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17.5 years for attacker who punched Yonkers Pinay 125 times
At least 17 years in prison await Tammel Esco, the Yonkers man who punched his Filipina neighbor 125 times on March 11. This is a rare case where an anti-Asian hate crime has reached a resolution and a suspect is put behind bars. The woman was seriously injured and is recovering for the brutal assault […]
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Laundry workers win case vs exploitation, wage theft
The Office of the Attorney General has announced it has recovered $90,000 in stolen and unpaid wages for more than a dozen former employees of a commercial dry cleaner in Astoria, Queens known as Enterprise Cleaner. A press statement says Enterprise failed to pay its employees minimum wage, failed to pay the proper overtime rate, failed […]
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Fil-Irish artist Julie Ann Earls makes a #Metoo film
Filipino-Irish actor Julie Ann Earls is doing a film inspired by the MeToo movement. It shines a light on the dating culture and asks the question whether there will come a time when men will no longer assume a woman cannot fight back. In her maiden short “Alpha,” Julie Ann is the writer, the producer […]
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Young people, minorities report biggest losses in crypto scams
By Jenny Manrique The promise of hefty returns is what initially drew Jeffrey Vaulx, a second-grade special ed teacher in Memphis, Tennessee to go in on a cryptocurrency investment opportunity introduced to him by a Facebook friend. Vaulx would soon discover that he had been taken by a scheme that data from the Federal Trade […]
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Thank you for your service, Victor Malabayabas
The death of Victor Malabayabas on August 20 at the hands of an unidentified robber has once again incensed the Filipino American community as well as Americans who believe military veterans deserve better. Malabayabas, 60, was busy bringing groceries into his home in the Canton neighborhood of Baltimore when the unknown assailant approached him to ask […]
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Walis Tambo rioter gets 45 days jail time
Kene Brian Lazo, the ‘walis tambo’ brandishing rioter who was at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C, on Jan. 6, 2021 was sentenced to 45 days in jail after pleading guilty to participating in the insurrection. He was also ordered to pay $500 in restitution, according to reports. A court statement says Lazo entered the […]
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Attackers of FilAm women arrested
There is some sense of relief and a feeling of cautious optimism within the Filipino American community following reports that attackers of two Filipino women have been identified and locked up. The Yonkers Police Department announced on July 20 the indictment of Tammel Esco, 42, on hate crime charges, specifically for hitting his Filipino neighbor […]
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Justice for John Albert Laylo, 35
By Cristina DC Pastor A lawyer who had worked with the political opposition in the Philippines was killed in what police believe to be a “random shooting” in Philadelphia. John Albert Laylo, a lawyer for presidential candidate Leni Robredo, was in an Uber cab with his mother on their way to the Philadelphia International Airport […]
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One mother’s thoughts on Uvalde and how to improve school security
By Cristina DC Pastor Queens mom Casey DeLeon Pinola remembers shedding tears when she learned 19 children were mowed down in a school in Uvalde, Texas, a city once heralded as the “honey capital of the world.” She immediately thought of her three children Carlos, 15; Caydence, 6; and Coah, 4, who go to three […]