Wealthy County In New York Must Pay $112 Million to Migrants (1)

New York’s Suffolk County, home to the ultra-wealthy Hamptons and the bucolic North Fork, must pay $112 million in damages to immigrants after a court ruled that their detention in local jails violated their rights.

The Long Island county disclosed the verdict, which it is appealing, to bondholders in a filing this week. A jury granted the award in November following a trial over a lawsuit filed in 2017 in federal court. The suit, which dropped during the first Trump administration, alleged hundreds of foreigners were held past their release dates.

Representatives for Suffolk County said they cannot comment ...