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Alan Feuer

Best Article Crime

A Murder, a Conviction, and a Never-Ending Case

He was a college freshman partying in Manhattan for the first. He ran into a woman he knew from college, got separated from his friends, and ended up at a house party full of strangers. By the next morning, his body would be dumped in a Brooklyn driveway. Fifteen years later, the “circumstances of his death remain muddled.”

Alan Feuer New York Times Feb 2018 15min Permalink

Politics

Patriots

Hanging out with a member of the paranoid, nativist extreme right-wing.

Alan Feuer Rolling Stone Aug 2015 15min Permalink

Crime

The Rise and Fall of the Biggest Pot Dealer in New York City History

How a Canadian used a Mohawk reservation’s lakes to smuggle tons of marijuana to stash houses in Brooklyn and Staten Island, resulting in nearly a billion in profits, which he laundered through the Sinaloa Cartel.

Alan Feuer New York Times Sep 2014 10min Permalink

The Night-Life Lawyer

A profile of Salvatore Strazzullo, who represents celebrities, whether major or minor, who get themselves in trouble in Manhattan after dark.

Alan Feuer New York Times Aug 2012 10min Permalink

Best Article

Untangling a Rape Case in Crown Heights

She was a thirteen-year-old from the Chabad Lubavitch community who would dip into a barbershop bathroom to swap her orthodox clothes for those of a streetwalker. Her pimping and rape allegations against a group of black men in their twenties, repeatedly recanted and then reaffirmed, would send the D.A.’s office into disarray.

Alan Feuer, Colin Moynihan New York Times Jun 2012 10min Permalink

The Secret Life of a Society Maven

The author tracked down “the other” Alan – Alan Z. Feuer – for a story last year. After the other Alan’s death, however, the author learns the truth about the society man’s humble past.

Alan Feuer New York Times Apr 2012 10min Permalink