On February 26, 2016, Terry Sanderson, an optometrist in his late 60s and an experienced skier, was skiing at Deer Valley Resort in Utah when he claims his life changed forever after Gwyneth Paltrow, an Academy Award-winning actress, crashed into him. In the personal injury lawsuit he filed against Ms. Paltrow and the Deer Valley Resort Company (an…

On October 2, 2022, a 13-year-old girl was walking home from school on Staten Island when she was suddenly and viciously attacked by a group of pit bulls which had escaped from an open window in their owners’ home. The pit bulls also attacked a 2-year-old girl and a 19-year-old woman. Sadly, these types of attacks are not isolated incidents, either…

On the afternoon of May 14th, Payton Gendron, eighteen years old and a self-proclaimed white supremacist, arrived outside a Tops Supermarket located in Buffalo, New York. Armed with an AR-15 type rifle, Gendron began firing off rounds in the parking lot, fatally shooting three shoppers. He then entered the grocery store where his killing spree cont…

In the late morning hours of Saturday, January 8, 2022, a five-alarm fire broke out in the Twin Parks North West apartment complex in the Tremont neighborhood of the Bronx. Caused by a malfunctioning electric space heater, smoke from the fire spread throughout the 19-story high-rise after the door to the apartment in which the fire started was left…

On October 21st, an acclaimed cinematographer, 42-year-old Halyna Hutchins, was fatally shot by Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin on the set of Rust. Just prior to the shooting, the film’s assistant director, Dave Halls, grabbed the gun from among three that the film’s armorer had set up on a nearby tray. After yelling “Cold Gun!”, film jargon which is …

On September 1, 2021, the remnants of Hurricane Ida, which had just pummeled Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane several days earlier, swept through New York City. In a matter of hours, more than half a foot of rain inundated the five boroughs. Easily overwhelming the City’s sewer system, Ida turned streets and subways into raging rivers and floode…

On the morning of June 24, 2021, Champlain Tower South, a 13-story oceanfront condominium in south Florida, collapsed. So far, rescue crews working around the clock have recovered 97 bodies from the rubble. At least a dozen residents still remain unaccounted for as recovery efforts continue. In the last episode of The Blame Game, we spoke with an a…

In the early morning of June 24, 2021, Champlain Towers South, a 13-story condominium in Surfside Florida, collapsed without warning. For the past two weeks, rescue crews have been frantically searching through the rubble in search of survivors. As of this broadcast, 46 residents have been confirmed dead with close to 100 still being reported as mi…

On Saturday April 17th, 2021, 71-year-old Hing Chung, manager of a Dim Sum restaurant at the corner of West 78th Street and Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan, was tragically killed after getting struck by an E-bike. Mr. Chung represented the fourth pedestrian killed by E-bikes since 2014 and is part of a troubling trend so far this year. Between Januar…

During the Covid-19 pandemic and due to social distancing restrictions imposed on indoor fitness facilities across the country, millions of Americans stopped going to the gym and began working out in their own homes. In turn, the sale of health and fitness equipment soared. One such at-home fitness company, Peloton, saw its sales surge to roughly $…

January 6, 2021. A day that will go down as one of the darkest in American history. Thousands of supporters of President Trump assembled outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC to object to Congress' certification of Senator Biden's electoral college victory and stop what they view as a stolen election. What happens next is heartbreaking. Breach…

On Saturday, October 24th, 33-year-old Leonard Shoulders experienced every New Yorker’s worst nightmare. Mr. Shoulders is walking towards the bus stop on Third Avenue near 183rd Street in the Bronx when, without any warning, the sidewalk collapses underneath him. Mr. Shoulders plummets 15’ into an underground vault, breaking his leg and arm upon im…

On July 18, 2020, Nina Kapur, a 26-year-old news reporter for CBS, was tragically killed when the Revel scooter on which she was a passenger crashed after its driver suddenly swerved for an unknown reason Ten days later, 32-year Jeremy Malave was killed after losing control of the Revel scooter he was driving and crashing into a light pole. Under i…

Nursing homes have been the ground zero of the COVID-19 pandemic. Of the more than thirty thousand people who have died from the virus in New York State, more than six thousand were of residents in nursing homes and adult care facilities. Saddened and angered by the loss of their loved ones, surviving family members are looking for justice and to h…

The coronavirus continues to ravage New York. Heading into the last week of April, almost 300,000 people across New York State have been diagnosed with the virus with close to 17,000 deaths being reported. In New York City alone and despite the imposition of strict social distancing measures, more than 11,000 people have died from the disease. Over…

COVID-19 is crippling the United States and countries all over the world. Since being first diagnosed in the city of Wuhan, China back on December 1, 2019, the coronavirus which causes the disease has spread throughout the world. As of this podcast, more than 15,000 cases of coronavirus have been diagnosed in New York State alone. Over one hundred …

On December 17, 2019, Erica Tishman, a New York City architect, wife and mother of three, was walking through Times Square on her way to work when she was killed after being struck by a piece of masonry that had fallen off a 17-story building. Shockingly, eight months earlier, the very same building had been issued a violation by New York City's De…

On October 13, 2019, a 65-year-old man was struck and killed by an SUV while his bike on Cross Bay Boulevard in Queens. This marks the 25th cyclist killed in New York City in 2019, more than twice as were killed in all of 2018. With so much carnage on New York City's streets, advocacy groups are claiming that Vision Zero, the City of New York's pla…

On May 29, 2019, a four year old girl was seriously injured after getting struck by a foul ball during a baseball game between the the Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros. Her story is one that is repeated hundreds of times every year at baseball stadiums across the country. And yet despite knowledge that fans are getting struck (and sometimes even kil…

On March 10, 2019, Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 crashed en route to Nairobi, Kenya, killing all 157 passengers on board, including eight American citizens. The crash involved a Boeing 737 MAX jet, the same jet involved in a crash of Lion Air flight 610 from Indonesia in October 2018. Although investigators have not yet completed their investigatio…

On October 6, 2018, Axel and Amy Steenburg of Amsterdam, New York, together with fifteen of their closest friends and family members, were traveling by limousine to a brewery in Cooperstown, New York to celebrate Amy's 30th birthday party. The limousine, owned by Prestige Limousine, was approaching the intersection of Route 30 and Route 30A in Scho…