Lakewood: Arrests Continue In Welfare Fraud Investigation
LAKEWOOD – Six people were arrested Tuesday night in federal and state raids in connection with an ongoing investigation that has so far exposed about $2 million in alleged public-assistance fraud in...
View ArticleBeit Shemesh – Haredi Teacher, Principal, Abuse 12-Year-old Girl
Parents of a 12-year-old girl are claiming their daughter was abused in the “Mishkenot Da’at” Beit Yaakov school in Beit Shemesh. The girl, who is in the school’s special ed class, was punished by the...
View ArticleIsraeli Mafia: Mobster Killed By Car Bomb As Mafia War Intensifies
A gang war in Israel intensified on Tuesday night when a car bomb killed a leading underworld figure. Emergency services and the bomb squad rushed to the crime scene in the Mediterranean city of...
View ArticleManhattan DA: 6 Frum Jews Arrested For Fraud
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., today announced the indictment of six individuals and one company, 92K BLVD., for the theft of more than a quarter of a million dollars through a scheme...
View ArticleMore Arrests Coming To The Orthodox Community In Lakewood
LAKEWOOD – Up to 10 or more residents are expected to be hit with benefits fraud charges according to a defense attorney for one of two people charged with similar offenses in 2015. In addition to the...
View ArticleFBI: Ponca City Woman Tried To Hire Hitman To Kill Ex In Israel
PONCA CITY, Okla. – We’re learning more about an incident last week that sent the FBI to a Ponca City neighborhood. On June 30, neighbors became concerned when they spotted FBI agents staged near a...
View ArticleLakewood, NJ – 6 More Lakewood Couples Charged In Benefits Fraud Probe
Lakewood, NJ – Six more couples were charged with theft Thursday as part of an investigation that has uncovered more than $2 million in public welfare benefits going to New Jersey families that made...
View ArticleThird Circuit Affirms Conviction Of Rabbis In Kidnapping Case
A federal appeals court Friday upheld the convictions of three Orthodox rabbis for their roles in a ring that used brutal tactics to force unwilling Jewish men to divorce their wives. A three-judge...
View ArticleIsraeli Expat’s Former Husband Who Escaped Hit Plot Says He Fears For His Life
An Israeli man at the center of an assassination plot hatched by his ex-wife, who lives in the US, said he was afraid for his life despite the fact that his former spouse has been arrested and the...
View ArticleIsraeli Arrested After Thai Army Finds Weapons During Raids
The Thailand army raided local, Israeli-owned businesses on Saturday in the city of Koh Samui, arresting Nati Hadad, the manager of Koh Samui Search and Rescue medical center known to many Israelis, on...
View ArticleJona Rechnitz Leaves NYC
The feds’ key witness in the NYPD bribery probe has high-tailed it out of New York a month after it surfaced that he allegedly lured some deep-pocketed pals into yet another Ponzi scheme. Jona Rechnitz...
View ArticleYoung Boy From ‘Jewish Taliban’ Reveals Psychical, Sexual Abuse
In the aftermath of the drowning of Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans, leader of the “Jewish Taliban” cult Lev Tahor in Mexico, the ultra-Orthodox press in Israel has been rife with reports regarding the location...
View ArticleIsraeli Crime Syndicate Killed Police Informant Under Supervisors’ Noses
A police informant who infiltrated an organized crime family in Rehovot was allegedly murdered by the mobsters last month, despite his police supervisors being just a few hundred meters away at the...
View ArticleIsrael Police: 12 Under Criminal Investigation For Binary Options
At least 12 binary options company owners and employees are under police investigation or have been referred to the state prosecutor with a recommendation for indictment. Among these, the state...
View ArticleMan Convicted In Hasidic Brooklyn Mob Attack Is A Scapegoat For Williamsburg...
The only man tried in the 2013 beating of a fashion student by a mob of Hasidic Jewish vigilantes is appealing his conviction, arguing that prosecutors relied on junk science to tie his DNA to the...
View ArticleIsraeli Student Steals Items From Auschwitz For Art Exhibit
The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum will reportedly file a criminal complaint against an Israeli granddaughter of Holocaust survivors who admitted to stealing historical objects from the death...
View ArticleIsraeli To Pay $854,000 To Settle Mobileye Insider Trading Case
An Israeli professor has agreed to pay more than $850,000 to settle U.S. claims he engaged in insider trading in Jerusalem-based Mobileye NV (MBLY.N), a maker of sensors and cameras for self-driving...
View ArticleUS Freezes Assets of Israel Binary Options Company
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced a civil complaint this month against Israeli-American binary options operator Jason B. Scharf, alleging that he and the companies he controls have...
View ArticleIsrael Police: Binary Options Is Run By Israeli Organized Crime
In a bombshell speech, a senior Israel Police officer told a Knesset panel on Wednesday that Israeli crime kingpins are behind the binary options industry and that organized crime in the country has...
View ArticleIsraeli Deputy Mayor Suspected of Playing Role In 1999 Mob Murder
Israel’s national fraud unit arrested Thursday a serving deputy mayor on suspicions he was involved in the death of a 22-year-old Israeli man in 1999, a few weeks after a well-known crime boss was...
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