More than a dozen current and former residents of the building told The Associated Press that they believe the Kushner Cos.’ relentless construction, along with rent hikes of $500 a month or more, was part of a campaign to push tenants out of rent-stabilized apartments and bring high-paying condo buyers in. If so, it was a remarkably successful campaign. An AP investigation found that over the past three years, more than 250 rent-stabilized apartments — 75 percent of the building — were either emptied or sold as the Kushner Cos. was converting the building to luxury condos. Those sales so far have totaled more than $155 million, an average of $1.2 million per apartment. “They won, they succeeded,” says Barth Bazyluk, who left apartment C606 with his wife and baby daughter in December. “You have to be ignorant or dumb to think this wasn’t deliberate.” This up-close look at one of the Kushner Cos.’ largest residential buildings in New York illustrates what critics describe as the firm’s sharp-elbowed business practices while it was run by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and eventual White House adviser Jared Kushner. The Kushner Cos. told the AP that it didn’t harass any tenants to get them out. But the data suggest turnover at the building known as the Austin Nichols House was significantly higher than city averages for coveted rent-stabilized buildings, leaving behind a trail of anger, disrupted lives and a $10 million lawsuit filed late Sunday in which 20 tenants say they were harassed and exposed to high levels of cancer-causing dust. On Monday, a New York state agency announced it was launching an investigation into whether Kushner Cos. violated state housing laws and regulations meant to prevent landlords from disturbing tenants’ peace and privacy. “We’ve looked into hundreds of rent-stabilized buildings and this is one of the worst we’ve ever seen,” says Aaron Carr, head of tenant watchdog Housing Rights Initiative, whose investigation led to the lawsuit. “The scale and speed of tenants leaving, the conditions to which they were exposed, provides a window into the Kushner Cos.’ predatory business model.” In a statement, the Kushner Cos. acknowledged it received some complaints about construction during major renovations, which ended in December 2017, but said that it responded to them immediately and that “tremendous care was taken to prevent dust and inconvenience to tenants.” It said many tenants moved out when their rent was increased to the maximum allowed under rent-stabilization rules. Those rules limit the amount that landlords can hike rent each year to protect tenants from getting pushed out, though in this building the rents weren’t cheap, with one-bedrooms going for more than $3,000 a month. Also, the city’s building department says it sent inspectors to the building dozens of times since 2015 and uncovered no evidence that construction rules were being violated, a finding that some residents say doesn’t square with their experiences. The landmarked Austin Nichols House at 184 Kent Avenue, for decades a warehouse for groceries and Wild Turkey bourbon, was gutted by a previous owner in 2010 to create sleek apartments that took advantage of the building’s high ceilings and waterfront views. When Jared Kushner and two partners bought it for $275 million in April 2015, they made it clear they wanted to convert the building’s 338 apartments — all of them rent-stabilized — into condos. All but nine were occupied, and other than maxing out the rent, developers had few tools if they wanted to get tenants out. Just months after the purchase, the Kushners began extensive renovations, ripping out appliances, floors and countertops that had been installed five years before. “There were consistently people in the hallway early, 8 or so, banging on things, taking down walls. There was lots of dust. … They had fans, and they were blowing dust under the doors,” says tech salesman Marcus Carvalho, who left the building in December after six years, deciding the $1,000 or so increase in rent to renew his lease wasn’t worth it. “I didn’t want to spend another minute in that construction zone.” His 679-square-foot (63-square-meter), one-room apartment, B502, sold the next month for $800,000. A few weeks after Carvalho left, the woman in C405 couldn’t take the noise anymore either. “It’s like having a root canal without the physical pain. … It was drilling from every direction,” says Jane Coxwell, a chef who works late nights and writes at home during the day. “It was impossible to take a call. You could never sit and read a book or get any work done.” Then came the rats, including one she accosted with a tennis racket as it teetered on a curtain rod in her bathroom. She also had to contend with a flood after workers hit a pipe in the unit above her and with the constant fear workers would burst into her apartment at any moment after two with passkeys tried to do just that, once while she was in her underwear. Coxwell, one of the plaintiffs in Sunday’s suit, says she sent dozens of emails to Kushner managers for more than a year asking for help, but got little relief. One particularly noisy day she finally broke down, walked up to a construction manager and worker standing near her door and found herself forcing the words out through tears. “I understand you have to work, but I don’t know how to