Bob Hennelly

Two veteran New Jersey lawmakers traded barbs last night during a rare debate that pitted incumbents on the same side of the aisle against one another.

Incumbent Democratic Congressmen Bill Pascrell and Steve Rothman will have their first face to face debate Monday night. New Jersey's loss of a congressional district due to re-districting has set up this rare face-off between two incumbents with very similar left of center voting records.

An independent consultant brought in to assess the status of the city's 911 system determined the system is flawed because the NYPD, FDNY, EMS, and Office of Emergency Management are not effectively integrated. "New York City needs a unified strategic plan and agreement," stated the report from Winbourne Consulting LLC.

Arguing among the jurors deliberating on federal corruption trial of former state Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada has escalated to the point where the judge in the case has decided to speak with one of the jurors, court house sources confirm.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed Thursday a total city budget that exceeds $68.7 billion this year — restoring 2,500 teaching slots but cutting pre- and after-school programs and shuttering firehouses.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg will reveal that the city’s revenues  are not growing as fast as originally projected when he unveils his executive  budget on Thursday. The administrat...

Adis Medunjanin, a 28-year-old man a naturalized citizen born in Bosnia, was convicted of a host of terrorism charges connected to an plotting suicide attacks in the New York subways....

Bob Hennelly, WNYC's contributing editor for politics and investigations, talks about the trial of Adis Medunjanin, accused of plotting to bomb the subway.

The jury in the federal corruption trial of former New York State Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada and his son began deliberations on Monday. 

The jury in the Medunjanin terror began deliberations on Monday on the fate of a 28-year-old accused of plotting terrorist attacks on the city’s subway system.

As the trial of the accused subway bomber drew to a close last week, federal prosecutors tapped a growing stable of pricey terrorism experts to help them drive their argument home.

See what Contributing Editor for Politics and Investigations Bob Hennelly has on his reading list this morning.

Jurors in a federal terror trial heard on Thursday two compelling but contradictory narratives about defendant Adis Medunjanin, who is accused of plotting suicide attacks in the city’s subway.  

The sister of a man accused in an alleged plot in 2009 to attack New York's subways with suicide bombs testified in his terror trial Wednesday as both sides wrapped up their arguments in the trial of the man accused of plotting the attacks in 2009.

See what Contributing Editor for Politics and Investigations Bob Hennelly has on his reading list this morning.

Bob Hennelly, WNYC's contributing editor for politics and investigations, talks about the construction company that agreed to pay $56 million in fines yesterday, after admitting to widespread fraud.

One of the nation's largest contractors who was behind the construction of Citifield and the demolition of the Deutsche Bank building bilked the city of multi-millions on city, state and federal public works projects, a federal prosecutor charged Tuesday.

See what Contributing Editor for Politics and Investigations Bob Hennelly has on his reading list this morning.

Opponents of Walmart locating anywhere in New York City are wasting no time trying to link their "Stop Walmart" campaign to expose on the retail titan's legal troubles regarding bribes the company’s Mexican subsidiary allegedly paid out.

President Barack Obama's chief counter-terrorism advisor said Friday that he backed the NYPD’s counter-terrorism program, which has drawn fire for its covert monitoring of Muslims in and out of the city.