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Casey Seiler

@caseyseiler.bsky.social

Editor of the Times Union. Ever-vigilant in maintaining the grooming standards which underpin the warrior ethos. I get to work with some of the finest journalists in the state. Support robust local journalism and send tips to cseiler@timesunion.com

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Casey Seiler@caseyseiler.bsky.social · 1h ago

Christopher Grant, who represents Poughkeepsie's 6th Ward, faces criminal charges after being arrested following the Hudson Valley Caribbean Festival. It's the second year in a row he is alleged to have committed violence at the event. Nora Mishanec reports.

Poughkeepsie council member arrested after Caribbean festival for second straight year

Christopher Grant, who organizes the Hudson Valley Caribbean Festival, faces criminal charges after being arrested after the event for the second straight year.

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Casey Seiler@caseyseiler.bsky.social · yesterday

Investigators say a mother and grandmother collaborated on the murder of four children, then committed suicide. Notes left behind said killing the children was the only solution to a court-ordered custody change. @schneidlee.bsky.social reports.

Mechanicville police believe mother, grandmother plotted to kill 4 children

Police shared further details about the murder of four children at a Mechanicville apartment complex and the suicides of their mother and grandmother.

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Casey Seiler@caseyseiler.bsky.social · yesterday

A wife speaks out after her husband was one of several people detained by ICE during what they thought was going to be a routine immigration check-in. @cgcarroll.bsky.social reports. www.timesunion.com/news/article...

ICE detentions at Malta office leave families waiting, legal challenges mounting

A couple was alarmed when immigration officials scheduled a check-in at the local field office on a Sunday. Several community members were detained that day.

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Casey Seiler@caseyseiler.bsky.social · yesterday

A federal judge has declined DOJ’s request for a temporary injunction to block a new state law that bans agreements governing immigration enforcement coordination between local, state and federal agencies. But a mask ban for law enforcement is on pause.

Judge pauses NY's mask ban but law banning ICE agreements remains intact

A federal judge has declined to block a new state law intended to prevent local government entities and police or corrections agencies from entering into contracts with ICE.

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Casey Seiler@caseyseiler.bsky.social · yesterday

Editorial: Amid years of scandals in the top ranks resulting in quiet retirements by men, one thing the State Police absolutely will not put up with is a female recruit bringing an Apple Watch to its training academy.

Editorial: Who watches the watch-hunters?

A recruit says she was strip-searched at the State Police Academy as instructors searched for an Apple Watch. It was never found, but her law enforcement career has been destroyed.

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Erica Vladimer@ericaforny.bsky.social · 2d ago

This article significantly diminishes the findings against Rep. Edwards: he’s a serial sexual harasser and created a hostile work environment. I won’t pretend that I have all the answers here, but I do know a censure is not enough for accountability purposes.

Taken individually, many of Representative Edwards' actions were at minimum inappropriate; a Member of Congress should not single out a staffer and isolate them from other staff, make frequent comments regarding that person's appearance and weight, send messages in the middle of the night, text staff deeply personal and seemingly romantic thoughts, intrude on personal occasions without invitation, pay for personal vacations, and spend thousands of dollars on gifts for staffers. That Representative Edwards did all these things to two young staffers, repeatedly over a sustained period, was beyond inappropriate. In his interview with the Committee, the Congressman repeatedly asserted that he knows well what constitutes "sexual harassment," and seemed to believe that by avoiding inappropriate physical touch, explicitly sexual comments, and occasionally telling the staffers that they were free to put up boundaries with him, he had immunized himself from such a charge. That is not the case. Despite the absence of an explicit proposition, a reasonable person could interpret Representative Edwards' intimate and effusive attentions, where he prioritized the personal over the professional, as thinly veiled advances. There is also contemporaneous evidence and testimony that Staffer 1 and Staffer 2 perceived the conduct as abusive. Even under the exacting standards of federal employment law, Representative Edwards' conduct at minimum exposed his office to the litigation risk of a viable sexual harassment lawsuit. 108
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 2d ago

The House Ethics Committee says it is recommending that Rep. Chuck Edwards be censured by the full House after finding that he “engaged in persistent unprofessional and inappropriate conduct towards two young female staffers.”

Casey Seiler@caseyseiler.bsky.social · 2d ago

The fundraising appeal posted by Taste of Italy — asking for donations to offset the business losses incurred as a result of its co-owner posting rank bigotry in an attempt to score points off a child's accidental death — has been taken down. Steve Barnes reports.

Taste of Italy appeal for money removed from fundraising site

Campaign, launched over the weekend, had sought $24,000 to “help our family and businesses recover from crisis.”

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Casey Seiler@caseyseiler.bsky.social · 2d ago

Mother of mercy, could this be the end of the Triple Crown? Top race courses including Saratoga and Churchill Downs are creating a six-race season-long series ... that leaves out the Preakness Stakes. @adamshinder.bsky.social reports.

NYRA, Churchill Downs announced 6-race, $5 million Thoroughbred Championship Series for 3-year-olds

NYRA and Churchill Downs will seek to create a seasonlong championship for 3-year-olds that doesn't include Preakness.

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Christina Henderson@chenderson.bsky.social · 2d ago

The historic amnesia on display here is stunning. Hospitals were setting up makeshift morgues in parking lots because they could not keep up.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

RFK Jr: Trump wanted to end lockdowns. In Fauci's diary, he talks about how the president was calling him trying to get him to reopen the country BASH: The lockdowns were down by governors K: They cited Fauci B: Govs were hearing from hospitals that their ICUs were overrun K: That's not true

Casey Seiler@caseyseiler.bsky.social · 3d ago

Twenty-five years ago, Elizabeth Crothers accused a top Assembly aide of raping her. Her lawsuit over the chamber’s response — or rather non-response — and what it cost her is finally headed to trial. Brendan Lyons reports. www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...

Assembly speaker’s mishandling of 2001 rape allegation faces trial

Twenty-five years after a young legislative staffer reported being raped by Sheldon Silver’s top aide, her trial against the state is set to go forward.

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Casey Seiler@caseyseiler.bsky.social · 4d ago

From the annals of police accountability: A Westchester County man has filed a lawsuit accusing a former New Rochelle officer of planting cocaine and crack beneath his SUV — an action that was inadvertently captured by the officer’s body-worn camera — during a 2024 arrest. Sarah Trafton reports.

Lawsuit accuses ex-New Rochelle officer, now Putnam deputy, of planting drugs

The incident, captured on Sean Kane’s body camera, occurred in 2024 while he was working for the New Rochelle Police Department.

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