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The Google engineer charged with murder last week admitted to beating his wife to death with his fist in their $2million Santa Clara home, court documents obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com reveal. Police noticed that suspect Liren Chen’s right hand was ‘extremely swollen and purple’ and that he had blood on his clothing, legs, arms and hands, records reveal. When fire department personnel asked the 27-year-old how he hurt his hand, he replied, ‘I punched my wife,’ and told them it happened the prior day, records state. A friend of Chen told police he’d seen Chen with his wife Xuanyi Yu...

The skirt-wearing Virginia boy who was found guilty of raping a female classmate in a school bathroom in May has pleaded no contest to sexually assaulting a second student in October, clearing the way for him to be sentenced for both crimes next month. Details of the second incident, which involved the 15-year-old dragging another girl into an empty classroom and touching her breasts, were revealed Monday in Loudoun County juvenile court. The defendant, wearing a green t-shirt and brown pants with his hair pulled back into a ponytail, sat silently as the prosecution laid out the second case. His...

Cops shut down a lane in the Lincoln Tunnel so a visiting businessman could be escorted through it at the behest of a major de Blasio fundraiser, federal prosecutors charged Monday. [Snip] Federal prosecutors allege that the civilian behind the closure, Borough Park businessman Jeremy Reichberg, and his real-estate-investor pal Jona Rechnitz, spent more than $100,000 on police bribes between 2012 and 2015. "They got, in effect, a private police force for themselves and their friends — effectively they got cops on call," Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara said.

Cops shut down a lane in the Lincoln Tunnel so a visiting businessman could be escorted through it at the behest of a major de Blasio fundraiser, federal prosecutors charged Monday. Modal Trigger Jeremy ReichbergPhoto: Reuters The outrageous move was revealed as part of damning criminal indictments unveiled Monday against four NYPD officers and the shady “fixer’’ who allegedly arranged it. The stunning arrests marked the first time cops have been charged in the sweeping 3½-year corruption investigation rocking the department and Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office, which is being probed for its fundraising. Federal prosecutors allege that the civilian...

Spitzer accuser was a $5K-a-night hooker who lives life of luxury The Russian vixen who accused Eliot Spitzer of choking her at The Plaza hotel is a divorced, globe-trotting beauty who once bared all the dirty details of her life as a $5,000-a-night hooker, The Post has learned. Cops believe that Svetlana Zakharova Travis, 25 — who dumped her husband, Michael, in 2013 but kept his name — used the byline “Svetlana Z” for an article titled “Sex is Sex, but Money is Money.” The online piece reveals how she came to New York with $300 in her pocket and...