October 30, 2002

• Husband And Wife Plead Guilty To Reckless Endangerment; Posed As Physicians And Injected Patients With Botox-Like Substance Causing Life-Threatening Infection And Disfigurement; Both To Receive Prison Sentences

October 29, 2002

• Priest Who Pled Guilty To Stealing $95,940 In Church Funds Sentenced; Makes First Restitution Payment Of $10,000

October 25, 2002

• Homeless Man Charged In St. Francis Prep School Arson And Thomas Edison High School Break-In

October 23, 2002

• Reputed Organized Crime Associate And Brooklyn Dentist Plead Guilty; Admit They Extorted Queens Businessman

October 22, 2002

• District Attorney Brown Joins Mayor Bloomberg At City Hall To Announce New Program To Use Digital Tapes Of 911 Police Calls To Enhance Prosecution Of Domestic Violence Offenders

October 21, 2002

• Karate Teacher Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Sodomizing Boy Student

October 18, 2002

• Former District 29 Superintendent, Four Other Individuals And Five Corporations Plead Guilty In Scheme To Defraud Southeast Queens School District; Admit They Took Part In Corrupt Scheme To Rig Bids, Pay Bribes And Receive Kickbacks To Fix School Computer Contracts; Agree To Pay Almost $5.0 Million In Restitution

October 16, 2002

• Far Rockaway Man Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison For Raping 11-Year-Old Girl
• Former Nursing Home Employee Sentenced To 20 Years To Life In Prison For Supervisor’s Murder

October 15, 2002

• Queens Woman Who Beat To Death Her Five-Year-Old Daughter Convicted Of Manslaughter; Faces Up To 25 Years In Prison

October 12, 2002

• Fugitive In 1990 Hate Crime Homicide Found Shot To Death In Mexico

October 11, 2002

• Probationer Charged In Bite Attack Of Court Officer Who Lost Part Of Ear
• Second Defendant Convicted Of Murder In 2000 Cobblestone Slaying

October 10, 2002

• Queens District Attorney Commends Governor And State Legislature For New Law Making Identity Theft A Felony
• Queens Art Foundry Owner Charged In $140,000 Art Fraud; Allegedly Cast Copies Of Original Metal Sculptures Without Authorization And Sold Them To Unsuspecting Collectors As Genuine Originals

October 9, 2002

• Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown Names Assistant District Attorney Anthony Como and Tara Coughlin as Recipients of the Eleventh Annual Hal Miller Weinstein Memorial Award

October 7, 2002

• Hospital Housekeeper Charged With Social Security Fraud; Allegedly Received Over $46,000 In Grandmother's Benefits After Failing To Notify Government Of Her Death
• Assistant District Attorney James K. Delaney Retires; Career Prosecutor And Community Leader For Over Three Decades

October 3, 2002

• Six Charged In $2.0 Million Ripoff Of New York Mets; Organization's Ex-Tech Services Director Allegedly Received Nearly $600,000 In Unlawful Payments In Office Supplies Purchasing Schemes Over Six Year Period

October 1, 2002

• Investigation of Little Neck Bay Boating Collision Concluded: Evidence Found to be Legally Insufficient to Sustain Criminal Charges