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☆ Chinese asylum seekers in New York City live in limbo, caught between China and the US
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Tara John | Yong Xiong | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

It was his only day off from working 12-hour shifts at a Chinese restaurant in New York City. Evelio Contreras/CNNAfter arriving in New York, Ye spent a week in a Manhattan shelter. For Chinese asylum seekers like Ye, there is a well-trodden route to residency in the US. … It’s impossible for them to be spies.”But the rhetoric around the rise of undocumented Chinese migrants highlights growing tensions between the US and Chinese governments. He received permanent US residence a year later and has gone on to help Chinese migrants in Flushing.

Persons: Ye Chengxiang, “, ”, Ye, Evelio Contreras, Amy Hsin, Jiang Zhen, Yong Xiong, Xi Jinping, Biden, Mark Green of, Wan Yanhai, …, Jiang, “ It’s, I’m, Melanie Stetson Freeman, ’ Wan, Flushing . Li Jiada, Li Jiada, Jesus, Li Organizations: NY CNN, Central America, CNN, Queens College, Customs and, Embassy, Central, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, China, Republicans, Republican, House Homeland Security Committee, Communist Party, Christian Science, Customs Enforcement, of, Yorker Locations: Flushing, NY, New York City, China, Communist, Ye, States, Colombia, Darien, South, Central, New York, Manhattan, Flushing’s, Sunset, Mexico, Central America, Queens, Hunan province, Guangdong, Chinatown, , Flushing , New York, San Francisco, Mark Green of Tennessee, Beijing, Flushing ., Flushing , Queens

☆ I was accepted to Yale. Here's everything I included in my successful Ivy League application.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Brian Zhang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewI recently reviewed my Yale admissions file after being a student there for three years. I believe that everyone's college application journey is unique and that mine is just one sample, but I equally understand the urge to hear about other people's experiences. So, I'm now sharing a deeper look into my college application. I tried to highlight my passions in my extracurricularsThe author's college application. I wanted to capture who I truly am in my college essayThe author's college essay.

Persons: —, I'm, Brian Zhang, Brian, genuineness Organizations: Service, Yale, YouTube, Business, Dartmouth, Colleges, Ivy League Locations: Sunset Park , Brooklyn, Brooklyn

☆ Paul Auster, author of ‘New York Trilogy,’ dead at 77
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Lianne Kolirin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Paul Auster, the acclaimed American author of “The New York Trilogy,” has died at age 77. A host of media outlets reported that Auster’s death was confirmed by his friend and fellow author Jacki Lyden. Auster began translating the works of French writers when he moved to France after graduating from Columbia University in 1970. Major recognition came after the publication of “The New York Trilogy” – a series of experimental detective stories – in 1987. An early experience of how life can change in an instant played a major influence on Auster and his writing.

Persons: CNN — Paul Auster, ”, Auster, Jacki Lyden, Auster’s, Siri Hustvedt, Hustvedt, “, Paul, Timothy Fadek, ” Auster, Prince, Asturias, Booker, Paul Auster Organizations: CNN, The, Columbia University, American Academy of Arts and, Ordre des Arts, des, Booker Locations: Newark , New Jersey, France, “ Cancerland, Brooklyn , New York

☆ How to Use Up Those Easter Eggs
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-31 | by ( Sam Sifton | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I had a lovely run of Brooklyn sandwiches going, before work, school and Easter intervened to send me back to the kitchen. A colossal roast beef, fried eggplant and mozzarella hero from Defonte’s in Red Hook, with hot peppers, gravy and mayonnaise. (A few years ago, I ginned up a recipe for the roast beef hero from Defonte’s.) But today is Easter, and not really a day for sandwiches — unless they’re ham ones on little potato rolls, with strong mustard, to eat in a side yard in the chill while children run around looking for hidden eggs. I want to make deviled eggs (above) to celebrate the holiday puckishly, or maybe a big egg salad to serve in lettuce cups.

Persons: Easter Locations: Brooklyn, Saigon, Ba, Sunset Park, Defonte’s, Red Hook, Taku, Greenpoint, Kings County

☆ Against All Odds, New York’s Artist Buildings Have Survived
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( M.H. Miller | Miranda Barnes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

The expansion of government-subsidized housing loans meant that cheap space was also easy to come by, as New York had a then-ample stock of residential and industrial buildings. But the city has always romanticized artist-dominated buildings, the kinds of communal spaces in which every unit might be home to an artist’s studio (and sometimes, unofficially, their residences, too). In an almost unheard-of feat of perseverance, the same artist, Don Dudley, 93, has been working out of this loft since 1971. So artists have had to create a kind of whisper network to withstand New York’s unimpeachable forward march, which the art market has, ironically, enabled. Most of them are temporary fixes before an artist — who’s grown out, or been priced out, of their space — has to move on.

