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Brooklyn Hero: Burton Turkus and Murder Inc. Trials

Burton Turkus was the Assistant to the District Attorney who brought down nine suspects in the Murder Inc. trials, managing to convict them all of first-degree murder. They would all be sentenced to death.                         

 

A Season to Forget: 1951 Scandal Mars LIU Basketball Program

During the 1951 NYC college basketball season, top players were implicated in a point-shaving scandal that resulted in a 6 year shut down of the L.I.U. athletic program and the imprisonment of several players.