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Stanley Richards Appointment as Commissioner

The appointment of Stanley Richards, a formerly incarcerated person, as the commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction, and the controversy surrounding his past conviction.

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Feb 2, 2026

What court records exist for Stanley Richards’s 1980s robbery conviction and where can they be accessed?

Reporting uniformly states that was convicted of robbery in the late 1980s and served time on and in state prison, but none of the supplied articles produce or point to contemporaneous court dockets, ...

Feb 1, 2026

Nyc mayor mandami just appointed a new head of corrections. What was he incarcerated for

, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s newly appointed commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction, was incarcerated for a robbery conviction in the late 1980s; . Multiple outlets reporting on the ap...