Persons: Bill, Don Dudley, What’s, it’s, — who’s Organizations: Veterans, Pop Art, Brooklyn Army, Financial, Artists Locations: Europe, Paris, New York, York, Sunset, Williamsburg , Brooklyn, Ridgewood , Queens, TriBeCa, ”, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens

☆ Meet the female force who halted a major development project to preserve her working-class neighborhood and make it a leader in clean energy
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Kelly Burch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

To that end, Yeampierre helped prevent developer Jamestown Properties, which manages billions of dollars worth of real estate globally, from rezoning her Brooklyn neighborhood, Sunset Park. AdvertisementA new vision for Sunset ParkSituated along the scenic New York Bay in southwestern Brooklyn, Sunset Park is a diverse neighborhood that many working class individuals call home. Climate change has led to consequences like more extreme drought, severe storms, and destructive flooding that can disrupt supply chains for local communities. To help protect Sunset Park from complete chaos in the face of an extreme weather event, UPROSE is focused on growing more food locally. Because when it comes to finding solutions for climate change, "We just don't have any time anymore."

Persons: —, Elizabeth Yeampierre, Yeampierre, Toshi Sasaki, UPROSE, Chris Halfnight, Halfnight, we've Organizations: Service, Business, Big Apple, Latina, Environmental Justice, Council, Climate Justice Youth Summit, Jamestown Properties, Sunset, Urban Green Council Locations: New York, New York City, Jamestown, Brooklyn, Sunset, Boston, Houston

Walk up to Lafayette Avenue between Fulton Street and Bedford Avenue for one of the best parties along the course. You can also catch runners at several points in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, along Bedford Avenue between Lafayette Avenue and Nassau Avenue. Take the L train to Bedford Avenue, the M or J train to Marcy Avenue or the G train to Nassau Avenue or Greenpoint Avenue. The Q subway line stops at several points along this stretch. North of 96th Street, use the 6 subway line to get to this part of the course.

Persons: It’s, Alexander, Duke Ellington, Charles A, Dana, Harlem Meer, “ Organizations: New York, Brooklyn, Barclays Center, Lafayette, Bedford, Queens, ., Dana Discovery Center, Park, Columbus, West Locations: Staten Island, Brooklyn, Staten, Bay Ridge, Sunset, Park, Flatbush, Fulton Street, Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bedford, Lafayette Avenue, Nassau, Avenue, Vernon, Jackson, . Manhattan, Manhattan, Bronx, Harlem

☆ Live updates: Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty in fraud trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Cnn'S Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

US District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan announced that convicted former FTX CEO Sam Bankman will be sentenced on March 28, 2024. Meanwhile, Bankman-Fried will return to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where he’s been held since August. Located on the industrial waterfront of Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood, the MDC has earned a reputation as one of the worst jails in America. Bankman-Fried is also “friendly” with Genaro García Luna, the former head of Mexico’s FBI, who is awaiting sentencing for drug trafficking, this person said. He seemed to have lost weight and, most surprising, his trademark wild locks were gone, shorn into a tight crew haircut.

Persons: Lewis Kaplan, Sam Bankman, Fried, he’s, he’d, Genaro García Luna Organizations: Metropolitan Detention, MDC, CNN, FBI Locations: Brooklyn, Bahamas, Palo Alto, Sunset, America, Honduras

