Man Convicted For Illegally Employing Israelis In US
An Israeli man who owns kiosks in shopping malls in seven states was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in jail for illegally employing Israeli nationals to sell Dead Sea beauty products. Omer Gur was sentenced...
View ArticleJona Rechnitz Spotted At World Series
The feds’ key witness in the NYPD corruption scandal was living it up at the World Series where a TV camera caught him rooting for the Cleveland Indians in a prime seat behind home plate at Wrigley...
View ArticleSupreme Court Blocks Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto Early Prison Release
The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto’s request for an early release eight months into a one-year jail sentence for attempted bribery. It’s ruling upheld the Lod District...
View ArticleShomrim Leader Shaya Lichtenstein Can’t Strike Plea Deal In NYPD Corruption...
The NYPD insider charged in a $1 million scheme to illegally obtain scores of pistol permits failed to strike a plea deal and is turning his efforts to suppressing statements he made to authorities, a...
View ArticleIsraeli Yeshiva Teacher Jailed In London For Trying To Smuggle Cocaine
An Israeli yeshivah teacher has been jailed for 18 months, nine of them suspended, for trying to smuggle £19,000 (90,000 shekels) worth of cocaine into the United Kingdom, according to a report in the...
View ArticleHow The Israeli King of U.S. Kiosk Cosmetics Ended Up In Jail
There’s nothing special about the Rassco shopping mall in Upper Nazareth. Just a photography and cellphone store, supermarket, post office and a building covered with green tiles. But if you grew up in...
View ArticleShomrim Leader Shaya Lichtenstein Was Drunk While Chatting With FBI Agents
New court papers detail the conversation between a Brooklyn businessman accused of bribing cops for expedited gun permits and the feds who busted him. FBI agents must “have something really amazing...
View ArticleIsraeli Man’s Body Found Buried in Concrete In Thailand
An Israeli man and his 17-year-old son were arrested in Bangkok Saturday on suspicion of murdering another Israeli. The dismembered body of Eli Cohen, 63, was found in a suitcase under freshly-poured...
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Bar Refaeli Looking At Tax Evasion Charges In Israel
The Israel Tax Authority will tell the State Attorney that there is sufficient evidence to prosecute the international model for tax evasion. The investigation being conducted by the Israel Tax...
View ArticleEx-Top Israeli Security Official Suspected of Receiving Bribes From German...
Police detained a former senior official on the National Security Council for questioning Tuesday morning on suspicion of taking bribes, money laundering, fraud and breach of trust. They also detained...
View ArticleFive Hasidic Men Blow off Suits For Beating of GAY Black Man
Five Hasidic men being sued for their alleged roles in a gang attack on a gay black man in Brooklyn have ignored the federal lawsuit and been declared in default, according to court papers. The...
View ArticleCourt Rejects Former Chief Rabbi’s Request To Close Bribery Case
District Court Judge Moshe Yoad Hacohen rejected Thursday a plea by former Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger to close the case against him due to abuse of process claims. The indictment against Rabbi Metzger...
View ArticleIsraeli Ex-Tycoon Nochi Dankner Sentenced To Two Years For Stock Running
Nochi Dankner, formerly one of Israel’s most powerful businessmen, was sentenced on Monday morning to two years in prison and fined 800,000 shekels (almost $200,000) for stock running. Itai Strum, who...
View ArticleTel Aviv – Polygamous Cult Uncovered
A religious court in Tel Aviv uncovered a secret cult practicing polygamy recently, when a young bride taken in by the cult reached out to the court for help. The stranger-than-fiction story began when...
View ArticleCourt Won’t Hear Appeal of Rabbi After Wife Beaten To Death
New Jersey’s highest court won’t hear an appeal from a rabbi convicted of plotting the 1994 murder-for-hire of his wife at their home. The state Supreme Court announced its decision Tuesday. That means...
View Article‘Eat Pork!’ Haredi officer Threatened By Extremists At Home
The head of haredi recruitment in Bnei Brak was threatened by extremists against the recruitment of haredim to the IDF. A note was pinned to the door of Mendy Katz, threatening him if he did not cease...
View ArticleTwo New Jersey Traders Accused in $26 Million Trading Scam
Passaic, NJ – Two New Jersey-based securities traders were arrested today and charged with orchestrating a massive, long-running market manipulation scheme that netted them more than $26 million in...
View ArticleIsraeli Crime Lord Nabbed In Argentina
Argentinian police have taken an Israeli crime boss into custody, after the suspect fled Israel following allegations of attempted murder and conspiracy. Yaakov ‘Aka’ Shimon, a Jerusalem mafia kingpin...
View ArticleHow The Satmar Mafia works!
Satmar is estimated to be one of the largest Hasidic dynasties in the world. This dynasty is said to consist of 119,000 members spread throughout the communities of Williamsburg, Kiryas Joel, Borough...
View ArticleBloomingburg Satmar Town: FBI Picks Up Shalom Lamm and 3 Others on Voter...
Sullivan County, NY – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the...
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