A medical expert says a man claiming he was sodomized by police with a baton did not have severe enough injuries to support his account. Dr. Frank Sconzo testified Tuesday at the trial of three New York Police Department officers. Michael Mineo says ...

Lawyers defending three police officers charged in a subway station baton sex attack case portrayed the accuser as a scammer who made up the story to get money from the city. In opening statements Thursday, defense lawyer John Patton said former tattoo parlor employee Michael Mineo was not sodomized by a police baton and there was no evidence to prove ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York City man who says police beat and sodomized him on a subway station platform sued the city, the police department and the accused officers for $220 million on Thursday for civil rights violations. Three New York City police officers pleaded innocent in December to criminal charges that one of them sodomized Michael Mineo on ...

A police officer warned a tattoo parlor worker that if he reported being sodomized with a baton during an arrest at a subway station, officers would lock him up for a felony, prosecutors said Tuesday. The threat was among details to emerge as ...