Ehud Olmert Freed From Prison For 48 Hours
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was released Monday morning, beginning a 48-hour furlough. The two-day outing marks the first time the former Prime Minister has been seen in public since he...
View ArticleJerusalem – Haredi Teen Beaten By Bus Driver
A haredi youth was beaten by an Egged bus driver during a trip from Jerusalem to Tiberias last Thursday night. The incident, which took place on an Egged 959 line bus, began when the victim, Urel...
View ArticleJoseph Gutnick $87M Asset Transfer To Sister’s Firm Probed
Liquidators of bankrupt mining magnate Joe Gutnick’s failed Legend International are investigating the transfer of phosphate deposits worth up to $87 million to a company controlled by his sister and...
View ArticleIsrael – Couple Suspected of Running Prostitution ‘Empire’
25-year-old Elisa Zamlen and her partner, 30-year-old Alexander Radin, were charged with a slew of prostitution-related crimes on Sunday. The indictment includes counts of human trafficking, pimping,...
View ArticleMonsey – Firefighters Find Blocked Foors At Monsey Building
MONSEY – Firefighters trying to tackle flames and smoke shooting from a large Calvert Drive apartment building were blocked from entering the complex by dozens of boxes stored in a warehouse space...
View ArticleFamily Member of Jeremy Reichberg Tried To Remove Evidence From Home on Day...
A relative of the Brooklyn businessman accused of giving gifts, trips, and hookers to cops in exchange for a “private police force” tried to remove seven cellphones from the family home the day of his...
View ArticleTel Aviv Principal, 5 Teachers Suspected of Abusing Dozens of Kids
Police said Monday they had arrested a school principal and five teachers on suspicion of serious sexual and physical abuse of dozens of young pupils at a religious school in Tel Aviv. The arrests came...
View ArticleEddyville, KY – Jew On Death Row Sues To Keep Kosher After Chicken Dinner
Eddyville, KY – A Jewish inmate on Kentucky’s death row is suing in federal court, saying he was unfairly removed from a kosher meals program for eating an unlabeled meal of rotisserie chicken. The...
View ArticleFraud Probe Ricochets Through Platinum Partners, A Hedge Fund With Ties To...
For his son’s bar mitzvah in 2008, hedge-fund manager Murray Huberfeld chartered a JetBlue plane and invited hundreds to an oceanfront party in Palm Beach, Fla. An Orthodox pop star known as the...
View ArticleJewish Landlord Accused of Harassing Tenants Is Arrested
During the single-digit temperatures in winter 2015, the family, with five children, had no heat and no hot water. That, the authorities say, was not even the worst of conditions the tenants endured as...
View ArticleIsrael Police: Crime Boss, Eight Others Arrested Over Hit Jobs
The senior crime figure arrested on Tuesday in connection with a series of underworld assassinations is Motti Hassin. Hassin, the acting leader of the Yitzhak Abergil crime organization while the...
View ArticlePresident Rivlin Rejects Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto Request For Clemency
President Reuven Rivlin has rejected a request to pardon Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto, who is serving a year in prison for attempted bribery and obstruction of justice. Rivlin’s decision was in keeping with...
View ArticleWilliamsburg Hasidic ‘Hate Crime’ Attackers Trying To Finagle Better Plea Deal
Two Shomrim thugs who dodged jail after beating a gay black man into a pulp are now trying to shirk the conditions of their plea deal. Pinchas Braver and Abraham Winkler who admitted to jumping Taj...
View ArticleJailed Jewish Fraudster Eliyahu Weinstein Not Allowed To Withdraw Guilty Plea
The Lakewood man who ran a $200 million Ponzi investment scheme that bilked members of the town’s Orthodox community has struck out in his attempt to overturn his convictions. Eliyahu Weinstein was...
View ArticleBar Refaeli’s Dad Arrested For Allegedly Assaulting Police Officers
The father of top Israeli model Bar Refaeli was placed under house arrest for allegedly assaulting police officers who came to his home to investigate a neighbor’s noise complaint. Rafi Refaeli was...
View ArticleWilliamsburg Hasidic ‘Hate Crime’ Attackers Get Probation, Community Service
Two gay-bashing members of the Orthodox neighborhood watchdog group Shomrim were sentenced to just three years probation and 150 hours community service Tuesday after they admitted to taking part in a...
View ArticleWilliamsburg Slumlord Brothers Accused of Forcing Out Tenants So They Could...
Attorneys for a pair of Brooklyn slumlords accused of forcing their long-time tenants to live in destroyed apartments and then scaring them into leaving in order to jump in on the growing real estate...
View ArticleA Cocky Arms Dealer Fleeced The Pentagon In ‘War Dogs.’ Now He’s Fighting For...
Efraim Diveroli was sleeping next to a naked prostitute in an Albanian hotel room when he was woken by the vibration of his mobile phone. He saw it was his old schoolfriend and business partner David...
View ArticleTrial To Begin For Hasidic Man Accused of Beating GAY Black Man
An accused homophobic Hasid charged with helping to beat a gay black man within an inch of his life is headed to trial. Mayer Herskovic faces up to 25 years in prison on felony gang assault in the...
View ArticleFormer PM Ehud Olmert Requests Early Prison Release
Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday submitted a request for an early release from Ma’asiyahu Prison, where he has been serving an 18-month prison term since February. A hearing of the...
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