ask anymore,” she pleaded. “Please, please, can you keep it down?” She says the men just laughed. Much of the work was done in 2016, and then the Kushners went on a selling spree. In 2017 alone, the company sold 99 apartments in the building, according to Jared Kushner’s federal financial disclosure forms. Brokerage data show an additional 16 apartments sold by early March 2018. That same month Kushner Cos. had 151 vacant apartments in the building, according to a court document. The Kushner Cos. refused to confirm the numbers. At the height of the construction, tenants fought back with three dozen complaints to the city’s 311 hotline about work after hours, banging and pounding, falling debris and rodents. After people complained about dust, Kushner Cos. put plastic sheeting around doorways, though many say it didn’t help much. And after they complained about workers entering their apartments without permission, the company eventually posted guards in hallways. “The banner says `Luxury Waterfront Homes For Sale,”‘ says plaintiff Jeff Werner, a banker who’s lived in the building for eight years. “It doesn’t advertise `Live in a Construction Zone with White Toxic Dust Blowing.”‘ Dust samples taken from nine apartments in May by consultants Olmsted Environmental Services turned up dangerously high levels of lead and crystalline silica. Breathing in tiny silica particles has been linked to lung cancer, liver disease and an incurable swelling of the lungs. The $10 million lawsuit alleges Kushner Cos. and its partners attempted to push tenants out by creating unlivable conditions with construction noise and dust in violation of state and city rules and laws. It also alleges the Kushners, by failing to take proper precautions, exposed residents to a “cloud of toxic smoke and dust.” The Kushner Cos. disputed the findings of the environmental report, alleging it appeared to be an updated version of a report prepared several years ago. “The lawsuit filed today by certain current and former tenants of Austin Nichols House is totally without merit and we intend to defend it vigorously,” the company said in a statement issued Monday afternoon. “The residents of Austin Nichols House were fully informed about the planned renovation and all work was completed under the full supervision by the New York City Department of Buildings and other regulatory agencies, with full permits and with no violations for these claims.” “Tenants were never pressured to leave their apartments and the market-rate rent stabilization was – and continues to be – complied with under applicable rent guidelines,” the statement continued. “Any complaints during construction (which was completed in 2017) were evaluated and addressed promptly by the property management team. The property management team is committed to continuing to meet the needs of all residents.” Ronan Conroy says he complained to the Kushners several times, walking down to the sales office once to confront management in person. “Your strategy is to get people out, right?” Conroy recalls asking a staffer at the desk. He says the man basically shrugged, offered no dispute, then said, “We can let you out of your lease.” Frustrated and facing a big rent hike, Conroy left in early 2016. “My strong impression is they made the building as unlivable as possible so they could get everyone out of there.” (© Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
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NEW YORK (AP) — The hammering and drilling began just months after Jared Kushner’s family real estate firm bought a converted warehouse apartment building in the hip, Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Tenants say it started early in the morning and went on until nightfall, so loud that it drowned out normal conversation, so violent it rattled pictures off the walls. So much dust wafted through ducts and under doorways that it coated beds and clothes in closets. Rats crawled through holes in the walls. Workers with passkeys barged in unannounced. Residents who begged for relief got a standard reply, “We have permits.” More than a dozen current and former residents of the building told The Associated Press that they believe the Kushner Cos.’ relentless construction, along with rent hikes of $500 a month or more, was part of a campaign to push tenants out of rent-stabilized apartments and bring high-paying condo buyers in. If so, it was a remarkably successful campaign. An AP investigation found that over the past three years, more than 250 rent-stabilized apartments — 75 percent of the building — were either emptied or sold as the Kushner Cos. was converting the building to luxury condos. Those sales so far have totaled more than $155 million, an average of $1.2 million per apartment. “They won, they succeeded,” says Barth Bazyluk, who left apartment C606 with his wife and baby daughter in December. “You have to be ignorant or dumb to think this wasn’t deliberate.” This up-close look at one of the Kushner Cos.’ largest residential buildings in New York illustrates what critics describe as the firm’s sharp-elbowed business practices while it was run by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and eventual White House adviser Jared Kushner. The Kushner Cos. told the AP that it didn’t harass any tenants to get them out. But the data suggest turnover at the