YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of the Sanzer Rebbe, HaRav Naftali Halberstam ZATZAL. He was 96, and likely the oldest Rebbe in the world. He was Niftar on Friday night. His Shul is in Boro Park on 48th Street and 16th Ave. Levaya information will be published when it becomes available to us. Boruch Dayan HaEmmes… (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
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Five men were stabbed Friday after a dispute over illegal fireworks in the Bronx turned violent, police said. Police said a man was setting off fireworks in a public park in the South Bronx shortly before 1:30 a.m. when he was confronted by someone who objected to the fireworks, sparking a fight. The man who had been setting off fireworks stabbed or slashed four men, and one of the men grabbed the knife and stabbed him, police said. All five men were hospitalized with wounds that police said were not life-threatening. Charges were pending. (AP)

A 35-year-old man has been arrested on charges he slashed a toddler in the face in upper Manhattan, police said Friday. The assault happened at around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday in Morningside Heights, police said. They said a man slashed a 2-year-old boy above the eye with an unknown sharp object and then fled. The injured child was treated at a nearby hospital. Police announced the arrest Friday of Anthony Gonzalez, 35, on charges of felony assault and criminal possession of a weapon. It wasn’t clear if Gonzalez had an attorney who could speak for him. Police Commissioner Dermot Shea praised the “hard work & dedication” of detectives in a tweet announcing the arrest. (AP)

Federal authorities arrested a man Saturday they say supplied glass bottles to a woman charged with hurling a Molotov cocktail at an occupied New York City police vehicle during unrest after George Floyd’s death. In court papers, prosecutors said Tim Amerman admitted to law enforcement agents that he invited Samantha Shader to take bottles from his recycling bin as she headed to the protests on May 29, but didn’t think she’d be using them to create an incendiary device. Amerman, 29, of Saugerties, New York, said he also gave Shader masks, rope, plastic baggies, marijuana and $10 in gas money, and that she took a hammer from his tool bucket, according to prosecutors. Amerman is charged with civil disorder and civil disorder conspiracy.

The field is now set in the battle to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Peter King in Congress. State Assemblyman Andrew Garbarino has won the Republican primary in the 2nd Congressional district on Long Island, defeating fellow Assemblyman Mike LiPetri. In the district’s Democratic primary, Jackie Gordon, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, guidance counselor and former Babylon Town Councilwoman, defeated activist Patricia Maher. Results in the two races weren’t immediately available the day voting ended on June 23, due to the large number of absentee ballots cast in the race. Counting resumed earlier this week and Gordon and Garbarino’s victories became clear on Friday.

The top federal prosecutor in Brooklyn is leaving his post for a job at the U.S. Justice Department in Washington. Richard Donoghue, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, told his staff Thursday that he will become the top deputy to Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen. The change takes effect July 13, said John Marzulli, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office. Donoghue is the second U.S. attorney in New York to leave his post in recent weeks. His former counterpart in Manhattan, Geoffrey Berman, was recently fired after overseeing several investigations that rankled President Donald Trump. Donoghue was appointed U.S. attorney in early 2018, serving as the chief federal prosecutor for a region that includes Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island.

A new state law in New York allows judges to set bail for more criminal charges than originally allowed under a sweeping 2019 reform that largely did away with cash bail for many people awaiting trial. Several criminal justice reform groups and state lawmakers raised concern at a Thursday virtual news conference that the amended law, which goes into effect in July, will land more people behind bars amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. “Legislators rolled back bail reform knowing that it would put more people in jail,” said Roger Clark, a community leader with the #HALTsolitary campaign and VOCAL-NY.

YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of longtime Boro Park Hatzolah member *(“B-24”)* R’ Shlomo Adler Z”L. He was around 71. The Niftar got sick with COVID-19 during the peak of infection in New York (around Pesach time), and was placed on a respirator, where he remained until his Petira today. The Levaya details were not yet available. Boruch Dayan HaEmmes… (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
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New York prosecutors seeking to revive state mortgage fraud charges against Paul Manafort say their case is distinct from one that sent President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman to federal prison and should not have been thrown out on double jeopardy grounds. In appeal paperwork made public Thursday, Manhattan prosecutors argued Judge Maxwell Wiley took an “exceedingly broad view” in reaching the conclusion last December that their case mirrored Manafort’s 2018 federal trial in Virginia.

The ousted former U.S. attorney for Manhattan will sit down with the House Judiciary Committee next week for a closed-door interview as the panel investigates politicization in the Justice Department. Geoffrey Berman, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York who led investigations into allies of President Donald Trump, will appear in person for the transcribed interview July 9, according to a person familiar with the meeting who requested anonymity because it hasn’t yet been announced. The committee plans to publicly release the transcript. Berman left his job last month after an extraordinary standoff in which he refused to resign until Trump himself fired him.