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The Trump Organization
Former Trump executive Weisselberg gives up little in latest testimony
...He spent three months at the notorious Rikers Island jail last year after pleading guilty to tax evasion for arranging to receive luxury cars, school tuition payments and other unreported perks from the...
October 10, 2023
News in-depthUS society
Illinois to become first US state to abolish cash bail
...One of the worst cases involved 22-year-old Kalief Browder, who died by suicide after being incarcerated on New York’s notorious Rikers Island for three years without a trial, having been unable to post...
September 17, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewFilm
A Thousand and One — portrait of a mother, son and city going through changes
...It starts in 1994, with 22-year-old Inez (Teyana Taylor, whose intensity burns up the screen), just out of Rikers Island prison and hustling for legit work as a hairdresser in Brooklyn....
April 20, 2023
News in-depthEl Salvador
Inside El Salvador’s mega-prison: the jail giving inmates less space than livestock
...That is far smaller than Rikers Island or Turkey’s Marmara mega-prison, which are both larger than 100ha and have smaller populations....
March 7, 2023
The indictment of Donald Trump
Donald Trump’s legal drama features a colourful cast of characters
...They have been unable to flip him, in spite of winning a guilty plea on tax charges that landed Weisselberg in the Rikers Island prison for a five-month sentence. He will be released in late April....
April 1, 2023
Live news updates from December 6: Trump Organization convicted of tax fraud, Kirchner sentenced to 6 years
Trump Organization convicted of tax fraud in Manhattan trial
...He was promised a lenient sentence — five months of incarceration, albeit in the notoriously tough Rikers Island jail — on the condition that he testified truthfully in the trial against the Trump Organization...
December 6, 2022
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Allen Weisselberg
Former Trump executive Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months in jail
...Weisselberg, who worked for the Trump family in a number of roles since 1973, will serve his five month sentence on Rikers Island, where 19 inmates died in 2022....
January 10, 2023
The Trump Organization
Trump Organization convicted of tax fraud in Manhattan trial
...He was promised a lenient sentence — five months of incarceration, albeit in the notoriously tough Rikers Island jail — on the condition that he testified truthfully in the trial against The Trump Organization...
December 6, 2022
Live news updates from August 18: US and Taiwan to begin trade talks, Europe forest fires destroy record hectarage
Trump Organization’s former finance chief pleads guilty in tax case
...Under a deal struck with Manhattan prosecutors, he was promised a jail sentence of five months to be served at Rikers Island, New York, along with a possible five years’ probation contingent on him testifying...
August 18, 2022
The Trump Organization
Ex-CFO at Trump Organization pleads guilty in tax case
...Under a deal struck with Manhattan prosecutors, he was promised a jail sentence of five months to be served at Rikers Island, New York, along with a possible five years’ probation contingent on him testifying...
August 18, 2022
FirstFT
FirstFT: Trump Organization’s former CFO pleads guilty in tax fraud case
...Under a deal struck with Manhattan prosecutors, he was promised a jail sentence of five months to be served at Rikers Island, New York, along with a possible five years’ probation contingent on him testifying...
August 19, 2022
InterviewVisual Arts
Faith Ringgold: ‘Riots would break out right in front of you’
...’s Island....
February 12, 2022
News in-depthUS society
Violent crime in US returns to forefront of political agenda
...As Adams put it in a recent interview: “I support closing Rikers (Island jail), but I also support closing the pipeline that feeds Rikers.”...
June 26, 2021
ReviewTelevision
After hours: documentaries on the elite for the Davos-deprived
...Still, footage of Strauss-Kahn’s perp walk on Rikers Island played in loops on television channels around the world. Reports of wild soirées, orgies and affairs followed....
January 29, 2021
Womenswear Spring/Summer 2021 shows
Telfar is rewriting the rules of ‘It’ bags
...Island, New York City’s largest prison....
September 10, 2020
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Robin Lane Fox
The therapeutic value of gardening
...Stuart-Smith gives intriguing examples of gardening for prisoners, especially the GreenHouse programme that has been running since 1986 at the huge prison complex on Rikers Island on the edge of New York...
July 17, 2020
Harvey Weinstein
Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 23 years for sex offences
...The 67-year old has been detained at New York’s Rikers Island jail since undergoing heart surgery last week....
March 11, 2020
FT SeriesFrieze LA 2020
Call me Aggie: the legendary collector making a difference
...In addition, the fund has supported ending the requirement that bail is paid in cash in California and New York, and was involved in the decision to close Riker’s Island, the notorious New York penitentiary...
February 7, 2020
FT SeriesMenswear Autumn/Winter 2020 shows
Stefano Pilati and Telfar stage shows to remember
...The proceeds were used to pay bail for young people held at Rikers Island prison — which isn’t how these collaborations between cash-strapped young designers and mass corporations usually play out....
January 10, 2020
FTWeekend Live Q&A
Why nature is the antidote to our modern ills
...Stuart-Smith visits the prison complex on Rikers Island, New York, where 8,000 people are incarcerated, 90 per cent black and Hispanic, 40 per cent suffering mental illness....
May 7, 2020
Film
The Safdie brothers on making crime thriller Uncut Gems
...In Good Time, Pattinson appeared opposite Buddy Duress, a friend of the brothers jailed on Rikers Island before the film and who later returned there....
January 3, 2020
ReviewTheatre
Incandescent dialogues light up Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train at the Young Vic
...The situation is simple: in Rikers Island prison — between the Perspex partitions on the long, narrow walkway which constitutes Magda Willi’s traverse set — are two killers....
February 22, 2019
News in-depthFTfm
Japan’s social impact bonds attract healthy support
...Of these, one failed to pay investors — a bond that sought to cut reoffending rates at the Rikers Island prison in New York, backed by Goldman Sachs and media mogul Michael Bloomberg’s charity, Bloomberg...
November 19, 2018
Life & Arts
Sergio de la Pava: ‘I’m sacrificing the political for the aesthetic’
...The novel marries two contrasting plot lines — set in Paterson, New Jersey, and New York’s Rikers Island Prison, a comic football narrative sits beside a searing critique of American society....
August 17, 2018
Photography
Snapshot: ‘Prison Nation’ at the Aperture Foundation gallery
...Among the photographers featured is Lucas Foglia, who captures women prisoners working in the GreenHouse Horticulture programme of the vast Rikers Island jail in New York, notorious for its mistreatment...
February 9, 2018

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