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His attorney, Adam Lustberg, however, calls the case against him one of the weakest he has encountered in over two decades of legal practice. Lustberg, who has represented Fivio for years, expects the Brooklyn drill rapper to be released within the next few months. According to court documents, the charges stem from an alleged incident on New Year’s Day in Edgewater, New...

Fivio Foreign‘s year has been a total wash, seeing he’s been jailed since January on a weapons charge … there could be a light at the end of the tunnel for the “City of Gods” rapper!!! The New Jersey PIO tells TMZ Hip Hop that Fivio pled guilty to terroristic threats — threat to commit a crime of violence in...

Fivio Foreign has been appropriately active in 2025. He’s released collab singles with Plaqueboymax and Caldwell, so fans assumed it was business as usual. Apparently, these verses were recorded before Fivio was locked up. Adam Lustberg, the lawyer representing Fivio Foreign, confirmed the rapper has actually been behind bars since January 18. Lustberg told TMZ that his client is facing...

Shortly after the deaths of two aspiring rappers earlier this year, New York City mayor Eric Adams appeared to take a hard line against drill rap, stressing in a February speech that social-media companies should pull the genre’s displays of gun violence from their apps, comparing the removal to Trump’s Twitter suspension. His words sparked a backlash as they not only...

UPDATE: A Lyndhurst man was defending himself when he stabbed a North Bergen man who attacked him in Hoboken, his lawyer told a judge in Jersey City on Tuesday. “It’s self defense, clear self defense,” attorney Adam Lustberg of Hackensack said after the judge released Andre Mateus, 26, with conditions following a Zoom hearing. The trouble began at the Tally-Ho...

The New Jersey man accused in last month’s choking death of a woman during rough sex has been ordered released from jail and placed on home confinement to await his trial for reckless manslaughter. Michael Gaffney, 21, checked out of the Bergen County Jail shortly before 5 p.m. Thursday, according to public records…

A Maywood man accused of fatally choking a 19-year-old woman during sex was released from jail on Thursday after the defense attorney presented new evidence alleging the woman died of a drug overdose. Michael Gaffney, 21, will be placed under home confinement and required to wear an ankle monitor as he awaits trial for allegedly asphyxiating Francis Garcia while they...

The 21-year-old New Jersey man accused of killing a woman by choking her during sex allegedly took a picture of her while she was naked and unconscious — and posted it to Snapchat before seeking help. Michael Gaffney, 21, of Maywood, was arrested on Nov. 2 and charged with reckless murder in connection with the death of Frances Veronica Garcia,...

A New Jersey man accused of killing a woman during ‘rough sex’ in a car posted a picture of her dead, naked body on Snapchat before calling for help. Michael T. Gaffney, 21, from Maywood was charged with reckless manslaughter last month over the death of Francis Victoria Garcia, 19…

EXCLUSIVE: A judge in Hackensack on Friday approved a plea-bargained six-year prison sentence for a Jersey City man caught by Fort Lee police with six pounds of pure heroin for sale during a George Washington Bridge stop last summer. While insisting that she was “not overlooking the seriousness of the offense,” Superior Court Judge Margaret M. Foti upheld the plea deal...