Gangrey
Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

Court Reporting

A sentencing comes alive: The end brought no mercy for Paul Siminovsky.

It came more than four years after he was arrested in cinematic fashion: pulled over in his car, driven to a secluded room at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn and seated before a half-dozen investigators to face the evidence of his crimes.

It came after he had confessed to bribery, participated in a sting, lost his license to work as a divorce lawyer and testified in court for nearly 13 days at two trials. It came after he had helped prosecutors win convictions or guilty pleas from nine people, among them a sitting matrimonial judge and the leader of the Kings County Democratic Party.

It came in a half-empty courtroom yesterday…

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