Email Author Graham Rayman

Awards

• 2013 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Rikers Violence, Part 2"

• 2013 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Rikers Violence, Part 1"

• 2011 - Investigative Reporters and Editors

  "The NYPD Tapes"

• 2011 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award

  "The NYPD Tapes"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "The NYPD Tapes"

• 2009 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award

  Teen Murders at Rikers Island series

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2013 Stories by Graham Rayman

• Horsone Moore, Inmate, Commits Suicide in City Jail

  published Oct 18, 2013

  A parolee with a long history of mental health issues hung himself in a special unit for mentally ill inmates in a Rikers Island jail, the Village Voice has learned. Horsone Moore, 35, of Brooklyn, w... More >>

• Adrian Schoolcraft, NYPD Whistleblower, Gets Law and Order: SVU Treatment

  published Oct 17, 2013

  Well, folks, last week, the Adrian Schoolcraft saga finally made it into the "ripped from the headlines" realm of Dick Wolf's television empire with an episode of Law and Order: SVU titled "Internal A... More >>

• Related Companies Gets Massive Tax Exemption for Shopping Mall, Skyscraper at Hudson Yards

  published Oct 16, 2013

  Remember that $328 million subsidy for a shopping mall and skyscraper being developed by the Related Companies? Well, as expected, the city's Industrial Development Agency went ahead and approved the ... More >>

• Larry Davis Jr., Correction Captain, Indicted for Inmate Assault; Case Draws Union Criticism

  published Oct 11, 2013

  Last week, a Bronx grand jury indicted Correction Captain Larry Davis Jr. for hitting an inmate with a baton after the inmate assaulted Davis's brother, who is a correction officer working in the same... More >>

• Ken Tarr, Serial Hoaxer, Now Scamming Would-Be Coaches

  published Oct 11, 2013

  Our friend Ken Tarr, about whom we wrote at length in June, has a new scam rolling. As Voice readers may recall, Tarr got himself on to eight reality TV shows in six months with amusing stories that c... More >>

• Steven Mauriello, NYPD Deputy Inspector and Adrian Schoolcraft's Antagonist, Takes Off the Kid Gloves

  published Oct 10, 2013

  Deputy Inspector Steven Mauriello, the main antagonist of whistleblower cop Adrian Schoolcraft, has broken a long public silence, and is fighting back against Schoolcraft's allegations in recently fil... More >>

• Charles Hynes, Brooklyn D.A., Goes Negative in Effort to Resurrect Campaign

  published Oct 08, 2013

  Call it the battle of questionable campaign aides. The campaign of Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes and that of Ken Thompson, the man who beat him in the democratic primary, are trading attack... More >>

• Patrick Lynch, PBA President, Says Ending NYPD Quotas, Not Adding More Oversight, Is the Answer

  published Oct 07, 2013

  Patrick Lynch, the president of the New York City Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, says the solution to the stop and frisk controversy is not more oversight, but a commitment from the NYPD to elimi... More >>

• Bloomberg's Favorite Developer Slated to Get Another Huge Hudson Yards Tax Break--Taxpayers Pay the Penalty

  published Oct 04, 2013

  The Bloomberg administration is preparing to hand another $328 million in tax breaks to its favored developer, The Related Companies, for ... get this ... a fancy shopping mall and a high-end office s... More >>

• Correction Department Failing to Keep Staff Firearm-Qualified; Thousands Out of Compliance

  published Oct 04, 2013

  Commissioner Dora Schriro's Correction Department is failing to follow through on required annual firearms qualification for thousands of officers, in violation of its own regulations and state law, t... More >>

• Matthew Matagrano, the Man Who Snuck His Way Into Jail, Pleads Out

  published Oct 03, 2013

  Matthew Matagrano, a convicted sex offender who posed as a jails investigator to sneak into various Rikers Island facilities, pleaded guilty Wednesday and will be sentenced to 15 years in prison. And... More >>

• Michael Reilly, Retired NYPD Lieutenant and Impressively Coherent Write-In Candidate for Mayor, Talks About the Job

  published Oct 02, 2013

  As the November 5 general election approaches, the major candidates are doing their usual two-step. Among the other lesser-known candidates, there is the write-in campaign for mayor of Mike Reilly, a ... More >>