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Persons: Van, Obeid, ”, It’s, who’s, New, Casey Berkovitz, Mr, ’ you’re, ‘, Yemen ’, ” Mr, ” Long, Robert Moses ’ Brooklyn, Red, “, ” Colson Whitehead, Readers, Fort Greene, Tubby, ., Red Hook, Hook, Whitehead, we’ll, Douglas Elliman, ” “, streeteasy, Xavier Santiago, it’s, Suleiman Osman, Rambo, Ross Perlin, Perlin, Sures, Yemen hasn’t Organizations: Kennedy, Google, Bronx Zoo, East Harlem —, Carnegie, Brooklyn, New York Times, Times, Richmond Hill, city’s, Department, Bronx . The Bronx Muslim, Bushwick :, Stuyvesant Bushwick, Powell, soho tribeca, New York Public, Queens Expressway, Yorkers, steinway, Queens, Navy, Waterfront District, Fort, Brooklyn - Queens, Yorker, Bushwick, Jersey Silver, Park New Jersey Silver, Prospect, White, Furman Center, Sterling, East, Manhattan’s, brooklyn South brooklyn South brooklyn South brooklyn, Liberty Loan, Carroll Gardens, “, brooklyn ”, Language Alliance, East Harlem, Washington Locations: New York City, Bronx, Morris, New York, Little Yemen, Manhattan, East, Sugar, Clinton, Rose, Richmond, Todt, Lenox, Forest, Cypress Hills, Murray, Yemen, “, Brooklyn, Bushwick, Bushwick : Bushwick Bedford, Stuyvesant Bushwick Bedford, Stuyvesant, Windsor Terrace, windsor, Green, kensington, Queens, Point, Flushing, Powell, Lower Manhattan, TriBeCa, SoHo, Houston, soho, Hudson, Lispenard, Queens Expressway Brooklyn, Astoria, Woodside, Jackson Heights, astoria, sunnyside Brooklyn, Dumbo, Columbia, Red Hook, williamsburg, columbia, carroll, Red, Fort Greene Park Brooklyn, Queens Expressway columbia, Williamsburg, greenpoint East, Queens Expressway williamsburg, greenpoint East River williamsburg Brooklyn, East Williamsburg, ”, BoCoCa, Hamilton Heights, Greenwood Heights, Hudson Heights, Lincoln, Bridges, Carnegie Hill, Manhattan Valley, SpaHa, Village, Bedford, Kingsbridge, Riverdale, Fort, Inwood, Inwood washington, chelsea, greenpoint tribeca williamsburg ridgewood kew, brooklyn, bushwick, Soho ridgewood kew, Sheepshead, Shore, Staten Island, Jersey, Park New Jersey, Flatbush, Prospect, Prospect Heights , Brooklyn, Heights , Brooklyn, Prospect Heights, Crown, Washington, Classon, Crown Heights, Side, East Harlem, harlem, Harlem, Central, streeteasy, carnegie, South Brooklyn, Carroll, Revolutionary, Boerum, Cobble, South Bronx, Spanish Harlem, South Harlem, Lower, Loíza, Puerto Rico, Language, Barrio, Puerto Rican, Hispaniola, Dominican, Washington Heights

☆ What Makes a Tiny Home Cool? Apartment Therapy Has Some Ideas.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Julie Lasky | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Likely, when we close our eyes and think of a small space, it’s white walls, no lighting and bad storage,” said Nate Berkus. Mr. Berkus, the celebrity interior designer, was standing in a bright, cabinet-outfitted bathroom that he designed for Apartment Therapy’s “Small/Cool NYC,” a pop-up exhibition in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The event, which is running on consecutive weekends this month and will conclude on Sunday, Oct. 29, is halfway between a showhouse and a showroom. More than a dozen 10-by-12-foot room schemes — imagined by creators as fresh as Maitri Mody, a fashion influencer who posts on Instagram under the name Honey I Dressed the Pug, and as seasoned as the talk-show host and domestic strategist Drew Barrymore — offer tips for loosening up tight quarters. Visitors can steal ideas like Ms. Mody’s choice of fruit-and-vegetable-shaped hardware on sherbet-colored kitchen cabinets or they can shop the settings using QR codes.

Persons: “, ”, Nate Berkus, Berkus, Drew Barrymore Locations: Sunset Park , Brooklyn

☆ Brooklyn subway shooter who wounded 10 faces sentencing on terrorism charges
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Frank James, the suspect in the Brooklyn subway shooting walks outside a police precinct in New York City, New York, U.S., April 13, 2022. "I got on the subway train that was carrying people," James told the courtroom. James opened fire during the morning rush hour as the train headed to an underground station in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood. Prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's office in Brooklyn are seeking what amounts to a life sentence: 10 concurrent life sentences plus 10 years. James' attorneys are seeking an 18-year sentence, according to court documents.

Persons: Frank James, Andrew Kelly, James, Gabriella Borter, Rami Ayyub Organizations: Brooklyn, REUTERS, New, New York Police Department, Thomson Locations: New York City , New York, U.S, New York, Brooklyn, New York City, East Village, Manhattan, Sunset, Bronx, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, New Jersey

☆ Children Are the Casualties in New Yorkers’ Daily Struggle for Space
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Ginia Bellafante | More About Ginia Bellafante | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Nicholas’s father, Otoniel Feliz, has said that he had no idea that a tenant was living there when he sent his son to the center. But Ms. Mendez, who wept during her most recent court appearance, has denied knowing that her licensed and recently inspected home business had become a stash house for a kilo of fentanyl and the accompanying paraphernalia. This was the second time in just a few weeks that a devastating loss proved to be the collateral damage of an informal leasing agreement. Last month, a 43-year-old woman named Zhao Zhao was killed in her apartment in Sunset Park in Brooklyn when a man went after her with a hammer, also injuring her two children, 3 and 5, who face a long recovery as they learn again how to walk. The apartment had three rooms; Ms. Zhao and her children occupied one, a single person lived in a second, and a 9-year-old boy took up the third with his father, who was charged in the killing.

