Charles Lane
Senior ReporterCharles is senior reporter focusing on special projects. He has won numerous awards including an IRE award, three SPJ Public Service Awards, and a National Murrow. He was also a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists and Third Coast Director’s Choice Award.
In 2020 he reported the podcast Everytown which uncovered the plot to evict a group of immigrants from the Hamptons. He also started WSHU’s C19 podcast. Previous projects include investigations into FEMA and continuing coverage of financial regulation.
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A class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of all Black and Latino drivers in Nassau County claiming local police act with racial bias when they make traffic stops.
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Two Nassau County detectives are under investigation by the state Attorney General’s Police Misconduct Office after a federal judge found they unconstitutionally strip searched a Cambria Heights man in public and then lied about it on the witness stand.
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Federal and Nassau County law enforcement officials indicted eight gang members for a string of violence and fraud in Hempstead, including three murders and 20 attempted murders.
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A list of suspected gang members managed by the Nassau County Police Department includes people with little to no explanation or vague justifications, according to a report released Tuesday by a civil rights group.
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A former detainee at the jail has filed a $20 million dollar lawsuit against the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office alleging he was beaten and not given medical treatment.
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Suffolk County Police on Long Island would pay $3.75 million, improve training and background checks, and publish data about who they pull over in traffic stops as part of a tentative court settlement reached with civil rights activists on Monday.
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Northwell Health held its fourth annual gun violence prevention forum on Tuesday. It brought together 50 hospital executives from across the country who brainstormed ways to stop gun violence.
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The Suffolk County Republican Committee nominate Ed Romaine as their candidate for county executive this November. His likely opponent is businessman and former prosecutor David Calone.
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Linda Mangano has been released from federal prison after serving five months of a 15-month sentence for a corruption scheme during her husband’s tenure as Nassau County executive.
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The number of voices asking Suffolk County Legislator Rob Trotta to resign from the Public Safety Committee is growing.