building known as the Austin Nichols House was significantly higher than city averages for coveted rent-stabilized buildings, leaving behind a trail of anger, disrupted lives and a $10 million lawsuit filed late Sunday in which 20 tenants say they were harassed and exposed to high levels of cancer-causing dust. On Monday, a New York state agency announced it was launching an investigation into whether Kushner Cos. violated state housing laws and regulations meant to prevent landlords from disturbing tenants’ peace and privacy. “We’ve looked into hundreds of rent-stabilized buildings and this is one of the worst we’ve ever seen,” says Aaron Carr, head of tenant watchdog Housing Rights Initiative, whose investigation led to the lawsuit. “The scale and speed of tenants leaving, the conditions to which they were exposed, provides a window into the Kushner Cos.’ predatory business model.” In a statement, the Kushner Cos. acknowledged it received some complaints about construction during major renovations, which ended in December 2017, but said that it responded to them immediately and that “tremendous care was taken to prevent dust and inconvenience to tenants.” It said many tenants moved out when their rent was increased to the maximum allowed under rent-stabilization rules. Those rules limit the amount that landlords can hike rent each year to protect tenants from getting pushed out, though in this building the rents weren’t cheap, with one-bedrooms going for more than $3,000 a month. Also, the city’s building department says it sent inspectors to the building dozens of times since 2015 and uncovered no evidence that construction rules were being violated, a finding that some residents say doesn’t square with their experiences. The landmarked Austin Nichols House at 184 Kent Avenue, for decades a warehouse for groceries and Wild Turkey bourbon, was gutted by a previous owner in 2010 to create sleek apartments that took advantage of the building’s high ceilings and waterfront views. When Jared Kushner and two partners bought it for $275 million in April 2015, they made it clear they wanted to convert the building’s 338 apartments — all of them rent-stabilized — into condos. All but nine were occupied, and other than maxing out the rent, developers had few tools if they wanted to get tenants out. Just months after the purchase, the Kushners began extensive renovations, ripping out appliances, floors and countertops that had been installed five years before. “There were consistently people in the hallway early, 8 or so, banging on things, taking down walls. There was lots of dust. … They had fans, and they were blowing dust under the doors,” says tech salesman Marcus Carvalho, who left the building in December after six years, deciding the $1,000 or so increase in rent to renew his lease wasn’t worth it. “I didn’t want to spend another minute in that construction zone.” His 679-square-foot (63-square-meter), one-room apartment, B502, sold the next month for $800,000. A few weeks after Carvalho left, the woman in C405 couldn’t take the noise anymore either. “It’s like having a root canal without the physical pain. … It was drilling from every direction,” says Jane Coxwell, a chef who works late nights and writes at home during the day. “It was impossible to take a call. You could never sit and read a book or get any work done.” Then came the rats, including one she accosted with a tennis racket as it teetered on a curtain rod in her bathroom. She also had to contend with a flood after workers hit a pipe in the unit above her and with the constant fear workers would burst into her apartment at any moment after two with passkeys tried to do just that, once while she was in her underwear. Coxwell, one of the plaintiffs in Sunday’s suit, says she sent dozens of emails to Kushner managers for more than a year asking for help, but got little relief. One particularly noisy day she finally broke down, walked up to a construction manager and worker standing near her door and found herself forcing the words out through tears. “I understand you have to work, but I don’t know how to ask anymore,” she pleaded. “Please, please, can you keep it down?” She says the men just laughed. Much of the work was done in 2016, and then the Kushners went on a selling spree. In 2017 alone, the company sold 99 apartments in the building, according to Jared Kushner’s federal financial disclosure forms. Brokerage data show an additional 16 apartments sold by early March 2018. That same month Kushner Cos. had 151 vacant apartments in the building, according to a court document. The Kushner Cos. refused to confirm the numbers. At the height of the construction, tenants fought back with three dozen complaints to the city’s 311 hotline about work after hours, banging and pounding, falling debris and rodents. After people complained about dust, Kushner Cos. put plastic sheeting around doorways, though many say it didn’t help much. And after they complained about workers entering their apartments without permission, the company eventually posted guards in hallways. “The banner says `Luxury Waterfront Homes For Sale,”‘ says plaintiff Jeff Werner, a banker who’s lived in the building for eight years. “It doesn’t advertise `Live in a Construction Zone with White Toxic Dust Blowing.”