NYC’s fiscal chief wants a trial over his immigration protest arrest
George Mihalcea
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s chief fiscal officer Brad Lander, who was arrested two months ago protesting conditions at an immigration holding facility, chose Tuesday to go to trial on a misdemeanor obstruction charge rather than accept a deal that would have made the case go away in six months. “I want a trial,” said Lander, the city’s comptroller and an ally of Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani . He spoke after emerging from a federal courtroom in Manhattan, where he’d waited to hear what action
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