New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani drew fierce criticism Friday after posting a Spanish-language video outlining what people should do if they encounter federal immigration officials.

“If you encounter ICE, these are your rights,” Mamdani says in Spanish at the start of the roughly 90-second video.

The mayor, who frequently uses social media to communicate with New Yorkers, says Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents generally cannot enter a private residence without a judicial warrant. He advises viewers to check whether any document includes the words “United States District Court” along with a judge’s signature.

Mamdani also tells viewers they can ask agents to slide the warrant under the door.

For encounters with ICE in public, Mamdani says individuals have the right to remain silent. He recommends asking, “Am I free to go?” and cautions people against signing paperwork before speaking with an attorney.

The video includes New York City’s legal assistance hotline. Mamdani closes by saying New Yorkers have a “right to protest” and promising to defend it.

The message quickly became a target for Republican lawmakers and conservative commentators on social media.

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Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, criticized the video on X, writing, “At no point in this video is anyone urged to abide by the laws of the United States,” and adding that it was not created “for the benefit of the people of the United States.”

Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, described the video as “dangerous incitement full of disturbing falsehoods by communist terrorist supporter.” He said the statement could endanger lives.

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., responded with a brief assessment of his own: “Unbelievable.”

Scott accused Mamdani of openly helping undocumented immigrants avoid ICE and weaken enforcement of immigration law. He also claimed that “radical Democrats” were trying to restore what he called President Biden’s “open border disaster.”

Rep. Nick LaLota, R-N.Y., accused the mayor of using taxpayer-funded resources to explain in Spanish how undocumented immigrants could “evade accountability.”

LaLota argued that Biden-era border policies, ending the “Remain in Mexico” program, sanctuary-city rules and government-funded hotel stays, health care and legal services for undocumented immigrants were not acts of compassion but policy decisions. He said those measures were pushing the United States to resemble France and claimed House Democrats supported them.

“NYC is becoming more like Paris every day,” LaLota added.

Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, offered a single-word reaction to Mamdani’s video: “Treason.”

Nearly a decade after her young daughter died in a devastating cafeteria-table accident, a Michigan mother says she is enduring what feels like “hell on Earth” after her former attorney allegedly mishandled more than $600,000 from the family’s settlement.

Tabatha Kerr said her three-year-old daughter, Lilliana, was playing with a ball inside the gym at St. Albert the Great Catholic Church in Dearborn Heights in January 2017 when a 350-pound table toppled onto her.

Lilliana died in the freak accident, leaving her mother devastated and determined to pursue accountability for her child.

Kerr, who is now 39, later brought a wrongful-death lawsuit against the school. The case resulted in a $2.5 million settlement.

However, Kerr said the portion of the settlement intended for her family was never turned over. She told Click on Detroit that she had expected to receive the money roughly eight years ago, but it remained in the hands of her attorney, Gregory Rohl.

“Lonely. Quiet. Stressful. Empty. Hollow. Defeating,” Kerr said. “I feel like I’m walking on hell on Earth. I am tired of being kicked while I’m down.”

Rohl was disbarred on October 1 after a grievance administrator filed a three-count complaint accusing him of misappropriating court-ordered funds and failing to distribute them. He entered a no-contest plea, according to a disbarment and restitution notice reviewed by the Daily Mail.

The notice said Rohl allegedly used the money for purposes unrelated to the case, failed to release shares belonging to the children despite court directives and later provided false information to a beneficiary’s attorney and the Attorney Grievance Commission about his role in handling the settlement.

Along with losing his law license, Rohl was ordered to pay $659,821.44 in restitution and an additional $1,446.14 in costs.

Rohl has maintained that he never knowingly took funds belonging to a client.

Speaking to the outlet while recovering from a stroke, Rohl said his now-deceased business partner and office manager handled the case’s finances when the settlement was received.

He said he had trusted the individual, who later took control of his law firm, but did not disclose the person’s name.

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“What happened in this case is a true tragedy which cost me my 40-year law career,” Rohl said.

