Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg moves to vacate 316 convictions connected to crooked cops

NEW YORK — More than 300 New Yorkers convicted on the word of crooked cops are set to get their records cleared Tuesday in the latest effort effort by law enforcement to right its own wrongs. The Manhattan district attorney’s office says between 1996 and 2017, 316 people were unjustly tied up in the legal system in the borough — with 57 of them landing behind bars — in cases tied to convicted former NYPD officers Johnny Diaz, William Eiseman, Richard Hall, Michael Carsey, Jason Arbeeny, Michael Arenella, Nicholas Mina, Oscar Sandino, and Michael Foder. “These cases represent hundreds of New Yo...