Hacker Suspect In JCC Bomb Threats, Allegedly Threatened, Extorted US Senator
The Israeli arrested in March on suspicion of making hundreds of bomb threats to Jewish community centers around the world and even causing a forced emergency landing in JFK airport, is now also...
View ArticleReport: Israel Denies U.S. Request To Extradite Teen Arrested For JCC Bomb...
Jerusalem – Israel’s Justice Ministry reportedly has denied a U.S. Justice Department request to extradite the Israeli-American teen charged with making threats against Jewish community centers...
View ArticleLakewood Rabbi Osher Eisemann Charged With Stealing and Laundering From SCHI
One day last summer, state investigators descended upon the 13-acre campus in Lakewood of the School for Children with Hidden Intelligence, a private entity that takes in about $1.8 million a month...
View ArticleHacker Suspect In JCC Bomb Threats, Made 2,000 Threat Calls’, Charged With...
The Israeli-American Michael Ron David Kadar suspected of making threatening phone calls to Jewish community centers in the United States was charged on Monday in Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court with...
View ArticleHigh Court Returns Senior Editors of Haredi Newspaper To Custody
The High Court has ruled that the senior editors of the Hapeles newspaper, Nati Grossman and Shmuel Elyashiv, should be returned to custody, after they were released to house arrest by the District...
View ArticleKey Witness In NYPD Corruption Probe Was An Alleged ‘Loan Shark’
The government’s key witness in multiple corruption probes was a part-time “loan shark” who made money doling out predatory loans, court documents alleged on Tuesday. Jona Rechnitz the government’s...
View ArticleLakewood Rabbi Pleads Not Guilty To Stealing Public Funds From Special Needs...
A Lakewood rabbi who runs a school for children with developmental disabilities pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of stealing public funds for personal use. Osher Eisemann, 60, the founder and...
View ArticleFormer Chief Rabbi’s Sentence Reduced By 1 Year
The Supreme Court on Sunday accepted the appeal filed of former Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger against the prison sentence he received for bribery and ruled that he would receive three and a half years in...
View ArticleLakewood Rabbi Osher Eisemann, Charity Raised Millions Illegally
A Lakewood charity, indicted in March on theft charges involving hundreds of thousands of tax dollars, raised millions of dollars from the public while failing to follow the state law that governs...
View ArticleJona Rechnitz Lured Diamond Dealer Into Ponzi Scheme
A government witness in the now-defunct probe of Mayor Bill de Blasio recruited several prominent and wealthy New Yorkers into a Ponzi scheme whose accused mastermind goes on trial this month. Jona...
View ArticleHaredi Child Attacks ‘Immodest’ Woman
An haredi child on Tuesday night threw a stone at a woman in her fifties after judging to be “not dressed modestly.” The child escaped from the scene. An ambulance took the lightly injured woman to...
View ArticleOttawa – Food Distributor Charged With Sending Fake Kosher Cheese To Jewish...
Ottawa – The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has charged a food distributor with sending cheddar cheese to Jewish summer camps falsely labeled as kosher. The agency charged Ontario-based Creation Foods...
View ArticleLandlord, on Lam For Years, Avoids Jail For $127,000 Theft
Syracuse, NY – A Brooklyn man who used dilapidated Syracuse rentals to steal $127,000 from banks, then fled to Canada for five years, avoided going to jail today after pleading guilty to 32 felonies...
View ArticleNYC Landlord Sentenced To Prison For Bribing City Employee
A Brooklyn landlord and “serial briber,” who once threatened to blackmail a tenant with a phony incest claim if she didn’t move out of his building, was sentenced to up to six years in prison Monday...
View ArticleUltra-Orthodox Extremists Burn Effigies of Haredi IDF Soldiers
Ultra-Orthodox extremists in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood burnt effigies of Haredi IDF soldiers during Lag B’Omer celebratory bonfires on Saturday night as part of their protest against the...
View ArticleFormer Chief Rabbi Eliahu Bakshi-Doron Convicted of Fraud
Jerusalem District Court convicted former chief Rabbi Eliahu Bakshi-Doron of fraudulent receipt of goods or services under aggravated circumstances, awarding fictitious diplomas and breach of trust....
View ArticleIra Bernstein and Kelly Gribeluk Sentenced To Prison In Murder For Hire Plot
The notorious Rockland podiatrist and his girlfriend were sentenced to state prison in connection with the complex plot to murder his wife. Ira Bernstein was sentenced by Rockland County Court Judge...
View ArticleClassified Documents Found In Olmert’s Cell
One of the lawyers representing former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was caught with classified documents in his possession as he left the prison in which Olmert is serving time, Channel 2 News reported...
View ArticleChabad Synagogue Vandalized In Meah Shearim
Congregants of the old Chabad shul in Meah Shearim were amazed to discover on Shabbat (Sabbath, Saturday) that vandals had broken into their synagogue. The vandals destroyed the synagogue’s walls,...
View ArticleJPMorgan Israeli Hacking Case To Pay $403 Million To US Authorities
A 33-year-old Israeli named Gary Shalon who allegedly took part in a scam operation involving securities will pay $403 million in a settlement with United States authorities. According to the report,...
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