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Scouts suit: Eight former Boy Scouts filed a bombshell federal lawsuit against the national organization on Monday in Washington, D.C., claiming it protected leaders who sexually abused children. The 43-page complaint — which The News exclusively reported was coming — detailed how the Boy Scouts “broke its most basic promise to boys: that they would be safe in the care of BSA leaders.” The suit added that the organization “allowed BSA troops to be infested by pedophiles who sexually abused innocent boys, harming them for life.”
Tape trouble: Surveillance video of Jeffrey Epstein’s July suicide attempt at the Metropolitan Correctional Center was destroyed, prosecutors said last week. In a letter filed on Thursday, federal prosecutors said the video they preserved was actually footage of the wrong cell. “[The] video no longer exists on the backup system … as a result of technical errors,” prosecutors wrote. Last month, a lawyer for Epstein’s former cellmate, ex-cop Nick Tartaglione, said the video would show his client saving the fiendish financier who was accused of sex trafficking underage girls. Finally free: Emmanuelle Cooper was exonerated after spending 28 years behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit, The News exclusively reported Wednesday. Brooklyn Judge Ruth Shillingford vacated the murder conviction that found Cooper guilty of killing MTA worker Andres Barretto in 1992. Cooper’s lawyers filed a motion last year detailing that there was “no physical evidence or incriminating statements” linking him
to the crime. That motion was written by Jabbar Collins — a paralegal who spent 16 years in prison before being exonerated. “I’m happy. I’m ecstatic …we’re going to have our happily ever after,” Cooper’s wife, Sandy, told The News.
Watering hole woes: A nearly 200-year-old Queens bar was nearly shut down in a squabble over rent. Loycent Gordon, owner of Neir’s Tavern & Grill in Woodhaven — the oldest operating bar in the city — was headed for last call because he couldn’t sell enough burgers and booze to cover the rent, which has tripled since 2018. Some lastminute intervention from City Hall, elected leaders and the Queens Chamber of Commerce on Friday has helped Gordon keep the booze flowing.
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