‘ Dust samples taken from nine apartments in May by consultants Olmsted Environmental Services turned up dangerously high levels of lead and crystalline silica. Breathing in tiny silica particles has been linked to lung cancer, liver disease and an incurable swelling of the lungs. The $10 million lawsuit alleges Kushner Cos. and its partners attempted to push tenants out by creating unlivable conditions with construction noise and dust in violation of state and city rules and laws. It also alleges the Kushners, by failing to take proper precautions, exposed residents to a “cloud of toxic smoke and dust.” The Kushner Cos. disputed the findings of the environmental report, alleging it appeared to be an updated version of a report prepared several years ago. “The lawsuit filed today by certain current and former tenants of Austin Nichols House is totally without merit and we intend to defend it vigorously,” the company said in a statement issued Monday afternoon. “The residents of Austin Nichols House were fully informed about the planned renovation and all work was completed under the full supervision by the New York City Department of Buildings and other regulatory agencies, with full permits and with no violations for these claims.” “Tenants were never pressured to leave their apartments and the market-rate rent stabilization was – and continues to be – complied with under applicable rent guidelines,” the statement continued. “Any complaints during construction (which was completed in 2017) were evaluated and addressed promptly by the property management team. The property management team is committed to continuing to meet the needs of all residents.” Ronan Conroy says he complained to the Kushners several times, walking down to the sales office once to confront management in person. “Your strategy is to get people out, right?” Conroy recalls asking a staffer at the desk. He says the man basically shrugged, offered no dispute, then said, “We can let you out of your lease.” Frustrated and facing a big rent hike, Conroy left in early 2016. “My strong impression is they made the building as unlivable as possible so they could get everyone out of there.” (© Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Nearly four years after Eric Garner died during an arrest on Staten Island, the NYPD gave the U.S. Justice Department an ultimatum; if federal investigators don’t take action on the case by the end of August police brass will step in. Garner died four years ago Tuesday, and the department says it’s ready to start hearings against the officers involved and cannot wait any longer for the federal investigation to wrap up. Cell phone video from July 17th, 2014 captured officers trying to arrest the 43-year-old Garner for allegedly selling loose cigarettes. Officer Daniel Pantaleo is seen putting his arm around Garner’s neck as he pulled him onto the ground. Garner was repeatedly heard saying “I can’t breath,” and later died. In a letter to the Justice Department, NYPD attorney Lawrence Byrne says the department didn’t move ahead with disciplinary proceedings because it did not want to impact the federal investigation into the case. Now, the NYPD is giving the DOJ until August 31st to announce whether it will file civil rights charges. If no decision is announced, Byrne says the department will move forward. Garner’s family spoke just a short time ago. “We want it to be done swiftly,” mother Gwen Carr said. “We don’t want politics to play a part in this. We just want justice for my son.” PBA President Patrick Lynch released a statement Monday saying he agrees the DOJ should move to close Officer Pantaleo’s case, and they’re confident he will be vindicated. A Staten Island grand jury did not indict the officer on charges in Garner’s death. Pantaleo remains on modified duty.
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Nearly four years after Eric Garner died during an arrest on Staten Island, the NYPD gave the U.S. Justice Department an ultimatum; if federal investigators don’t take action on the case by the end of August police brass will step in. Garner died four years ago Tuesday, and the department says it’s ready to start hearings against the officers involved and cannot wait any longer for the federal investigation to wrap up. Cell phone video from July 17th, 2014 captured officers trying to arrest the 43-year-old Garner for allegedly selling loose cigarettes. Officer Daniel Pantaleo is seen putting his arm around Garner’s neck as he pulled him onto the ground. Garner was repeatedly heard saying “I can’t breath,” and later died. In a letter to the Justice Department, NYPD attorney Lawrence Byrne says the department didn’t move ahead with disciplinary proceedings because it did not want to impact the federal investigation into the case. Now, the NYPD is giving the DOJ until August 31st to announce whether it will file civil rights charges. If no decision is announced, Byrne says the department will move forward. Garner’s family spoke just a short time ago. “We want it to be done swiftly,” mother Gwen Carr said. “We don’t want politics to play a part in this. We just want justice for my son.” PBA President Patrick Lynch released a statement Monday saying he agrees the DOJ should move to close Officer Pantaleo’s case, and they’re confident he will be vindicated. A Staten Island grand jury did not indict the officer on charges in Garner’s death. Pantaleo remains on modified duty.