Persons: Otoniel, Carlisto Acevedo Brito, Mendez, Mendez’s, Acevedo Brito’s, Zhao Zhao, Zhao Organizations: Prosecutors Locations: Bronx, Sunset Park, Brooklyn

☆ Staking the Future on a Stretch of Sidewalk in Brooklyn
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Susan Hartman | Todd Heisler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

On a recent Sunday, Oliver Hernandez jumped out of the van driven by his partner. The mom-and-pop shops along Fifth Avenue in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, were shuttered. A few folding tables were chained to street signs. A chair was tucked behind a gate. “Most vendors come at 8.”From the back of the van, he started pulling out buckets of flowers, then his backpack, a chair, a table, a canopy and pots of palm trees.

Persons: Oliver Hernandez, Mr, Hernandez Locations: Sunset Park , Brooklyn

Part of the answer can be found at a large church in Long Island City, Queens, the Evangel Christian Center, which the city said accepted nearly 200 people last week who had been in the line outside the Roosevelt Hotel, which has become the main intake center for migrants. Several migrants from the West African nation of Mauritania said Wednesday that they had been moved there from their sidewalk sleeping spots. Mohammed Yerim, a Mauritanian in his mid-20s, said he came directly to the church, bypassing the line outside the hotel, after arriving from Florida. Two emergency lodgings in recreation centers in Brooklyn in McCarren Park and Sunset Park that opened over the weekend are housing about 80 people each. A small number of migrants leave the shelter system each week after finding homes elsewhere.

Persons: Mohammed Yerim, “ Organizations: Evangel Christian Center Locations: Long Island City, Queens, West African, Mauritania, Mauritanian, Florida, Brooklyn, McCarren, Clinton Hill

☆ Restaurant Review: For Striking Malaysian Food, Follow the Chickens
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Pete Wells | More About Pete Wells | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Poached chickens and roasted chickens dangle in the window of Hainan Chicken House on Eighth Avenue in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Scattered among the plain white tiles on the dining-room walls are other tiles printed with images of chickens. Hainan Chicken House is dedicated to Hainanese chicken rice, a dish with ancient origins on Hainan Island in southern China. The owners of Hainan Chicken House are Malaysian New Yorkers, and it is the Malaysian version of chicken rice that they serve, along with curry laksa, mee goreng and a few other classics of the cuisine. What is called the House Hainan Chicken at Hainan Chicken House comes to the table wrapped in paper, hawker style, and sealed by a sticker printed with an image of a chicken.

Persons: Hainanese, mee goreng, cleaver Organizations: Chicken House, Eighth, Malaysian, Yorkers, Chicken Locations: Sunset Park , Brooklyn, Hainan, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Malaysian

☆ Priced Out of the City, They Bought a Tiny Suburban Home. Now What?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Julie Lasky | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Much has been written about “good enough” marriages, but what of “good enough” houses in “I guess we have to live somewhere” neighborhoods? This is the story of a family who began with low expectations and then fell in love. In 2016, Amanda and Alain de Beaufort were renting an apartment with a garden in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, where they had access to a new school with a Spanish/English program for their two children. Then one day, their landlord sold the building for cash and gave them a month to pack up and move out. “OK, we’ll just buy something in Sunset Park,” Ms. de Beaufort, 46, recalled saying, before making the cruel discovery that no affordable properties remained in the neighborhood.

Persons: Amanda, Alain de Beaufort, de Beaufort, Ms Locations: “, Sunset Park , Brooklyn, Colombia, Sunset Park, Bay Ridge , Brooklyn, Westchester County

☆ From 1880s Brooklyn, the Weir Greenhouse Returns
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( John Freeman Gill | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

By 2011, vandals and a century-plus of weather had rendered the fragile greenhouse a virtual ruin. Many of its badly rotting ground-floor window frames had been kicked in by marauding thieves. Leaking and missing window panes abounded, with repair estimates topping $1 million. Although the hothouse was a city landmark, it was at risk of presiding over its own funeral. But in 2012, Green-Wood Cemetery swooped in to rescue it, buying the decaying treasure for $1.63 million from McGovern Florists, a flower-selling family with deep Brooklyn roots that had owned the place for 41 years.