In a statement, he directed readers to his response to the investigation, saying it outlines the timeline and identifies others he believes were responsible, including his former office manager and a probate attorney appointed by the court.

Rohl claimed the probate attorney had been ordered to protect the children’s remaining funds but failed to do so. “I have never knowingly taken any monies from any client ever,” he said, while acknowledging that the account was held in his name, making him ultimately responsible for the loss.

“I wish only the best for Tabatha and her family,” he added. “Lilliana’s loss was horrific, and this nightmare only compounds their grief.”

The Daily Mail said it also tried to reach Rohl for comment. His law firm’s website is no longer online.

While Tabatha has been dealing with the financial loss for her family in court, she has also been taking on a larger fight to make sure what happened to her daughter doesn’t happen to other children. 

After Lilliana died, she launched proposed legislation called Lilliana’s Law. 

Tabatha has led ongoing advocacy for proposed Michigan House Bill No. 4167, which would focus on initiatives for improving school safety and preventing accidents from dangerous and outdated furniture and equipment. 

The table that killed her daughter was supposed to be removed in 2007, but never was, Tabatha wrote on the Lilliana’s Law website. 

She has gone on to collect more than 32,000 signatures on a Change.org petition to help persuade lawmakers to pass the bill. Tabatha also has a 510-page research book about the risks to children in schools in Michigan and across the US. 

‘We don’t know the needs and the conditions of our schools. We can hopefully create an adequate framework to address the cause and effect of the dangers of our schools and what our children are facing to minimize the harm and the loss our children and our families have been facing,’ she told the outlet. 

Lilliana is survived by her mother, older brother, Jayden, 19, and her twin sister, Tieranie, who is now 13. 

Talk about an encounter that went well beyond the pale.

New Jersey’s infamous “Tan Mom” says federal immigration agents nearly handcuffed her after questioning whether she was a U.S. citizen—a moment she believes may have been linked to the intensely dark tan that turned her into a tabloid celebrity.

Patricia Krentcil described the alleged incident while appearing on the “Light. Tan. Up.” podcast with actor Tom Arnold. She said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stopped her as she was leaving a restaurant with several friends.

“As we’re walking out, the ICE people stopped me and they asked me, ‘Am I an American citizen?’” Krentcil recalled. “And I’m like, ‘Yes.’ You know, it blew my mind.”

According to Krentcil, the encounter nearly became far more serious than a simple question about her citizenship—and even darker than her trademark tan.

“Because I was so tan, they were about to handcuff me … and take me away. God knows where,” she alleged.

Krentcil’s deeply bronzed appearance has drawn national attention for more than a decade. She said she feared being detained and taken to an unknown location.

“Once you get in those trucks, you don’t know where you’re going anymore,” she said. “I was scared, but I held my own and I got out of the situation.”

The longtime tanning enthusiast also accused immigration authorities of treating people differently based on race and nationality. “But they’re very racist about color and nationalities and stuff like that,” she said.

She called the alleged encounter “terrifying.”

Krentcil did not say when or where the incident allegedly took place. News Media has not independently confirmed her account.

Krentcil first gained widespread attention in 2012, when authorities accused her of taking her then-5-year-old daughter into a tanning bed at a New Jersey salon.

She was arrested and charged with second-degree child endangerment after her daughter reportedly arrived at school with sunburns. The case fueled intense media coverage of Krentcil’s tanning habits and parenting.

The case ultimately ended without an indictment. An Essex County grand jury declined to indict Krentcil in February 2013, and prosecutors dropped the charges.

Krentcil later left New Jersey for Florida, where the woman whose famously dark tan made her a tabloid fixture continues to embrace life in the Sunshine State.

ICE had not immediately responded to News Media’s request for comment about the alleged encounter.

A man accused of killing a North Carolina college student 14 years ago was found guilty Friday of first-degree murder, rape and additional charges after prosecutors argued that DNA and other forensic evidence pointed directly to him.

