Platinum Founder’s Lawyer Says FBI May Have Leaked About Fraud Probe
A lawyer defending Platinum Partners founder Mark Nordlicht against fraud charges said on Monday an FBI agent who admitted to leaking to the press on an insider trading probe of sports gambler William...
View ArticleKiller Says: ‘God Told Him’ To Behead His Ex-Wife, Adele Goldstein
A man suspected of beheading ex-wife Adele Goldstein and then strolling around outside while holding her severed head told police investigators that he was acting on divine instruction. The suspect,...
View ArticleLakewood – Rabbi Stole $630G From Special Needs Tuition Fund
TRENTON, NJ — The founder of a Lakewood school for children with special needs has been indicted on charges he misappropriated more than $630,000 in public tuition funds, using a purported fundraising...
View ArticleHacker Suspect In JCC Bomb Threats, Remain In Detention For Another Week
An Israeli-American teen who is suspected of being behind a string of fake bomb threats directed at U.S. Jewish community centers and other targets worldwide was ordered by an Israeli judge on Thursday...
View ArticleKey NYPD Corruption Witness Throws Pal Under The Bus
Jona Rechnitz, the government key cooperator in an NYPD-corruption probe, told the feds that his former businessman pal Jeremy Reichberg was with him every step of the way as he bribed city officials....
View ArticleFeds Continue Probing Public Official’s Pal For Corruption
Manhattan federal prosecutors continue to investigate a public official with ties to real-estate-investor-turned-government-snitch Jona Rechnitz, unsealed court documents show. In unsealing documents...
View ArticleNYPD Cops Accused of Accepting Bribes Hope De Blasio Ruling Bails Them Out
The NYPD cops accused of providing favors in exchange for bribes are gearing up for a massive motion to dismiss their case — citing the same US Supreme Court ruling that helped save Mayor de Blasio...
View ArticleMother of JCC Bomb Hoaxer: He’s Autistic, Doesn’t Know What He’s Doing
The mother of an Israeli-American teen believed to have been behind hundreds of hoax bomb threats against Jewish institutions in the US said her son has diagnosed autism and could not control his...
View ArticleJewish Leader’s Son Is A ‘Deadbeat Dad’ Who Refuses To Pay Child Support
The son of the head of the city’s powerful Chabad Jewish organization is an unemployed deadbeat dad who refuses to give his wife a divorce or pay child support, court papers reveal. Velvel Butman whose...
View ArticleYeshiva Student Whose Arrest Sparked Protests Gets 56 Days In Military Jail
An ultra-Orthodox draft dodger, whose arrest sparked a number of protests last month in Jerusalem, was sentenced on Sunday to 56 days in military jail. Yeshiva student Yisrael Meir Toledano was...
View ArticleUltra-Orthodox Threaten To Shut Down Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport With...
An ultra-Orthodox group is threatening to disrupt operations at Israel’s Ben-Gurion International Airport during the busy Passover holiday week with protests against the drafting of yeshiva students...
View ArticleHacker Suspect In JCC Bomb Threats, Made Millions Selling Fake Papers on Dark...
The bitcoin account of the Israeli teenager suspected of calling in false bomb threats to Jewish organizations in the U.S. and elsewhere is worth millions of shekels, according to Israeli police,...
View ArticleNYPD Nab Suspect Wanted In Borough Park Stealing $233K Worth of Sacred Texts
Police have arrested a 34-year-old man for swiping $233,000 worth of sacred texts from a Brooklyn synagogue, police sources said. The suspect, identified by sources as Aron Gross, was nabbed Wednesday...
View ArticleIsraeli Mafia: Former Trial Witness Against Mob Gunned Down In Netanya
A former witness against a criminal organization was gunned down in Netanya late Thursday, police said. The victim, identified only as a male Netanya resident in his 50s, was shot dead as he sat in a...
View Article28 Ultra-Orthodox Journalists Arrested on Suspicion of Extortion
Police arrested 28 employees of an ultra-Orthodox newspaper on Tuesday morning on suspicion of extortion and harassment. In a nationwide sting, police arrested senior staff and editors of the...
View ArticleLakewood – Court Date Set For Indicted Rabbi Osher Eisemann
The director of a prominent Lakewood school for children with special needs, charged in a May indictment with stealing more than $630,000 in public money, will appear before a judge next week. Rabbi...
View ArticleWilliamsburg Waterfront Transformer Sued For Investor Fraud
WILLIAMSBURG — The Brooklyn developer who laid the groundwork for an explosion of residential properties along the Williamsburg waterfront ran a get-richer-quick real estate scheme for five years,...
View ArticleRabbi, 3 Others Accused Of Stealing $12.4 Million In NYC, State Education Funds
NEW YORK — Four men, including a rabbi, have been accused in a scheme to steal millions of dollars earmarked for preschoolers with special needs. Police handcuffed Rabbi Samuel Hiller of Far Rockaway,...
View ArticleHacker Suspect In JCC Bomb Threats, Has Been Charged In The US
A teenager with dual Israeli-U.S. citizenship has been charged with cyberstalking and making bomb threats to Jewish community centers in Florida and Georgia, the Department of Justice said Friday....
View ArticleRabbi Avraham Yosef Convicted Of Breach Of Trust
Holon Chief Rabbi Avraham Yosef was convicted of two counts of breach of trust by the Tel Aviv Magistrate Court Sunday. Rabbi Avraham Yosef is the brother of Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef and son of former...
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