STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Flamboyant lawyer Richard Luthmann may fancy himself a champion of the little guy, but federal prosecutors say he is little more than a "violent criminal and fraudster" who, ...

An eccentric Staten Island lawyer busted Friday in a fraud, kidnapping and extortion scheme also tried to have a Democratic Party official killed, according to court documents. In an application to ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Wherefore art thou? The controversial Staten Island lawyer arrested in a scrap-metal fraud scheme is trying to brush up on his Shakespeare and some other classics while in ...

Prosecutors are asking to revoke the bail of a Staten Island lawyer – who faces charges of extortion, fraud and kidnapping — because he allegedly tried to intimidate a witness. Richard Luthmann – who ...

A politically active Staten Island lawyer who’s been locked up since December is getting sprung from jail on a $1.5 million bond. Richard Luthmann — who prosecutors say has likened himself to a ...

There are new developments in the case of prominent Staten Island attorney Richard Luthmann, who is charged with fraud. NY1 has learned that a second co-defendant of attorney Richard Luthmann will ...

A controversial Staten Island attorney and three others were arrested early Friday by the FBI on federal kidnapping, fraud and extortion charges, law enforcement officials say. Richard Luthmann, ...

Richard Luthmann, a Staten Island lawyer who once grabbed headlines by challenging another attorney to "trial by combat" and who has been in jail since December as he awaits trial on kidnapping and ...

For the first time, in his own words, once prominent Staten Island attorney Richard Luthmann described some of his involvement in the federal charges against him. Pleading guilty to 2 of 11 charges, ...

A former lawyer who once offered to settle a case through “trial by combat” and ran for Staten Island borough president was sentenced Monday to four years in prison on wire fraud and extortion charges ...

For the first time, in his own words, once prominent Staten Island attorney Richard Luthmann described some of his involvement in the federal charges against him. Pleading guilty to 2 of 11 charges, ...