☆ Politics, Police, Pozole: The Battle for Sunset Park
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-14 | by ( John Leland | Lexi Parra | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For Sonia Cortes, the battle for Sunset Park began with soup. Two years ago, after the pandemic wiped out her job as a seamstress, Ms. Cortes started selling pozole, a brothy Mexican soup, in the park, a 25-acre swath of green in southwestern Brooklyn. By last fall, the Sunday market had grown to more than 80 vendors, mostly immigrant women selling Mexican street food and wares to large weekend crowds. They called it Plaza Tonatiuh, after an Aztec sun god. On Easter Sunday, dozens of officers clashed violently with vendors and organizers, who locked arms in resistance.

☆ A Year of Pain: Victims Struggle After Brooklyn Subway Shooting
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( Karen Zraick | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

More than a year ago, a mass shooting on the subway in Brooklyn miraculously killed no one. But as the victims live on, so do their physical and psychological wounds. The violence was just one of 648 mass shootings across the United States in 2022, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit research group. There were seven mass shootings on April 15 alone, the highest of any day so far this year. The largest was at a teenager’s birthday party in Alabama, where four were killed and 28 others shot.

☆ Where New York’s Asian Neighborhoods Shifted to the Right
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-05 | by ( Jason Kao | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +15 min

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☆ Driver in Brooklyn U-Haul Attack Charged With Murder
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Jimmy Vielkind | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A 62-year-old man was charged with murder Tuesday after he was accused of striking multiple pedestrians with a U-Haul truck in Brooklyn during what police called a mental-health episode that left one person dead. Weng Sor, of Las Vegas, was charged with second-degree murder and seven counts of attempted murder, police said. One person died and seven others were injured Monday after Mr. Sor allegedly drove the truck onto sidewalks and around the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Bay Ridge, Sunset Park and Dyker Heights, officials said.

☆ Man hit by truck driver in Brooklyn rampage dies of head injury
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Shannon StapletonNEW YORK, Feb 14 (Reuters) - One of the nine people struck by a man driving a U-Haul truck in New York City has died from his injuries, police said Tuesday. One of the driver's victims was a 44-year-old man who suffered head injuries and was declared dead at a nearby hospital, police said. The suspect is being held in a city jail and is expected to make his first appearance in court on Tuesday. The son said his father had been living in Las Vegas and was surprised when he appeared in New York City last week. Reporting by Jonathan Allen in New York; editing by Jonathan OatisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Mysterious NYC trio make off with $300K in Brinks truck heist after distracting driver and stealing duffle bag filled with cash
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-08 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Police say two men approached the truck driver for help while another stole the duffle bag on Friday. The bag containing $300,000 in cash was left unattended on the armored truck's bumper, officials say. The driver was making a cash drop around 1 p.m. at a Chase Bank in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood, the New York Post reported. Police said the duffle bag full of money was sitting unattended on the bumper of the armored truck when two of the thieves started up a conversation with the driver. If apprehended, the men could face up to 15 years in prison for grand larceny, according to New York laws.

[1/2] Frank James, the suspect in the Brooklyn subway shooting walks outside a police precinct in New York City, New York, U.S., April 13, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew KellyNEW YORK, Jan 3 (Reuters) - The man who set off smoke bombs on a crowded New York subway train before shooting 10 people last April in one of the most violent attacks ever seen on the city's transit system pleaded guilty on Tuesday to terrorism and weapons charges. "I got on the subway train that was carrying people," said James, dressed in wrinkled khaki jail overalls and sitting at a table alongside his public defenders. read moreLess than two months after James' attack, a man was arrested in the fatal, unprovoked shooting of a man on a subway car crossing the Manhattan Bridge from Brooklyn into Manhattan. In June, another man was arrested on suspicion of pushing a woman onto the tracks of a subway station in the Bronx.

The man accused of one of the most violent rampages on New York City's public transportation system in years is expected to plead guilty to terrorism charges in the Brooklyn subway shooting, authorities said. Frank James' lawyer filed paperwork Wednesday indicating he would enter a guilty plea in the April 12 attack, and a hearing has been scheduled for Jan. 3. Ten people were shot and 13 others were injured in the gunfire and smoke bomb attack on a Brooklyn subway, which shook the city and set off a 30-hour manhunt before James was arrested in Manhattan. “The defendant committed a premeditated mass shooting on the New York City subway system and then fled the scene, with a stockpile of ammunition and other dangerous items stowed in his storage unit,” the federal prosecutors wrote. James pleaded not guilty in Brooklyn federal court the same month.

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