Laura worked at three New York City tabloids — Newsday, The Post and (freelance) The News — before scrubbing off the newsprint and joining Insider in February 2022.
She's a veteran of the Manhattan DA beat, and her work for Insider's Enterprise news desk is focused on the New York investigations into the Trump Organization and on related stories out of state and federal court.
Wayne LaPierre offered 'hearts and prayers' during a break in his 2nd NY corruption trial. He is fighting for the right to return to the gun lobby.
Ex-Secret Service agents explain how heat, staffing, and a focus on a nearby tree line may have cost time amid the Trump assassination attempt.
The National Rifle Association's former "king" is fighting NY AG Letitia James, who he says is bent on "censoring, de-platforming and canceling" him.
Grand jurors should never have seen "official-act" evidence, Trump's lawyers now argue, claiming this fatally "taints" the entire case.
Dozens needed medical care, men incarcerated at San Quentin said. Officials call it a gastrointestinal outbreak, but inmates say it was the chicken.
Combs ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura was the spark for an ongoing federal grand jury investigation, says his new lawyer Marc Agnifilo.
As NY prosecutors probe new accusations of violent sex assault, his lawyers say he suffers "excruciating" internal fluid retention at Rikers Island.
Trump wants his hush-money verdict set aside. But a legal doctrine called "harmless error" is more powerful than his immunity, experts believe.
After the SCOTUS immunity decision, it may not take much to force a hush-money retrial. An ethics form the DA showed jurors in May might do the trick.
Manhattan prosecutors agreed to delay Donald Trump's hush-money sentencing.
Trump wants his criminal conviction in his New York hush-money trial thrown out after the Supreme Court handed him a big win on presidential immunity.
The SCOTUS ruling confers the presumption of immunity on a president's "official" actions. It could have huge implications if Trump has a second term.
Both of Jack Smith's prosecutions of Donald Trump could be delayed and diminished by Monday's Supreme Court's immunity decision, experts say.
The liquor licenses for Trump's 3 New Jersey golf clubs are all in his eldest son's name. But hiding behind Jr. isn't helping as NJ moves to revoke.
Trump sent JT Lewis a condolence letter in 2018. A draft of the letter was among keepsakes prosecutors say Trump kept mingled with national secrets.
Justice Juan Merchan lifted Trump's gag on attacking hush-money witnesses and the jury. But he can't refer to jurors by name.
Prosecutors for special counsel Jack Smith released new details of the "haphazard" way they say Trump stored secrets at Mar-a-Lago.
As Tyrese Haspil's NYC trial for stabbing Gokada CEO Fahim Saleh nears its end, a verdict depends on the killer's emotional state at the time.
Trump says he does not hold a liquor license anywhere in the US. Keeping his name off the paperwork may insulate him now that he's a felon.
Trump did his NYC presentencing interview via video from Mar-a-Lago, with his lawyer at his side. Defense lawyers say that's almost unheard of.