New York Paralegal Blog

PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and JANET DiFIORE, the District Attorney of Westchester County, today announced the filing in White Plains federal court of an 11-count Superseding Indictment charging NARCISA NOVACK and her brother, CRISTOBAL VELIZ, with racketeering offenses, including the murders of Bernice Novack in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, on April 4, 2009, and of Ben Novack, Bernice Novack’s son and NARCY NOVACK’s husband, at the Hilton Rye Town Hotel in Westchester County on July 12, 2009. Mr. BHARARA stated: "This Indictment alleges racketeering acts that run the gamut from murder to robbery to obstruction of justice -– a bloody and corrupt chain of events for which the defendants will now have to answer to a jury."

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today the arrest of Russell County Sheriff’s Office Detectives Kirby Dollar, 37, and Timothy Watford, 42. A federal grand jury in Montgomery, Ala., returned an indictment on March 22, 2011, charging Dollar and Watford with civil rights offenses related to their assault of a man in custody on Nov. 26, 2010. If convicted, the defendants face maximum penalties of 10 years in prison on the civil rights charges. The charges set forth in an indictment are merely accusations and the defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.