The builder of Viola Estates stealthily built space for illegal accessory apartments in the basements and upper floors of townhouses contrary to site plans approved by the Ramapo Planning Board, an attorney for neighbors told a judge on Thursday.
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s governing coalition and other smaller parties have agreed to delay next month’s elections to April 2018 – a move that will anger opposition groups, which have accused the president of trying to cling on to power.
The World Bank’s International Finance Corporation is leaving the project, according to reports, having exercised a right to ask Rio Tinto (LN:RIO) and partner Chinalco to buy out its 4.6% holding in the joint venture.
Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC will pay $412 million and CEO Daniel Och will pay $2.17 million to resolve U.S. probes into the hedge fund’s role in bribing officials in several African countries, U.S. authorities said on Thursday.
HEIST movies like “Ocean’s Eleven,” “Reservoir Dogs,” and “The Usual Suspects” never fail to grab our attention, push us to the edge of our seats, and leave us with one hand in a popcorn bag and the other biting our nails. But you know what they say life imitates art.
Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano and his wife Linda were arrested Thursday morning in a bribery and kickback scheme involving a restaurateur — who paid Linda Mangano $450,000 for a no-show job as a “food taster,” authorities said.
WASHINGTON,- The FBI rescued nearly 100 exploited children and arrested more than 200 adults in what has become an annual international effort to target sex traffickers.
Among the recent headlines bringing into focus the sexual behavior and inclinations of U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, there are also reports scrutinizing Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s sexuality.
Israeli high-tech companies have prospered in the US. Israelis occupy key positions in high-tech giants from Silicon Valley to Boston’s Route 128. The US is the main market for Israeli technology companies.
A Orthodox Jewish pregnant woman got a high-flying assist from the NYPD when she went into “the early stages of birth” on a charter fishing boat Wednesday afternoon.