Faith Hedgepeth was 19 and in her sophomore year at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill when she was beaten to death inside her off-campus apartment in September 2012.

Miguel Salguero Olivares was taken into custody nine years later following a driving-while-intoxicated stop. Prosecutors said a DNA sample collected after the arrest matched evidence recovered from the apartment where Hedgepeth was killed.

Salguero Olivares, now 33, chose not to testify. His defense team concluded its case without presenting any witnesses.

After roughly six hours of deliberation spread across two days, jurors convicted him of murder, rape, sexual offense and burglary.

The judge sentenced him to life in prison without parole for the murder, followed by an additional 45 to 65 years for the remaining convictions.

Faith’s mother, Connie Hedgepeth, told the court that she had chosen to forgive her daughter’s killer years ago.

“It was just three weeks after her death. It didn’t matter who done it, I knew that I had to forgive, and I do forgive, but my heart aches for his family,” she said. “It was just such a senseless and cruel act, but we have to go on, and we just have to trust God and go on with our lives.”

Faith’s father, Roland Hedgepeth, described her death as feeling like his heart had been torn from his chest.

He remembered his daughter as a beacon of hope who entered his life during one of its darkest periods. He said that for the past 5,158 days, it had been easier to say he forgave an unknown killer.

“Today it got very real,” he said. “Nevertheless, I say it without reservation, I forgive Miguel for what he did.”

Defense lawyer James Rainsford described the Hedgepeths’ remarks as “powerful and kind.” He said he could have addressed the court about Salguero Olivares and his family, but decided against it. “For me to try to blend the two things, I don’t think that’s what everybody needs at this point,” he said.

Defense argued the client was falsely accused

During closing arguments Thursday, defense attorneys accused investigators of developing “tunnel vision” and treating their client as a monster rather than considering their claim that he was a “19-year-old boy” who had consensual sex with Hedgepeth days before her death.

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Prosecutors countered that jurors should focus on the DNA evidence rather than what they characterized as distractions raised by the defense.

“We know who did it. The forensic evidence is screaming his name,” prosecutor Angela Garcia-Lamarca said. She also spoke about the “uncurable agony” Hedgepeth’s family has endured since her death.

“When the defendant brought that bottle down on her head and she started to bleed, that was the start of a bleeding that still hasn’t stopped,” Garcia-Lamarca said. “He sentenced her to death. He sentenced everybody else who loved her to life. There was no one there to protect her. There was no one there to stop him — until now. Y’all are here. You’re here now, and you can stop him.”

Prosecution suggests victim spurned defendant’s advances

The prosecution called nearly two dozen witnesses, including crime scene specialists, state and local police officers, a DNA expert and several of Hedgepeth’s friends.

Karena Rosario, Hedgepeth’s roommate, testified that she was intoxicated and ill when Hedgepeth drove them home from a club at about 2 a.m. on Sept. 7.

Rosario said she later contacted a friend for a ride, leaving Hedgepeth alone inside the apartment.

When she came back several hours later, Rosario found her roommate’s body.

Though no witnesses corroborated the theory, prosecutors suggested Salguero Olivares may have attended a barbecue hosted by Hedgepeth’s neighbor that night, unsuccessfully hit on the young women in the parking lot and then returned, embarrassed and angry, after Rosario left.

Forensic evidence was a focus

Experts testified that the defendant’s fingerprints and palm print were found on a wine bottle at the scene and that his DNA was found in Hedgepeth’s body, on a note written on a fast-food bag found at the scene and on a rum bottle covered in blood that investigators identified as the weapon in the killing.

Defense attorneys questioned Rosario’s account of that night, the processing of the crime scene and the reliability of some DNA evidence.

They pointed out that police failed to search some areas of the apartment and later lost some possible blood evidence and emphasized that DNA from sexual intercourse can remain for days afterward.

“Maybe he was living the same life as other 19- and 20-year-old children that we’ve heard about in this case,” defense attorney Jason Murphy said. “Maybe he had too much to drink, maybe he forgot about an encounter.”

