The state would be able to ban bad actors from the financial services industry under a proposal Gov. Cuomo announced Sunday.

The plan, which Cuomo will discuss in his State of the State speeches this week, is meant to beef up New York’s powers to crack down on shady bankers like those at Wells Fargo, which was fined for opening up bogus accounts for customers without their knowledge.

Cuomo plans to pursue legislation which would allow the superintendent of the Department of Financial Services to bar individuals from working in the banking or insurance industries if he finds after a hearing that the person has engaged in misconduct severe enough to have a direct bearing on their fitness to participate in the industry.

“New York is the financial center of the world and we have zero tolerance for those who seek to defraud customers and undermine the system,” Cuomo said. “The excesses and systematic abuse at the center of the Wells Fargo scandal is unacceptable and New York, in its role as a regulator, is seeking to take bold steps to crack down on this unacceptable behavior.”(nydailynews)…[+]

A city inmate slashed in the face while riding a jail bus said he was the victim of a sadistic version of the mannequin challenge, documents obtained by the Daily News show.

The attack on inmate Angel Gonzalez, an alleged member of the Sex, Money, Murder gang, occurred Friday around 5:40 p.m., according to records. “As he stepped into the aisle he felt a swiping motion across his face. He looked behind him and observed all inmates sitting as if part of the mannequin challenge,” Deputy Warden David Dueno wrote in a email obtained by The News. Correction officers on the bus did not observe the attack and reported the bus was quiet. No weapon was found.(nydailynews)…[+]

President-elect Donald Trump has silenced the famous voice behind presidential inaugurations. Charlie Brotman, who has been the announcer for every presidential inauguration since 1957, will be away from the microphone for Trump’s inauguration Jan. 20 — after the Trump team dumped him. That will make Trump the first President since Dwight Eisenhower whose parade will not be narrated by Brotman.

“I’m disappointed,” Brotman, 89, told the Washington Post last week.(nydailynews)…[+]

A hit-and-run driver left one of his passengers to die in a mangled car after causing a chain-reaction crash in the Bronx Thursday night, police said. The callous motorist had four passengers in with him when he veered a Toyota Camry into oncoming traffic on Boston Road near Wallace Ave. in Allerton at about 9:10 p.m., cops said. The driver slammed into a minivan and damaged two other cars, witnesses said.(nydailynews)…[+]