• Bloomberg: Looming Government Shutdown an Embarrassment

  published Oct 01, 2013

  While everyone in Washington is running around with their hair on fire over the looming government shutdown, New Yorkers might want to worry about it a little themselves. So suggested Mayor Bloomberg... More >>

• Alfonso D'Arco, Mob Boss, Turncoat: His Extraordinary Story Detailed in New Book

  published Oct 01, 2013

  For authors Jerry Capeci and Tom Robbins, the long road to their fascinating new book about mafia boss Alfonso D'Arco, who became the federal government's most successful cooperator, began a decade ... More >>

• Mayor Bloomberg Uses Weekly Crime Press Release to Make Subtle Jab at Stop-and-Frisk Critics

  published Sep 30, 2013

  Every week since August 27, just after the landmark court ruling which created a monitor for the NYPD's stop-and-frisk program in the face of heavy opposition from Mayor Bloomberg, the mayor's press o... More >>

• NYPD Hunts Serial Groper in the Bronx

  published Sep 30, 2013

  Cops are hunting a sexual deviant who has been prowling the Tremont section of the Bronx. He's wanted for groping two young women last week. The first took place on Thursday, September 26, just before... More >>

• NYPD Internal Affairs Went Digging For Dirt On Whistleblower Cop Adrian Schoolcraft's Father and Sister

  published Sep 27, 2013

  In the course of its investigation of whistleblower cop Adrian Schoolcraft, the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau not only ran his father's name through criminal databases, but his sister's name as well.... More >>

• Adrian Schoolcraft, Whistleblower Cop, Seeks Removal of Weird Gag Order in His Lawsuit

  published Sep 25, 2013

  Oral arguments in the increasingly bitter legal contest over whistleblower cop Adrian Schoolcraft's lawsuit against the city are scheduled for later today in federal court in Manhattan before U.S. Dis... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Bill de Blasio's Elusive City Council Papers Raise More Questions Than They Answer

  published September 25, 2013

  If Democratic primary winner Bill de Blasio is elected New York City's next mayor in November, one of his jobs will be to collect... More >>

• FEATURED STORY

  An (Early) Handicapping of Some Possible Candidates for the Next NYPD Commissioner

  published Sep 23, 2013

  Democratic primary winner Bill de Blasio met last Wednesday with Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly for what was probably a pretty interesting conversation. The meeting was scheduled for three hours, a... More >>

• George Delmerico, Legendary Village Voice Art Director, 1945-2013

  published Sep 19, 2013

  We pause now from our usual duties to acknowledge the passing of legendary Village Voice art director George Delmerico, who died of a heart attack at the age of 67 on Sunday, Aug. 11 in Santa Barbara,... More >>

• New York Post Slams Stop/Frisk Panel, Makes Panel Member Chuckle

  published Sep 19, 2013

  One of the law professors named to an advisory council in connection with the independent federal monitor of the police department's stop and frisk strategy says she laughed out loud when she saw toda... More >>

• Roberto Espinal, Danny Cano, NYPD Officers, Nabbed In Bribery Scam [Update]

  published Sep 19, 2013

  Two police officers in two different Queens precincts were arrested on bribery charges last night, the NYPD and Queens prosecutors are saying. The charges involve selling confidential victim informati... More >>

• De Blasio's Victory Spurred On By Early Embrace Of Deep Public Disaffection With Stop and Frisk

  published Sep 11, 2013

  Bill de Blasio's victory tonight in the Democratic mayoral primary caps a fairly startling turnabout in what was a most amusing and topsy-turvy race, a race which saw the sitting City Council Speaker... More >>

• An Upset Brews In Brooklyn; Ken Thompson Shocking the World With 10-Point Lead Over Charles Hynes

  published Sep 11, 2013

  An upset has brewed in Brooklyn. So far, former federal prosecutor Ken Thompson is 10 points up on 23-year veteran Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes with 82 percent of the vote in. Such an outc... More >>