But special prosecutor Lisa Coltrane dismissed that as “noise.”

“No matter what kind of mistakes were made or things that were missed, it doesn’t erase the palm print; it doesn’t somehow lift the DNA out of Faith,” she said. “They didn’t talk to every single person in Chapel Hill, and it doesn’t matter. They still got the guy because he left his DNA like confetti all over that room.”

Throughout his long career, William Devane has regularly portrayed powerful figures on screen, from politicians and military commanders to influential business executives.

That authoritative presence and familiar, measured delivery made the Knots Landing star a natural choice for Rosland Capital, a precious-metals investment company that enlisted him as its public face.

For almost 15 years, Devane appeared in a series of advertisements promoting Rosland Capital as a dependable place for investors to protect their money through gold bullion, silver coins and other precious-metal products.

In one commercial, Devane declared, “Trust is earned,” before pointing to Rosland’s reported “A+ rating” from the Better Business Bureau. He concluded: “I trust Rosland Capital.”

Then, about three months ago, the advertisements abruptly disappeared from Fox News and Newsmax.

Around the same time, Rosland Capital vacated its offices in Los Angeles and Henderson, Nevada, dismissed dozens of workers and rapidly closed down its operations.

On July 2, the company—which had claimed to sell more than $1 billion in precious metals, primarily to retirees—filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in California.

Since the bankruptcy filing, dozens of customers have submitted claims against Rosland Capital. Some are elderly investors who say they lost millions of dollars from their retirement savings.

Devane has not publicly commented, but his wife, Debbie Morrison, told the Daily Mail that neither of them knew how the company conducted its business.

“It goes completely against his morals,” Morrison said. “He absolutely did not know what was going on in the company.”

She added that the situation had been devastating for those affected and deeply shocking to the couple as well. “It’s just terrible what has happened and we feel bad for everyone,” she said.

“It’s awful what [Rosland] has done. He feels terrible for what has happened to everyone, but he had no idea and no way of knowing what was happening,” Morrison said.

Bankruptcy court documents also indicate that Rosland Capital owed money to Devane himself.

The filings state that his agreement with the company provided quarterly payments of $50,000 and was scheduled to remain in effect until June 2028.

According to Morrison, Devane’s involvement was limited to appearing at filming locations for the commercials, with no broader role in the company’s operations.

She also said that the couple had never visited Rosland Capital’s offices in either California or Nevada.

The Daily Mail has contacted attorneys representing Rosland Capital and its chief executive, Marin Aleksov, for comment.

Court documents detail how the billion-dollar company quickly tanked and is now under liquidation.

The company reported assets in the $1 to $10 million range against liabilities of $50 to $100 million.

According to court filings, the company also has a capital deficit at more than $60 million and allegedly claims to no longer have any inventory of gold bullion or coins, just limited cash.

Rosland grew its customer base for 20 years from aggressive celebrity advertisement on cable news networks, Google, Bing, YouTube and other platforms.

According to the filings, the rise in precious metal prices earlier this year caused a surge in orders, and the company could not keep up with the prepaid orders.

The company would also pay its brokers and sales representatives 15 to 35 percent commission, further squeezing the company’s profits, according to records.

Fox News was listed on the company’s bankruptcy petition as a creditor, with Rosland owing the network $1.9 million.

The names of the other 19 unsecured creditors who were owed about $21.6 million, were redacted.

Laurel Mooney Proaps, who lives in San Marcos, California, said she is still waiting for her coins, which she paid $101,000 for, to Rosland Capital.

She has since joined the company’s bankruptcy case as a claimant, along with dozens of others.

Proaps said she saw the commercials featuring Devane while watching Fox News earlier this year. She was instantly drawn to the idea of securing her finances by buying silver.

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‘The salesperson convinced me that silver was going to “blow up” and that it was going up so much in value,’ Proaps, 65, told the Daily Mail.

