The obscure Brooklyn company at the center of a City Hall scandal already owed millions of dollars in unpaid taxes, and its principals were accused of “secretly scheming” against a former business partner, long before the city signed off on a sweetheart deal that netted the firm a $72 million profit, records show.
Two construction workers were killed when an Amtrak train traveling from New York to Savannah, Ga., Sunday struck a backhoe that was on the tracks about 15 miles south of Philadelphia, Delaware County officials said.
At a function in São Paulo recently a guest asked for an informal introduction to one of the businessmen present, Joseph Safra. “Sorry,” came the reply. “He won’t meet journalists, even informally.”
A Dutch bank refused to release details about an account allegedly used by an impostor Jewish physician to scam $300,000 from an investor.
Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian-American activist who recently raised an uproar for her open support of rock-throwing terrorism against Israel, has been awarded over $500,000 by the City of New York.
Smithtown, NY – A Long Island man has been arrested after authorities said he put plastic bags over two red light cameras in Smithtown.
New video has emerged of an apparent U.S. Secret Service agent scolding members of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s security detail during an event in which protesters and journalists were roughed up before the world leader’s speech in Washington D.C. on Thursday.
Tens of millions of bestselling smartphones can easily be hacked by criminals using a £120 device that cracks their four-digit passcode.
German intelligence agency BND has reportedly been spying on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Office for several years, German weekly Der Spiegel reported on Saturday.
A high-profile Internet hacker has found an interesting way to deal with hostile attacks aimed at getting his own website to crash. He deflected the attack to the Israeli espionage agency, the Mossad, saying that it would know how to deal with it.