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For the five detainees headed to trial in New York federal court, the assumption is they will stay in the nearby Metropolitan Correctional Center for the duration of the trial.

Five alleged conspirators in the 9/11 attacks are being sent to New York City for trial.

Forty per cent of New Yorkers believe the trial of accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed makes an attack on the city more likely, according to a new poll, while security experts say it is already the top target in America.

Frank DiPascali, swindler Bernard Madoff's right-hand man who admitted helping his boss run a decades-long multibillion dollar fraud, was moved from a New York jail to another north of the city five days ago, officials said on Tuesday.

The alleged mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will be transferred from Guantanamo Bay to New York for a trial in which the death penalty will be sought, the US has confirmed.

Mukasey: 'very high' risk of attack over NYC 9/11 trial - Josh Gerstein: Mukasey: 'very high' risk of attack over NYC 9/11 trial Categories: Terrorism Mukasey: 'very high' risk of attack over NYC 9/11 trial Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey said today that it is highly likely that terrorists will attack New York City as a consequence of the ...

Convoys of heavily armed officers, fields of barricades and additional checkpoints are likely to sprout in and around the jail where the accused will be housed and the courthouse where they will be tried.

"I am absolutely convinced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be subject to the most exacting demands of justice," President Obama said in Tokyo.

The move to put the self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind on trial just blocks from Ground Zero raises a host of legal, political and security questions, chief among them: Can a fair-minded jury be found in a city still nursing deep wounds from the attack on the World Trade Center?

This July photo from the Arabic-language Web site www.muslm.net shows a man identified as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the Sept.

A Chicago man charged with scheming to launch a terrorist attack on a Danish newspaper also discussed a possible attack against a military college in India and advised a member of a Pakistan-based terrorist group on how to slip people into the U.S., prosecutors said Tuesday.

Share + Oct 28, 2009 1:07 pm US/Central A federal judge says she needs more information before deciding whether to deny bond to one of two Chicago men charged with plotting a terrorist attack on a Danish newspaper.

CHICAGO – After more than a week of declining comment, federal agents shortly before 10 a.m. today, Tuesday, released the details of terrorism-related charges against two Chicagoans.

New York's former top cop and prisons chief, who was hailed as a hero after the September 11 attacks, was himself behind bars today.

Authorities announced the indictment of Bureau of Prisons employee Francisco Felix for making false statements to federal agents in connection with a criminal investigation by the Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General.

A fugitive who has been living in Cuba for four decades to avoid prosecution for his role in an airline hijacking surrendered to federal law enforcement authorities in New York on Sunday, ending his distinction of being one of the F.B.I. 's longest-known fugitives.

Marc S. Dreier, 59, the former sole equity partner of 250-lawyer Dreier LLP who in May pleaded guilty in federal court to selling more than $700 million in bogus real estate and pension plan notes, was disbarred Thursday.

A former teenage hacker who once served prison time for an online stock-trading scheme pleaded guilty last week to new charges of cracking a New York-based currency exchange service and gifting himself more than $100,000. Van T. Dinh leaves a federal courthouse in Philadelphia in 2003, when, as a 19-year-old Drexel University student, he was ...

Andrews Video-Hotel Security ESPN video case show holes in hotel security NEW YORK "A wakeup call for the hotel industry" is how one expert describes the case of an ESPN reporter who was videotaped in the nude through the peephole of her hotel room door.

A man accused of taping surreptitious nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews while she was alone in hotel rooms appeared in federal court Saturday and was ordered returned to California.