‘Two salespeople were then very convincing and came off like they were so informative about the precious metals market. One of them even told me that he had just gotten back from having lunch with the president of Charles Schwab the other day.’

Proaps said when she started to trust the two salespeople, she made two purchases of about $50,000 with the expectation she would be receiving her silver Canadian falcon coins by special delivery in the mail within 14 days.

‘I got to know them so well that we would have conversations about restaurants we went to,’ Proaps said. ‘But when the 14 days passed and there were still no coins, it was, “We can’t get the silver right now because it’s so hard to get right now and it’s a completely a supply-chain thing.”

‘And then it was, “The person in our shipping department is sick.” Finally, my husband flat out asked in March, “Is your company in financial trouble or something?”’

‘Their response was, “Oh, don’t worry. You will get the coins.”’

Proaps said when she called again about six weeks later, the regular salespeople she often communicated with were gone and another unknown salesperson was on their voicemail.

According to the declaration filed by the company’s attorneys, Rosland employees in the Los Angeles and Henderson offices were let go on June 19.

Meanwhile, more than 400 voicemails and emails from frustrated customers remained unanswered.

One of those salespeople was Princess Diaries actor Erik von Detten. 

The former actor said in prior interviews that he left the entertainment business in 2010 and joined Rosland Capital in 2018 as a senior representative and broker.

Another elderly couple, 85-year-old Sheila Greenberg and 97-year-old Norman Greenberg, who claimed to have been bilked out of $2 million of their retirement savings, filed a civil suit in May against von Detten, Rosland Capital and Aleksov.

The Greenbergs claim that they had called the company in 2020 after seeing a television advertisement and were put in touch with von Detten.

They also alleged that von Detten had impressed them with his knowledge about gold and said that he would be able to help them.

They allege that they placed two orders of Lady Liberty gold from von Detten for around $1 million, but were never sent coins and instead sent to a facility for storage then a short time later von Detten made another purchase of $1 million in coins.

The couple went on to claim that they eventually learned the coins they had purchased were not worth what they spent and had been marked at a massive premium.

The Greenbergs have alleged that they have invested $2.1 million total, but the coins were only worth $1.3 million.

They are now suing for $900,000 in damages to recover their losses in addition to punitive damages.

The Daily Mail has reached out to von Detten and Aleksov for comment. 

Brian Davidoff, an attorney representing Roseland Capital LLC, declined to comment on the lawsuit, but told the Daily Mail that a plan of liquidation is expected to be filed in the next two weeks. 

 ‘We have worked with the Creditors Committee to create a liquidating trust which will have the power to investigate the financial history of the company to provide answers to the claims of the Greenberg’s and other investors,’ Davidoff said. 

 So far, they have not filed a response to the Greenbergs’ or Proaps’ lawsuits. 

Aleksov and von Detten have close ties.

Records obtained by the Daily Mail show von Detten’s wife, who is a real estate agent, sold Aleksov’s $4.9 million, five-bedroom mansion in the upscale Brentwood neighborhood about a month before Rosland Capital declared bankruptcy.

The Greenbergs’ attorney, Bruce Berman, told the Daily Mail his clients’ civil suit is on hold temporarily while Rosland continues its bankruptcy proceedings. 

Proaps also filed her own civil suit against the company and CEO Aleksov earlier this month, claiming intentional fraud. Since she has lost over $100,000, Proaps said she has had to represent herself.

‘It’s been very stressful because I already lost so much money, and now I can’t even afford $20,000 or more to hire another attorney, so I’m having to do this on my own.’

The stay-at-home mom, whose children are now grown up, said she was hoping she and her husband would be able to retire and have a comfortable ‘nest egg’.

‘But now that’s gone,’ she said. ‘I’ve joined that bankruptcy as a creditor but there is probably no money left once they liquidate everything.

‘I’m so stressed out because I’m also suing them on my own, but I know I’m not alone in this because there are hundreds of us. There are people who said they wanted to cash out their gold but it was just taken, and they never got any of their money back. We didn’t even know they shut everything down. It’s devastating.’