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DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (CBSNewYork/AP) — A 30-year-old woman with an addiction to painkillers has been accused of killing her toddler son with a lethal mix of drugs in her breast milk. Samantha Whitney Jones was charged Friday with criminal homicide in the April 2 death of her 11-month-old baby. More From CBS Philly An autopsy found the baby died from a combination of methadone, amphetamine and methamphetamine, the Bucks County District Attorney’s office said in a statement. According to an affidavit, Jones told police she’d been too tired to make the baby a bottle when he awoke crying at 3 a.m. and instead breastfed him. Samantha Whitney Jones. (credit: Bucks County District Attorney’s Office) A few hours later, the baby was pale and had bloody mucus coming from his nose, she told police. Jones’s mother began CPR at the instruction of a dispatcher after they called 911, the affidavit said. Police arrived at the home in New Britain, about 35 miles north of Philadelphia, to find the baby in cardiac arrest. He was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where he died. The affidavit stated that Jones said she primarily had been breastfeeding the baby, but switched to formula a few days before the baby’s death, saying the infant wasn’t getting enough milk. Jones told police that she had been prescribed methadone because of an addiction to painkillers, that she had taken it during her pregnancy, and that she was taking it at the time of the baby’s death, the affidavit said. A message seeking comment from her lawyer, Louis Busico, wasn’t returned Monday. Other parents have faced charges over drug-laced breast milk in recent years. In 2016, two former Arizona TV news reporters were sentenced to a year of probation and suspended 30-day jail terms after cocaine was found in their baby’s system. And in 2012, a California woman whose infant son died after ingesting methamphetamine-laced breast milk was sentenced to six years in prison. Jones is being held on $3 million cash bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for July 23, according to CBS Philly . (© Copyright 2018 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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Pennsylvania Mom Accused Of Killing Infant Son With Drug-Laced Breast Milk
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (CBSNewYork/AP) — A 30-year-old woman with an addiction to painkillers has been accused of killing her toddler son with a lethal mix of drugs in her breast milk. Samantha Whitney Jones was charged Friday with criminal homicide in the April 2 death of her 11-month-old baby. More From CBS Philly An autopsy found the baby died from a combination of methadone, amphetamine and methamphetamine, the Bucks County District Attorney’s office said in a statement. According to an affidavit, Jones told police she’d been too tired to make the baby a bottle when he awoke crying at 3 a.m. and instead breastfed him. Samantha Whitney Jones. (credit: Bucks County District Attorney’s Office) A few hours later, the baby was pale and had bloody mucus coming from his nose, she told police. Jones’s mother began CPR at the instruction of a dispatcher after they called 911, the affidavit said. Police arrived at the home in New Britain, about 35 miles north of Philadelphia, to find the baby in cardiac arrest. He was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where he died. The affidavit stated that Jones said she primarily had been breastfeeding the baby, but switched to formula a few days before the baby’s death, saying the infant wasn’t getting enough milk. Jones told police that she had been prescribed methadone because of an addiction to painkillers, that she had taken it during her pregnancy, and that she was taking it at the time of the baby’s death, the affidavit said. A message seeking comment from her lawyer, Louis Busico, wasn’t returned Monday. Other parents have faced charges over drug-laced breast milk in recent years. In 2016, two former Arizona TV news reporters were sentenced to a year of probation and suspended 30-day jail terms after cocaine was found in their baby’s system. And in 2012, a California woman whose infant son died after ingesting methamphetamine-laced breast milk was sentenced to six years in prison. Jones is being held on $3 million cash bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for July 23, according to CBS Philly . (© Copyright 2018 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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